Olbermann
The presidency is now a criminal conspiracy:
“Waterboarding is torture,” Daniel Levin was to write. Daniel Levin was no theorist and no protester. He was no troublemaking politician. He was no table-pounding commentator. Daniel Levin was an astonishingly patriotic American and a brave man.
Brave not just with words or with stances, even in a dark time when that kind of bravery can usually be scared or bought off.
Charged, as you heard in the story from ABC News last Friday, with assessing the relative legality of the various nightmares in the Pandora’s box that is the Orwell-worthy euphemism “Enhanced Interrogation,” Mr. Levin decided that the simplest, and the most honest, way to evaluate them … was to have them enacted upon himself.
Daniel Levin took himself to a military base and let himself be waterboarded…
Posted on November 6th, 2007 at 11:45 am
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About time *someone* from the MSM starts calling Bush out as a criminal. Olbermann has long been critical of Bush however - I’d like to see others start to take it up. All very well tucking away an aggressive opinion piece, when their front page news is still on the party line.
I went off and read the Wikipedia entry on “waterboarding”, since that’s often a good way of getting at the “man on the street” arguments around a hot political topic. I was quite astonished at the mental gymnastics some editors were going to to justify their resistance to “waterboarding is torture”. Basically, it came down to “all those people over there (the experts) say it is torture, but that is just opinion. These people over here (Bush, Cheney) say it is not, therefore there is controversy, therefore it cannot be a Neutral POV to say it is torture”.
I can’t wait to see that line of thinking applied to every definition - Wikipedia would implode shortly thereafter…
Katherine, maybe this might explain the problem?