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Condi Rice's Bad Day
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... She is used to Beltway journalists who are often more interested in bragging of their access than asking tough questions. Then she met some students who know she is knee-deep in the torture regime. Scott Horton examines her defense. This point seems particularly pertinent: ...
Condi admits her role in a conspiracy to torture, a felony under 18 U.S.C. sec 2340A
Corrente —
Good catch by Scott Horton. Watch the video and see Condi cornered by students asking smart, knowledgeable questions! Read more…
The Stupidest, Most Evil, and Ugliest Woman in America
Rising Hegemon —
Scott Horton breaks it down for you. Do us all a favor, Condi. Take a trip to sunny Spain. h/t honeybearkelly ...
She Had a Bad Day
Comments from Left Field —
... Condi Rice has been breathing the rarefied air inside that bubble she’s been living in for the past eight years. She got pwned on torture earlier this week by a student at Stanford — and she made an admission that she may live to regret if we ever see prosecutions: ...
Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars —
Obsidian Wings: Obama's Harriet Miers? (h/t Reader labrador)
Scott Horton: Condi's really bad day
Sadly, No!: Brave Sir Andy ran away and this 'principled' sh*theel is in full flight from reality
Firedoglake: Chrysler Bankruptcy: Vulture Fund guy gets even
D-Day: The news leaking out from the bank stress tests just got worse
HOLY CRAP: Catholic Bigotry Rides Again...Christian douchebag, and "Dean" of Liberty U. Law School weighs in on torture...Which begs ...
Condi Rice’s Return To Stanford: You Can’t “Go Home” Again?
The Moderate Voice —
... war and torture policies?
Former Secretary of State Condolezza Rice faced that test when she appeared at Stanford University. Over the years, I’ve heard many good things about Rice and Stanford. During the 2000 campaign a former professor of mine who had known her praised her as a person and as a a thinker. I had met people who had gone to Stanford who echoed that view: a wonderful person, a solid thinker and someone who was good at dealing with and handling people.
But as Harper’s Scott Horton notes in a post titlted Condi’s Really Bad Day, when ...
Tortured Defenses
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Shorter Condi Rice: We didn't want to do anything illegal responding to 9/11. Happily, if the President does it, it's not illegal! I also think that Iran is a fair standard for evaluating our country's human rights record. ...
Condi Vs. The Pantywaists
Jules Crittenden —
... Scott Horton at Harper’s , no slouch as a pantywaist himself, gives it to the pantywaists in a TKO as Condi butts heads with indignant lefty students at Stanford. For eight years, Condoleezza Rice dealt with the Beltway punditry and the access-craving White House press corps. The reception she got, with a handful of exceptions, was fawning. Which leaves her totally unprepared for a return to an academy populated with the Daily Show generation: bright young minds with a very critical attitude towards the last eight years. In a meeting with Stanford students at a dormitory ...
Condi Rice's Tortured Macaca Moment
techPresident —
... . Asked about her role advancing torture during the Bush administration in a meeting with college students, Rice claimed that no torture occurred in Guantanamo ( false ); Al Qaeda poses a greater threat than the axis in World War II (dubious); and -- this was big -- the President can make an act legal by authorizing it (official ...
Using Distributed Media (and People) To Ask Hard Questions
techPresident —
... about her role in our nation’s torture of prisoners in recent years. To call her response inept is an understatement, as many have explained (see Scott Horton’s deconstruction ). But Melber nails the larger import of what the students did: (T)his incident also shows the prospects for what we might call a substantive Macaca Moment - using YouTube and citizen media to scrutinize our leaders on the issues, not gaffes. The “Macaca” refers, of course, to former U.S. Sen. George Allen’s ...
