Wingnut Wisdom

Torture — specifically waterboarding — is just like. . .

. . .high school swim team practice.

So by this logic, why aren’t interrogators putting together an evildoer swim team? And a note to parents of high school swimmers: after practice, they’ll confess to anything.

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  • http://www.xkcd.com/ • Silly Ratfaced Git •

    Proof positive that listening to the Lush Rimjob leads to irreparable brain damage.It appears that you must have an IQ below about 70 to post at RedState.If the Republicans sink much lower, they won’t even be able to scrape the bottom.GOP: The party of hateful bigoted scum who pretend to love the Jeebus Bay-ay-ay-ay-bee! (Grand Ole Opry wannabes.)

  • brutlyhonest

    The crap these people spew to rationalize immoral acts just blows my mind. I read some of the comments and it makes me wonder how people that dumb remember to breathe. I started to leave a comment, then figured why waste my time.

    I went through SERE and it wasn’t like a hard practice session (football in HS and crew in college). There’s a technical term for anyone who has been through that training and denies the techniques used there are torture: liar.

  • JackDanieL

    Just more conjecture and trivializing by the 10%-ers. Every point, every single point they try to make is based on what ifs and maybes and perhaps’ and bullshit conjecture.Okok, Dubya wasnt so great, but what if Kerry had been elected, can you imagine how bad that would have been?If we give all of the money to the top 1%, maybe they will trickle it down to the rest – they havent yet, but keep waiting…Saddam Hussein might have WMDs so we have to invade – but it should>only take a few weeks, certainly not monthsHow can Senator Obama be a President when he has so little experience in the Senate? There might be some crisis that he cannot possibly handle!!1!Now these assholes are downplaying torture, comparing it to swim practice. I promise you that the author of that post never served and has no children serving in our Armed Forces. Its easy to talk that shit from behind a keyboard – hell, we do it everyday here @ Cesca’s GDAB, Go!Honestly though, maybe I just am in the wrong circles, but I am hearing WAY more anti-Obama/Government talk on the streets these days than anything that could be considered positive or even relatively optimistic. Its scary how short folks’ memorys are.

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    The rationale of these people is so ignorant and arrogant.The comments at RedState are pretty close to the comments at Infowars. Complete insanity.

  • http://www.newsonthemarch.net brentblah

    My favorite part about those comments is how people would say “Yes my child too was a swimmer. And they NEVER thought of their practice as torture!”and immediately follow with “WE ARE A NATION OF WIMPS!”It’s like they don’t even get their own brand of humor. They actually seemed to imply that liberals think swim practice is torturous?!

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    My own reaction was “WHAT?! YOU PARTICIPATED IN SOCIALIST TAXPAYER-FUNDED AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES?!!”

  • http://www.xkcd.com/ • Silly Ratfaced Git •

    Yesterday I told veralynn that projection was the only thing that the wrong wingers do properly.I was wrong.The Greedy Old Pricks actually have core competencies in the following skills:

    1. Projection: They have turned projection of their own faults onto their opponents into a high artform. They rule this ‘skillset.’
    2. Straw man arguments: The wrong wing is the most fearsome and relentless slayers of straw men ever. They are the unquestioned leaders in this totally worthless skill. It’s a good thing that they are skilled in the strong man argument, because they have no skills whatsoever in honest, unrigged debate on real issues.
      There may be others but that’s all I can think of now.
  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl™

    Silly me! Of course being on the high school swim team is exactly like waterboarding! Why didn’t I see this to begin with?As a matter of fact, I do recall seeing pictures of Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps being strapped down onto an inclined board with his feet higher than his head, while his swimming coaches blinded him, stuffed a rag down his throat and poared water onto his face, into his nose and onto the rag which would then seep into his throat as part of his training regimen. And what does he have to show for it? 14 GOLD MEDALS, BABY!No one rememners those pictures though. All we get is the bong hit photo – fucking LIBERAL MEDIA!Oh, the other difference between waterboarding and the swim team? You can quit the swim team.

  • Ozymandias

    I tried joining Red State once just to piss off some of the right wing quacks on there. Every time I tried to post something arguing against one of the wingnut’s ridiculous comments, they would ban me. It seems they dont think dissent is patriotic if it comes from someone who disagrees with them

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  • brutlyhonest

    Hey JD, we’ve seen this culture of hate before: when GHWB lost to that hick from Arkansas. It spawned an entire industry of angry talk radio/teevee. I agree it’s actually worse this time though. Probably because Obama’s, you know, “different”.

  • Holy Shit

    Man, I just spent 15+ mins reading that site (just the comments from that article). It does not inspire me. It really concerns me. Fuck, they really believe all that shit?? FUCK!!!!

  • J

    That was unreal. My favorite? “We get waterboarded in SERE, it can’t be a big deal,” with absolutely no acknowledgment of WHY they waterboard in SERE. I know it shouldn’t but willful ignorance still amazes me.

  • D. C.

    Redstate is like a gated community for the willfully ignorant. Anyone showing an ounce of independent thought is immediately expelled.

  • lcdrrek

    Cesca:You should be waterboarded or forced to join a swim team for posting this and making me go to that site and read this drivel. I could only read a few of the comments and then my head exploded. As a previous commenter here said: They believe this stuff.Periodically, I go to Malkin’s site to see what the wingnuts are up to and I throw up in my mouth a little, I am glad you guys are reading this craziness so I don’t have to.