Scarborough: ‘That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard’ that torture doesn’t work.

[bispo]

Today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough waged an ardent, six-minute defense of torture, arguing with the Financial Times’ Krystia Freeland that torture is always effective - and that waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and stress positions aren’t torture anyway. He mocked Freeland’s objections as “sophomoric” and declared that torture has

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[liquiddatura]

Scarborough condescendingly asked Freeland, “Should we just bring them a birthday cake and ask them what soccer match they’d like to see?”

I hate anyone who qualifies their opinion with a sarcastic polar opposite. There's nothing ever in-between?

Cake or death?

[la_raisondetre]

I hate that too. I think I just hate this guy, really, and I've never even seen his show.

(Death -- no, Cake! Cake, please!)

[shizumaslover]

(Eddie Izzard love. <3 )

[solitude_82]

you said death first, uh-uh, death first!

[jaded110]

What. A. Schmuck.

[mlfoley]

It worked so well in the Salem witch trials after all.

Sophomoric? Oooh Joe knows a big word!

[3goodtimes]

I say we connect car cables to Scarborough's nipples. Y'know... just for fun.

Asshole.

I love how he just cuts her off when she makes a good point. "We're not gonna go there because it makes me sound wrong."

Also, he totally knows what he's talking about. He knows SO MUCH about torture and terrorism and FUCK ALL. Ugh. *fights the urge to throw something*

[autumnjane]

Once when I was at Target I saw a car with the bumper sticker, "I <3 Waterboarding." I was mildly dumbstruck. Not to see someone supporting it but to see someone so fervently supporting it that they would put a bumper sticker on their car about it.

[thewalkingman]

sounds like a joke to me.

[autumnjane]

Nope. Unless every other mccain/palin bumpersticker on their car (and there were about 4 of them) were jokes too.

[thewalkingman]

McCain is anti-torture.

Still sounds like a joke to me.