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librechik

(30,957 posts) Wed Dec 10, 2014, 10:15 AM Dec 2014

So, Republicans come out swinging--Torture Report is all LIES

on CBS This morning GOP spokesman tap-dancing all over the semantics with Charlie.

What I want to know is--why did they schedule this guy FIRST instead of a Democrat involved with the study to describe its import?

naked partisanship in the media--disgusting.

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So, Republicans come out swinging--Torture Report is all LIES (Original Post) librechik Dec 2014 OP

I watched a few minutes of O'Reilly last night rurallib Dec 2014 #1

wel, they have their talking points straight this morning. librechik Dec 2014 #2

this morning on NPR theY started a news segment announcing..... spanone Dec 2014 #3

NPR is such a joke anymore. rurallib Dec 2014 #4

I know, Norah said Democrats about 10 times, so there would be no mistake on who to attack. librechik Dec 2014 #5

We really should begin an all out assault on NPR just to spread the truth about them world wide wally Dec 2014 #7

Just like their very own Benghazi report, from the GOP-controlled House, was lies . . . hatrack Dec 2014 #6

rurallib

(64,825 posts)

1. I watched a few minutes of O'Reilly last night

Reply to librechik (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 10:31 AM

Dec 2014

something I never do, but I was curious how they would attack, deny or ignore this report.

It was comical. O'reilly had Sen Dan Coates (a real crazy fucker IIRC) and Billo kept leading, begging, cajoling Coates to say the report was full of lies. But even Coates just couldn't, no matter how Billo would phrase it. Relly made Billo look like the fool he is.

librechik

(30,957 posts)

2. wel, they have their talking points straight this morning.

Reply to rurallib (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 10:34 AM

Dec 2014

The reporters really went after the guy, and he was pretty lame. Bit I see what they're going to do. The report is going to be called a partisan fiction, and we'll hear very little about it.

spanone

(142,052 posts)

3. this morning on NPR theY started a news segment announcing.....

Reply to librechik (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 10:40 AM

Dec 2014

"the torture report, which was released by democrats"......

it was fucking released by THE SENATE.

rurallib

(64,825 posts)

4. NPR is such a joke anymore.

Reply to spanone (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 10:41 AM

Dec 2014

librechik

(30,957 posts)

5. I know, Norah said Democrats about 10 times, so there would be no mistake on who to attack.

Reply to spanone (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 10:42 AM

Dec 2014

world wide wally

(21,836 posts)

7. We really should begin an all out assault on NPR just to spread the truth about them

Reply to spanone (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 11:13 AM

Dec 2014

these days. I still have some " liberal" friends who think it is the old NPR and claim they are "balanced" because they are subtle, such as calling it a Democratic report.

hatrack

(65,136 posts)

6. Just like their very own Benghazi report, from the GOP-controlled House, was lies . . .

Reply to librechik (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 10:49 AM

Dec 2014

It's as if the very words "lie" and "truth" no longer have meaning.

They've just convenient labels Republicans slap on this or that concept or report or reality - like label-swapping in a creation "science" museum, or a particularly shitty roadside attraction.

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