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Glenn Beck Poll: ‘Who
Would You Like To See Waterboarded?’
Think
Progress
Wednesday January 16, 2008
On his radio show today, conservative talker
Glenn Beck attacked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for his belief that
waterboarding is torture, saying that the former Vietnam POW
is “dead wrong.” After disparaging McCain’s
position, Beck then joked about subjecting one of his sidekicks
to waterboarding, saying that “we need to find somebody
who is willing to be waterboarded by professionals and show
if it’s torture or not.”
Beck asked his friend Stu if he would be willing to be waterboarded,
but Stu refused, saying he’s “not going to be
tortured.” When Beck pointed out that Stu has been “telling
him” that “waterboarding’s not torture,”
Stu changed his line to “I don’t want to be interrogated“:
STU: No, I’m not going to be tortured.
STU: Oh, that’s right, it’s not
torture.
GLENN: Wait a minute, you are the one that’s
been telling me beat the drum, waterboarding’s not torture.
STU: I would say that’s true, you are
accurate. I don’t want to be interrogated. How about
that.
Throughout the entire segment, neither Beck nor any of his
friends were willing to step up to the plate and be waterboarded,
despite their insistence that it’s not torture. Listen
to it:
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When former acting assistant attorney general Daniel Levin
underwent the procedure in 2004, he concluded that it “could
be illegal torture.” In Nov. 2007, Malcolm W. Nance,
a former U.S. Navy Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape
instructor who taught U.S. soldiers how to resist torture,
testified to the House Judiciary Committee that waterboarding
is torture:
It is an overwhelming experience that induces
horror and triggers frantic survival instincts. As the event
unfolded, I was fully conscious of what was happening —
I was being tortured.
On his website now, Beck has posted a poll asking “who
from the program should be waterboarded?”
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