Issa: ‘We treat our hospital patients worse than Al-Qaeda.’
Yesterday, during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) suggested that “we treat our hospital patients worse than al-Qaeda”:
Yesterday, during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) suggested that “we treat our hospital patients worse than al-Qaeda”:
It’s clear we treat our hospital patients worse than al-Qaeda. I know, they were poking me with needles the whole time.
Issa joins a long list of conservatives who have “poked” fun or downplayed torture. But according to a new book by Jane Mayer of the New Yorker, torture is no laughing matter. In fact, “the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes.”
O’Reilly Jokes About Waterboarding His Staff In Order To Identify Who Leaked Jackson’s Comments
Last week, the media went into a frenzy after Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly released footage of Rev. Jesse Jackson criticizing Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) before an interview. Yesterday, TV Newser released a leaked portion of the Jackson transcript that O’Reilly and Fox News had chosen to not make public.
Appearing on Shepard Smith’s Fox News show yesterday, O’Reilly explained that he “held it back” because “it was not relevant to the general subject — one civil rights leader disparaging another, over policy.” Towards the end of the interview, Smith asked O’Reilly, “do we know leaked it?” “No,” replied O’Reilly, adding that he would find out because he had “the waterboard over here”:
O’REILLY: So, we held it back, and then, some weasel got the whole thing, leaked it out to the internet, and here we are.
SMITH: Do we know who leaked it and what’s happened to that person?
O’REILLY: No, but I have the waterboard over here, and we have a couple of people that, you know, we’ll dunk. We’ll find out.
When Smith said, “we don’t allow torture here,” O’Reilly replied, “well, you talk to some of my guests.”
Last week, the media went into a frenzy after Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly released footage of Rev. Jesse Jackson criticizing Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) before an interview. Yesterday, TV Newser released a leaked portion of the Jackson transcript that O’Reilly and Fox News had chosen to not make public.
Appearing on Shepard Smith’s Fox News show yesterday, O’Reilly explained that he “held it back” because “it was not relevant to the general subject — one civil rights leader disparaging another, over policy.” Towards the end of the interview, Smith asked O’Reilly, “do we know leaked it?” “No,” replied O’Reilly, adding that he would find out because he had “the waterboard over here”:
O’REILLY: So, we held it back, and then, some weasel got the whole thing, leaked it out to the internet, and here we are.
SMITH: Do we know who leaked it and what’s happened to that person?
O’REILLY: No, but I have the waterboard over here, and we have a couple of people that, you know, we’ll dunk. We’ll find out.
When Smith said, “we don’t allow torture here,” O’Reilly replied, “well, you talk to some of my guests.”
McCain campaign: McCain’s rape joke is ‘a good example of McCain being McCain.’
In the Politico, Ben Smith tracks the numerous offensive jokes — often aimed at women — that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) loves to tell on the campaign trail. Though the campaign said McCain “didn’t recall” telling a joke during his 1986 Senate race about women loving rape, the campaign insisted these offensive jokes proved McCain was “authentic” and showed “McCain being McCain”:
In the Politico, Ben Smith tracks the numerous offensive jokes — often aimed at women — that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) loves to tell on the campaign trail. Though the campaign said McCain “didn’t recall” telling a joke during his 1986 Senate race about women loving rape, the campaign insisted these offensive jokes proved McCain was “authentic” and showed “McCain being McCain”:
“He’s long said that he’s said and done things in the past that he regrets,” [McCain spokesman Brian] Rogers said. “You’ve just got to move on and be yourself — that’s what people want. They want somebody who’s authentic, and this kind of stuff is a good example of McCain being McCain.“
Rove: ‘This Administration Put More Into Alternative Energy Research Than Any Administration in History’
Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, Karl Rove attempted to defend the Bush administration’s energy record by falsely claiming that it had spent more on alternative energy research than “any administration in history”:
ROVE: This president and this administration put more into alternative energy research than any administration in history by a significant factor. And as a result, things like the lithium ion batteries which are needed for cars, plug-in cars, all kinds of cellulosic and other forms of ethanol, hydrogen, wind, solar, all of these with one exception saw a dramatic movement in terms of being able to come to market.
Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, Karl Rove attempted to defend the Bush administration’s energy record by falsely claiming that it had spent more on alternative energy research than “any administration in history”:
ROVE: This president and this administration put more into alternative energy research than any administration in history by a significant factor. And as a result, things like the lithium ion batteries which are needed for cars, plug-in cars, all kinds of cellulosic and other forms of ethanol, hydrogen, wind, solar, all of these with one exception saw a dramatic movement in terms of being able to come to market.
Savage: ‘In 99 percent of the cases’ of autism, ‘it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.’
On his radio show, right wing talker Michael Savage said that autism is “a fraud” and “a racket” and that “in 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.” Savage then asserted that all these “brat[s]” need as a father to tell them to “stop acting like a putz“:
That’s what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they’re silent? They don’t have a father around to tell them, ‘Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.’” Savage concluded, “[I]f I behaved like a fool, my father called me a fool. And he said to me, ‘Don’t behave like a fool.’ The worst thing he said — ‘Don’t behave like a fool. Don’t be anybody’s dummy. Don’t sound like an idiot. Don’t act like a girl. Don’t cry.’ That’s what I was raised with. That’s what you should raise your children with. Stop with the sensitivity training. You’re turning your son into a girl, and you’re turning your nation into a nation of losers and beaten men. That’s why we have the politicians we have.”
On his radio show, right wing talker Michael Savage said that autism is “a fraud” and “a racket” and that “in 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.” Savage then asserted that all these “brat[s]” need as a father to tell them to “stop acting like a putz“:
That’s what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they’re silent? They don’t have a father around to tell them, ‘Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.’” Savage concluded, “[I]f I behaved like a fool, my father called me a fool. And he said to me, ‘Don’t behave like a fool.’ The worst thing he said — ‘Don’t behave like a fool. Don’t be anybody’s dummy. Don’t sound like an idiot. Don’t act like a girl. Don’t cry.’ That’s what I was raised with. That’s what you should raise your children with. Stop with the sensitivity training. You’re turning your son into a girl, and you’re turning your nation into a nation of losers and beaten men. That’s why we have the politicians we have.”
Jack Cafferty: Viagra Is For A Medical Condition, Birth Control Is A “Lifestyle Choice”
In discussion of McCain’s painful fumbling over why health insurance covers Viagra but not birth control, The Situation Room panel of Wolf Blitzer, Gloria Borger, Stephen Hayes and Jack Cafferty debate the position between a rock and a hard place that McCain finds himself, eager to win over those feminist Clinton supporters but hesitant to speak out against that mainstay of the Republican platform: restricting women’s reproductive freedom.
Ignoring for the moment that CNN cannot bother to have a single pundit on for “balance” from the left against The Weekly Standard’s Hayes and US News’ Gloria Borger, it’s Jack Cafferty who issues the befuddling “answer” to McCain’s predictament:
CAFFERTY: Well, you know, the answer is Viagra is used to treat a medical condition, erectile dysfunction. Birth control is a lifestyle choice. And that’s why insurance companies don’t reimburse for it unless pregnancy represents a danger for the woman. And then there’s a gray area where you can do a negotiation.
BillO tells Karl Rove: ‘who in their right mind would want to go into a House committee, which is just a dog and pony show’
BillO is such a mighty man. He sneered at the LA media critics since they are far left loons…how empowering that must be. And he feels so bad for Karl Rove being asked to testify in front of the House Subcommittee about his involvement in the Donald Siegelman case. Since Rover is on the FOX team now, there’s really no point to all that malarkey and it’s all about dogs. I think….
O’Reilly: They gave you a hard time about not wanting to go testify..uh..in front of the House Subcommittee about Don..Donald Siegelman…you know, now who in their right mind, and I’m, this is a non-partisan thing, who in their right mind would want to go in to a House committee, which is just a dog and pony show, trying to embarrass whoever it is, you, me whoever has to go, who in their right mind would want to do that? They wouldn’t. They won’t come on this program, most of those pinheads. Okay. So they give me a hard time about that, and, I guess they’re giving you a hard time because you worked in the Bush administration and now you work at FNC?
Rove: Yeah, yeah uh well on the first one, you know they were completely, and a lot of the questions were polite, but they were clearly ill informed. They said why don’t, why don’t you refuse to testify. I said look I’ve not invoked any privilege, the White House has invoked privilege. The White House has invoked an Executive privilege to Constitutional authority of the President not to have his aides drawn up to the Hill for any reason that they want and I said but I have been five times offered, through my lawyer to meet with Democrat members, Democrat staff, Republican members, Republican staff, or answer in writing questions that they might want to submit about this in order to preserve the President’s prerogatives of separation of powers, while at the same time giving them information that they supposedly want and not foreclosing any options.
In discussion of McCain’s painful fumbling over why health insurance covers Viagra but not birth control, The Situation Room panel of Wolf Blitzer, Gloria Borger, Stephen Hayes and Jack Cafferty debate the position between a rock and a hard place that McCain finds himself, eager to win over those feminist Clinton supporters but hesitant to speak out against that mainstay of the Republican platform: restricting women’s reproductive freedom.
Ignoring for the moment that CNN cannot bother to have a single pundit on for “balance” from the left against The Weekly Standard’s Hayes and US News’ Gloria Borger, it’s Jack Cafferty who issues the befuddling “answer” to McCain’s predictament:
CAFFERTY: Well, you know, the answer is Viagra is used to treat a medical condition, erectile dysfunction. Birth control is a lifestyle choice. And that’s why insurance companies don’t reimburse for it unless pregnancy represents a danger for the woman. And then there’s a gray area where you can do a negotiation.
BillO tells Karl Rove: ‘who in their right mind would want to go into a House committee, which is just a dog and pony show’
BillO is such a mighty man. He sneered at the LA media critics since they are far left loons…how empowering that must be. And he feels so bad for Karl Rove being asked to testify in front of the House Subcommittee about his involvement in the Donald Siegelman case. Since Rover is on the FOX team now, there’s really no point to all that malarkey and it’s all about dogs. I think….
O’Reilly: They gave you a hard time about not wanting to go testify..uh..in front of the House Subcommittee about Don..Donald Siegelman…you know, now who in their right mind, and I’m, this is a non-partisan thing, who in their right mind would want to go in to a House committee, which is just a dog and pony show, trying to embarrass whoever it is, you, me whoever has to go, who in their right mind would want to do that? They wouldn’t. They won’t come on this program, most of those pinheads. Okay. So they give me a hard time about that, and, I guess they’re giving you a hard time because you worked in the Bush administration and now you work at FNC?
Rove: Yeah, yeah uh well on the first one, you know they were completely, and a lot of the questions were polite, but they were clearly ill informed. They said why don’t, why don’t you refuse to testify. I said look I’ve not invoked any privilege, the White House has invoked privilege. The White House has invoked an Executive privilege to Constitutional authority of the President not to have his aides drawn up to the Hill for any reason that they want and I said but I have been five times offered, through my lawyer to meet with Democrat members, Democrat staff, Republican members, Republican staff, or answer in writing questions that they might want to submit about this in order to preserve the President’s prerogatives of separation of powers, while at the same time giving them information that they supposedly want and not foreclosing any options.
1 comment:
Falafel King....imbecile, bigot, womanizer.........does he think he is funny with anything he says......get the waterboarding out for him.
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