You know, children have a difficult time with accepting the simplest reality until they themselves test it. The first thing our young one did when presented with a plate at a restaurant that she was told not to touch because it's too hot was, of course, touch the plate.
Enter conservative radio hosts Erich "Mancow" Muller and his waterboarding ratings booster. It's a case in point -- from Iraq to the financial meltdown -- that conservative philosophy is childish and delusional to its core. If they are allowed to ever get a foothold again, they will take this country completely down and out and there will be no getting off the canvas the next time.
In the old days, before conservative hegemony in the media, you couldn't imagine a grown adult saying this about someone pouring water down your mouth and nose while being held down:
Look, all that's been done to this country, and I heard about water being dropped on someone's face, and I never considered it torture, even when I was laying there. I thought this was going to no big deal, I go swimming, it's going to be like being in the tub.
What kind of complete idiot actually thinks this?
It reminds me of 9-11 and how they couldn't imagine an Al Quaida so determined or resourceful to attack us with our own planes, until it happened. Or that Iraq would be a cakewalk and they would be singing our hosannahs in the streets, until it became an unholy quagmire. Or that the Iraq oil proceeds would pay for the war. Or that unfettered markets wouldn't allow the worse FRAUD in U.S. financial history to take place on a global scale, etc. fucking etc.
Naturally, all these "mistakes" benefited exactly the kind of people Bushco wanted to benefit, so their kind of "stupidity" pays off, including and leading up to Cheney's campaign to defend torture leading to a multi-million dollar book deal.
But that kind of strategic stupidity gets filtered down to the masses who don't know better and don't benefit. And their son or daughter comes home in a box. Or they lose their job, their home and the life savings in a totally avoidable financial meltdown, or to a disease without health insurance.
Or some poor conservative rant radio schlep has someone pour water down his gullet to find out if it's torture. They are the equivalent of conniving eight-year-olds getting five year olds to eat dog shit.
These are dangerous propagandists/opportunists at the top, and gullible morons at the bottom. America, grow the fuck up and face real problems with real guts and solutions for once, will ya huh?