By Karl Frisch

You know, the policies conservatives contend worked great to keep us safe. Have trouble following their logic? That’s sort of the point — a shell game is designed to confuse the audience, forcing members of it to select the wrong shell and lose whatever money they’ve thrown on the table.

There’s little difference between that curbside gambling and what we’re seeing now from conservatives. [ READ MORE ]

On MSNBC, Pitney discusses report that KSM was waterboarded to prove Iraq-al Qaeda link

Chrystia Freeland: “[M]aking Nancy Pelosi into the big culprit of waterboarding is to move the spotlight to the wrong place”

Shuster grills GOP strategist: More concerned about Pelosi than that U.S. “might have used torture to fabricate information that took us into war?

Does Fox News want to boot Pelosi from the speaker’s chair? — Fox News personalities have called for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to step down as speaker because of the controversy over what the Bush administration told her about its use of harsh interrogation techniques. [ READ MORE ]

Fox trots out Judith Miller for expert opinion on Pelosi-CIA controversy

The Source of the Trouble: Pulitzer Prize winner Judith Miller’s series of exclusives about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq — courtesy of the now-notorious Ahmad Chalabi — helped the New York Times keep up with the competition and the Bush administration bolster the case for war. How the very same talents that caused her to get the story also caused her to get it wrong. — [ READ MORE ]

Sean KLANnity, Failed Presidental candidate Huckabee join Fox News colleagues in calling for end of Pelosi’s speakership

Tortured Logic

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