Posted on 12/13/2014 9:05:27 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The reprehensible Rosie O’Donnell continued her rantings about the interrogation of terrorist suspects by the CIA on Thursday’s “The View,” but in-house conservative Nicole Wallace was on hand to put O’Donnell in her place.
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Wallace, who was director of media affairs in the Bush White House, was at work on 9/11 and vividly recalled fleeing the office after the attacks and calling her parents. She said the intelligence officers who did the interrogations necessary to prevent another attack had her gratitude.
“I don’t think anyone is defending brutal tactics. That’s why they don’t happen anymore. But I have never been more proud to defend the people who walk the line for this country and this city and the city in which I worked, the city where my mom and dad lived ….”
O’Donnell, a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who thinks the U.S. government had a role in the attacks, was unrepentant — and obtuse.
“Well, I’m sorry you feel the ends justifies the means,” she told Wallace.
Really, Rosie? What if “the end” is saving American lives — maybe even yours?
‘The View” transcripts from ABC via MRC News:
December 11, 2014
ROSIE O’DONNELL: Well, I think that we will know because there are hundreds of photos that are going to be released on Friday, 2,000 of them, so we have seen some photos through Rory Kennedy’s amazing work at the Ghosts of Abu Gharib documentary. We have seen the photos. We’ve also seen Zero Dark 30. They didn’t make stuff up out of their head.
The one man who actually blew the whistle on the torture techniques is in prison. But none of the men who did the torture orchestration who set it up or who implemented the torture are in prison but the one guy who told, he is in prison for 30 months. He is the father of five and he said I will not participate in waterboarding, in the drowning of a human being, because this is un-American and against the constitution and I say bravo to him.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Okay
GOLDBERG: His name is John [sic.]
OLIVIA MUNN: The question is, not that it’s proven that it’s true, does he get to get out of jail?
O’DONNELL: I would hope so and I would hope that the American public would try to protest in a way, perhaps over the internet in order to make that possible.
GOLDBERG: Did they say that no one was ever waterboarded. Did they deny doing it?
ROSIE PEREZ: No, they did not deny.
GOLDBERG: Okay.
PEREZ: and they were counseled by this therapist that they paid $81 million.
O’DONNELL: Yes.
PEREZ: Yes.
O’DONNELL: Who devised the torture techniques? Two men who had no real knowledge in it, they were paid over $80 million.
PEREZ: Taxpayer dollars.
O’DONNELL: To create the kinds of torture like putting a feeding tube up the rectum with pureed food in it and the cover story is it was nutritional feeding. It is physically impossible to rectally feed people.
PEREZ: That’s why I think the truth isn’t going to come out because I think they’re going to rename things.
NICOLLE WALLACE: The problem with all this is its really emotional, right?
PEREZ: Yes.
WALLACE: Very emotional stuff.
O’DONNELL: For you too, right?
WALLACE: And I think–of course. I mean listen, reliving the things that the government had to do. You know, after 9/11 I worked in the White House. I was in the building, I was evacuated and I remember the guards saying to me take off your shoes. I said what? They said you can run faster if you take those shoes off. And you know what kind of shoes I wear, they’re not that high. So I took off my shoes and I ran up Connecticut Avenue and I remember calling my dad and I said they think the fourth plane is coming for us, I love you. And my dad tells the story in a much more emotional way than I remember it.
I was sort of, it was like covering my bases, logistics. I called mom and dad. So I went running up Connecticut Avenue and in the months and days after 9/11 the debate in this country and the debate in the White House where I worked wasn’t whether or not we would get hit, it was which city was next. So my family’s from the San Francisco Bay area and I have some friends here from there now. I told my mom and dad stop driving over the bridge, you’ve got family in the Bay area. Stay off those bridges.
O’DONNELL: You were very afraid after 9/11. All of us were.
WALLACE: The whole country was.
O’DONNELL: All of us.
WALLACE: And I think that the way this divides the country today is people either feel that the actions that the government took, and listen, the last three days I’ve been asked about this a lot in this job and in my other job at MSNBC and I have never had more people call me and thank me for defending the men and women of the CIA who were simply doing their jobs.
O’DONNELL: And I’ve never had so many people call me to say thank you for saying the other point.
WALLACE: Let me just finish I didn’t interrupt.
O’DONNELL: So I just want to put that out there.
WALLACE: So both sides of the debate I think are being adequately represented here. But to the men and women who were simply doing their jobs, and for them this was traumatic. And I don’t think anyone is defending brutal tactics. That’s why they don’t happen anymore. But I have never been more proud to defend the people who walk the line for this country and this city and the city in which I worked, the city where my mom and dad lived–.
O’DONNELL: Well, I’m sorry you feel the ends justifies the means. But I don’t think Machiavellian techniques is really the foundation of democracy in America.
...only by standards of the Washington to NY media political corridor.
Isn’t watching “The View” considered a form of torture?
Yeah. She’s not a conservative.
I did not know they were going to release photos next.
This has begun immediately after the election.
It is Abu Grahib all over. Expect more of it.
Even lower will they go.
“I don’t think Machiavellian techniques is really the foundation of democracy in America.”.
Machiavellian?
Ignorant as all get out.
i agree....not sure why anyone watches this show...unless it’s a stay at home who is trying to feel intellectual and informed.
I had to stop here:
Rosie: “We’ve also seen Zero Dark 30. They didn’t make stuff up out of their head.”
LOL! Of course, no one makes “stuff up out of their head” in Hollywood. *rolls eyes*
I haven’t seen the movie (Zero Dark 30); I did see “The Hurt Locker” (and loved it); I think it was the same director. From what I understand, there were embellishments made to the story (in the Hurt Locker). And that is what it takes to make a “good story.” Movies are not, and can’t be, pure reality.
Anyway. I got sidetracked with that comment by Rosie. :)
“Isn’t watching “The View” considered a form of torture?”
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LOL!! Yeah, they play it 24/7 at a very high volume. It’s inescapable. :)
Lately I've noticed writers and speakers throwing out these terms to make themselves seem learned and sophisticated, when the usage is wrong and the context inappropriate.
“I don’t think Machiavellian techniques is really the foundation of democracy in America.”.
She’s a real piece of work that Rosie.
Just let her and her minions get a hold of a Tea Partier
behind closed doors under color of law and see what
happens.
“Nicole Wallace a ‘conservative’ Joe?”
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Compared to Rosie, she is.
Pretty low bar. Most everyone fits under it.
My give a fk about human rights ends at the initiation of hostilities and 3,000 dead Americans.
They are damned lucky it wasn’t me, as I would have gone medieval on them.
GTH
Yeah, she's obtuse as well, but still...
Make terrorists listen to her for 1/2 hour and they’ll be spilling their guts
Rosie, the reason nobody thanks you is because nobody likes you.
lol... Nicole has already endorsed Hillary
Apparently Rosie doesn't watch that animated science program, South Park, where Cartman proved otherwise.
IGNORANT is right ..!!!!!
Never watch “the View” .. can’t stand how they always look at America as being bad .. but they sure do enjoy the celebrity and the money that living here affords them.
I’d rather read a Vince Flynn novel .. where I get to see what the brave men and women of our military and CIA do to keep us free from terrorists.
Guess Rosie would rather have ISIS roaming the streets where she lives, and beheading her children.
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