A tortured description

blog_icon_obama.jpgWhen he spoke to the U.N. General Assembly this week, President Barack Obama accomplished in one sentence what the New York Times has been unable to do for six years: refer to the practices used during the Bush administration to interrogate terrorism suspects as “torture.”


The Times, along with other prominent outposts in the “liberal” media, to this day won’t use the word “torture” when reporting on the procedures used by Bushies to elicit “confessions” from suspects. Obama apparently had no problems with it, saying in his U.N. speech: “On my first day in office, I prohibited — without exception or equivocation — the use of torture by the United States of America.”

Of course, when it comes to actually investigating and prosecuting Bush administration officials and lawyers who authorized the illegal torture practices, well, Obama is still a little slow on the uptake. But give him credit for actually uttering the T-word.


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3 responses to “A tortured description”

  1. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    IRE, We can blame or credit NPR & PBS on both LBJ (legislation) and Nixon (implementation). Fortunately The Inquisition was a spent force in most venues by the early-mid 1800’s. Again the argument then as now, is that torture is what torture does, demands & causes. And it’s been generally regarded as wholly un-American as a matter of policy (if not exactly practice) since the founding. JMP

  2. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    NPR, PBS, and the MSM were around in the 1800s? :/

  3. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    I never quite understood this one. Like somehow it was part of an agreed upon collective madness: NPR, PBS & all the MSM too. To this day. Just won’t call what the Inquisitors Knew to be ‘Torture’, well Torture. But then again they always claimed it was not the Church that tortured those people, it was always ‘intermediaries’. Then as now, language is very important. So is ‘plausible deniability’ evidently, even centuries later. But I noticed it too. JMP

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