When I was in college, we used to have a standard reply whenever someone said something that was not, in any manner, factual, possible, or credible. Whenever someone uttered a bold, knowingly false, and/or salacious statement, the standard, de rigueur response was, "How did you fix your mouth to say some shit like that?"
Tonight I learned that one-term former senator Rick Santorum challenged Sen. John McCain's knowledge and understanding of torture. Repeating the wingnut lie that the torture technique known as waterboarding led U.S. intelligence and military services to the location and subsequent killing of Osama bin Laden, Santorum today stated that "he (McCain) doesn't understand torture."
WTF?!?
Oh, yes he did! Speaking in an interview on the Hugh Hewitt talk radio show, Santorum said:
Last week I applauded Sen. McCain's forthright and factual refutation of the "torture led us to bin Laden" lie on this blog. Although in recent years I have found little common ground with Sen. McCain in the political sphere, I respect and salute his service to our country. In his speech last week, Sen. McCain stated that after inquiring, he received a definite "NO" from CIA Director Leon Panetta on the torture question. In a letter to Sen. McCain, Panetta told McCain that torture was not used to obtain information leading to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
On the other hand, though, this lying weasel Santorum hasn't spent one day in the armed forces, lost his bid for a second term in the Senate in part thanks to his lies about his principal home of residence, espouses radical, far-right social engineering ideas such as teaching so-called "intelligent design" in public schools, retaining DADT and the Defense of Marriage Act. Santorum is perhaps best known for his "man on dog sex" argument against gay marriage...and Dan Savage's highly successful hijacking of his very name: Santorum. Meanwhile, even out of office, Santorum finds himself mired in the John Ensign scandal.
Santorum, how the hell did you fix your mouth to say some shit like that?
Tonight I learned that one-term former senator Rick Santorum challenged Sen. John McCain's knowledge and understanding of torture. Repeating the wingnut lie that the torture technique known as waterboarding led U.S. intelligence and military services to the location and subsequent killing of Osama bin Laden, Santorum today stated that "he (McCain) doesn't understand torture."
WTF?!?
Oh, yes he did! Speaking in an interview on the Hugh Hewitt talk radio show, Santorum said:
“Everything I’ve read shows that we would not have gotten this information as to who this man was if it had not been gotten information from people who were subject to enhanced interrogation,” Santorum said, referring to the courier that led Americans to Osama bin Laden. “And so this idea that we didn’t ask that question while Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being waterboarded, he doesn’t understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they’re broken, they become cooperative.”Sen. McCain was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War for 5 1/2 years. McCain endured extreme physical and mental torture at the hands of his North Vietnamese captors in various prisons in that country, including the notorious Hanoi Hilton, and still suffers from physical disabilities caused by that torture to this day. Apparently, that's not good enough for Santorum.
Last week I applauded Sen. McCain's forthright and factual refutation of the "torture led us to bin Laden" lie on this blog. Although in recent years I have found little common ground with Sen. McCain in the political sphere, I respect and salute his service to our country. In his speech last week, Sen. McCain stated that after inquiring, he received a definite "NO" from CIA Director Leon Panetta on the torture question. In a letter to Sen. McCain, Panetta told McCain that torture was not used to obtain information leading to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
On the other hand, though, this lying weasel Santorum hasn't spent one day in the armed forces, lost his bid for a second term in the Senate in part thanks to his lies about his principal home of residence, espouses radical, far-right social engineering ideas such as teaching so-called "intelligent design" in public schools, retaining DADT and the Defense of Marriage Act. Santorum is perhaps best known for his "man on dog sex" argument against gay marriage...and Dan Savage's highly successful hijacking of his very name: Santorum. Meanwhile, even out of office, Santorum finds himself mired in the John Ensign scandal.
Santorum, how the hell did you fix your mouth to say some shit like that?
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