Time 's Ana Marie Cox compared Congress' questioning of Gonzales to "legislative waterboarding"

[LynneSin]

Yes, I can see the comparison between the House & Senate Judicial committees stern questioning of Gonzales as compared to a prisoner-of-war being forced to lie down on a plank of wood and have water poured on them in order to torture said prisoner. I'm sure many times during questioning, Gonzales felt an involuntary gag reflex leading to a terrifying fear of drowning. Shame on Conyers & Leahy for such cruel behavior!!

:sarcasm:

Where do they find these dumb bimbos who are willing to say such bullshit!
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Time's Ana Marie Cox compared Congress' questioning of Gonzales to "legislative waterboarding"
On the August 27 edition of MSNBC Live, Time magazine's Ana Marie Cox described Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales' questioning "the last time he went in front of Congress" as "legislative waterboarding."

Anchor Contessa Brewer asked for her reaction to Gonzales' resignation, to which Cox responded:

COX: Well, it's tempting to go with what John Edwards said, which is, "Better late than never." I think a lot of people in Washington, no matter what political affiliation they had, had been sort of watching this and shuddering for the guy. I mean, the last time he went in front of Congress, I felt sorry for him. It was like -- it was legislative waterboarding. You know, they just kept going after him and kept going after him.

As Media Matters for America has previously documented, an ABC News report on the history of the technique described "waterboarding" as an interrogation method whereby:

The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner's face and water is poured over him. Unavoidably, the gag reflex kicks in and a terrifying fear of drowning leads to almost instant pleas to bring the treatment to a halt.

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Edit to include the link to Media Matters

[Solly Mack]

1. and the piece of shit probably thought she was being clever

[SoCalDem]

2. Now that she's mainstream, she's got to get in line with the propaganda

No more Wonkette..just another redheaded prompter-reader

[hfojvt]

5. Bob Somerby wrote that apparently 'wonkette' was

a combination of 'wonk' with 'Tourette's syndrome'. She's angling to be the next MoDo.

[redqueen]

3. fheiafhwaigha;iofhasd.lajkl;

:banghead:

[rurallib]

4. MAybe she should have been the person that waterboarding

was demonstrated on. Just for illustration.

[MADem]

6. That's WONKETTE!!! My, my, she's come a very long way from her

journalistically honest (if nothing else) diatribes about "ass fucking."

(No, I'm not making it up--years ago, that was her schtick...)

[Peregrine Took]

8. Was it ever thus? As soon as they make it big - forget it.

[rinsd]

25. That was literally the punchline running thru my head. "You've come a long way babe!"

:hi:

[lonestarnot]

7. I get the feeling I don't WANT to know who the fuck A.M.C. is.

:icky:

[swag]

10. The original "Wonkette"

Long on snark, short on brains.

[lonestarnot]

13. What's a wonkette?

[swag]

15. Here ya go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonkette

[lonestarnot]

19. sound skankie

Thanks swag.

[swag]

9. She needs to go back to writing boring, unreadable fantasy novels about herself.

[Hamlette]

11. please, you're going after Ana Cox over this?

she said "legislative" waterboarding and it was torture to watch, couldn't have been too fun to be in Gonzo's seat.

The best part of the analogy for me is that we know that waterboarding doesn't work. Gonzo still hasn't told the truth and would rather escape than face it again.


It wasn't a bad analogy and yes, I know what waterboarding is. She's on our side. Go after her on substance, not shit like this.

[sandnsea]

18. This is precisely how we lose

Right when we should be going in for the collective "kill", the entire left splits into a thousand factions, each one seeking their unique "insight" to the situation in order to stay important and relevant. Massive egos run amok.

[Subdivisions]

24. I have to agree. I have been on this board, both as a lurker and

as a participant, for nearly two years and the one thing I've notice that the right has over us is their ability to stay unified in their philosophy. We, on the other hand, have a hundred different ideas on every issue and very little unification. And if I don't believe in what someone else believes, I become the target of vicious attacks. Or vice-versa.

Oh, I'm sure some of this happens in freeperland too, but as a relatively new political spectator and activist, the animosity amongst Progressives for differences of opinion is rather obvious.

[The Stranger]

12. Whore.

[TwilightGardener]

14. "Legislative" waterboarding? I think the guy ought to experience REAL waterboarding--

he's such a torture advocate and all. Nope, don't feel sorry for him one bit. He has YET to get what he deserves.

[sandnsea]

16. The Bush Executioner and Torture Czar

She feels sorry for HIM??? What a fool.

[Cha]

17. It makes anna marie cox look stupid.

Not everyone can be brilliant.

:wtf: did she think gonzales' lying seem like? Fucking patty cakes?

[walldude]

20. "I felt sorry for him"

Yeah what a horror. The poor bastard had to keep lying over and over because those evil Dems just wouldn't let up till they got to the truth. :eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

21. Ooo, what torture

Making 150k+ a year and forced to answer a few questions about his job for screwing things up so badly.

Oh, the humanity.

[Jim__]

22. as opposed to Gonzales cavalier authorization of actual waterboarding ...

of people suspected of being dangerous by various chickenhawks.

[WinkyDink]

23. Just another attempt to make Bushies seem the heroic victims of Democratic treason. Too bad

for this bimbo that she has it backwards for that purpose, with her example's equating Gonzo with an "al-Qaeda terrorist" and the Democrats with the "righteous interrogators"!

[ComerPerro]

26. Isn't she like a year too late with that talking point?

Haven't repigs and repig apologists compared questioning BushCo to torture?