"So what does it take to become a Supreme Court justice in this fair nation of ours? After combing through hours and hours of footage from last week's congressional hearings we learned less about Sotomayor than we did about her questioners."
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"GRODIN: Would you consent to be waterboarded? We can waterboard you? HANNITY: Sure. GRODIN: Are you busy on Sunday? HANNITY: I'll do it for charity. I'll let you do it. I'll do it for the troops' families."
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The discussion centered on the torture memos, with Lawrence O'Donnell explaining how the pursuit of al Qaeda-Iraq links is a classic example of the sorts of fallacies that underpin the logic of those who think torture is effective. Musser, for his part, defended the leadership and judgment of Dick Cheney. And then, Musser's line of thought veered very sharply into the scarily phrenological.
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"In the early 50s our country was infiltrated by the communist party," he says, calling the Obama administration the culmination of that infiltration. "They're doing everything they can to brainwash our public...This thing they're putting on our TVs," he says, presumably referring to digital cable converters, "it's a brainwash unit!"
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Rachel Maddow discussed the fringetastic anti-tax Renaissance Faires known as "tea parties." There is only one thing in all the world worth noting about the people behind these things, and it is this: everyone involved is apparently unaware of what the term "teabagging" means.
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