Marc Thiessen is an Ass Clown and other interesting things I saw on the interwebs
Last night Jon Stewart tore Marc Thiessen a new ass hole. Marc Thiessen was a Bush speech writer and now has taken on the mantel of fear monger and chief, and lead Cheney sympathizer.
Here is the full interview, the real torture debate:
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Note, the take away line I heard was that if you claim that we weren’t attacked for the 7 years following 911, you have to admit that we weren’t attacked for the 7 years following the 93 world trade center bombing under Clinton…
Oh, and if the lawyers that were appointed to represent Gitmo detainees, are the the Al Qaeda 7, than the Supreme Court must be the Al Qaeda 9 for supporting Hamdan in their decision.
Hmmm, something to think about.
Peace,
J
UPDATE:
From Andrew Sullivan:
I was worried, to tell you the truth, after Jon’s failed run-in with war criminal John Yoo. But Stewart totally
destroyed the McCarthyite mediocrity
last night. He didn’t get into Thiessen’s disgusting defense of the
brutal torture of al-Qahtani, but he completely devastated the vile
insinuation that because Thiessen believes torture made America “safe”
- his sole evidence being seven years of no attacks, which Stewart
briliantly reminded him could have been said of the no-torture Clinton
administration record as well - Obama was somehow endangering American
lives.
My favorite point was the lawyers defending pedophiles.
Thiessen went so far to say that a lawyer who defended pedophiles in
court should be suspected of supporting child abuse.
Thiessen’s
arguments were both morally repugnant, legally absurd, McCarthyite and
ignorant. For this, he gets a weekly column from Fred Hiatt in the
Washington Post. That tells you all you need to know about Fred Hiatt
and what has happened at the WaPo.
Scott Horton:
But thereâs another fact that Thiessen omits. In his world, the Gitmo
prisoners these lawyers are defending are terrorists, full stop. If
thatâs the case, then why did the Bush Administration release fully
two-thirds of them? Why do the largely conservative, Republican judges
reviewing the habeas petitions of the balance keep finding that thereâs
no basis to call them âterroristsâ? Thatâs been the result in about 80%
of the cases heard so far. What has Thiessen and his Cheney friends in
such a lather? Iâd put a sharp point on it: these lawyers are putting
the lie to their claims about Gitmo.
