Dick Cheney's non-torture and the Fox Ministry of Truth
Dick Cheney is still defending waterboarding, claiming it's not torture. He's echoing the same bullshit that Fox News is, that it's only "harsh interrogation."
Former governor Jesse Ventura gave an interview on Fox News and told them that he served in the military and was waterboarded as part of his training and that it is certainly torture. Not only that, but he made sure to point out--and I love that this made it on national television at long last--that torture has shown time and time again to not be effective. If you torture someone long enough, they'll say whatever you want them to.
Fine, if it's not torture, then let's have them give it a try and see if they'll still say it's not torture. Let's go ahead and waterboard Dick Cheney, George Bush Jr., Karl Rove, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and any other person who went on public tirades about how waterboarding will "save America."
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In the book 1984, the main character works for a government agency called the Ministry of Truth. The job of this ministry is to change what's in history books and news items and the like to reflect the interests of the political party's doctrine. For example, if they go to war against a country, all past news items that say anything good about said country, he changes it to something bad.
On Fox News recently, when they were covering the Mark Sanford press conference where he admitted to having an affair, they had him listed as a Democrat, even though he is a Republican. That would be only a little suspicious if it were an isolated incident (even though it would take 5 seconds on Wikipedia to find out his party affiliation), but Fox has done this on at least three other occasions. The Associated Press has done this multiple times too, but the difference is that the AP issued corrections.
Fox is truly unrelenting and shameless in their methods.
Former governor Jesse Ventura gave an interview on Fox News and told them that he served in the military and was waterboarded as part of his training and that it is certainly torture. Not only that, but he made sure to point out--and I love that this made it on national television at long last--that torture has shown time and time again to not be effective. If you torture someone long enough, they'll say whatever you want them to.
Fine, if it's not torture, then let's have them give it a try and see if they'll still say it's not torture. Let's go ahead and waterboard Dick Cheney, George Bush Jr., Karl Rove, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and any other person who went on public tirades about how waterboarding will "save America."
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In the book 1984, the main character works for a government agency called the Ministry of Truth. The job of this ministry is to change what's in history books and news items and the like to reflect the interests of the political party's doctrine. For example, if they go to war against a country, all past news items that say anything good about said country, he changes it to something bad.
On Fox News recently, when they were covering the Mark Sanford press conference where he admitted to having an affair, they had him listed as a Democrat, even though he is a Republican. That would be only a little suspicious if it were an isolated incident (even though it would take 5 seconds on Wikipedia to find out his party affiliation), but Fox has done this on at least three other occasions. The Associated Press has done this multiple times too, but the difference is that the AP issued corrections.
Fox is truly unrelenting and shameless in their methods.