The Evolution of Rush Limbaugh:<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, you stop and think about this: 183 times, six times a day, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was waterboarded. His lawyers never complained. He didn\u2019t complain to whatever civil rights organizations there were. And I\u2019ll tell you, the bottom \u2014 if somebody can be water-tortured six times a day, then it isn\u2019t torture,\u201d \u2013 April 20, 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just slapped myself! *SLAP* *SLAP* *SLAP* I\u2019m torturing myself, right now! That\u2019s torture! *SLAP* According to these people,\u201d \u2013 April 17, 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the longest time McCain said torture doesn\u2019t work then he admitted in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last summer that he was broken by North Vietnamese. So what are we to think here?\u201d \u2013 April 17, 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Abu Ghraib] is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we\u2019re going to ruin people\u2019s lives over it and we\u2019re going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I\u2019m talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some steam off?\u201d \u2013 May 4, 2004<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd there are people in this country, who are Americans, and have the same view of totalitarianism that all the worst regimes in the world have had. They just are a minority \u2014 or have been a minority. And they have to be stealth to get anywhere, because who\u2019s gonna vote for torture, who\u2019s gonna vote for tyranny, who\u2019s gonna vote for dictatorship? But we did. We did, and you see it slowly encroaching. And if they could move faster on this, they would.\u201d \u2013 July 26, 2009.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sooooooo\u2026 the people who voted against the first Administration in history to make torture the policy of these United States, an Administration responsible for the murder of prisoners and the shielding of murderers from prosecution: it is *they* who \u201cvoted for torture\u201d and would \u201cmove faster on this\u201d if they could, while staunch defenders of human dignity like Limbaugh are heroic champions of American values.<\/p>\n
These people deserve to remain in the wilderness for a very long time. What a bunch of repellent jackasses. The problem is, as a reader points out:<\/p>\n