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big_dog

(4,144 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 06:42 PM Dec 2014

Fox News Meltdown 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.

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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?” Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters told the hosts of Out Numbered that the American people did not need to know about torture at the CIA because “people do nasty things in the dark especially after a terrorist attack.”

Out Numbered host Andrea Tantaros agreed that she didn’t need transparency at the CIA either. “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.”

“They apologized for this country, they don’t like this country, they want us to look bad. And all this does is have our enemies laughing at us, that we are having this debate again,” Tantaros added. “Because they believe if we can just shame ourselves and convince the world how horrible we are, and put us on a moral equivalency with all these other countries then maybe they will stop beheading Americans and putting our heads on sticks. They’re fools.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/fox-melts-down-after-torture-report-the-united-states-of-america-is-awesome-we-are-awesome/
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Fox News Meltdown After Torture Report: ‘The United States of America Is Awesome, We Are Awesome!' (Original Post) big_dog Dec 2014 OP
If the torture was "legal and justifed" why did the CIA lie about it? Scuba Dec 2014 #1
The knee jerk network. lpbk2713 Dec 2014 #2
Fox News - Still mourning the fall of the Third Reich. Xipe Totec Dec 2014 #3
We need to know the truth. CJCRANE Dec 2014 #4
Good thing Bush didn't do or say anything to anger the terrorists. rickford66 Dec 2014 #5
having sex with that dimwit wilt the stilt Dec 2014 #6
I am glad to see these fuck faces reveal themselves anyways. nt BootinUp Dec 2014 #7
Fox News, the real Domestic Terrorists! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2014 #8
Apparently McCain's words don't mean shit to Fauxpublicans think Dec 2014 #9
FOX= apologists for police brutality +apologists for CIA brutality = the problem. nt kelliekat44 Dec 2014 #10
It's not even hyperbole: Fox News is Neo-Nazi. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #11
WTF? onethatcares Dec 2014 #12
Question: Why do you only post what right wingers say? Kingofalldems Dec 2014 #13
This is only the tip of the iceberg, dumbass. n/t Jefferson23 Dec 2014 #14
Oxford definition.... sgtbenobo Dec 2014 #15
Awesome. n/t zappaman Dec 2014 #16
I'm no longer willing to talk to people who operate at this level DisgustipatedinCA Dec 2014 #17
Democracies do not cover up state crimes, which is why Fox cries, there goes the fascism attempt. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #18
Why doesn't Obama get on network TV and say ..... rickford66 Dec 2014 #19

lpbk2713

(42,738 posts)
2. The knee jerk network.
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 06:47 PM
Dec 2014



Obama ought to make a major public position statement
in favor of oxygen just to sit back and see their reaction.




CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
4. We need to know the truth.
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 06:48 PM
Dec 2014

We either have a democracy where the populace makes decisions informed by the truth...

Or we have a dictatorship of lies.

 

wilt the stilt

(4,528 posts)
6. having sex with that dimwit
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 07:00 PM
Dec 2014

is why the remote control was invented or you got so drunk you would pass out.

 

think

(11,641 posts)
9. Apparently McCain's words don't mean shit to Fauxpublicans
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 07:08 PM
Dec 2014

Yet they trusted McCain enough to want him as their president.....

True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)
11. It's not even hyperbole: Fox News is Neo-Nazi.
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 07:11 PM
Dec 2014

They openly endorse torture and murder, and practice the Big Lie.

onethatcares

(16,162 posts)
12. WTF?
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 07:13 PM
Dec 2014

"people do nasty things in the dark especially after a terrorist attack".

Jesse Watters should tell us what Iraq had to do with 9/11.

Sometimes I just don't know about our country, I really don't.

 

sgtbenobo

(327 posts)
15. Oxford definition....
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 07:28 PM
Dec 2014

....of Awesome;

Extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear:
"the awesome power of the atomic bomb"

yeah, we're fucking awesome alright.


Carry on.

 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
17. I'm no longer willing to talk to people who operate at this level
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 07:33 PM
Dec 2014

That's all. Whether a nobody or a Fox star or starlet, I'm no longer willing to entertain the statements of those who operate at a 2nd grade level (and that's being generous).

Please let me know if you thought my post was awesome, or even amazing. On second thought, don't bother.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
18. Democracies do not cover up state crimes, which is why Fox cries, there goes the fascism attempt.
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 08:29 PM
Dec 2014

All they got is misinforming their denizens and playing up the GOP excuse making...this time deflecting to Bengazhi is useless for them, that dead horse has been thoroughly beaten

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