Jon Stewart busts Tony Snow lying about the fired U.S. attorneys.

Here’s Dan Froomkin’s take on it from the Washington Post:

The White House press corps let it slide, but Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart nailed Snow last night for lying.

Stewart explained that Snow “was adamant months ago that the dismissal of these attorneys had nothing to do with politics.”

He rolled video of Snow from March 15, saying: “It’s pretty clear that these things are based on performance and not on sort of attempts to do political retaliation, if you will.”

Stewart: “So anyway, that was three months ago. Three months later, a dozen subpoenas, six hearings, . . . thousands of released e-mails, it turns out that their performances were actually pretty good. And all signs are now pointing to political motivations. I wonder how the White House is going to reconcile this apparent discrepancy?”

Stewart then rolled video from Wednesday’s briefing, at which a reporter asked Snow: “At the beginning of this story, the President, you, Dan Bartlett, others said on camera that politics was not involved, this was performance-based, but –“

Snow’s reply: “No, that is something — we have never said that.”

Stewart’s audience jeered.

“Oh,” Stewart concluded, “you will reconcile that by — LYING!”

I’m sure we’re all appropriately shocked — SHOCKED, I tell you — by this news.

(HT to Crooks and Liars.)