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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines5/10/2018 8:04:24 pm PDT

More Republican class. These people are monsters. Payback will be the mother of all bitches when Texas turns blue, as it will.
Fox Business guest says torture “worked on John McCain.”

In the annals of bad TV takes, it’s going to be hard to beat the one offered by a Fox Business guest earlier today: Torture works, and he knows tortures works because it made John McCain cough up sensitive information during the years he spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

“It worked on John [McCain],” retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney said during a Thursday appearance on the Fox Business Network. “That’s why they call him ‘Songbird John.’”

But let’s be clear: Torture didn’t work on McCain — not even close.

Here’s McCain’s account of being tortured in his book Faith of My Fathers: “Pressed for more useful information, I gave the names of the Green Bay Packers’ offensive line, and said they were members of my squadron.”

As Lawfare’s Susan Hennessey pointed out on Twitter, McCain also “refused early release from a prison camp where he was tortured so as not to leave his men behind.”