>> Jon: WELCOME TO "THE DAILY SHOW".
MY NAME IS JON STEWART.
GOOD SHOW TONIGHT. TONIGHT'S GUEST THE GREATEST, THE GREATEST
RELIEF PITCHER IN BASEBALL HISTORY MARIANO RIVERA IS
GOING TO BE JOINING US ON THE PROGRAM LATER ON TONIGHT.
I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT BUT --
[LAUGHTER] I SAID THE BUT REALLY LOUD,
DIDN'T I?
I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT, SCARED SOME PEOPLE.
WE HAVE TO GET TO THE NEWS.
BECAUSE LATE LAST WEEK IT ALL WENT DOWN.
>> THE WHITE HOUSE ON THE DEFENSE OVER A NEW SMOKING GUN
BENGHAZI E-MAIL.
>> SOME ARE CALLING A SMOKING GUN.
>> THE SMOKING GUN.
>> Jon: SMOKING GUN.
[ LAUGHTER ] IT'S ONE OF WORST KINDS OF GUNS.
[LAUGHTER] A GUN THAT SMOKES.
ITS A TERRIBLE INFLUENCE.
[LAUGHTER] ALL THE OTHER GUNS THAT JUST
HAVING A GOOD TIME.
THEY ARE NOT SMOKING, NOT DRINKING AND THEN THAT GUN WALKS
IN.
COME ON, ALL THE COOL GUNS ARE DOING IT.
[ LAUGHTER ] NOW WE WENT INTO IRAQ BECAUSE WE
DIDN'T WANT THE SMOKING GUN TO BE IN THE FORM OF A
MUSHROOM CLOUD. WHAT WAS THIS GUN SMOKING?
>> THE CONSERVATIVE WATCH DOG GROUP JUDICIAL WATCH OBTAINED
INTERNAL WHITE HOUSE E-MAILS THAT IT CLAIMS REVEAL MORE ABOUT
THE EFFORT TO GET THEN U.N. AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE TO ASSERT
ON THE SUNDAY MORNING TALK SHOWS THAT THE ATTACK ON THE
U.S. CONSULATE WAS THE RESULT OF A DEMONSTRATION OVER AN
INTERNET VIDEO AND NOT A FAILURE OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY.
>> Jon: HUH.
MAN, THAT IS DIFFERENT. THE WHITE HOUSE HAD SAID THEY HAD
VERY LITTLE TO DO WITH CHANGING THE TALKING POINTS. WELL, NOW
IT LOOKS LIKE THIS BEN RHODES A WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL
SECURITY AND COMMUNICATIONS AIDE DID ADD TO THE TALKING POINTS,
EMPHASIZING THAT THE PROTESTS SURROUNDING THE BENGHAZI
VIOLENCE WERE NOT COORDINATED BY TERRORISTS BUT WERE INSTEAD
SOMEHOW RELATED TO A PROVOCATIVE ANTI-MUSLIM VIDEO THAT HAD
CAUSED DEMONSTRATIONS IN OTHER COUNTRIES. BY THE WAY,
THAT VIDEO, SNOW DOGS.
IT REALLY IS A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE VIDEO.
[LAUGHTER] WELL, I WILL SAY THIS, FROM THAT
E-MAIL IT SOUNDS LIKE THE WHITE HOUSE -- WELL DONE.
THE WHITE HOUSE HAD POLITICS AND ELECTIONS ON THEIR MIND WHEN
THEY SENT SUSAN RICE TO THE SUNDAY SHOWS.
IT'S DEPLORABLE.
NOT SURE WHAT IT MEANS IN TERMS OF FIXING THE INITIAL PROBLEMS
OF INADEQUATE COMMUNICATION AND PROTECTION THAT CAUSED THE
TRAGEDY BUT OKAY. GOOD FIND. MOVING ON.
>> WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE OVER THOSE FOUR DEAD AMERICANS?
[LAUGHTER] >> Jon: WAIT, WHAT NOW?
>> WE NOW KNOW THAT THE WHITE HOUSE HAD A CONSPIRACY WHERE
ESSENTIALLY WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO DO WAS CHANGE THE
STORY.
>> WILL THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA EVEN PAY ATTENTION?
>> THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS GIVING PRESIDENT OBAMA A PASS ON
BENGHAZI.
WHERE WAS THAT OUTRAGE?
THE PRESIDENT AND THE WHITE HOUSE CREATED A POLITICAL
AGENDA.
>> WHERE IS THE MEDIA OUTRAGE?
>> THEY KNEW IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK FROM THE GET GO.
>> NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE.
>> FOX NEWS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT STAYED ON THE STORY AND HAS NOT
LET GO OF IT.
>> WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE THERE?
[LAUGHTER] >> Jon: OKAY.
I THINK I SEE THE PROBLEM.
[ LAUGHTER ] YOU THINK PEOPLE'S FAILURE TO
MATCH YOUR LEVEL OF OUTRAGE IS BASED ON IGNORANCE THAT AFTER
NEARLY 100 NETWORK NEWS STORIES, HUNDREDS OF CABLE NEWS STORIES
ABOUT BENGHAZI 13 CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS, 50 FURTHER
CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS AND
25,000 PAGES OF OFFICIAL FINDINGS CONCERNING WHAT
HAPPENED IN BENGHAZI THAT IF WE ALL ONLY KNEW ABOUT IT --
[LAUGHTER] -- WE WOULD CARE.
[LAUGHTER] YOU KNOW, THERE ARE VERY FEW
THINGS WE'VE HEARD MORE ABOUT IN THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF.
THE ONLY THING WE'VE HEARD ABOUT IN THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF.
THE ONLY THING WE'VE HEARD MORE ABOUT MAYBE
THE KARDASHIANS AND THERE IS, THERE IS NO DISPUTE THAT THIS
SITUATION WAS SPAWNED BY THE RELEASE OF THE VIDEO.
I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY QUESTION ABOUT THAT. I THINK
THAT -- I THINK I SEE THE PROBLEM. HERE'S YOUR PROBLEM,
YOU ARE ASKING PEOPLE TO GET OUTRAGED ABOUT AN INTELLIGENCE
FAILURE THAT TRAGICALLY LED TO SOME AMERICANS LOSING THEIR
LIVES.
ONE INTELLIGENCE FAILURE. AND THEN, I MEAN,
IMAGINE THE OUTRAGE IF THERE WAS A SECOND FAILURE RIGHT AFTER
THAT ONE THAT TRAGICALLY LED TO EVEN MORE AMERICANS LOSING
THEIR LIVES? BUT, YOU ARE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
YOU ARE JUST CONCERNED ABOUT THIS ONE INTELLIGENCE FAILURE
AND YOU ARE UPSET THAT THE ADMINISTRATION IN ITS HASTE TO
GET REELECTED PULLED SOME DODGY FACE SAVING (bleep).
THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE AFRAID OF. WELL, I COMMEND YOU FOR
FINALLY GETTING IN TOUCH WITH YOUR INNER OUTRAGE BECAUSE
IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, IN THE PREVIOUS DECADE
IT WAS AN EMOTION YOU DIDN'T SEEM COMFORTABLE
ADDRESSING OR EXPRESSING. LIKE, FOR INSTANCE WHEN FORMER BUSH
HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY TOM RIDGE SAID HE WAS
PRESSURED BY ASHCROFT AND RUMSFELD TO RAISE THE
NATION'S TERROR THREAT LEVEL BEFORE THE 2004 ELECTION TO
HELP PRESIDENT BUSH'S ELECTION CHANCES.
WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THAT?
>> WELL, TOM RIDGE IS A GOOD AND DECENT MAN ENTITLED TO HIS
IMPRESSIONS BUT THERE'RE JUST THAT AND THERE ARE SOME FACTS
THAT STAND BETWEEN TOM RICH AND THE SMOKING GUN.
>> IF FORMER HOMELAND SECURITY CHIEF TOM RIDGE
WAS HOPING TO GENERATE BUZZ ABOUT HIS UPCOMING
BOOK, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
>> Jon: ZING.
THAT'S NOT OUTRAGE.
THAT IS SNARK.
SNARK IS NOT OUTRAGE, SILLY. [LAUGHTER]