Poor Norah O’Donnell. She thought she was going to ambush Liz Cheney. She thought she was going to have one of those Perry Mason moments where Liz Cheney broke down on the witness stand and admitted her father’s guilt. She thought she was about to join Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann in the Libtalk Hall of Fame.
She thought wrong.
Instead, Cheney took O’Donnell to school. She told her what torture is, what torture isn’t, and demonstrated that the only thing that had actually been tortured was O’Donnell’s logic.
Source: PatriotRoom.com
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Right at the end was the key point. Our people get their HEADS CUT OFF if captured. Or dragged through the streets naked and then burned.
Waterboarding is NOT going to make the animals BEGIN to treat our people badly. They already do so.
When O’Donnell said our not torturing was to protect our troops. How about letting our troops fight and they will protect themselves, not some idiot talking head like O’Donnell, Matthews or Olbermonster.
I love how the libs use the Beacon on a Hill when for the past 25-30-40 years they have been calling America a monster and baby killer and evil imperialist country. UGH.
Norah O’Donnell is either disingenuous or an idiot.
“Norah O’Donnell is either disingenuous or an idiot.”
She’s both. She’s not only a TV foof – she’s a stupid one.
This video was classic “liberal loses the battle of ideas and makes a fool of self.” Appreciate you linking to us.
Hi all. This is the second time that I’ve seen Norah thumped by a smarter, better prepared guest. You have to wonder why her bosses (yes, I know it’s msnbc but even still…) don’t replace her. Also, the left seem to keep bringing up the fact that after ww2 we prosecuted as war criminals the enemy that “waterboarded”. Um, as I recall from some reading the version of waterboarding that was practiced by the japanese during ww2 involved forcing a rubber tube down the throat of a prisoner and pumping him up with water until the stmach distended then beating his abdomen until it burst. Not quite the same thing.
Oh come on scr…in the eyes of a liberal idiot those things are EXACTLY the same….
Sign up now, free water boarding! We’ll get all of you together in one room. We kill the first one of you, so you know it’s for real and get the real sense of fear that someone in that situation doe (not like the training our soldiers do to prepare our soldiers for possible things they may face in a safe environment – were they all know going in what to “expect” and that they are all coming out at the end of it just fine b/c it won’t be carried on), once we’ve killed one of you for the good of the country
you can will all get a first hand idea not behind your arm chairs.
It’s disgusting that people from this country Totured others. But what’s worse is that in the light of day people like Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz want to call this a “technique” (not torture) and that it was all under legal cover; and to defend this AND to go forward with this as a tool in our tool box. Each day we head further and further down the road to a world where a powerful few can destroy everything this country was built on. There is a reason why the Military (not civilian Leaders) don’t support water boarding or any other form of torture.
It was WRONG in the past and we tried and imprisioned some and KILLED others who did this TO US; even own soldiers who did it….but now “post 9-11″ we lost our way, or morality. and our damn minds.
Hey — just keep talking…..you are going to need a whole lot of volume to drown out the obvious…this was torture, has been and always will be. Cheney and his supporters are small men and women, unworthy heirs to those who won wars against larger threats without officially sanctioning these techniques. And all of them clucking their merry way through draft deferments to boot. Want to help Liz ? Grab a rifle, they still need help in Afghanistan.
the “incredible effectiveness.” Um, what the hell is cheney talking about? She’s full of crap. the mere idea that terrorists bent on giving up their lives to destroy the US can be intimidated into giving up important (TRUE) information to interrogators is ridiculous. Partisan politics at its worst.
BTW, the national security council has said the exact opposite of what cheney asserts about its effectiveness, when not declining to declassify memos to establish a timeline regarding its meeting’s with the congress’s intelligence committee. They have also failed to comment on any direct link between said sessions and “information” obtained, nor have they commented on whether (and how) this information was even helpful or innovative, not even in vague terms(only cheney and her papa have… where’s gonzales, btw?).
Read b/t the lines, people! the “information” referred to is always foggy, inconclusive and from the mouths of politicians. Also, importantly, the Justice Dept. DID NOT approve or clarify the legality of waterboarding before it was employed. Afterwards, a shitty and ridiculous justification was essential and, hence, produced.
Why does Cheney, who has no idea what she’s talking about, keep referring to the “administration” but ignore Gonzales’ justice department? O yea, she’s full of crap, which is why her only remaining argument, voiced today on msnbc, is: other people (who have no relevance to waterboarding victims) have returned to the battlefield… what the hell does being waterboarded have to do with being released from prison? wow.
If ‘the water-boarding’ programme was so succesful, so popular, and so innocuous, why is Cheney so animated about the circulation of the details and the question of responsibility? She should be proud, no?
Quote: “Britain is under direct deadly threat and we must all do what we can now to make sure we win in Iraq.” Tony Blair.
Questioner: “Prime minister, will your son be doing his part?”
Blair: “Don’t be silly, he’s going to Washington to enhance his career. Next question.”
Nice eh? You figure it out!
come on folks….waterboarding has been considered torture for over 100 years…we are all in this together….use your brains and your hearts ………please….deal with the hatred you were taught as a child…it’s our only hope !!!!