This morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough launched — yet again — into an angry defense of torture. When MSNBC’s Carlos Watson explained that waterboarding is ineffective, Scarborough lashed out at him, nearly kicking him off the set:
SCARBOROUGH: I’ve got to stop you right there. How do you dare come on this set and say that’s [waterboarding] not effective? That’s just not the truth! And if you have any evidence that it is not effective, let me know right now!
Watch it:
ThinkProgress has taken up Scarborough’s challenge, with this comprehensive document explaining why Bush’s enhanced interrogation tactics were a failure.
Update
Also this morning, Scaborough slammed former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who has been publicly criticizing waterboarding. “Ventura ‘should stop smoking whatever he’s been smoking,’ Scarborough said at the anchor’s desk of his Morning Joe show. ‘It seriously should be a crime, to be that dumb on TV.”’
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