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posted at 10:30 pm on September 22, 2009 by Allahpundit

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AMEN!

redridinghood on September 23, 2009 at 12:07 AM

DITTO!

Connie on September 23, 2009 at 12:19 AM

Hey Spathi,

Our armed forces personal like pilots, rangers and special forces ALL get’s water boarded as part of their training in the case they are captured.

That being said, it’s a training tool to prepare our troops. should BANNED that to? Are you just trying to neuter the USA like the libs are doing?

b1jetmech on September 23, 2009 at 12:20 AM

right2bright:

Oh, I think there are people out there stupid enough to believe the kind of stuff spathi writes, sad but true.

Terrye on September 23, 2009 at 12:20 AM

was under the impression that McCain passed a law banning the use of water boarding by the U.S. military in 2006 though. No?

Spathi on September 23, 2009 at 12:08 AM

WTF ! Can’t be anymore than 5th grade…
damn… where’s that ignore button…Allah ;)

jerrytbg on September 23, 2009 at 12:20 AM

Just watched the QOTD clip. Couric says “You’re taking this back to Rev. Wright” as if that’s an invalid argument. Yeesh.

darii on September 23, 2009 at 12:22 AM

Ah OK.

Well we need to work towards banning the use of water boarding in my opinion.

Spathi on September 23, 2009 at 12:16 AM

That’s *NOT* what you said.

YOU said:

How many detainees did Bush torture?

and

we need a war crimes investigation to find out if Bush or Cheney authorized waterboarding or other torture techniques so we can get them into jail

and

I support a war crimes trial for the Gonzo 6 who wrote the memos authorizing torture.

and

then go after Bush and Cheney after that.

and

Bush tortured, possibly, 100 detainees to death. Why not investigate?

and

McCain passed a law banning the use of water boarding by the U.S. military in 2006

You have spun from “PROSECUTE BUSH!!!” to “whoops i didnt know about these crazy ‘laws’” in seconds flat.

P.S. — you never told me how many people “bush” killed at Abu Gharib

battleoflepanto1571 on September 23, 2009 at 12:22 AM

Goodnight Spaathi — If i had to guess, I’d say you were a young’in.

battleoflepanto1571 on September 23, 2009 at 12:24 AM

Of course. You should try it.

exception on September 23, 2009 at 12:16 AM

Reallly? so its your contention that the Battle of Bunker Hill, when we went into ARMED REBELION against the then Government…

When we went to a Hill, where they knew the British were headed, armed in direct defiance of the Law… was not initiating Violence?

Or Lexington and Concorde, where we had STOLEN military supplies, which the Lawful Government was trying to recover, so we gathered militia and fought for them? Thats not inciting violence?

All snark aside (because it would be wayyyy too easy), we went into a planned rebelion…

Romeo13 on September 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM

Defend HotAir!

Blake on September 23, 2009 at 12:25 AM

Yeah, er, I just checked that out. Seems more of an attack on the Other McCain that anything else.

My personal opinion? Ignore LGF. It’s dying.

John the Libertarian on September 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM

My personal opinion? Ignore LGF. It’s dying.

John the Libertarian on September 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM

A good policy.

darii on September 23, 2009 at 12:30 AM

What’s lgf? /s

jerrytbg on September 23, 2009 at 12:31 AM

jerrytbg on September 23, 2009 at 12:31 AM

I hear it’s something that used to be big on teh intarwebs but then it started sucking. Epic failz!

darii on September 23, 2009 at 12:33 AM

I hear it’s something that used to be big on teh intarwebs but then it started sucking. Epic failz!

darii on September 23, 2009 at 12:33 AM

Hmmmm…. new Internet Meme…

Death by suckage?

Romeo13 on September 23, 2009 at 12:34 AM

At Bunker Hill the war had already started.

At Lexington and Concord the war was initiated by the Regulars who had to march all the way in from Boston. Actually, the very placement of a huge force in Boston was a threat of violence.

Romeo13 on September 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM

exception on September 23, 2009 at 12:35 AM

9/11 is just a law enforcement issue. Nothing more.

I certainly think the motivation for the attacks were due to U.S. imperialism.

That’s why we need to defund all the military bases.

Spathi on September 22, 2009 at 11:08 PM

The subtlest satirist is the slyest!

Damn! And all this time I thought you were some kind of earnest imbecile anarchist fleckbrain.

But you were just building it all up for this one big TOTAL DOOFUS punchline.

You snookered me, dude!

Total-a-mundo!

Kudos on the excruciatingly-prolonged moron pose!

LOL+++++

profitsbeard on September 23, 2009 at 12:36 AM

Great video for all the Teapartiers

d1carter on September 23, 2009 at 12:37 AM

battleoflepanto1571 ,

Investigate Bush not prosecute. Only prosecute if crimes were committed.

This is obviously Holder’s decision since he’s the Attorney General.

I think water boarding may fall into Clinton’s 1996 anti-torture law though or possibly under Geneva.

Bush may have gone beyond water boarding though.

In any case, we should outlaw water boarding.

Spathi on September 23, 2009 at 12:38 AM

Waterboarding is totally awesome!

darii on September 23, 2009 at 12:39 AM

exception on September 23, 2009 at 12:35 AM

Uhhhh.. at Lex and Concorde we had STOLEN military supplies, they were marching to recover, we then called up militia to defend those stolen supplies…

Bunker Hill was June 17, 1775, prior to our Decleration of Independence. Most of the colonies were NOT yet in armed Rebellion.

Both were initiations of violence against the legaly constituted Government.

Romeo13 on September 23, 2009 at 12:39 AM

Doctor Zero has posted related thoughts in the Green Room.

publiuspen on September 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM

Doctor Zero has posted related thoughts in the Green Room.

publiuspen on September 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM

Related to the original topic, not any comments which may precede.

publiuspen on September 23, 2009 at 12:41 AM

When Eva Braun came back with, there’s a history of racial profiling in this country.

I wanted Glenn to answer her with, that’s no excuse, especially for POTUS.

Speakup on September 23, 2009 at 12:42 AM

Hmmmm…. new Internet Meme…

Death by suckage?

Romeo13 on September 23, 2009 at 12:34 AM

I like it!…So it is written…
All praise the Ori… lol !

jerrytbg on September 23, 2009 at 12:43 AM

I don’t like everything Beck, or Levin, or Rush or even Michelle have to say, but ANY of them beat any Obamunist, any day.

I wish them all the best at stopping the current donk attempts to trash the Constitution.

And Couric just looks stupid, she needs to go back to AM fluff shows where she belongs.

clnurnberg on September 23, 2009 at 12:45 AM

If McCain would be the President today, he would just continue the current policy of the last 20 years. No change. And America is still ASLEEP of the great danger around her. SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRATIC CORRUPTION.

Obama exposed that: The Democratic Party of TODAY is not the American Democratic Party of the OLD. Obama has exposed us to the Democratic Party’s total shift towards the “World” Communism and European Socialism combined.

Obamunism is a wake up call for America, which is a “good” thing. We can’t just stay sitting and thinking that we are still living in Old America. A land of free thinkers, independent of European sociaist and statist mentality.

Glenn Beck is libertarian. Yes. But he believes that the Core American Values should be Conservatives. I remembered that he once argued that both parties in Lincoln Era were both conservatives. His philosophy is based on that.

Levin should further reflect on what Glenn Beck was saying. Beck has elaborated what he said Couric over and over in his show.

IMHO, Beck’s only sin: Making an interview with Lunatic Katie Couric.

Libertarianism and Conservatism are fit to each other in 21st Century American Politic. Freedom and American Values morphed into one color-blind (post-racial) GOP. They are fighting the same enemy: The Obamunist Democratic Party whose racism still hinged on 20th Century (i.e., still thinking of color instead of being color-blind).

Libertarianism is the key strategy for a Big Tent GOP.

TheAlamos on September 23, 2009 at 12:45 AM

HONEST QUESTION.

Name one iterview with one top new anchor who has been asked questions like these; ie opinions.

It dosen’t happen. They don’t question thmeselves.

Simple fact: No Current major news outlet has their news anchor explaining themselves to another anchor.

Are we in an era of self audit, or is this an era of find the host and make them answer to the agenda.

Is this a time of “KILL THE MESSANGER AND NOT THE MESSAGE”

Why should he have to defen d himself and not the left?

It’s like deffending yourself from making money in a a down economy.

It’s not a moral high ground, its the way it IS.

BOTTOM LINE, FIGHT, FIGHT HARD AND FIGHT NOW.

Indian Outlaw on September 23, 2009 at 12:45 AM

This video will be a case study. Old media meets new.

Old style “get” to trap a “gotcha” vs. real, unafraid journalism.

faraway on September 23, 2009 at 12:48 AM

battleoflepanto1571 on September 22, 2009 at 11:22 PM

We’d have had to invade by around 2009 ANYWAYS(more likely 2007) if we hadn’t have invaded in 2003 (due to saddam getting nukes). Any way you “what if” it out, it ends with us invading Saddam sometime this decade.

By that logic, you would argue that it is time to invade Iran? What if the Saudis develop nukes? Turkey?

I’d just like to know where the line is drawn.

Wouldnt you rather take down the Kaiser when he’s just got Prussia, as opposed to everything from Belgium to Belarus?

Why should I, as an American, give a damn what the Kaiser does to the Belgians or Belarussians?

JohnGalt23 on September 23, 2009 at 12:50 AM

When did the libertarians take over the comment sections here? Yeesh. I can almost smell the legalized drugs from my keyboard.

;)

darii on September 23, 2009 at 12:50 AM

Profitsbeard you need to understand this about Spathi
.
Don’t confuse ignorance for stupidity. Ignorance can be cured through education and the application of reason. Stupidity is much harder to fight against and tends to be immune to facts and rationality.

Ghostbuster on September 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM

She’s got a pretty nice set of stems on her, for an old broad.

Jim Treacher on September 23, 2009 at 12:52 AM

Jim Treacher on September 23, 2009 at 12:52 AM

I thought she was going to do a Sharon Stone there for a moment. Heh

d1carter on September 23, 2009 at 12:55 AM

She’s got a pretty nice set of stems on her, for an old broad.

Jim Treacher on September 23, 2009 at 12:52 AM

Can’t tell the age from looking at her. Botox?

darii on September 23, 2009 at 1:01 AM

Spathi – Let’s just say that incarcerating someone is torture. Agreed? Great. So America tortures millions!

Torture and Enhanced Interrogation are NOT synonymous. Torture is the deliberate infliction of extreme, prolonged pain and/or disfigurement for the purpose of sadistic satisfaction or for terrorist purposes.

Enhanced Interrogation is the infliction of extreme confusion, discomfort, or unease for the purpose of extracting valid information.

Do the two look alike in any way? Be honest (really!).

stonemeister on September 23, 2009 at 1:04 AM

WTF is up with “@katiecouric”? Obviously trying to look like Twitter, but this is on CBS’s site.

Putting “@” in front of something is the new iWhatever which was the new e-Whatever. All are stupid ways to try to sound cutting edge and internetish.

darii on September 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM

stonemeister on September 23, 2009 at 1:04 AM

I’m inclined to agree with you, but aren’t actions clearly demarcated as torture sometimes performed to extract information?

darii on September 23, 2009 at 1:07 AM

Spathi – Let’s just say that incarcerating someone is torture. Agreed? Great. So America tortures millions!

Torture and Enhanced Interrogation are NOT synonymous. Torture is the deliberate infliction of extreme, prolonged pain and/or disfigurement for the purpose of sadistic satisfaction or for terrorist purposes.

Enhanced Interrogation is the infliction of extreme confusion, discomfort, or unease for the purpose of extracting valid information.

Do the two look alike in any way? Be honest (really!).

stonemeister on September 23, 2009 at 1:04 AM

Why don’t you just get him for an inability to stay on topic?

Connie on September 23, 2009 at 1:09 AM

WTF is up with “@katiecouric”? Obviously trying to look like Twitter, but this is on CBS’s site.

darii on September 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM

@ is short for “a-hole”

faraway on September 23, 2009 at 1:11 AM

@ is short for “a-hole”

faraway on September 23, 2009 at 1:11 AM

That makes sense.

darii on September 23, 2009 at 1:12 AM

Damn…. I really feel a lot better now.

If Treacher noticed that Her Perkiness still has nice wheels as well, I guess I’ll be ok.

Phew. Comfort level with self is back to normal.

paragon27x on September 23, 2009 at 1:20 AM

paragon27x on September 23, 2009 at 1:20 AM

Her looks are the only reason she got the job, right?

darii on September 23, 2009 at 1:21 AM

I thought she was going to do a Sharon Stone there for a moment. Heh

d1carter on September 23, 2009 at 12:55 AM

Maybe she did

macncheez on September 23, 2009 at 1:22 AM

Well, dani…. it certainly wasn’t her towering intellect.

paragon27x on September 23, 2009 at 1:23 AM

Well, dani…. it certainly wasn’t her towering intellect.

paragon27x on September 23, 2009 at 1:23 AM

I guess there’s always the prompter reading skills…

darii on September 23, 2009 at 1:24 AM

I am fully authorized to be shallow and male every now and then… ok? haha

paragon27x on September 23, 2009 at 1:24 AM

She has THAT skill nailed. Makes P-Bo look like an amateur.

paragon27x on September 23, 2009 at 1:26 AM

Enhanced Interrogation is the infliction of extreme confusion, discomfort, or unease for the purpose of extracting valid information.

Well I oppose so called “Enhanced Interrogation techniques.”

I think I found the part of the law I was looking for. These techniques are probably illegal under Ir 18 USC 2340.

Chapter 18 of United States Code, Section 2340 defines the act of “torture” to include the threat of imminent death. The same section of federal law specifies that U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and even foreign agents of the United States who commit torture, whether here or overseas, whether against an American or a foreigner, “shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and if death results to any person from conduct prohibited by this subsection, shall be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life.” Finally, the same federal law stipulates that “A person who conspires to commit an offense under this section shall be subject to the same penalties (other than the penalty of death) as the penalties prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the conspiracy.”

The fact that so many senators voted down the Kennedy amendment raises an interesting point that even if it is illegal, there is no political will to do anything about it along with a butch of complacent senators.

Of course the law is always a matter of “interpretation”, but I don’t like John Yoo’s interpretation.

Spathi on September 23, 2009 at 1:27 AM

Link to 18 USC 2340

Spathi on September 23, 2009 at 1:28 AM

Spathi on September 23, 2009 at 1:27 AM

Um, just out of curiosity, how did the conversation go from the Beck interview to waterboarding?

darii on September 23, 2009 at 1:31 AM

I love the way liberals think they can just dismiss the Reverend Wright issue, as if there’s some unwritten rule that a piece of evidence can only remain relevant for a short period of time before it is invalid and can never be brought up again. For me, that was the MOST IMPORTANT piece of evidence against Obama. You simply cannot get away from the fact that he sat in that church of hate for over 20 years and IDOLIZED an anti-white racist!

Liberals KNOW that this is the clincher. Which is why they insist that you can’t bring it up. That’s what Katie does in the final seconds of that clip. “So you’re bringing it back to Reverend Wright?” They just want to sweep it under the carpet.

Man, McCain was such an IDIOT for insisting that his campaign wouldn’t dwell on Wright. It should have disqualified Obama from the White House immediately and indeed would have done if it had been anyone else in an equivalent situation. But society is so intoxicated with the poison of political correctness that Obama’s racism can be papered over like that. Just incredible. I sometimes forget about Reverend Wright and Obama and then it hits me like a freight train and makes me realize just how important it is to get this man out of the White House.

Sharke on September 23, 2009 at 1:33 AM

Oh… just one more thing, dani. I’d have to make the same observation about Couric as I did Hillary. I don’t doubt the quality of her mind…. just the quality of the things rattling around inside it.

paragon27x on September 23, 2009 at 1:34 AM

I love the way liberals think they can just dismiss the Reverend Wright issue, as if there’s some unwritten rule that a piece of evidence can only remain relevant for a short period of time before it is invalid and can never be brought up again.

Sharke on September 23, 2009 at 1:33 AM

So true.

darii on September 23, 2009 at 1:36 AM

Sharke on September 23, 2009 at 1:33 AM

Nailed it.

paragon27x on September 23, 2009 at 1:44 AM

Katie Couric is so superior in her disdain of the sin filled right winger Glen Beck. She is a sickening piece of work. What hate fills hers face… a history of racial profiling… really. We should expect the President of the United States to automatically racially profile the cops… but cops can’t racially profile.

The double standard has got to end. If Obama was not malicious when he did it. Cops aren’t malicious when they do it either. You can’t have it both ways.

petunia on September 23, 2009 at 1:53 AM

John the Libertarian on September 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM
darii on September 23, 2009 at 12:30 AM
jerrytbg on September 23, 2009 at 12:31 AM

It’s a coordinated attack on Malkin, my unperceptive ones.

Blake on September 23, 2009 at 1:54 AM

freetoken @link

September 23, 2009 at 12:04 am

To clarify the argument about using “real estate” at HA and Kilgore’s involvement: Indeed KT did post there one night. Note though that there ALREADY were racist comments on that thread at HA, which the posters at HA wanted to deny. You’ll have to ask KT for him to clarify his motives, but IMO that thread at HA (and this is not unusual) had already become a cesspool before KT’s involvement, and KT effectively got the moderators’ attention to that fact.
Kejda: as you are discovering, a non-trivial portion of the so called “conservative” blog-o-sphere is just white-washed good-ol’-boy paleocons. It’s why I don’t regularly read many “conservative” blogs and frankly don’t want to be labeled a “conservative”, though some of my own beliefs hardly fit the term “liberal” either.

You are flat out lying.

I have the PDF snapshots of that Thread @ HA and I defy you to point to ANY racist comments. I post regularly on HotAir and I am hypersensitive to all forms of racism.
Trolls do show up, like Killgore Trout, and post garbage to try to pin it on HA and Michelle Malkin. Ed and Allah have ZERO tolerance for racism.

Killgore posted the most blatantly racist comments I have ever seen on the internet, period.

You are flat out lying and covering for Killgore Trout and CJ.

Geochelone on September 23, 2009 at 1:55 AM

Sharke on September 23, 2009 at 1:33 AM

Yep. This election was such a catastrophe! We have finally seen the price of our double standards on race. And it could cost us the Republic.

petunia on September 23, 2009 at 1:55 AM

Blake on September 23, 2009 at 1:54 AM

Thanks for the heads up. This is an attack on HA and MM. People are lying their asses off. I posted over there at Kejda Gjermani. They have done ZERO background checking on the facts and are just makin stuff up trying to tell everyone we are racists.

I HAVE NO TOLERANCE FOR RACISM AND EVEN LESS FOR PEOPLE WHO LIE ABOUT OTHERS BEING RACISTS.

Geochelone on September 23, 2009 at 1:57 AM

Hey, Beck makes a good point here. He didn’t just say that Obama is a racist without any evidence. She looked blown away when he defended the charge with solid evidence. She went into a meek attempt of defending the president and practically begged him to admit he is wrong with her next question “Are you sorry you said that at all?”. He then turned the tables on her with a solid “if Bush had sat in a church…”. I have to say, Beck did a damn good job of defending his charge. I always thought that Obama was a commie loving, terrorist kissing, elitist, liberal socialist moron, but I never thought he was a racist. I’m going to have to go to Beck’s website and read the rest of his evidence.

Dollayo on September 23, 2009 at 2:01 AM

From the polling and even the foreign press it does look like there might be a light at the end of the tunnel.

But tell me what does the country look like when the citizens are forced to keep the President locked in the Whitehouse until the next election.

It is certainly better to do nothing until he is gone but what a waste of time. I hope this means we will not have to worry about another liberal President ever.

And perhaps it will become clear to everyone that “progressive” means progressing to the age of serfs and slaves. Going back in time when people were more easily oppressed.

Like every thing else the left says the truth is the exact opposite of reality.

petunia on September 23, 2009 at 2:02 AM

Some lefty idiots at Kejda Gjermani are saying that the GREEN ROOM @ HA was created specifically to attack Little GREEEN Footballs.

Just because of the word GREEN. What lunacy.

Sheeesh.

Geochelone on September 23, 2009 at 2:02 AM

Hmmm, is The One racist? Let’s see … typical white woman … attended Jeremiah Wright’s church … yep, he is.

edshepp on September 23, 2009 at 2:03 AM

When did the libertarians take over the comment sections here? Yeesh. I can almost smell the legalized drugs from my keyboard.

;)

darii on September 23, 2009 at 12:50 AM

Not all libertarians are the for “legalized drugs”. Remember this: LIBERTARIANS ARE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM WITH PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.

Conservatives and libertarians are best buddies at the Tea Party Movement.

I’ve been a conservative all my life. But now, I realize that my freedom to practice my own conservatism has also been assisted by the freedom-loving libertarians, not the socialist ones.

Remember, there are “conservatives” who also believe in socialism.

TheAlamos on September 23, 2009 at 2:11 AM

I’m inclined to agree with you, but aren’t actions clearly demarcated as torture sometimes performed to extract information?

darii on September 23, 2009 at 1:07 AM

No because torture (real torture) is ineffective or unreliable for extracting information.

stonemeister on September 23, 2009 at 2:11 AM

“you’re made into an idiot if you say something like that”

Just saw that on Beck’s show replay. About the Marxists who have been handed our nation and how you can’t even talk about them. Did a google search on it and nothing came up so I just had to put the words in the public domain right here.

Buddahpundit on September 23, 2009 at 2:15 AM

No because torture (real torture) is ineffective or unreliable for extracting information.

stonemeister on September 23, 2009 at 2:11 AM

Efficiency doesn’t necessarily dictate intent. I’m thinking of terrorists, for example.

darii on September 23, 2009 at 2:21 AM

Efficiency doesn’t necessarily dictate intent. I’m thinking of terrorists, for example.

darii on September 23, 2009 at 2:21 AM

Terrorists don’t care about information. My point is that we (the US) don’t torture. We’re not animals. The Islamic terrorists are animals. Let’s not forget that.

stonemeister on September 23, 2009 at 2:26 AM

Hey Spathi,

Our armed forces personal like pilots, rangers and special forces ALL get’s water boarded as part of their training in the case they are captured.

That being said, it’s a training tool to prepare our troops. should BANNED that to? Are you just trying to neuter the USA like the libs are doing?

b1jetmech on September 23, 2009 at 12:20 AM

As one of those mentioned in your comment, I can quite accurately say: you have no idea what you’re talking about. Say something with enough heat and, of course, CAPITAL LETTERS and we can make anything true though, right?

onetoomany on September 23, 2009 at 2:28 AM

TheAlamos on September 23, 2009 at 2:11 AM

What’s most annoying about most of these sentiments in the comments, it the proclivity for using LOTS OF ALL CAPS. Sometimes I think I’m reading direct mail drafts. Lots of all caps says, “There is so little content in my ideas that the only way to emphasize my point is yelling.”

darii on September 23, 2009 at 2:30 AM

Typical liberal. Katie never answers Glenn’s hypothetical question about Bush attending a black hating church.

HellCat on September 23, 2009 at 2:32 AM

Terrorists don’t care about information. My point is that we (the US) don’t torture. We’re not animals. The Islamic terrorists are animals. Let’s not forget that.

stonemeister on September 23, 2009 at 2:26 AM

And I agree. We don’t torture.

However, I would still maintain that torture can and is used to extract information. If 24 is any indication…

Is waterboarding someone just for kicks torture? Or is that still “enhanced interrogation?” Or is that something else, neither “interrogation” nor torture?

darii on September 23, 2009 at 2:35 AM

HellCat on September 23, 2009 at 2:32 AM

Cause facing the facts of double standards is hard.

darii on September 23, 2009 at 2:36 AM

Spathi

Worried about waterboarding: Clinton started rendition, Bush continued it. Obama has expanded it.

trollkiller on September 23, 2009 at 2:37 AM

Is waterboarding someone just for kicks torture? Or is that still “enhanced interrogation?” Or is that something else, neither “interrogation” nor torture?

darii on September 23, 2009 at 2:35 AM

It’s clearly not torture. There’s no pain and no possibility of death (my definitions are shortened). It creates major discomfort and fear. Being afraid isn’t the same as being tortured, or all dentists would be in prison.

Leftists really know this, they’re just playing games with re-defining terms to support their arguments. Kinda like re-defining “marriage”, “democracy”, and “is”.

stonemeister on September 23, 2009 at 2:38 AM

stonemeister on September 23, 2009 at 2:38 AM

Gotcha.

Waterboarding someone against their will just for kicks isn’t torture but it is criminal and unjust.

darii on September 23, 2009 at 2:39 AM

Being afraid isn’t the same as being tortured, or all dentists would be in prison.

stonemeister on September 23, 2009 at 2:38 AM

Yeah, but then so would Henry Waxman’s face.

darii on September 23, 2009 at 2:40 AM

Spathi

In case you don’t know rendition is where said terrorists are captured here or abroad. We then fly them first class via black ops aircraft to a resort location like Egypt where they are put on a spit.

Our allies interrogate. We get the de-brief and wash our hands of the dirty stuff.

Keeps us safe. Everyone in Congress knows about it — even Pelosi. But, the barbecue is a little tough.

trollkiller on September 23, 2009 at 2:42 AM

This was an interesting interview to watch knowing going into it that it was 100% an attempt at gotcha hit piece ‘journalism.’ And of course knowing Beck knows that and watching how he handled it.

Dark Eden on September 23, 2009 at 2:44 AM

Dark Eden on September 23, 2009 at 2:44 AM

The game changed @7:17

macncheez on September 23, 2009 at 2:50 AM

No because torture (real torture) is ineffective or unreliable for extracting information.

stonemeister on September 23, 2009 at 2:11 AM

Well, it would make me talk and you would probably be talking before I did.

MB4 on September 23, 2009 at 2:59 AM

Just because of the word GREEN. What lunacy.

Sheeesh.

Geochelone on September 23, 2009 at 2:02 AM

Just imagine Charles Johnson as President. He is one of the few people I would not want to replace Barack Obama with.

MB4 on September 23, 2009 at 3:04 AM

Defend HotAir!

Blake on September 23, 2009 at 12:25 AM

I commented on that hateful blog but my comments are all still “awaiting moderation”. They will probably be sent to the cornfield by the censors there.

MB4 on September 23, 2009 at 3:08 AM

MB4 on September 23, 2009 at 3:04 AM

Now that you mention it, Chuckles would be scarier than Barry as POTUS.

Geochelone on September 23, 2009 at 3:30 AM

I disagree with his insistence on ‘not listening to the people’ as the highest priority. In a sense, that leads to exactly the same problematic result (the way he was describing) of where we are today. It can be argued that the ‘sweetheart deals’ he referenced results from listening to too many people (or the wrong kind of people). An even higher priority, in my opinion, is respecting that which our society is intended to be governed. Rule of law as defined by our Constitution.

The McCain being worse comment was and still is absurd on any intellectual level. There is no evidence to suggest that this would be even be reasonable to conclude. It seems if it was only made gratuitously for schtick purposes.

anuts on September 23, 2009 at 3:34 AM

So….the Republicans who were in power for over a decade, and the Democrats who were in power for over a decade, and put us on the brink of destruction, are to be kept and Beck is to be thrown under the bus?

Really, people, the only reason the establishment (Republicans Limbaugh, Levin, Democrats everybody) is going after Beck now is 1) a feint or, more accurately 2) he threatens their existence because of their unforgivable incompetence.

How many of you here are still cheerleaders for the people who put us in this mess?

eaglesdontflock on September 23, 2009 at 3:51 AM

Nice to see Katie is finally doing her job. Too bad she can’t ask stirring questions when she has a liberal guest.

yoda on September 23, 2009 at 4:15 AM

Too bad she can’t ask stirring questions when she has a liberal guest.

yoda on September 23, 2009 at 4:15 AM

Heres a gem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jf17Yo7hBM

macncheez on September 23, 2009 at 4:20 AM

Republican does not automatically mean conservative

Correct.

and Democrat does not automatically mean liberal.

Conservative Voice on September 22, 2009 at 11:04 PM

Incorrect.

Seriously, this nonsense from Beck and others about the “good Democrats who love the Constitution” needs to stop. Maybe there were some ‘good,’ non-liberal regular-folk Democrats back 40-50 years ago, but those people no longer exist. Today’s Democrats are not only all liberal and don’t give a damn about the Constitution (at least as a whole), they are all socialist or quasi-socialist. All of them. Otherwise, if there were some political goodness in these people, and they really truly did believe in the Constitution as the Founders wrote it, they wouldn’t belong to today’s evil, corrupt Democratic party. That’s a fact.

I have some serious issues with Beck on some very important issues, but overall I like him. But he really needs to drop the populism crap and get real.

2Brave2Bscared on September 23, 2009 at 4:26 AM

Obama a racist: yeah, and the funny thing is, he’s half-white which means he spends a lot of time hating himself. Think about it: he was raised by whites and hates them. He apparently hooked up with Wright so Wright could become a mentor. His mentor is a white hating moron who apparently didn’t do a close reading of his Bible when he was in Seminary. Obama has been trying to “kill” that half of himself that he finds most offensive. The worst behaved and most radical are wannabe’s!

Driefromseattle on September 23, 2009 at 4:28 AM

Defend HotAir!

Blake on September 23, 2009 at 12:25 AM

I commented on that hateful blog but my comments are all still “awaiting moderation”. They will probably be sent to the cornfield by the censors there.

MB4 on September 23, 2009 at 3:08 AM

DAMN this is some messed up sh*t(posted at lgf 2.0) 44. Bordm on 22 September, 2009 at 11:30 pm reply

re: #40 by CloudyDay

Kejda Gjermani is medaura18586 at 1.0

http://www.peekyou.com/Kejda_Gjermani/15

Her husband is Michael Hussey, who happens to be the Founder and CEO of PeekYou, the site that selrahC just “happened” to stumble on while searching for info on Savage and Rodan.

http://www.peekyou.com/Michael_Hussey/5

I wonder how Savage’s and Rodan’s info just “happened” to appear on PeekYou?

I’ve spent a bit of time typing in various usernames, it interesting how little information can be gleaned from the site. Except for our two admins, that is.

Things that make you go hmmm…

theTarCzar on September 23, 2009 at 4:29 AM

battleoflepanto1571,

How many did Bush kill in iraq?
100,000 or 1,000,000

unacceptable.

How many refugees did he create from people leaving Iraq.
1 million? 2 million? 3 million?

How many detainees did Bush torture?

How may did he torture to death?
100?

Spathi on September 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM

Are you pro-abortion? If yes, shut the hell up you flaming hypocritical murderous douchebag. If no, well, then I’ll get back to you. But I’m sure your answer will be yes.

2Brave2Bscared on September 23, 2009 at 4:39 AM

I just watched the entire interview. Pretty sane responses. Sound logic. What’s the beef with Beck?

eaglesdontflock on September 23, 2009 at 4:42 AM

I certainly think the motivation for the attacks were due to U.S. imperialism.

Spathi on September 22, 2009 at 11:08 PM

Moron.

2Brave2Bscared on September 23, 2009 at 4:46 AM

What’s the beef with Beck?

eaglesdontflock on September 23, 2009 at 4:42 AM

Double chin envy.

2Brave2Bscared on September 23, 2009 at 4:47 AM

Couric’s dumbfounded silence after Glenn makes the Reverend Wright comparison with George W. Bush says all that needs to be said, as does her idiotic, post-silence question.

She’s an utter tool.

Jockolantern on September 23, 2009 at 6:00 AM

The McCain being worse comment was and still is absurd on any intellectual level. There is no evidence to suggest that this would be even be reasonable to conclude. It seems if it was only made gratuitously for schtick purposes.

anuts on September 23, 2009 at 3:34 AM

I agree. It is especially true when Beck contends that Obama is a racist. I think Obama might well be a racist, but that is just one of the reasons I don’t think Obama is a better choice than McCain.

Maybe Beck is mostly referring to the Patriot Act and the economic crisis..I am not sure. However, the original TARP money that was spent was about $400 billion, which was roughly half the money spent on that stimulus plan. And only three Republicans supported that plan, I don’t think McCain was one of them.

I know a lot of people think that the TARP money was bad on principle or that it made things worse, or whatever. But that is just an assumption. Some conservatives like Krauthammer really think we were on the brink and the Bush administration stopped the collapse. Some think it would have worked out fine without any help.

I am not so sure about that. To be honest, I don’t know enough about the financial markets to form a solid opinion on that. I read the other day that the TARP money is being paid back with a 5% profit.

I think that Beck fails to make a distinction between the parties because he thinks that all of that is bad. And he is not just talking about the crisis either.

But then again, he wants to seal the borders, and that would cost a lot of money too.

So, it is not really about government spending alone, it is about who spends it and where they spend it.

Terrye on September 23, 2009 at 6:42 AM

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