Bush defends Torture
Bush sits, with what can only be described as an idiotic grin on his face, and defends the use of torture by asking critics of waterboarding, "Which attack would they rather not have stopped?"
He also insists that waterboarding was legal. But the interview is also notable for Chris Wallace's softball questions. My particular favourite was, "Are you ever puzzled by all the concern in this country about protecting the rights of people who want to kill us?"
I seem to remember an altogether harsher tone when Wallace faced Clinton. At the time I referred to him as "a partisan little hack", and his tone with Bush only confirms this.
As Glenn Greenwald puts it:Brezhnev-era Pravda would have been too ashamed to ask such blatantly subservient questions of political leaders. But Chris Wallace is a Very Serious Journalist and Fox is a real news network
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Here he tries to get Bush to attack Bill Clinton but, to his credit, Bush refuses to bite. Although Bush does go on to attack Obama for wanting to "attack Pakistan" and embrace Ahmadinejad.
Here he promises to help McCain - who he describes as "a true Conservative" - should he become the Republican nominee.
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