Ted Rall for August 07, 2014
August 06, 2014
August 08, 2014
Transcript:
Obama admits the US tortures, but when we torture, we do it folksily. ("In the immediate aftermath of 9/11. We did some things that we got wrong, we did a lot of things that we got right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values.") (Not so contrary that Obama punished anyone) For Obama, torture victims and torturers are both plain old, regular, down home folks. ("It's important for us not to feel sanctimonious in retrospect about the tough job those folks had.") Thrill to these countrified outtakes from Barack Obama's folksy history of the world. (Some Serb folks shot an Austrian folk because they wanted Austria-Hungary's South-Slav folks to form a future group of folks called Yugoslavia." "Some folks got kinda greedy, and screwed over all the other folks." "Some German folks burned some Jew folks."
