Jon Stewart Finds Lighter Side Of Malaysian Airliner Shootdown (Video)

Here's Jon Stewart, giving us both of the plausible scenarios in last week's downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17: maybe it was shot down by poorly-trained pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, using surface-to-air missiles provided by Russia. Or there's the other possibility, floated by those Russian separatists: the plane was loaded with corpses and then made to crash, and the government of the Netherlands is merely pretending that a lot of its citizens were killed to make the separatists in Ukraine look bad, because you know how those Dutch are. And just to sum up what a weird world we live in, Malaysia Airlines now routes its flights from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over a less dangerous place: Syria.

</p><p>And for good measure, Stewart takes on the Right's insistence that <a href="https: //wonkette.substack.com/p/remember-that-time-ronald-reagan-shot-down-an-iranian-airliner-that-was-awesome" target="_blank">Ronald Reagan </a>would have handled this much more effectively than Obama, by staying on vacation and complaining about having to return to Washington early. </p><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="280" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:arc:video:thedailyshow.com:9441bb47-7809-4751-a96a-61963a68525b" width="500"/> </p>