Torture TV
Shep is in the motherfucking house!
Man, these torture memos are creating some good TV. Ari Fleischer went head to giant forehead with Paul Begala the other night and lost miserably trying to defend brutal torture tactics. At one point there's a rare moment of cable news silence for about 5 seconds when Ari has no response to Begala.
Here's the kind of things you have to train yourself to say with a straight face to defend torture at this late stage. When asked why the CIA would destroy tapes of torture if there was nothing illegal in them, Ari says this:
Man, these torture memos are creating some good TV. Ari Fleischer went head to giant forehead with Paul Begala the other night and lost miserably trying to defend brutal torture tactics. At one point there's a rare moment of cable news silence for about 5 seconds when Ari has no response to Begala.
Here's the kind of things you have to train yourself to say with a straight face to defend torture at this late stage. When asked why the CIA would destroy tapes of torture if there was nothing illegal in them, Ari says this:
The CIA destroys a lot of things. They typically like to destroy as much things as they can. That's a matter of procedure at the CIA not only on this but on a host of evidentiary things.No need to worry! They burn everything!
posted by Matt Bors at
11:46 PM
2 Comments:
Destroy a lot of things.
Destroy as much as you can, including any superfluous or frivolous civil liberties.
Whenever Ari speaks, a little part of him dies.
Yeah, Shep Smith is like the last sane man at FOX, and it's driving him crazy. Maybe he'll get a CNN gig.
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