Close Gitmo!: Musicians Angry Their Music Used For ‘Torture’

From the “Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” files:

Rock bands including Pearl Jam and REM have joined a coalition of musicians to support the US president’s efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.

The National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, which also includes former military officers, launched on Tuesday.

Many of the artists who have signed up are angry that their music was used as an interrogation tool in the jail.

But CIA spokesman George Little said music was used only for security, rather than “punitive purposes”. (more…)

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Tags: Billy Bragg, Bonnie Raitt, gitmo, interrogation, Jackson Browne
Posted Oct 22nd 2009 at 10:22 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 250818112 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/10/22/close-gitmo-musicians-angry-their-music-used-for-torture/Close+Gitmo%21%3A+Musicians+Angry+Their+Music+Used+For+%27Torture%272009-10-22+17%3A22%3A08Big+Hollywood

‘Law & Order’ Jumps the Shark

The only surprising thing about hearing that Law & Order was going to take on the Bush administration over “torture” is the realization that Law & Order is still on the air.  This car-wreck of a series has been bouncing around NBC’s schedule since the first Bush administration doing the impossible – making lawyers look even worse.  Thanks, guys.

Law & Order’s mysteries are as unpredictable as where the sun will come up tomorrow morning.  In a typical episode, when the cops arrest a gang member you can safely bet the climatic trial denouement will reveal the real killer to be either the wealthy corporate executive,  the ambitious conservative politician or the hypocritical Christian preacher.  You know, kind of like in real life. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, bush, Conservatives, Geneva Conventions, law & order
Posted Sep 29th 2009 at 5:03 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 236382145 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/09/29/law-order-jumps-the-shark/%27Law+%26amp%3B+Order%27+Jumps+the+Shark2009-09-29+12%3A03%3A49Kurt+Schlichter

The CIA and the Statute of Limitations

I’ll try to make this short…last week I wrote about my concerns over the naming of a special federal prosecutor to re-examine the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques by the CIA. I have appeared on several radio shows since the article posted here at Big Hollywood and I was pleased to see over weekend former Vice President Dick Cheney say in a more articulate fashion almost every point I raised in the article EXCEPT one. 

Today my point is the LAW. I touched on it briefly in the article but no one seems to be discussing the LAW. Many on the left and maybe even some on the right are applauding the decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to name a special prosecutor. I only have one question: What crimes were committed? Those supporting the decision to name a prosecutor say, “torture.” 

 The federal statute can be found in Title 18 chapter 113C of the Federal Criminal Code and Rules. Section 2340 defines torture. Section 2340A says: (more…)

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Tags: Afghanistan, CIA, Eric Holder, Iraq, Leon Panetta
Posted Sep 4th 2009 at 3:04 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 21677852 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bhamer/2009/09/04/the-cia-and-the-statute-of-limitations/The+CIA+and+the+Statute+of+Limitations2009-09-04+22%3A04%3A33Bob+Hamer

The Stoning Of Team Hollywood

The crime is complete. Judgment has been passed. The killing stones are in hand. As per the harsh stoning penal code of Iran’s Islamist thugocracy (for however long that lasts) where the crime took place, my stones are not so big as to kill right away, not so small you can’t call them stones. And I’m winding up like Nolan Ryan. Feel free to pick up a stone of your own. But wait for it!

And let me make this perfectly clear, even if they do say Jehovah!

Sentence must be read before being carried out. And unlike Soraya M., the board members of the Asylum of Motion Picture Airheads and Stooges will deserve every rock that’s thrown their way. I also believe that, in light of events in Iran today, the following commentary will stand out in much starker prominence than it did when I first started reporting on them in early March, when Team Oscar first set off for the Unfriendly Skies of Islamist Iran. (more…)

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Tags: Academy of Motion Picture arts and Sciences, Ahmadinejad, Al Franken, Alireza Davudnejad, Ambush Bay
Posted Jun 19th 2009 at 5:45 pm in Entertainment, News, Politics | 1641062 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/06/19/the-stoning-of-team-hollywood/The+Stoning+Of+Team+Hollywood2009-06-20+00%3A45%3A26John+T.+Simpson

On the Record, Off the QT and Not Very Hush-Hush

Dear Big Hollywood readers, it gives me great satisfaction to report to you that BH has been out on point not only on compelling film industry issues, which will never be covered in promo rags like Variety and the Hollywood Reporter (but then again, AMPAS and the studios aren’t buying us off), but on many controversial issues being played out in America and the greater world at large as well.

I know this to be true. Being a news junkie myself, I have found time after time as I was reading about a supposedly breaking subject, like ABC’s recent coverage of the targeted LGBT murders in Iraq, that it had already been on display for all to see in Big Hollywood posts for months.

Not to toot my own horn, but…well, okay, I’m tooting my own horn. And those of Andy Breitbart and John Nolte, who have given I, and so many other wonderful and insightful Hollywood right-wing fringe types, a magnificent bullhorn we otherwise would not have. We appear to be doing the dirty jobs our media just refuses to do. It’s a labor Hercules would completely sympathize with. (more…)

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Tags: abc, Academy of Motion Picture arts and Sciences, Adrianne Curry, Ali al-Sistani, AMPAS
Posted Jun 3rd 2009 at 5:20 pm in Entertainment, Politics | 1476823 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/06/03/on-the-record-off-the-qt-and-not-very-hush-hush/On+the+Record%2C+Off+the+QT+and+Not+Very+Hush-Hush2009-06-04+00%3A20%3A57John+T.+Simpson

Bored Bloggers Are All Wet

I am not a magician.  Many news cameras were there!

Obviously, it was on the radio and I wasn’t in prison.  I’m also not a radicalized Muslim terrorist.  But it was not a hoax! I repeat: NOT A HOAX.

We kept telling management, the insurance companies, and the local Chicago cops we weren’t really going to do it until we did.  Otherwise, they weren’t gonna let us do it!  We got a U.S. Marine that told us he had studied how to do it and he volunteered to waterboard me in return for a mention of his charity.

I was on a decline and I was waterboarded.  Was I in chains?  No.  Does that make it less real?  I am failing to get the point attempted by my detractors.  We never claimed it was an exact recreation.

The CIA technique is exactly what we did:

1.    Keep the chest elevated above the head and neck to keep the lungs “above the waterline.” (more…)

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Tags: Guantanamo, torture, waterboarding
Posted May 29th 2009 at 11:57 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 1471944 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mancow/2009/05/29/bored-bloggers-are-all-wet/Bored+Bloggers+Are+All+Wet2009-05-29+18%3A57%3A28Mancow+Muller

An Alternative to War

Disclaimer: What you are about to read is fiction. It is a story about peace. Peace at any cost.

THE WORLD TODAY: A News Summary

May 2009

BONN (EU News) – The current CSPEU administration has decided to increase productivity by lowering the age that children are required to enter the workforce from nine to eight years of age. The EU Vice Minister for the Interior states the lowering of the work age is due to an increased shortage of youthful workers. “It’s a reflection of the ongoing fighting between our peaceful union and the obstinate Russians.”

Citizens and subjects in the 18-25 age bracket have seldom been seen in recent years. The Vice Minister commented on this by stating, “This temporary downturn in our youthful population is insignificant compared to the tremendous loss of life on the Russian side. Though our rockets delivering Vemork V weapons obliterated St. Petersburg and most of Moscow years ago, the Russians, though scattered and ill equipped, still choose to resist to this very day. It staggers the mind why they wish to continue their own misery. ” (more…)

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Tags: "China", air force, allies, America, armed forces
Posted May 28th 2009 at 4:33 pm in Politics | 1436262 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/smann/2009/05/28/an-alternative-to-war/An+Alternative+to+War2009-05-28+23%3A33%3A41Schizoid+Mann

‘The Dark Pelosi’ (With Waterboarding!)

Sure this one’s been a long time coming, and with everything that’s been going on, how could I NOT make a video about the twitchy old bird. It isn’t enough that she’d been undermining our administration for years, now she’s got to come out and play the “victim” card. Poor Nancy, skunked again! Come on ma’am, it’s getting old.

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Note: I know the video gets a little personal, but thanks to Wanda Sykes… That is a concern of mine no longer!

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Tags: CIA, enhanced interrogation, gitmo, Nancy Pelos, torture
Posted May 21st 2009 at 6:19 pm in Political Humor, Video | 140750One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/05/21/the-dark-pelosi-with-waterboarding/%27The+Dark+Pelosi%27+%28With+Waterboarding%21%292009-05-22+01%3A19%3A05Steven+Crowder

Wanted: A Vaccine for Liberalism

Whenever I have suggested that left-wingers aren’t normal human beings, and have wondered if perhaps they’re some weird interplanetary life form like the pods in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” the liberals accuse me of indulging in ad hominem attacks, and I suppose I am.  But I am honestly bewildered.  It just doesn’t seem plausible that Americans could find good things to say about tyrants like Castro, Chavez and Ahmadinejad, while at the same time reviling the likes of Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh and General Petraeus.

Left-wingers side with the so-called Palestinians and insist that their country was stolen from them by the Jews, but when you ask them just exactly where the country was located, what their flag looked like and who their president was, they huff and they puff and they denounce you as a tool of the Jewish lobby. (more…)

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Tags: Ahmadinejad, Barbara Boxer, Castro, chavez, CIA
Posted May 21st 2009 at 9:42 am in Politics | 137590One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/05/21/wanted-a-vaccine-for-liberalism/Wanted%3A+A+Vaccine+for+Liberalism2009-05-21+16%3A42%3A45Burt+Prelutsky

An Open Letter to Speaker Pelosi

Ms. Pelosi: 

I’ll make this brief because I know you are busy. 

I wanted to remind you of the oath you first took in 1987 and reaffirm at the start of each new Congress. It reads:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

Maybe I am missing something but I read nothing about political parties, putting your interests above the nation’s, or putting your party’s interests above the nation. (more…)

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Tags: CIA, enhanced interrogation, pelosi, torture, waterboarding
Posted May 20th 2009 at 5:09 pm in Politics | 1394182 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bhamer/2009/05/20/a-letter-to-speaker-pelosi/An+Open+Letter+to+Speaker+Pelosi2009-05-21+00%3A09%3A27Bob+Hamer

Inside the Head of Nancy Pelosi

Gourmet cheese… Adolpho the world’s most expensive hair stylist… Lake Como… Van Cleef & Arpels… Tiffany… 

WATER-BLAH BLAH BLAH…. 

Armani… Cole-Haan… Private Jets with mahogany paneling…

WATER-BOOP-BOOP-BOOP….

Little Doggie sweaters… delicious, though insanely-overpriced-for-being-grown-locally California fruit… Chanel… The Galapagos Islands… AL Gore; President of the Galapagos Islands… Al Gore in big Moo-Moo whilst President of the Galapagos Islands… (more…)

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Tags: CIA, nancy pelosi, Obama, pelosi, Speaker Pelosi
Posted May 19th 2009 at 12:38 pm in Political Humor | 13613011 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/emannix/2009/05/19/inside-the-mind-of-nancy-pelosi/Inside+the+Head+of+Nancy+Pelosi2009-05-19+19%3A38%3A48Ernie+Mannix

Terror Pictures, Torture Pictures: Follow Up

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Subject: Declassified Water Boarding Photos. Is it torture? You decide.

A citizen of Siam (Thailand) was recently captured on American soil with trace amounts of an unknown chemical agent. Due to homeland security policy, the foreign national was examined. The trace elements seemed to contain a high level of ammonia felinas, a chemical the EPA recently classified as a toxic greenhouse gas in its vapor state and an eye inflamitant (sp?) in its solid state.

After initial traces were found, the foreign national then distributed a large amount of ammonia felinas into the bed of an American citizen who called in a haz-mat squad and department of Homeland Security (DHO) personnel to apprehend the foreign national and interrogate her for more information about the offense.

These are the pictures of the interrogation and imprisonment of the foreign national. Did DHO torture the suspect? What did DHO and Nancy Pelosi know and when did they know it? You will have to decide.

WARNING! The pictures you are about to see of this incident are brutal: (more…)

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Tags: detainee, gitmo, Obama, Terrorist, torture
Posted May 16th 2009 at 6:26 pm in Political Humor | 134910No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/adavid/2009/05/16/terror-pictures-torture-pictures-follow-up/Terror+Pictures%2C+Torture+Pictures%3A+Follow+Up2009-05-17+01%3A26%3A33Ari+David

Waterboard Pelosi — Let’s Get to the Truth!

Nancy Pelosi this morning let the floodgates open.  In a ‘frank and open’ press conference she waffled and redirected.  She explained, rationalized, dodged and obfuscated.   She bobbed and weaved.  She danced the Paso Doble.  It was a masterful exhibition of Terpsichore, with lovely grand jete’s, loop-de-loops and chicanery. 

I haven’t seen such tap dancing since last year’s So You Think Ya Can Dance auditions.

Looking and sounding very shaky and rattled, she maintained that she had no idea the Enhanced Interview Techniques used on suspected terrorists to get vital life-saving information from them included waterboarding.  Misremembering expertly, Ms. Pelosi said in her briefing, she was told that waterboarding techniques “were…not…being…employed.”  (It apparently is a useful technique with politicians interested in convincing you of the sincerity and impeccable veracity of their statements  …to…slow…down…and… …emphasize…each…word.   As in, “I…did…not…have…sex…with that woman…Miss Lewinsky….”)

How…stupid…do…you…think…we…are? (more…)

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Tags: bush, Cavuto, CIA, lie, Obama
Posted May 14th 2009 at 1:59 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 1348868 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/05/14/waterboard-pelosi-let%e2%80%99s-get-to-the-truth/Waterboard+Pelosi+--+Let%27s+Get+to+the+Truth%212009-05-14+20%3A59%3A10Gary+Graham

Daily Gut: Thank the Popping Doll

If you ever needed to witness torture in action, check out Nancy Pelosi`s press conference Thursday morning. She squirmed, bulged, sweated and finally even tried to back away from the podium in a desperate attempt to escape. The best part, for me, was when one of the lapdog reporters – in an obvious strategy to gain favor from the Botoxed Barracuda – asked her about health care. It’s like during Hurricane Katrina, asking Bush if the pools will remain open.

Now I was at the gym during the press conference, where they only allow CNN on the tv. There`s no Fox News – mainly because it aggravates the yoga instructor`s rosacea. On the stair climber, I had no choice but to watch Pelosi with the sound off, and her body movements said more about what she knew than words ever could. Throughout the conference, she began to resemble one of those delightful popping dolls – those latex creatures whose eyes, ears & nose pop out when you start squeezing the torso. Pelosi, in effect, was in a tight spot, and it was delight to see the press – for once – use her like a grip strengthener. (more…)

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Tags: bush, CIA, CNN, nancy pelosi, terrorists
Posted May 14th 2009 at 12:02 pm in Daily Gut | 1349425 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/05/14/daily-gut-thank-the-popping-doll/Daily+Gut%3A+Thank+the+Popping+Doll2009-05-14+19%3A02%3A54Greg+Gutfeld

The Most Powerful Weapon

During the Cold War, a slew of movies came out that dealt with the possibility of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. This is not surprising since the atom and hydrogen bombs were the most powerful weapons ever devised by man. Well, almost.

I’ll get to that somewhat nervy assertion in a bit, but first a little background.

Among the cinematic slew released during those years of cold, are two of my favorite films, Dr. Strangelove and Fail-Safe. Both dealt with strikingly similar themes, unintentional nuclear holocaust, yet in entirely different tones.  But cold war themes weren’t that varied by their very nature, since inevitably the worst case scenario was the best case plot device and nothing brings down the house like bringing down the house.

With that said, still, there’s so much similarity between the two stories that law suits were indeed filed and production schedules slowed. This worked out to Stanley Kubrick’s advantage as his Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was released almost a year ahead of Sidney Lumet’s Fail-Safe. In my opinion Kubrick’s is a better film than Lumet’s and not due to slowed schedules, either. But both are magnificent, and because of their approaches to the topic, very different  and essential part of the genre. (more…)

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Tags: 2001: a space odyssey, a6m zero-sen, an american in paris, army motion picture unit, Auschwitz
Posted May 6th 2009 at 9:56 am in Entertainment, Politics | 1284064 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/smann/2009/05/06/the-most-powerful-weapon/The+Most+Powerful+Weapon2009-05-06+16%3A56%3A35Schizoid+Mann

The Wussification of America

*A detainee was shot in the groin with a BB gun during an interrogation incident. The interrogator had pointed it at the eyes and faces of other detainees before the emasculating testicle shot took place.

*A detainee was ritualistically beaten and left with a wound 7 inches around and 1/2 inch deep on his butt that required two surgeries. Apparently the detainee was told that it would “toughen up your hide.”

*3 soldiers stripped a 19 year old detainee down to his boxers and started firing BBs at him from about 5 feet away. They then tried to get the detainee to smoke marijuana and drink alcohol, which he refused.

*Soldiers made detainees lie down naked in a makeshift pool filled with six inches of ice water, beer, kitchen garbage, and urine. Other soldiers took turns standing on a stepladder above the pool and attempted to drop raw eggs into the mouth of the detainees lying in the fluid. (more…)

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Tags: bush, clinton, enhanced interrogations, hazing, Obama
Posted May 4th 2009 at 6:37 am in Political Humor | 1250224 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sspencer/2009/05/04/the-wussification-of-america/The+Wussification+of+America2009-05-04+13%3A37%3A40Spike+Spencer

Political Correctness is Torture

This week’s Washington Times column:

Here we go again. The latest poster conservative for political-correctness-run-amok in a country careening downhill on left-wing, Democratic cruise control is Republican congresswoman Virginia Foxx.

Mrs. Foxx’s impropriety: The thought crime of arguing against “hate crime” laws by pointing out that Matthew Shepard – the tragic icon attached to the legislation – represents a salient argument against enacting them.

Mr. Shepard, the gay Wyoming teenager robbed and savagely beaten to death by drug-addled thugs in 1998, is the emotionally charged posthumous force behind the movement to pass hate crime laws. He got that way after a relentless, decade long mainstream media, Madison Avenue and Hollywood propaganda campaign to make his death a symbol of just-beneath-the-surface sadistic intolerance toward homosexuals. (more…)

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Tags: "Boys Don't Cry", brokeback mountain, Cindy Sheehan, Elton JOhn, gay rights
Posted May 3rd 2009 at 9:30 pm in Featured Story, News, Politics | 125486No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/05/03/political-correctness-is-torture/Political+Correctness+is+Torture2009-05-04+04%3A30%3A08Andrew+Breitbart

One Man’s Colonic is Another Man’s Torture

You’re going to have to excuse hard-left Hollywood types if they don’t get on board for the whole waterboarding thing. The concepts of forceful interrogations and the need to get dangerous people to reveal their life-threatening plans is as far removed from their daily experiences as, say, humility or well-reasoned arguments.

Most folks working in the entertainment industry live in pockets of Los Angeles in which they’re so warmly cocooned in smug, safe familiarity that they don’t have to worry about encountering so much as an opposing political philosophy, let alone a foreign hostile enthusiastically set on killing them. How are these actors, writers, directors, producers, et. al, supposed to take foreign terrorist threats seriously when the most they have to concern themselves with during their average day is whether that spa barista really did use soy milk and not non-fat in their morning coffee colonic? (more…)

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Tags: hollywood, Terrorism, terrorists, torture, war on terror
Posted May 3rd 2009 at 10:37 am in Celebrity News, Political Humor | 123582No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jslewinski/2009/05/03/hollywood-should-prefer-colonics-to-waterboarding/One+Man%27s+Colonic+is+Another+Man%27s+Torture2009-05-03+17%3A37%3A01John+Scott+Lewinski

Getting Real About Torture

Since our country’s having a heated conversation about torture, and especially since that conversation seems certain to devolve into a parade of politicized, self-flagellating show trials that will broadcast our divided weakness to the world, it’s time to get some perspective on what torture is and isn’t, and who does it and who doesn’t. 

Let me state for the record that I firmly believe America should not torture. But I’m at ease about that, because America does not torture. Do we use harsh interrogation techniques?  Of course we do, and why not? This is war – why should we treat captive enemy combatants to a rejuvenating stay at the Four Seasons? Some of these maniacs plotted the devastation of 9/11, all cheered it, and if given the chance, all would gleefully saw your head off and then post a video of it on the Internet as inspiration for others of their fanatical ilk. Many of them might have information that could prevent further mayhem here and abroad – information they’re not going to volunteer simply because we’re congenial hosts. (more…)

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Tags: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Armando Valladares, beheading, Enemy Combatants, Guantanamo
Posted May 2nd 2009 at 8:00 am in News, Politics | 123486One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2009/05/02/getting-real-about-torture/Getting+Real+About+Torture2009-05-02+15%3A00%3A50Mark+Tapson

Steven’s Epic Journey (The “Good” Liberal List)

Very rarely does an artist open himself up to the point of being vulnerable.  However, during these uncertain times, it is necessary to take risks for the sake of art.  Picasso had his brush, Beethoven had his piano and I have my camera.  Conservatives rejoice!

I smell an Oscar, people.

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Tags: abortion, liberals, Terrorism, torture
Posted Apr 30th 2009 at 5:50 pm in Entertainment, Political Humor, Politics | 1228863 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/04/30/stevens-epic-journey-the-good-liberal-list/Steven%27s+Epic+Journey+%28The+%22Good%22+Liberal+List%292009-05-01+00%3A50%3A57Steven+Crowder

Obama Tortures Me Every Day

Let me see if I can understand the liberal view of so called torture. I really am trying to understand why the left, especially the ones that work near downtown Los Angeles, have their shorts so far up their behinds. As I see it there are two questions: What is torture? Does it work?

Let me take the second question first. Yes, enhanced interrogation techniques work. If you don’t think so then come by my house, sign the release form and I guarantee I will have your computer password, your ATM PIN and your wife’s safe word in the bedroom in an hour. The memos which Obama released last week in order to placate his far-left base say so. It’s hard to accept one part of the memo and say the rest is a lie. Yet, for some strange reason he refuses to show the memos which the dreaded Cheney say further support the claim that enhanced interrogation worked and saved American lives. Even the guy from the right lefties love to point to as an expert on torture, John McCain says that everyone breaks. Just for the record, Mr. McCain believes all of the enhanced interrogation techniques, except for water boarding are acceptable. (more…)

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Tags: Daily Kos, John McCain, MoveOn, Obama, torture
Posted Apr 26th 2009 at 11:03 am in Featured Story, Political Humor, Politics | 11643818 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/04/26/obama-tortures-me-every-day/Obama+Tortures+Me+Every+Day2009-04-26+18%3A03%3A07Jeffrey+Jena

Bath Party, Pigman-style

From ProPiganda: Drawing the Line Against Jihad

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Tags: bosch fawstin, jihad, pigman, Propiganda, Propiganda: Drawing the Line Against Jihad
Posted Apr 23rd 2009 at 5:02 pm in Politics, Religion | 114398No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bfawstin/2009/04/23/bath-party-pigman-style/Bath+Party%2C+Pigman-style2009-04-24+00%3A02%3A15Bosch+Fawstin

Hollywood-pocrisy: Waterboarding Okay for Movie Criminals, Not Real Life Terrorists

Today, “The Last House on the Left” debuts in theaters.  It’s a remake of Wes Craven’s 1972 movie of the same name.  The movie–while infinitely better than the original (which was supposedly making an anti-war statement, but was just torture porn)–is still torture/snuff-porn, and I don’t recommend it (see my reviews of this weekend’s new movies, including “Last House”).

But one point in the movie bears noting–the use and applause for waterboarding.

The story of “Last House” is that of a girl and her friend tortured by a gang of criminals. The girl (Sara Paxton, who “graduated” from kids’ show “Darcy’s Wild Life” to snuff-porn–talk about regressing)  is raped and left for dead.  When her parents discover that the people they welcomed into their house are the perpetrators, they take revenge. (more…)

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Tags: gitmo, Hollywood hypocrisy, last house on the left, torture, waterboard
Posted Mar 13th 2009 at 1:13 pm in Entertainment, Politics | 7890250 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dschlussel/2009/03/13/hollywood-pocrisy-waterboarding-okay-for-movie-criminals-not-real-life-terrorists/Hollywood-pocrisy%3A+Waterboarding+Okay+for+Movie+Criminals%2C+Not+Real+Life+Terrorists2009-03-13+20%3A13%3A11Debbie+Schlussel

Answering Steven Crowder’s Challenge

I agree with Crowder: When the headlines are more over-the-top than any joke one can form from them, it certainly makes comedy challenging. “Try making the idea of released detainees going back to terrorism funny”?

Hey, according to the Pentagon, only 11 percent of them do that! (Though I hear that estimate has a margin of error of about 89%.)

One released detainee detonated himself in Iraq a couple months ago. And our liberals are worried about us dripping water on their faces. The guy just blew himself up! Clearly, our interrogation techniques are not extreme enough. They prefer to lose a limb or two before giving us information. No wonder Gitmo and Abu Ghraib were torture for these sado-masochists. (more…)

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Tags: gitmo, guantanamo bay, Iraq, julia gorin, Obama
Posted Mar 13th 2009 at 6:41 am in Military, Political Humor | 7883082 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jgorin/2009/03/13/answering-steven-crowders-call/Answering+Steven+Crowder%27s+Challenge2009-03-13+13%3A41%3A44Julia+Gorin

‘24′ Going Soft in Season Seven? More Like Going Subtle

With a few strokes of the (real-life) president’s pen, Guantanamo Bay was ordered shut within a year, enhanced interrogation tactics were banished as relics of a dark past, and secret CIA prisons began dropping off the map in Eastern Europe. America’s going to play nice from now on. What’s a rogue former CTU agent to do?

As a relative newbie to the realm of “24″ fandom (I’ve only seen season six and all five hours of the current season), it came as a disappointment when a number of right-leaning Jack Bauer fanatics I know expressed concerns that the show’s hero might be “going soft” this season. Could the days of gunshot-induced confessions be over? Might we never witness Jack chomp through a terrorist’s carotid artery again? I suppose the answers to these crucial questions remain to be seen. Thankfully, 19 hours and approximately 1,609 preposterous plot twists have yet to unfold. (more…)

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Posted Jan 27th 2009 at 6:25 am in Entertainment, Politics | 3111065 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/gbenson/2009/01/27/24-going-soft-in-season-seven-more-like-going-subtle/%2724%27+Going+Soft+in+Season+Seven%3F+More+Like+Going+Subtle2009-01-27+14%3A25%3A58Guy+Benson