Slog - Comments on Dialing It In For Waterboarding http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding Posted by Ryan S. Jackson In the Pavlovian world of the ultra-conservative primary voter, the man who will waterboard the children of illegal immigrants is king. Time's Joe Klein goes into the depths of a Republican focus group for the last debate, wherein people were armed only with dials to show their displeasure for compassion: In the next segment--the debate between Romney and Mike Huckabee over Huckabee's college scholarships for the deserving children of illegal immigrants--I noticed something really distressing: When Huckabee said, "After all, these are children of God," the dials plummeted. And that happened time and again through... Copyright 2008 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:45:37 -0800 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:35:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by andy niable say it aint so Joe--Republicans are bloodthirsty, unthinking greedy bastards with revenge in their heart and no tolerance for, well, tolerance and balanced thinking? say it aint so...

]]> andy niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859119 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859119 2008 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:01:38 -0800 Comment by seattle98104 You can't expect the average republican these days to be much more than an ignorant racist in sheep's clothing.

In other news, if you want to justify anything to a group of conservatives just say 9/11.

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859141 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859141 2008 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:16:02 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Speaking of 9-11, where's bin Laden?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859173 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859173 2008 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:43:10 -0800 Comment by SDA in SEA The human species can be so fucked up sometimes.

]]> SDA in SEA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859215 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859215 2008 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:17:41 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo That "retired federal law enforcement officer" is totally right -- someone should scrape up the remains of all those 9/11 hijackers with a razor blade, gather them together in a petri dish or a coffee mug, and then waterboard them. That'll learn 'em.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859234 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859234 2008 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:50:25 -0800 Comment by cbc 1984 anyone?

]]> cbc http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859274 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859274 2008 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:27:20 -0800 Comment by laterite I wish Joe Klein had credibility.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859303 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859303 2008 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:44:41 -0800 Comment by NOLA Reader Blessed are the poor? Nope, I guess not in this Christian nation.

]]> NOLA Reader http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859335 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859335 2008 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:02:13 -0800 Comment by Phil M Will in Seattle wrote:

Speaking of 9-11, where's bin Laden?

Hey Will, you know he's not wanted for the crimes of 9/11, right? He's on the FBI's most-wanted list for other things, but the FBI says it has "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11."

]]> Phil M http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859467 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/dialing_it_in_for_waterboarding#c859467 2008 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:35:15 -0800