Wednesday, October 31, 2007

A Blatant Lie

How can they get away with it, day after day, with no repercussions? It's a topic, obviously chosen because it would push some emotional buttons, particularly when you twist the story all out of proportion.  It really does make you feel for the folks who live and die by Fox News; folks who honestly trust them to deliver the truth.


Fox & Friends, Doocy Lies About Flag Folding Change



Today on Fox and Friends they were in an uproar about something changing in the U.S. flag folding for burial ceremonies. Of course they had Col. David Hunt (Ret), a very outspoken, favorite guest to talk about it. Hunt was, of course, having a hissy fit. They said they were upset about the 11th statement being taken out which coincides with the 11th fold. But Doocy actually said something at the top of the second hour that was an out and out lie. He said the government was taking the word God out of the document when it still remains [...]



As long as we're ganging up on Fox News, let's join Media Matters for another solid punch:


Kondracke: Waterboarding "doesn't result in any lasting damage"



During the "All-Star" panel segment of the October 29 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Roll Call executive editor Morton M. Kondracke, referring to the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, stated, "I'm sure it feels like torture, you know, it doesn't result in any lasting damage, but it feels like torture." However, as Media Matters for America has noted, Dr. Allen S. Keller, M.D., director of the Bellevue Hospital Center/New York University Program for Survivors of Torture, wrote in Senate testimony about the "long-term health consequences" of waterboarding. In written testimony dated [...]



Might I suggest Mr. Hume invite this gentleman on his program? It might make it, for a brief moment, "fair and balanced."


Former Navy SEAL Instructor Offers Another Waterboarding Primer for Mukasey



So Michael Mukasey's new line is that waterboarding may be "repugnant," but he's not sure if the Spanish-Inquisition-era torture technique is illegal. Or, to put it another way, he can't say for sure if the practice is illegal until he's confirmed as attorney general. Mukasey should listen to longtime counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance. Nance, a veteran of counterterrorism operations in Iraq, has written a moving post for the counterinsurgency blog Small Wars Journal explaining, in more detail than anyone else has in public, what exactly waterboarding is. And Nance knows what he's talking about. As an instructor at [...]



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