Stephen Colbert on Bush’s gaffe: ‘A refreshingly lighthearted confession to war crimes’

Stephen Colbert on George W Bush: ‘It’s like he’s thinking of it all the time and it just popped out.’ Photograph: YouTube

Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert mocked an old target on Thursday evening: George W Bush, who gave a speech in Dallas on Wednesday for an event called “Elections – A More Perfect Union”, focused on how elections work. “And we’ve actually acquired Dubya’s PowerPoint on how elections work,” the Late Show host deadpanned. “Step one: get fewer votes than your opponent. Step two: have the supreme court hand it to you.”