Norah O'Donnell shows everyone how the establishment media ought to be covering the torture situation.
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Super Stupid
Following up on Congressman Barton's proud ignorance from earlier, here's Bill O'Reilly being a dick towards Alan Colmes -- and getting his little "high school" history lesson totally wrong. Yep...
Shhhhh…
Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Someone grab a Sharpie and write TAHSSA on his forehead. Hurry! Good lord. And in a meeting with credit card executives no less.
Correction
On the Wednesday radio show with Lee Stranahan, I mentioned that Abu Ghraib, in the late Winter of 2004, was perhaps the first example of American torture revealed to the public. I was off by a...
Unnecessary Torture for An Unnecessary War
An FBI interrogator speaks out. Sullivan summarizes the meat of the interrogator's op/ed: Soufan notes that torture was applied to Zubaydah even though he had provided a great deal of actionable and...
Proud Ignorance
Plate tectonics is something we learn in junior high school. And yet Congressman Joe Barton (R-Super Stupid) thinks the idea is hilarious and silly. Benen notes: Shortly thereafter, Barton tweeted...
Feargasm Defined
Sean Hannity lapses into an unhinged feargasm: Strange how Hannity preemptively blamed President Obama for people dying, but when he's challenged about how Bush's policies made us less safe, he...
Tortured Reaction
What's truly revealing about the torture people is that we can list dozens of historical examples of how torture was prosecuted by American officials -- be it following World War II or the Spanish...
Why Can't Obama Close the Deal?
Eric Boehlert: Does anybody else think it's odd, albeit telling, that for chunks of the corporate press corps, the emphasis surrounding the release of the Bush era torture memos is now centered on...
Go Shepard Smith Go!
Shep Smith nails the whole argument: "We are America! We do not fucking torture!"
Ending the Debate on Torture
I figured out how to shut down these ridiculous arguments from the pro-torture right, including Joe Scarborough who again this morning is taking an "anything goes" approach to national security...
Morning Awesome
Iron Maiden - "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns" From Sundance Channel's Live from Abbey Road
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New Huffington Post Column
The Tortured Logic of the Torture Superfans Enjoy and Digg often!
There Is No Counterpoint
I challenge any wingnut to come up with a counterpoint to what the Secretary of State said here. Other than more loud noises, there isn't one.
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He's A Superhero!
A really, really awful superhero. Republican strategist Phil Musser can tell if someone is guilty or not just by looking at them. He has Super Duper Guilty Vision!
Morning Joe
In this video, you'll hear some revealing truths from Joe Scarborough about Joe Scarborough. First, he admits that after 9/11 he supported Bush era big government because he was afraid of another...
Why Afghanistan Matters
This. I simply don't believe that leaving a region in which the Taliban is a few clicks away from Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is such a good idea. When the Bushies bailed on the Afghanistan theater in...