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12:55 PM, May 23, 2009 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

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Jon Stewart likes the boss's confession of allegiance to Darth Vader on Special Report this week (see this video starting at the 1:15 mark):

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has always had a soft spot for Darth Vader. See Jonathan V. Last's May 2002 "The Case for the Empire":

The deep lesson of Star Wars is that the Empire is good.

It's a difficult leap to make--embracing Darth Vader and the Emperor over the plucky and attractive Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia--but a careful examination of the facts, sorted apart from Lucas's off-the-shelf moral cues, makes a quite convincing case.

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