Grumpy Old Neobloviators Kristol and Krauthammer Attack Al Gore For Winning The Nobel Prize

When I watched this piece this morning I was taken by how out step the neobloviators on Fox News Sunday seem to have become. Here they sound like a couple of grumpy old men who life has passed by. They shamelessly attack an American for winning the Nobel Prize and belittle the very notion of peace. All while besmirching the efforts of the Nobel committee. Maura Liason and Juan Williams give tepid opposition to the vitriol pumped out by Kristol and Krauthammer.







The tragedy is that Fox News felt it appropriate to feature Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer's pathetic attacks on Al Gore. Kristol and Krauthammer are both neocon dead enders who envision America as the new Roman Empire and who both hate the very idea of world peace. Isn't it about time Americans just stood up to Fox News and said enough already. We have given the neobloviators vision of Republican resource colonialism a chance. It doesn't work. Send both of them to a retirement home where they can harmlessly reminisce about how they would have won if Bush just had the balls to kill a few million more Iraqis.

I for one am tired of all their crap. Aren't you? Do yourselves a favor. Watch something else. Anything else. I know I watched Fox News Sunday for the very last time today. I for one am too young to spend time listening to grumpy old failures complain. Spread the word. Just say NO to Fox News Sunday.

Rackjite1's video should be tonight's funny, but it isn't. Giving vocal promoters of hate like both Kristol and Krauthammer, who are dedicated proponents of death a national soapbox to trash a real American who is actively trying to make the world a better place just isn't funny. I will try to find something funny.

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Were Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Inspired By A Gestapo Directive?

If you want to have nightmares read Andrew Sullivan's post in the Atlantic Online entitled "Verschärfte Vernehmung." The term is German for "enhanced interrogation," "intensified interrogation" or "sharpened interrogation." It was coined by the Gestapo in 1937 to describe a series of techniques used to torture political and other prisoners without leaving embarrassing marks. The similarities between the "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved by Alberto Gonzales, and the "sharpened interrogation techniques" employed by the Nazis are simply surreal.

Sullivan says

The Nazis were adamant that their "enhanced interrogation techniques" would be carefully restricted and controlled, monitored by an elite professional staff, of the kind recommended by Charles Krauthammer, and strictly reserved for certain categories of prisoner. At least, that was the original plan.

Also: the use of hypothermia, authorized by Bush and Rumsfeld, was initially forbidden. 'Waterboarding" was forbidden too, unlike that authorized by Bush. As time went on, historians have found that all the bureaucratic restrictions were eventually broken or abridged. Once you start torturing, it has a life of its own. The "cold bath" technique - the same as that used by Bush against al-Qahtani in Guantanamo - was, according to professor Darius Rejali of Reed College, "pioneered by a member of the French Gestapo by the pseudonym Masuy about 1943. The Belgian resistance referred to it as the Paris method, and the Gestapo authorized its extension from France to at least two places late in the war, Norway and Czechoslovakia. That is where people report experiencing it."

Sullivan actually includes an English translation of the torture directive from Gestapo Chief Muller.

Like I said read the entire Sullivan post. It will give you nightmares. Better yet, wait tell morning to read Sullivan. I wish I had. Sweet dreams.

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