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  • There are always people with a different opinion. Criminals think it's ok to steal and kill.

  • why cant politicians EVER answer in yes or no? do they give the guy at burger king a lecture when he asks" do you want fries with that?"

  • As per our very own laws on torture, water boarding IS illegal and IS torture!! There are no different types of water boarding. If it was always legal to use water boarding, of course we should do it, but the law is the law. Break one law, why not break them all, we can always justify it, doesn't mean we should though. If i have a good reason to rob a bank, such as, my wife needed life saving surgery, should i be arrested? My reason was to save a life, right?

  • TYT = Tedious Yappy Twits. The Fox clip with Shep is interesting, but the barely cogent, mumble mouth, babble head's comment afterward is pure TORTURE. Call the UN, call Amnesty International, call me a cab - I'm outta here!...

  • Torture this asshole Hoekstra to get a straight fucking YES/NO answer from him

    sick piece of shit

  • ..."I'm not mincing words" THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU WERE DOING.

  • I look down on cuntries that use torture~ Why should my country of America stoop down to that level~ It is my believe we are above that~!

  • ...C-can Shep Smith join TYT?

  • @lukegreen37

    No. I like youngturks. Let's leave Shep on Fox, we need a moderate and reasonable guy on FOX. For once!

  • Torture disguised as the words, "Enhance Interrogation Techniques."

  • the senator speaks like a robot "data points, blah blah blah, data points, techniques blah blah"

  • I find it funny how on other political clips of this show the republican supporters are quick to diss the hosts and such, but when we have them exposing the evils of the republica party on these anti-torture segments they're no where to be found lol.

  • Perhaps Shepherd could have used some "enhanced interrogation techniques" to get the Congressman to answer his question...

  • I watch Shep,and he is as dense ,as you are. But i defend his ,and your right to be ignorant of what it takes to save your worthless life. I guess u prefer "rendition",sending them to Egypt. Like Obama ,and Clinton.

    Used on three ugly rotten human beings .Killers of children,and women. You should be a fan of Shep, for ur a spolied child.. As you sit in your golden perch,and cry about the people who give u the oppurtunity to be there.. Godless,ungrateful,bastard.

  • @nick451 Nice rambling. Next time, throw your bias on your own children someday. I bet they'll be the only ones to believe the garbage you spew. :)

  • @TheEnlightenedTruth

    Ur enlightened alright. I have an idea for you . Go and enlghten the terrorists. Do something positive . I bet ur sitting safely in ur little cave,while others fight for you.

    Tell the terrorist how much you love them,give them flowers ,these killers of women and children.Then save me a front row seat when they chop ur head off. I'd walk over the dead bodies of a million KSM's to save my family ,and my country. While people like you sit and ponder,twiddling their thumbs.

  • @nick451 You're just repeating angry talking points. Resentment will lessen the joy you experience and let those who would do harm to us, effectively create a state of fear. We're supposed to be better than to let fear and anger cloud our judgment, as those who would perpetuate it do. Yes, it's true that you can't simply rush over to the middle east and say "love each other!" and expected to live. Still, the more of them we kill, the more of them we make want to kill us.

  • @TheEnlightenedTruth

    You live in the perpetual dream. I'm glad you are optimistic,maybe in a thousand years ,The trouble in the middle east will be solved. I doubt it. As for appeasement of these murderers of women,They see it as a sign of weakness. And weakness only begets boldness,by these people who wish to crush the life out of you. Obama's policy has been yours ,and it has created a more dangerous world. Your theory of kindness is useless on thugs. They want power,not ur xmas card.

  • @nick451 No, I certainly live in reality...hence the mention of women and children dying from our bombs. Actually, less than torturous technique's have actually been extremely successful in interrogations, because the terrorists are specifically trained to think that we are pure evil and will do nothing but, torture them. Changing that perception is effective with certain individual's. It's true though that simply "being nice" will not just stop terrorism. Things are clearly not that simple..

  • @nick451 Obama's policy has not been mine at all. His foreign policy hasn't been that far from Bush's actually. Fox News tells us that they think we're weak when we don't purposefully boast about how we can "never be defeated," but, doing so actually raises the morale and feeling of purpose, of terrorists. Propaganda isn't always truth. Terrorist's didn't "Fear" Bush. We're no less safe now than before, either...though we're not "more safe either. We will never "kill them all."

  • @nick451 This isn't a direct one-nation opponent. The true opponent is a perpetual cycle of hatred, based off of ignorance and in many cases, blatant lies. Torturing them simply makes us look just like the "big bad country" that they convince themselves we are. Unfortunately we can't just "Reason with them" or stop fighting at all, you're right there. I'm just saying, we CAN set standards that show that we are not the same as they are, which while of course we know, not everyone would.

  • @nick451 and again, you're right though...ideal's cannot always be put into action...and we have to have strong defenses...but, I'm saying that we need to combat this problem in other ways as well than just "fighting back" because the more we kill, the more will try to kill us.

  • @nick451 We've killed women and children as well. You think our bombs magically hit "bad guys"? Yes, they would do so with a different intention, but what I'm saying is that fire can't put out a fire. Yes, we have to defend ourselves but, at the same time there surely has to be a better way than resorting to the same methods. In this sense, we shouldn't torture. There have been more effective technique's used anyway. We shouldn't reinforce their opinion of us. We should break it.

  • If you have to ask if it is torture, then it is probably torture. Water boarding is torture. As the Young Turks state, the Untied States of America has prosecuted and executed people for water boarding. The United States of America should not engage in torture.

  • They are so coached to downplay torture. "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques". Wow. And when someone shucks and jives so HARD to avoid answering a simple question, "Is it torture?", you know he KNOWS it's torture, and he's okay with it.

  • "Dance, dance, we're falling apart...."

  • Talk about circumlocution,answer the question, fuck!

  • Answer the damn question!!! YES or NO!

  • Shep is awesome. Everyone who knows Shep knows that despite working for Fox news he is not on the far right of politics AT ALL.

  • let that asshole of an "elected" official should experience water-boarding first hand. Then he will definitely change his "opinion" about whether or not it is torture.

  • Man I HATE politics! Why the fuck don't they talk to u plain English! Like law terminology that shit is all meant to deceive and confuse. The people in control are a bunch of liars!

  • "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" is codeword for TORTURE.

  • Yeah, we know.

  • If they do it to us it's torture.  If we do it to them it's "enhance interrogation"

  • Shep is the man

  • Enhanced Interrogation Techniques=Torture.

    If America is for these types of techniques, why not use them on people like Phillip Garrido, or the jackass who kidnapped Shawn Hornbeck!? Why, cause it's against US policy. If we can't use it against these criminals, then we should use them against none.

  • this are supposed to be our leaders....disturbing

  • mother fucker!! Are u people the good guys???? yea only in movies! After seeing that dumb fuck are you still surprised for the anti american feeling around the world???

  • How come these fucks can't answer the question? I hate politicians...bastards!

  • Conservatives fuck their sisters in dark basement after giving them roofies.

    SCORE!

  • lol, love that clip when shep says "blowjobs"

  • Faux news is a fucking joke, much respect for Shep for having the testicular fortitude to go after his ass where others would not.

  • Shepard SMith = one of the best news commentators on cable news. Might be the best. He is simply unbias, and the ONLY unbias person on Fox News. Shep is seriously a professional and should have respect from the left and right (though the right may not be happy with him as he is on their cable network not giving them what they want to hear).

  • "...more likely to give her a curb job than a blow jo- than a block party :|"

    lol I love that gaff.

  • here here i second that sir

  • shep smith is the only badass on fox news. he's like a hot liberal spy deep inside douche country

  • Shep Smith is epic.

  • amazing to see a FOX fake news host say something that was true and not a RNC talking point

  • Im surprised shep smith still has his job @ fox. He's totally against torture (which I completely agree with) and pull no punches about how he fells about it. They'll probably find sum excuse 2 fire him & replace him with another Hannity.

  • all politicians should be water boarded....

  • ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION!

  • just stupid watching republicans try to justify and say things we did wernt torture. they should just save themselves the trouble and say fine it was torture but torture is justifiable under extreme circumstances. this word game they are trying to play with advanced level extreme interrogation bullshit isnt helping them at all and is probably just pissing off the terrorists even more.

  • When the guy said there are various form of waterboarding or whatever, the thing that popped into my mind was "Well there are different ways to shoot somebody."

  • I think he was trying to say that it was OK because of when it was done, so I guess he believes it's OK sometimes, but not others.

  • hahaha.. what a fucking politician.. can't give a fucking answer on a simple question. "Is water boarding torture?" fuck all politicians, all of them.

  • All Torture is wrong. For any reason it is wrong. Those who order it should go to Jail/ Lets waterboard Dick Cheney In though , the world needs to wake up and tell Dick and Bush that they no longer welcome to come to there Nation \ would that ever happen or the Billions they have they still rule other Nations.????

  • Shep gives Fox News relevance. Now that's a neat trick.

  • Waterboarding is torture! Rep. Hoekstra doesn't think so. At least he has supported HR 1207. He's only half bad.

  • i am starting to like shep smith

  • Is that a beer Cenk is drinking?

  • Yeah, Cenk's doing Fucked up Fridays. If you become a member and check out their postgame you get to see'em drink as they report!

  • Shep did some pretty great journalistic things here.

    * Kept pressing the guest repeatedly, especially when the guest gave him the political run around.

    * APOLOGIZED FOR INTERRUPTING - something unheard of in Faux News.

    * Didn't yell over him, and remained respectful of the congressman that kept dancing around the issue.

    We need to get Shep out of Faux News. Seriously. Pushing the issue, questioning the guests and not supporting Murdoch's agenda? Very well done Shep!

  • "We need to get Shep out of Faux News"

    Actually, I think it's good he's on Faux. Imagine if this line of questioning were done on CNN - the neocons would just write it off as "biased journalism". Not so their beloved Noise. Where else will the chicken-shit Reps make an appearance? Certainly not MSNBC. I say Shep keep up the good work where he's need most.

  • If I were Japan, I would ask for an official apology from the USA. Especially from the GOP.

  • Shep needs to go to MSNBC.

  • First of all, Shep needs to just get the fuck out of Faux Noise. :(

  • Shep Smith is the only decent news anchor Fixed Noise has. Here is hoping his contract runs out and he will be able to get on MSNBC, or at least clean up CNN of its mediocrity.

  • MSLSD is garbage news.

  • Its only torture, if you think its torture at the time.

    Back in 2001, unlike 1945, water boarding wasnt looked at as torture...

  • this is a media ploy trying to make them selfs seem more "fair and balanced"

  • Well, you might be right, but if they have any one of their reporters disagree with the Republican party, they will scare away the religious right viewers.

  • If Shep Smith keeps this up, he'll go the way of Colmes and be kicked out for not sucking the Republican cock.

  • why do the religious right condemn pro choice .but believe peace can be achieved by bombs and killing whole societies not to mention how they feel about giving all the profits to the rich and huge corporations and telling the poor that they need to work harder as they take away the opportunities of a good education and health care and jobs that actually pay enough to support their families .we need education health care and a good economy that will help stop abortion no law will do it.

  • Say whatever you like, make all sorts of speculations about my motives. What I know is that this channel has never had any indignation about the violent, extreme and brutal tactics this country takes to destroy innocent unborn Americans. Its indignation at waterboarding is so much static noise that eventually fades away as people tune out.

  • I mean if you want to tell a woman when she can and can not have kids. Then you should just move to Afghanistan. The neighborhoods aren't that bad really. With your line of thinking you'll fit right in with no problem. Believe me I've been there twice two tour duties. Just make sure you duck a lot that's all the advice I can give you.

  • I guess you missed the first sentence I wrote: the child exists, the question is how to eliminate it. As for Afghanistan, do you think America was in any way like Afghanistan before Roe v. Wade? If anything, it was even more hippy liberal than today after just emerging from the sick 60s.

    Thank you for your combat service.

  • -Sorry for a second post-

    If Cheney knew this was going to the "dark side" then he knew it was torture and wrong. So whats the debate with the Rep., there shouldn't be one.

  • I would like to know when Cheney said we were going to have to go to the "dark side" a bit. Wonder if the dates line up.

  • Leave it to a politician to give a politician type answer on a yes or no question.

  • Man Shep Smith is using all the skills he learned from FOX to get the answers he want. I like that =)

    gg Fox... I meant Smith. 5/5

  • I like Shep Smith. A long time I thought that the strong patriotism and national pride of Americans was silly. Now we see one intelligent Republican feeling betrayed and his pride is hurt. And instead of just siding with his party, he fights for what he believes in. He's not a hypocrite and that's refreshing to see.

  • Just watch FoxNews will fire Shep Smith for not kissing a republican's ass

  • he's getting pretty good.

  • Chines water "advanced interrogation technique."

  • dude!! i almost spit up all over my laptop.

    epic man, simply epic.

  • Ive liked Shep Smith ever since he accidentally said "blowjob" on the air.

  • Jenny from the block

  • The 'shining city on the hill' has an evil dungeon.

  • Wow ! They even follow the party line when they know its criminal.... sigh .....

  • Shephard Smith is going to leave the Republican Party...lol!

  • The republican motto here is WWJBD

    (what would Jack Bauer do?)

  • dance around question much?

  • Since it's not torture, I'm sure you're willing to volunteer to be waterboarded then? After all, it's just a splash of water in your mind right?

  • Yeah, being locked up in prison for life doesn't qualify as torture either, but I personally wouldn't volunteer for it.

  • I like how people think water boarding isn't torture but the Japanese Drip Torture is completely forgotten about.

  • It's not like people are actively torturing detainees with (what I presume you mean) Chinese water torture?

  • Chinese water torture, you're right. I apologize for the mistake.

    Chinese water torture is much more "safer" then water boarding and it makes the point that, simply because a person isn't visibly hurt, doesn't mean that it isn't torture. A lot of people think physical pain = torture and everything else is just fine.

  • You should be waterboarded. Why don't we do that to felons here?

  • good idea. torture all the felons too. those scum don't behave once they're in prison anyway. make them miserable also

  • I can't remember if I told you or your alter-ego motion, but water boarding is torture. We executed Japanese soldiers for it after WWII. On what grounds did we do this? Because it's TORTURE.

  • nobody cares what happened in WW2. I sure don't

  • Okay. Now I know you're a joke, and a pretty bad one at that. And to think I took you seriously for a moment!

  • explain yourself

  • let's waterboard little children who talk out of line too.

  • juvenile behavior adjustment techniques? where do i sign?

  • Yeah and if you give the government the freedom to override the law, then that means you are also endangering yourself if ever you were mistakenly connected to terrorists, or even had a bit of info the government needed to know. For you to say that, you should not complain if your local policeman uses brute force on you or your family since it's necessary b/c it's the same.

  • Saying "It depends on how you're doing the waterboarding" is like saying "It depends on how you hold the knife when you stab someone".

    These torture apologits are like a fistful of grease, oh you can try and squeeze 'em but they'll just squirt out of your fingers.

  • CNN has gone down the toilet the past few years.

  • FOX New is a right wing shit machine spewing out recycled conservative views for lackeys like yourself, friction00815. Just being a waste of space here and come back with better comments. Or none at all.. I hate you. If you and I happened to be the last two people on this planet, I would stil shoot you.

  • If it's not torture you shouldn't have no problem waterboarding your kids. The last thing I need as a soldier is some coward, trust fund baby, couch sitting, dumbaugh listening republicans telling me what's torture and what's not . Let me water board you just for 20 minutes that is if you would last that long.

  • Oooh. So angry you have become. But I bet you think it's just fine and dandy to force a baby into breech position, pull it out by the legs until the back of the head shows, being careful not to let the head slip out until you jam the surgical steel scissors into the back of the soft head and create an opening for the surgical vacuum to suck out the brain tissue of the thrashing baby until the head collapses. Yeah, that's American freedom for you and your torture-hating crowd.

  • It's a woman choice not mine or yours to make . Unless you can pop a baby out well then it will be your choice and problem to deal with not mine. I can't pop one out , if I could I and I only would have to live with my choice and decision not you get it...

  • Saying that's like saying it's our choice once we get the terrorist in our power to do whatever we want with them.

  • Are you brain dead or just plain stupid. I mean really look at what you type. I mean I'm no genius but damn no person in the world can be this dumb to compare an individual own personal choice to government choice. I don't even have a word for that logic at all. It's just plain stupid,moronic , and plenty of other word I could say. This is not the mid evil times join the 21 century or get left behind. I don't get how somebodies choice to have a child or to not have one affects your life..

  • The child is already there. The question is how to eliminate it. If you do some research, abortions take place after 8 weeks up to the day of birth. That means abortions extract in one way or another a head, brain, heart, body, legs and arms to varying degrees of development. The nervous system is also developing so that pain is felt by the unborn. IIt's torture and execution all wrapped up into a varying degree of bloody mess of crushed, burned or cut eyes, lips, ears, fingers.

  • How is that affecting your life. I mean do you lose sleep when the mother of that child can't even buy her kids foods. Do you lose sleep when she can't even pay her rent and is out on the street. Do you lose sleep when she has to payday care and worked two jobs just to get by. Do you lose sleep when she on welfare that your party hates so much. Do you lose when that kid can't even afford college because mom didn't make enough.

  • Shep Smith is the CLASSIC example of you cant judge a book by its cover.

    I have a feeling that Shep's boss gets him mad, and he does this to get back at him.

    I also have a feeling that he gets paid the least

  • hes the only smart person on fox news

  • either you feel like you are going to drown or you dont.

    if we sat around giving terrorists sponge baths we are even dumber than i previously thought.

  • Keep up with the topic, please. We can't just talk about random events that are irrelevant. Abortions should only be performed in the first trimester anyways... I don't know about this case but if you do then go do something about it instead of trying to make a comparaison to an entirely different subject. Good day.

  • Nice of you sidvidel to be so gracious as to withhold the barbaric death penalty from people who make it past the first trimester. Oh by the way this trimester language is pre-ultrasound, pre-fetal science and surgery. You can feel free to discard it along with Thales' theory of matter -- fetuses have working brains, hearts, lungs, limbs no later than 8 weeks. So you don't think pointing liberal hypocrisy is relevant? My point is simple -- your outrage means j--sh-t if abortion is ok by you.

  • I really don't care about your misguided and highly irrational opinion of me and abortion. I don't know who you are and I don't know what outrage you are referring too. I read my comment and yours and what you are saying is simply irrelevant to the comments on this specific thread. And I am not a liberal and just because someone is a liberal doesn't make them scum. Can you please be rational? And hypocrisy has nothing to do with party affiliation but individuals behaviour. Extremism is the enemy

  • mattlewis66 is a one trick pony who should be ignored. Distraction is the weapon of the enemy, and that's all mattlewis66 has in his arsenal. He sure as heck isn't a patriot that would do anything for his country like enlist. He's got to get angry about something that has absolutely nothing to do with him and never will. Righteous indignation, my azz.

  • There's a wide range of waterboarding? Really? Like for instance?

  • I think it has to do with degree of incline and volume of water as well as whether both the mouth and the nose is flooded. As you can imagine, the less the incline, the less the water and assuming open nasal passage, there is likely less distress.

  • It is only a matter of time when Shep smith leaves Fox!

  • Republicans are going to take another beating in the next elections' .....all the Democrats have to do is nail them on torture.....

  • Is that a beer?

  • If it is, what brand is it? I want to drink solely TYT endorsed products.

  • Shep Smith will be out of Fox News if he keeps this up. MSNBC and CNN could use a real conservative like him. Smith cares for his country, but doesn't bullshit like the rest of his Fox Noize buddies.

  • Shep is the weirdest looking MSM talking head on t.v.

  • Is Cenk drinking a beer?

  • Shep better watch out. No room for journalists like him at fox news.

  • I am afraid if the official suits really want to know what's going on, they are going to have to start water boarding the top GOPers starting with the Dickster. followed by the people he gives up. Otherwise Cheney is going to do a sneak attack and blame it on someone else. This is his proven MO. That guy's nuts. If he don't like you he will "accidently" shoot you in the face with a some handy weapon.

  • Fascist scum. People like Pete Hoekstra have no fucking business in our government. Disgusting Franco loving fucks.

  • Anyone know how to get friction00815 and ecwaufisxtreme off of Youtube? Please do. Maybe hack there computers so they can't use them again.

  • we all just thumb down their comments without reading them and move on

  • all right i agree with ya on that. they just piss me off i guess but yeah i agree.

  • I actually received a PM from ecwaufisxtreme. If you read between the lines, you'll notice that ec's comments are purely satirical. It's done so tongue in cheek people don' tget it.

    friction, donottake, and TheY0ungTurds on the other hand, is just a troll. I already reported them to David and informed them to block and report these users.

  • hey man really cool of ya to report them and yeah upon thinking about it ecw did sound different at times. all good then.

  • What do the plant eaters do when the carnivores attack in pacs or packs. They cannot just role over. There is a dark circle of villains that rule with fear and lies in the GOP. I think the entirety of DC ought to be swept and swept again for WMD. Power is like an addiction and a game. c'mon Dems. Wake up! GOPers will just keep falsely accusing and lying until Cheney makes his move. We are in a very dangerous time. These guys make Ian Fleming villains look like baby bunnies.

  • with more guys like shep smith on air for the conservative side, the development in the usa would have a higher level of communication and therefore a much better momentum.

  • I used to think Shep was a douche, but now I like him. Fox will not be having any of this of course.

  • There are some intelligence in F(i)x news. I applaud Shep Smith. A conservative with a brain and knows the law.

  • What in the hell is wrong with you?

  • how long until fox fires shep smith?

  • Never, he and Huckabee are the only mentally stable personalities on FOX.

  • you think fox gives a fuck about reason or sanity? they hired bat shit insane glenn beck for fuck sake!

    and huckabee, mentally stable? haha

  • I really don't see how this is even a debate! Torturing is a horrible and medieval thing to do, and should never be done ever.

  • Shep Smith will not be at fox for long if he keeps having morals.

  • Why do you even bother posting on political videos? Have you not figured out that you're feeble-minded with no comprehension of America's overlying ideology?

  • you suck Pulsar so go die ya scummy bastard.

  • We dont torture in the United States or in the West. If you dont like that, then get the fuck out. Seriously. Go to Iran or Israel you fascist little fuck.

  • You've got to be kidding 'we don't torture in the United States" -- take a look at any description of "intact dilation and extraction" -- that's a fancy name for taking a baby out breech (i.e., intact) after dilating the cervix. . . and then shoving about 4 inches of sharp cold surgical steel into the back of the head of the baby, the violently thrashing baby.

  • As are you if you support torture you anti-American communist, totalitarian douchebag!

  • Friction the dipshit: they were't even taking about socialism in this clip. They were talking about waterboarding. Are you just some trolling asshole shooting empty bullets.. nothing you say matters. You're just another conservative nut nagging. Go back home and fuck your Ronald Reagan doll.

  • lmao, this is why i love youtube comments, and thef fact that people don't know when somone's just kidding around

  • Let's torture by making you actually READ some books. How's that for torture jackass!

  • He's actually doing his job , unlike those other a-holes that work for fixed news.

  • I will say this again. The Republican mindset is: Is waterboarding torture if it is beneficial to the country issuing the "enhanced interrogation"? And of those results gained, are they beneficial in any sense that they prove that waterboarding is a necessary evil?

    On a lighter note, seems like the guy just ran around in a circle without answering the question directly. As Palin would say, "I am going to pivot around the question."

  • torture is what communists and fascists do

    and we are not commies we are not the fascists

    we are a free democracy ,and as long as we republicans defend criminal activeity we will continue to look like clowns,