Torture Wingnuts

The Right’s Insatiable Need for Torture Porn

Eric Bolling of Fox News’ The Five has a fever, and the only cure is more torture porn.

Bolling: The question remains now — why? Because he wanted to kill Americans obviously. How? Did the younger Dzhokhar come over here, get radicalized, and then become an American citizen on the very day Benghazi was going down, he became an American citizen, so he could hide behind the criminal justice system? I say probably, likely, therefor you have a case that could be may to try him in a military tribunal.

Geraldo: He came here at age 8, Eric.

Bolling: They wont though. They’re going to try him in the criminal justice system, and that’s fine, but boy they better take their time, and boy they better really interrogate this guy, and boy would it make me happy if they went ahead and waterboarded this SOB.

Geraldo: Eric do you really want to waterboard him? Do you really want to torture him?

Bolling: Yeah, uh huh. Totally. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Send him to Gitmo first and let him hang out with, you know, his fellow Islamic terrorists and, you know, think about what he did for a while. Throw him on the board and splash some water on him.

Oh boy, oh boy — I hope they torture him. All Eric Bolling wants for Christmas is more torture. He needs that torture like a rejuvenating tonic. The same way David Vitter needs diapers to do his thing. Oh boy, oh boy. Also Benghazi. This definitely has something to do with Benghazi.

This kind of boisterously-expressed sadism should be consider enough to be shunned from society or at least kicked off the air, but unfortunately it’s treated as just another political opinion or another point of view that deserves to be considered. Because the message that “torture works” was embedded into our discourse and normalized by the previous administration.

Bolling clearly isn’t alone in his torture fetish as this deep desire for it was also recently expressed by various conservative celebrities and state representatives on social media, but none have been quite as expressive as he was as he wagged his tail for torture like a dog begging for a milk bone and said “boy it would make me happy.”

According to the most recent reports, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being cooperative and speaking to federal authorities without the threat of torture.