Found 205 days, 16 hours, 44 minutes, and 6 seconds ago on
thinkprogress.org
Yesterday on PBS's Newshour, host Gwen Ifill asked Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) whether waterboarding constitutes torture. Bond replied that the technique is actually more like " swimming ":
GWEN IFILL: Do you think that waterboarding, as I described it, constitutes torture? ...
Talking Points Memo
talkingpointsmemo.comFound 205 days, 16 hours, 44 minutes, and 8 seconds ago
December 11, 2007
pbs.orgFound 205 days, 16 hours, 44 minutes, and 11 seconds agoHe laid out the case for us that he made in that statement, but I think all of us want to see the congressional inquiries go forward, as well as the Department of Justice inquiry, to see if there was any wrongdoing or if there was any area in which those tapes should have been used but were not available. ...
The right's deranged support for waterboarding
thecarpetbaggerreport.comFound 205 days, 14 hours, 20 minutes, and 10 seconds agoOver the last couple of months, conservatives' rhetoric when it comes to torture-by-waterboarding has taken a turn for the worse. Not too long ago, the right argued that waterboarding is a necessary evil -- torture is wrong, they'd say, but in extreme, Jack-Bauer-like circumstances, maybe the nation ...
dailykos.com
UPDATE: Oh, this is rich. Apparently Malkin, Drudge, and the NRCC are pretending to be up in arms today over Pelosi saying Republicans "like this war. They want this war to continue."
Oh, the scandal! How could she say such a mean thing! Oh, if only she had been more civilized, like appearing on television with a smile and reducing acts of intentional government-sanctioned torture into mere swimming techniques!
And yet -- duh. Republicans "like" war? Well, that's the very premise of Jonah Goldberg's lecture, at the least.
Found 204 days, 6 hours, 39 minutes, and 42 seconds ago
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
12 Dec 2007 12:05 pm
Just when you thought the waterboarders couldn't get any glibber ...
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Found 205 days, 15 hours, 52 minutes, and 18 seconds ago
wickedstageact2.typepad.com
Here's a Quote Note for you. Senator Kit Bo nd says: "There are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming, freestyle, backstroke. The waterboarding could be used almost to define some of the techniques that our trainees are put through, but that's beside the point." Someone once said, we get the
Found 204 days, 6 hours, 39 minutes, and 18 seconds ago
balkin.blogspot.com
GWEN IFILL : Let me ask Senator Bond a little bit about this issue of waterboarding. And let me describe for our viewers first to remind them what it is. It's when there's a piece of cloth that's placed over the mouth of a person who's been strapped down, and water is poured on their face so they feel like they're inhaling water, and it gives a sensation of drowning. Do you think that's torture?
Found 205 days, 16 hours, 43 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
sayanythingblog.com
That's enough to get the left, which has collectively decided that waterboarding is the worst possible thing you could ever do to a human being, all worked into a tizzy but the reality is that Bond isn't far off the mark.
I think it's a bit factitious to say that waterboarding is exactly like swimming, but really it's not all that different from going to the local pool and getting your head held under the water by a sibling. It is, almost literally, water dunking. That's it. Bullies have been doing it to kids at public schools for decades.
Found 205 days, 11 hours, 3 minutes, and 59 seconds ago
allspinzone.com
Commentary By: The Xsociate
You Can't Torquemada Anything
Sorry for the Mel Brooks pun but I felt that some levity was in order given the tortuousness of extracting even a modicum of information from the Bushies. The President still feigns ignorance of what some have taken to calling "Tapegate". This is despite the person he once deemed worthy of a spot on the Supreme Court being intimately involved in discussions with the CIA over the fate of the tapes. It would appear the Bush Bubble is now so opaque that it no longer permits light to penetrate, let alone reality.
Found 205 days, 5 hours, 27 minutes, and 20 seconds ago
discourse.net
The Carpetbagger Report summarizes The right's deranged support for waterboarding .
Each of the following was said recently by a different
Found 205 days, 5 hours, 27 minutes, and 13 seconds ago
balloon-juice.com
Republican Sen. Kit Bond :
Found 205 days, 9 hours, 28 minutes, and 26 seconds ago
trueblueliberal.com
By Amanda
Yesterday on PBS's Newshour, host Gwen Ifill asked Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) whether waterboarding constitutes torture. Bond replied that the technique is actually more like "swimming":
GWEN IFILL: Do you think that waterboarding, as I described it, constitutes torture?
SEN. KIT BOND: There are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming, freestyle, backstroke. The waterboarding could be used almost to define some of the techniques that our trainees are put through, but that's beside the point.
Found 205 days, 14 hours, 52 minutes, and 33 seconds ago
timedfinals.com
Today's quote of the day comes from Sen Kit Bond (R-MO) as he related the controversial interrogation technique of "waterboarding" to swimming on PBS's "Newshour." Sen. Bond failed to wow the swimming community with his knowledge of the sport when asked if waterboarding constituted torture. Sen. Bond responded by saying "There are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming freestyle, backstroke…" It appears that Sen. Bond may need a quick swim lesson to refresh his memory of swimming. You can check out a video of the interview here .
Found 205 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes, and 43 seconds ago
blackwhite.blog-city.com
Yesterday on PBS's Newshour, host Gwen Ifill asked Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) whether waterboarding constitutes torture. Bond replied that the technique is actually more like " swimming ":
Found 205 days, 15 hours, 6 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
2millionthweblog.blogspot.com
Kit Bond is no James Bond ...in fact, Kit Bond isn't even a tinpot Torquemada wanna be. As Ray McGovern points out , the Spanish didn't trifle with euphemism:
Found 205 days, 14 hours, 52 minutes, and 22 seconds ago
commentsfromleftfield.com
It is funny just how wrong someone can be in so few words, but it seems as though Republican Senator from Missouri Kit Bond is dead set on breaking records. Per Think Progress, Kit said yesterday on PBS' Newshour, " There are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming, freestyle, backstroke. The waterboarding could be used almost to define some of the techniques that our trainees are put through, but that's beside the point. It's not being used."
Oh boy, where to start?
Read The Fu
Found 205 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
vbdems.org
Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence committee: "There are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming , freestyle, backstroke."
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft also responded to questions from the audience. The first question came from a woman who asked if Ashcroft would be willing to be subjected to waterboarding: "The things that I can survive, if it were necessary to do them to me, I would do," he said.
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds: "I was entirely serious when I suggested that Mukasey volunteer to be waterboarded along with any interested members of Congress.
Found 205 days, 14 hours, 10 minutes, and 40 seconds ago
blogrevolution.com
Online NewsHour: Debate | Lawmakers Mull CIA Tape Probe
Found 205 days, 10 hours, 54 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
rebellenation.blogspot.com
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Found 205 days, 10 hours, 19 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
jonorato42.wordpress.com
… but I haven't seen a funnier one than this , in which Senator (Senator!) Kit Bond declares waterboarding to be akin to swimming the backstroke. And besides, we're not doing it. LOL.
Yeah, I know one thing for sure: I would just as soon be waterboarded for information I may or may not know than swim the backstroke. What a fucking moron. Yo, Missouri! This is the best you can do?
So, the answer is obvious: Kit Bond needs to be waterboarded, and like for real, until for example he confesses that waterboarding equals the backstroke was flagrant ignorance and almost worthy of unelectability.
Found 205 days, 9 hours, 36 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
pamshouseblend.com
God/FSM help us . Senator Kit Bond of Missouri, the ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence committee, said something completely unhinged to Gwen Ifill on PBS Newshour. She started out with a clear definition of waterboarding and asks whether it's torture. GWEN IFILL: Let me ask Senator Bond a little bit about this issue of waterboarding. And let me describe for our viewers first to remind them what it is. It's when there's a piece of cloth that's placed over the mouth of a person who's been strapped down, and water is poured on their face so they feel like they're inhaling water, and it gives a sensation of drowning.
Found 205 days, 9 hours, 16 minutes, and 34 seconds ago
pamshouseblend.com
God/FSM help us . Senator Kit Bond of Missouri, the ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence committee, said something completely unhinged to Gwen Ifill on PBS Newshour. She started out with a clear definition of waterboarding and asks whether it's torture. GWEN IFILL: Let me ask Senator Bond a little bit about this issue of waterboarding. And let me describe for our viewers first to remind them what it is. It's when there's a piece of cloth that's placed over the mouth of a person who's been strapped down, and water is poured on their face so they feel like they're inhaling water, and it gives a sensation of drowning.
Found 205 days, 9 hours, 16 minutes, and 36 seconds ago
xsofiles.blogspot.com
I'd have to agree with Micheal that Kit Bond really is the craziest Repub of the day for his claim that waterboarding is just the latest water sport craze. Is a name change in order?
Found 205 days, 5 hours, 20 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
primenewsblog.com
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Found 204 days, 18 hours, 13 minutes, and 12 seconds ago
hunter.dailykos.com
UPDATE: Oh, this is rich. Apparently Malkin, Drudge, and the NRCC are pretending to be up in arms today over Pelosi saying Republicans "like this war. They want this war to continue."
Oh, the scandal! How could she say such a mean thing! Oh, if only she had been more civilized, like appearing on television with a smile and reducing acts of intentional government-sanctioned torture into mere swimming techniques!
And yet -- duh. Republicans "like" war? Well, that's the very premise of Jonah Goldberg's lecture, at the least.
Found 204 days, 10 hours, 35 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
myleftnutmeg.com
Why did Shay's vote against this bill. Does his opinion on waterboarding mirrors the opinion of Senator Kit Bond of Missouri?
Found 204 days, 7 hours, 11 minutes, and 42 seconds ago
theweblist.net
Gaming Culture: Classic Game Characters in Spore
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vastleftwingconspiracy.net
Attacking Iran? How Does $300 Oil Sound?
Found 258 days, 11 hours, 28 minutes, and 50 seconds ago
comments.deasil.com
So some random website is reporting that Korean scientists have cloned cats but with a sciency twist . The twist? Obviously they made the cats glow in the dark. Now there's every possibility that this is a hoax - most likely on the part of the internet, but it's true that the Korean's now have a track record of clone hoaxes . On the other hand I can now make my first lolcat. A momentous day is today.
Having one of those cats around might be scary, you know, when they decide it's time to jump on your head in the middle of the night.
Found 204 days, 20 hours, 52 minutes, and 53 seconds ago
dailykos.com.
UPDATE: Oh, this is rich. Apparently Malkin, Drudge, and the NRCC are pretending to be up in arms today over Pelosi saying Republicans "like this war. They want this war to continue."
Oh, the scandal! How could she say such a mean thing! Oh, if only she had been more civilized, like appearing on television with a smile and reducing acts of intentional government-sanctioned torture into mere swimming techniques!
And yet -- duh. Republicans "like" war? Well, that's the very premise of Jonah Goldberg's lecture, at the least.
Found 204 days, 9 hours, 25 minutes, and 1 second ago
blog.myspace.com
Now, waterboarding might be torture, but as long as people I hate also hate waterboarding, then I love it more than life itself. … So I cherish waterboarding. I want to make it our national sport, our national bird. I want to make the waterboard the state flower of Vermont, instead of the Birkenstock. For too many conservatives, waterboarding is a big joke to be taken lightly. Rachel Marsden - Gutfeld's former co-host - claimed waterboarding was simply a "CIA-sponsored swim lesson ." Sen.
Found 205 days, 8 hours, 41 minutes, and 49 seconds ago
blog.myspace.com
Here's the full transcript of last night's NewsHour interview, featuring Bond and Sen. Jane Harman, D-Calif., who also is an Intelligence Committee member.
Found 204 days, 19 hours, 28 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
bhfrick.dailykos.com
UPDATE: Oh, this is rich. Apparently Malkin, Drudge, and the NRCC are pretending to be up in arms today over Pelosi saying Republicans "like this war. They want this war to continue."
Oh, the scandal! How could she say such a mean thing! Oh, if only she had been more civilized, like appearing on television with a smile and reducing acts of intentional government-sanctioned torture into mere swimming techniques!
And yet -- duh. Republicans "like" war? Well, that's the very premise of Jonah Goldberg's lecture, at the least.
Found 204 days, 10 hours, 32 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
destructuring.net
The Bush Administration has maintained that waterboarding is not torture ; Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) has stated that it is most definitely not torture , and actually like swimming ( http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/12/bond-waterboarding-swimming/ ).
I'm sold.
So my question is this - if Waterboarding is not torture , why aren't we fully embracing it?
Today I'm starting an organization called "Americans For Waterboarding" - if 1,000 people join, we'll seek non-profit 501(c)3 status.
The mission statement of Americans For Waterboarding is as follows:
Found 204 days, 10 hours, 32 minutes, and 39 seconds ago
wwww.dailykos.com
UPDATE: Oh, this is rich. Apparently Malkin, Drudge, and the NRCC are pretending to be up in arms today over Pelosi saying Republicans "like this war. They want this war to continue."
Oh, the scandal! How could she say such a mean thing! Oh, if only she had been more civilized, like appearing on television with a smile and reducing acts of intentional government-sanctioned torture into mere swimming techniques!
And yet -- duh. Republicans "like" war? Well, that's the very premise of Jonah Goldberg's lecture, at the least.
Found 204 days, 10 hours, 31 minutes, and 40 seconds ago
blog.myspace.com
For too many conservatives, waterboarding is a big joke to be taken lightly. Rachel Marsden - Gutfeld's former co-host - claimed waterboarding was simply a "CIA-sponsored swim lesson ." Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) said yesterday that waterboarding is "like swimming , freestyle, backstroke." Conservative blogger Glenn Reynolds said he'd " be happy to " be waterboarded, and John Ashcroft suggested he'd also be willing to take the dive.
Found 203 days, 22 hours, 5 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
wwwdeadissuecom.dailykos.com
UPDATE: Oh, this is rich. Apparently Malkin, Drudge, and the NRCC are pretending to be up in arms today over Pelosi saying Republicans "like this war. They want this war to continue."
Oh, the scandal! How could she say such a mean thing! Oh, if only she had been more civilized, like appearing on television with a smile and reducing acts of intentional government-sanctioned torture into mere swimming techniques!
And yet -- duh. Republicans "like" war? Well, that's the very premise of Jonah Goldberg's lecture, at the least.
Found 204 days, 8 hours, 59 minutes, and 49 seconds ago
