February 23, 2010

• (politics) What about Invincible Terrorists?

  The FOX news methodology of dismissing non-torture interrogation success (after a suspect has been read their Miranda rights) is as follows:  If interrogator uses weakness x (to get reliable intelligence), we'd   better hope all terrorists have weakness x.  If they exploit weakness y, we'd better hope they all have weakness y.  If z, then all have to have z.  In other words, we "just got lucky" that time and didn't need to be hardcore.  However, they never compare the structure of their predictable excuse for the sake of lifting an overall pattern.  Hence the idiotic question, "What about terrorists impervious to all human weaknesses?" never arises to be laughed off the television screen.  Granted, if they said something that obviously idiotic, it hasn't proved to hurt their ratings any.  *sigh*  On the other hand, it does help the ratings of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. 

  Ben

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