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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 CIAs 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.
#t=118McFarland, 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 theyve 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 didnt need transparency at the CIA either. The United States of America is awesome, we are awesome, she said. But weve had this discussion. Weve closed the book on it, and weve 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 were not awesome.
They apologized for this country, they dont 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. Theyre fools.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/fox-melts-down-after-torture-report-the-united-states-of-america-is-awesome-we-are-awesome/
Scuba
(53,475 posts)lpbk2713
(42,738 posts)Obama ought to make a major public position statement
in favor of oxygen just to sit back and see their reaction.
Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)Their eyes still mist.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)We either have a democracy where the populace makes decisions informed by the truth...
Or we have a dictatorship of lies.
rickford66
(5,521 posts)wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)is why the remote control was invented or you got so drunk you would pass out.
BootinUp
(47,085 posts)RKP5637
(67,088 posts)think
(11,641 posts)Yet they trusted McCain enough to want him as their president.....
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)They openly endorse torture and murder, and practice the Big Lie.
onethatcares
(16,162 posts)"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.
Kingofalldems
(38,423 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)sgtbenobo
(327 posts)....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.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)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)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
rickford66
(5,521 posts)"Bring it on!"