The "Banana Republic" meme was mentioned on TWO different local radio programs today

[scheming daemons]

Two right-wing hosts both referred to torture prosecutions making us look like a "Banana Republic".

Then I heard it on a national program.


Seems like a coordinated "memo" went out to all the Right-wing media personalities to go with the same talking point.

[polichick]

1. On msnbc too...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8365977&mesg_id=8365977

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Kinda weird that this, too, was mentioned TWICE on DU in a matter of SECONDS.

:yoiks:

:o

;)

[NJmaverick]

3. You may hate their evil intentions

but you have to admire their discipline and ability to stay on message.

[lapfog_1]

yes, they all stay on message

even when the message makes no sense at all.

This one will have a short life.

[librechik]

4. Rove himself wrote that one--and Sen Specter repeated it the next day--tell me

Do Banana Republics believe you can get useful info by torture? kinda think so.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. Howard Fineman had a great comeback to this

He said that if it's true that the Bush administration tortured terror suspects in order to get false confessions about a link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda and use that "link" to justify the Iraq War, well then who was behaving like a Banana Republic?