Shepard Smith seems to have found his angry, foaming at the mouth, inner Keith Olbermann.
He flipped out yesterday during a discussion about torture.
Transcript
SHEPARD SMITH: (Pounding the desk) We are America. I don't give a rat's ass if it helps. We are America. We do not f---ing torture. We don't do it.
After the outburst, Shep seemed to get a grip and reflect on what he had said on LIVE TV. It seems like someone from the control room may have whispered in his ear. A few seconds later, he muttered, "Oops."
I think "Oops" was an inadequate response, not remorseful at all. Clearly, Shep didn't give a rat's ass that he had dropped that F-bomb. He really lost it. That was a major tantrum. He was really fuming.
What's hilarious is that Trace Gallagher and Andrew Napolitano don't flinch. They plow ahead, acting as if Shep didn't have a meltdown or say anything out of the ordinary.
If the choice is between waterboarding three people and preventing thousands of innocent people from dying in a terrorist attack, would Shep take that same position, that "we don't do it"?
Would he give a rat's ass if terrorists succeeded in carrying out another 9/11?
Should we stand by and let them proceed with the slaughter because "WE ARE AMERICA"?
2 comments:
And Jesus said: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." Matthew 7:12
That isn't a general guideline, it is the law set forth by Jesus Christ (and, generally, by the Government of these United States).
We could probably get lots of good intelligence by rounding up children in Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan and cutting off their fingers with pruning shears until they told which of their parents were helping the Taliban. We might even be able to stop another terrorist attack. But should we?
What if the choice was between mutilating someone's genitals with a scalpel and preventing a terrorist attack? In your rush to condemn President Obama for releasing Binyam Mohammed a few weeks back (as the UK government had requested of the Bush administration in August 2008) you skipped over the part where we shipped him off to Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan to be beaten, burned and mutilated for over 2 years - truly tortured in the old-school, medieval sense of the word by people who aren't constrained by U.S. laws, the Constitution or our Christian morality. You also skipped over the part where the Bush administration dropped all charges against him in October 2008.
But, at the end of the day, it is nice to see you finally admit that you do, in fact, actually support the use of torture. I have raised the issue several times over the past few years, but you have always dodged the question.
Now that you are on the record taking the position that the ends justify the means, no matter how vile and cruel those means might be, perhaps you could take a moment to explain how murder and torture fit into the traditional Christian, "Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness", ideal that was the United States of America?
Who would Jesus torture?
Give up the Jesus stuff already. Even the Village Idiot sees through the BS and all of the conjecture, what-ifs and straw men. What a frickin' joke and a lame, lame sophomoric argument.
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