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geardaddy

(24,926 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 05:33 PM Dec 2014

Fox melts down after torture report: ‘The United States of America is awesome, we are awesome!’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/fox-melts-down-after-torture-report-the-united-states-of-america-is-awesome-we-are-awesome/

Fox News analysts, hosts and reporters on Tuesday wasted no time in blasting Democrats after Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) released a report condemning the CIA’s use of torture and other enhanced interrogation techniques.

Just moments after Feinstein announced on the floor of the Senate that the Intelligence Committee had made the long-delayed torture report public, Fox News National Security Analyst K.T. McFarland insisted that Democrats were going to “do harm” to the country by angering terrorists.

McFarland, who said that torture techniques were both legal and justified by the horrific terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, argued that Democrats were only releasing the report for political reasons.


“Why go after it now unless the motivation is completely political?” she remarked. “Congress is changing hands, the Senate is going from Democrat to Republican hands. And are the Democrats in the Senate just — they’ve been evicted from the house, are they just trashing the place before they leave?”

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“The United States of America is awesome, we are awesome,” she said. “But we’ve had this discussion. We’ve closed the book on it, and we’ve stopped doing it. And the reason they want to have this discussion is not to show how awesome we are. This administration wants to have this discussion to show us how we’re not awesome.”

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Fox melts down after torture report: ‘The United States of America is awesome, we are awesome!’ (Original Post) geardaddy Dec 2014 OP
She sounds like a textbook example of Stockholm Syndrome. closeupready Dec 2014 #1
Loud braggarts are ALWAYS assholes. hifiguy Dec 2014 #2
it's 3:46 on this pretty big news day...look what fox dot com has as it's headline... spanone Dec 2014 #3
You mean its "Horse@#%&" headline? John1956PA Dec 2014 #6
wow... Blue_Tires Dec 2014 #7
We are awesome Sweeney Dec 2014 #4
She sounds like she would pat the back of a serial killer cause he stopped shraby Dec 2014 #5
Why hide it from the beginning unless it was completely political? csziggy Dec 2014 #8
Not awesome ... GeorgeGist Dec 2014 #9
 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
1. She sounds like a textbook example of Stockholm Syndrome.
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 05:41 PM
Dec 2014

Laughable and pathetic. They claim she's a National Security Analyst, whatever that means (correspondence course Ph.D. in National Security Analysis?). She probably calls herself a journalist, too.

spanone

(135,829 posts)
3. it's 3:46 on this pretty big news day...look what fox dot com has as it's headline...
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 05:46 PM
Dec 2014

THEY ARE REALLY ON TOP OF THE NEWS!!!!

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Sweeney

(505 posts)
4. We are awesome
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 05:52 PM
Dec 2014

At torture. Every one loves what they do best. Everyone excels at what they love. To this we give the chief of all our remaining days.

Can you imagine some one taking torture as a job, working it like a job, and at the end of thirty five years, checking out, drawing a pension, and living with themselves? Most of us only have to deal with pain and regrets. How would you like guilt for your measure, and know you did your job well done, as you dress to meet your maker. You see, anyone can kill anyone. The great challenge is to make people hate their only life, hate it with a passion, and wish it away. That is the triumph of the spirit. That is the elevation of the soul nearer my God to thee. America needs a few good men and women to be awesome, and this is a job too few can do.

Sweeney

shraby

(21,946 posts)
5. She sounds like she would pat the back of a serial killer cause he stopped
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 06:04 PM
Dec 2014

killing. Can I call and idiot an idiot?

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
8. Why hide it from the beginning unless it was completely political?
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 06:16 PM
Dec 2014

Or unless they knew from the first time they tortured a captive that it was completely ILLEGAL?

We're not awesome because we, as Americans, let torture happen. And we're not going to be awesome as long as we don't name the names of the people who did it, punish them for doing it and make it clear to everyone who works for our government (or for companies that work for our government) that they should NEVER torture people.

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