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  • Real man.

  • LBJ said that about Cronkite, not Nixon

  • shep start throwing some fists haha

  • Do anyone remember when waterboarding was simply called 'water torture'? You know, before the spindoctors invented the word 'waterboarding'?

  • I think it was actually Lyndon Johnson who made the Cronkite remark.

  • We're not America anymore, Shep. There's no more adults left in the room

  • Torture was,is and shall ever be a part of our country and ALL other countrys way of getting things done, and anyone who believes otherwise is a fool.

  • As part of training US Navy Seals are waterboarded. They say its torture.

    To me a Navy Seal is a man's man. If they say its torture then its torture.

  • @pchtermino1 Great point

  • we do not torture people.torture people is not feeding them for days beating them,and cutting there head on live tv.we use water boarding that is not torture.hey cenk you fat fuck lets show you wat real torture is

  • @HiiTM4N5595

    um, water boarding IS torture you dumb fuck. Multiple people have come out and said its torture, including conservative talk-show hosts who have gotten water boarded. No matter what you say, Water-boarding is torture and we as a nation should not do it as we are a nation that does not torture.

  • @poodie56 Why are people so nieve?

  • I believe Shep Smith speaks his mind and does not follow not follow the Roger Ailes narrative. John McCain should have been tortured. He killed many, many innocent people in a war within a country we had no business messing with. McCain is and was a war criminal. Anyone who likes McCain is very ignorant. McCain has never told the truth ever. There are so many clips on youtube which prove this. Let the Vietnamese and Iraqis torture, we don't do that. To torture is to commit an act of crime.

  • i couldn't see shep as the one who as breaking away from the pack, but wow.

  • people like billo the clown who say torture saved thousands of lives are fucking stupid.

  • i do not support torture for acquiring intelligence for two reasons. it doesnt work and shep smith is right. this is america, we hold ourselves to a different standard than other countries. we just dont fucking torture.

  • "This government is of, by, and for the people. That means it's mine!" LOL awesome...the only guy on Fox who has a brain and uses it.

  • actually in 2003 a reporter at NBC news made the statement claiming that "Shep Smith did in 5 years what took Tom Brokow 30 years to do". For nearly 15 years the FOX report has beat out NBC,CBS and ABC evening news on a daily basis in addition to beating out MSNBC and CNN with their evening broadcasts.

  • i want off the train lol.shep smith is cool with me.its good to see that there is at least one reasonable person on fox.

  • LBJ: "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost the war."

    Nixon never said that... :\

  • one shit is plenty!

  • LBJ said If Ive lost Cronkite, Ive lost the country not Nixon

  • @chree2008 you should look in a mirror.

  • @yes4me whatever, these people make them selves look like real idiots.. sometimes. especially the girl.

  • I get a cognitive dissonance when I see Shep Smith taking a stand against Fox rhetoric ON Fox News..

    Weird

  • Apple pie & Torture

  • Is it me or does Cenkcome on the show drunk from time to time...

  • Shep Smith is AWESOME.

  • "If someone hits you on the left cheek, torture them!"

  • We aren't talking about people running around the world cheek slapping, we're talking about indoctrinated homicidal zealots.

  • Those are some incredible videos.

  • This channel is such hack journalism, you don't even know Shep's political affiliation, and here you are calling him a Republican. Can't you lazy twats be bothered even to google or wiki those you're blathering about? He has stated in interviews he refuses to answer any personal questions, specifically "I won't tell you who I vote for, I won't tell you where I go to church or whether or not I go, and I won't tell you my sexual orientation"

  • love shep for the comments... good american...

  • Smith is 100% correct. I want off the train. Why is it OK for America to imprison Japanese soldiers for war crimes - specifically waterboarding - but we're somehow not accountable when we do it?

  • Wow, a "news" entertainer that doesn't like torture. If i had a cookie i'd give it to him

  • shep is right!!! we are american dam it.

    FREEDOM!!!!!!!!

  • but tyt isnt leaning towards the left?

    fucking retards..

  • youre point being?

  • except TYT has stated they are a liberal talk show and therefore are obviously left.

    Fox News never stated they were right-winged...

    They say they're "fair and balanced" when even a caveman can recognize that its not the case.

    Go Shep Smith, knock some sense into Fox News.

  • I haven't seen where they state that they are a liberal talk show, please post a link to where they said it themselves.

    Sorry if they said this openly, however I haven't seen it, since any videos I HAVE seen of this show, were just the usual "trash fox news" broadcasts.

    On top of that, I know the Fox network itself never states that they're right winged.. however a few of the talk show hosts, including everybody's favorite (sarcasm..), Glenn Beck, openly states he has conservative views.

  • shepherd smith rocks! you are true American shep.

  • I can honestly say Shep is prob. the only Republican who could run for president nowadays and actually get some democratic votes. the guys makes SOO much sense and is so balanced its unbelievable. I know i'd vote for him.

    He'd been one bad ass president. nobody would wana fuck with us if he was president so there'd be no war to begin with. haha.

  • He's not a Republican, He's a Democrat (one of the only one's on Fox News).

  • Best line ever! "I WANT OFF THAT TRAIN"

  • WE DONT TORTURE

  • WE ARE SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

  • oops LOL i love that part.

  • A right-winger on Fox News with some sense? I'm stunned. I am going to watch this guy's show and see what he's all about.

  • Same here.

  • Shep Smith isn't a right-winger. Nor is O'Reilly or Geraldo Rivera.

    Not everybody on Fox is as nutty as Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity. Most of them are, but not all.

  • shep is absolutely correct.

    we are fucking human beings and whats more is that we are americans. we represent prosperity, honor, and justice and if we torture, we are hypocrits and deserve to be labeled as such.

  • I agree with Shep.

  • lol half liberal

    is that like when a full liberal and full conservative fuck and have a kid

  • no, but you're a half liberal

  • Lol fuck you that turd thing was entirely mature and clever. I can't espect any of those traits from a republican.

  • I find it strange how hardened terrorists who want to kill us all would talk after a 'shove and scare'. Really? They'd give it all up if I shoved em a bit and said "BOO!" .... really???

  • Good man, that. Stick up for democratic principles, Shep!

  • Good video, except only one person in that room was a torture apologist.

  • But I also have a question. What makes torture an inherently right wing thing? Can anyone honestly tell me leaders of the left anytime throughout history have never used torture. I bet you'd find an equal amount of its use on both sides. China and the Soviet Union (or Russia) would be a good example of leftists using torture. My point being not everything can be held up as left or right.

  • because the right wing is the wing that is supporting it. we are having this debate in america, not russia or china. the right wing in america does not care whether or not the government tortures people, only if they raise your taxes.

  • Has nothing to do with following the US Constitution now does it.....focus sheep...focus....

  • what the fuck are you talking about

  • I am as far right as you can be without being an anarchist, and I do not support torture.

  • @gwapindust I don't see how you can see the further you go to the right the more you get to anarchy. The right wants more and more control

  • @gwapindust You realize that anarchism is an extremely liberal movement, right? So, being close to anarchism would place you on the left

  • @gwapindust I'm sorry, but do you happen to believe the political spectrum is as simple as left=big and right=small? it's not that simple. chomsky, zinn, bakunin, kropotkin, they are right-wingers? it's more than a horizontal line, there is a grid, I'm not saying right wing anarchists don't exist, but it's generally a left wing philosophy.

  • @gwapindust Good for you. I'm appalled that the Bush administration condoned torture, and so many Republicans and right wing talkers at Fox think it's the right thing to do. It's criminal and barbaric, and America has to be better than that. The right wing needs more people like you who aren't scared to speak the truth. It seems like all they do is cry about birth certificates and make believe death panels.

  • @gwapindust the fact that you understand the idea of anarchism makes you the smartest conservative ever...

  • Do you like dogs. Especially the ones that tumble rumble fall and slip. Then check out a ferocious boston terrier try and squirm her way to the top, and fall to the bottomless end. Shes a boston terrier with a little weight issue so you know its gunna be good.This video is held on my page.

  • Shep Smith is the only guy on Fox w/ any common sense.

  • @Ajacks1911 Nah Alan Colmes is also good.

  • @DrPepperBeatsCoke Alan Colmes was weak. He let Hannity ride roughshod over hime with all his bullshit and rarely called him out on it.

  • The most effective interrogation techniques are to get to know the people - torture does not work - people lie to stop torture - you don't get anywhere with it.

  • I'd like to interogate an use some advanced techniques on these Turks-In a black op country.'

    HAHAHAHA!

    Bet Bush\Cheney won't get prosecuted. They got dirt on some high level deomcrats.

  • You're a disgusting monster to kicks out of torturing people.

    Name one instance in which torturing saved lives.

    You're pathetic and a disgrace to this country

  • I did mention torture! HAHAHA!

  • we don't fuckin torture!

    not even during blow jobs, eh, i mean block parties! XD

  • Lyndon Johnson said "if i've lost cronkite I've lost middle america".

  • a fake news anchor talking shit about a real news anchor. liberals, go figure.

  • Did you even WATCH the clip? If anything Cenk was complimenting Shep...

  • Cenk was applauding Shep.

  • Fox News makes Fox News look bad. It should be called Fox Fiction.

  • oh that explains why they annihilate every other news station. now it makes sense!

  • the guy with the goatee i couldnt agree more with. everybody that disagrees are retarted

  • Good boy shep!

  • he seems like a guy who is really proud of his country.

    well done shep!

  • the black shep of fox.

  • Isn't he the same guy who messed up and said something about Jennifer Lopez and blowjobs?

    And I'm glad I can finally agree with someone on fox.

  • Alrigth Shep, tell us how you feel. Its about time someone over at Faux decided to get a soul and figure out that torture=bad.

  • GO SHEPPPPPPPPP

  • he, i'm for killing babines anyday.

    go see the hitchens waterboarding session.

  • Babines?

  • Yes you are missing something America has in the past put people to death for waterdoarding people. Whats so hard to understand about that? If we as a nation have put people to death for waterboarding wouldn't it make us Hypocrits to turn about and do the same thing to others. as Chris Rock said once, "the world doesn't hates us because of our freedom they hate us because of the Hypocrisy of our Democracy" and he's right.

  • Forcing water into someones internal organs to the point where they drown internally, and doing this indiscriminately to Muslims or anyone else who is in the wrong place at the wrong time, is not "pouring water over a terrorist's head".

  • why the fuck do they even talk about if torture is right or wrong? it's wrong..

    what the hell is going on america???

  • B-e-a-utiful Shep. I love Napolitano's show. Great libertarian stuff. We are American and we do not fucking torture! I don't give a rats ass if it helps!

  • Shep Smith is ok.

  • in others words they have no opinions of there own!

  • "Their" own........... you uneducated buffoon.

  • Ok, steve so there just like obama, reading off of teleprrompters!

  • If your CIC had a teleprompter he wouldn't have looked like an uneducated monkey like you.

    OBama had the intelligence and IQ of Bush by the time he was 10.

  • Oh now lets not insult Obama.

  • Wow, never seen tyt before, But at least now I know what bad journalism is. Pretty pathetic when you have to break down someone elses broadcast more (than likely due to the fact that you cant come up w/ you own material). I understand the point hes trying 2 make here but let me see your heartfelt opinion on the matter of torture instead of just analyzing someone elses!

  • They are not journalists, they don't claim to be journalists, it's a talk show.

  • Any libs here want to give me their definition of torture?

  • Just like TYT pointed out it takes someone on your perceived side like Shepard Smith to let you stupid pieces of shit know we ARE AMERICA and we don't torture. End of story, no more Gitmo, no more torture, no more Bush, so stick that up your ass. Now no matter what you say or think it doesn't matter we are America and now we don't torture we don't need your opinion. So keep your definition of torture to your losing GOP self. You have no voice now.

  • haha you fools cant even define what torture is and yet you accuse our government of doing it.

  • I can define torture you piece of fucking shit,

    Torture: Feeling coward ass GOP fucks are feeling everyday knowing Obama is in office ruling over their stupid, coward, pathetic pussy cunt asses.

  • Wow how did you come up with that definition? Obama is my president, Im just watching him fuck the country up even more hahaha. Cheer up hes your president!!

  • Shep is the only fair and balanced breath of air on FOX and is the lone journalist on this Network of Pussies, cunts and cowards.

  • You've prolly never even watched Fox pussy

  • As little as possible you pussy coward cunt. Now go back in your cave that you have been frightened into by FOX Spews. We will protect you out here cunt.

  • Spoken like a true lib! Full of nothing but bad language and hot air! try using a thesaurus! Not only will you sound slightly more intelligent, you might just get a few more people 2 understand your point of view.

  • My point of view is just fine you puny little cocksucker. Now go fuck off and take your coward sag ass with you.

  • What's the point of even training intelligence officers if you can get the same results by going to Texas and bringing back some 6'6 redneck meathead to get a club and beat the shit out of the detainees? It seems "intel" officials aren't really that intelligent after all when a gorilla can do their job. Torture is wrong and will always be wrong, we are better than that.

  • where was the media coverae of the uniformed american soldier shot to death in arkansas by a black savage muslim convert ?all week i was bombarded with front page reports on the abortion dr killing and the holocaust killing but not a peep about the arkansas killing why ?even obama commented on the two shootings but not the soldiers.where was chris matthews ?anderson cooper ?rachel maddow ? cnn ?msnbc? larry king?was it because the soldier killing was by a black muslim and not a white male?

  • I agree, they run our media and movies, and most of the banking, but these idiots lose their minds if you point out the obvious. They love Israel, and they don't even know why, lol.

  • Hah, you're from Canada. You're already ruined, eh?

  • Wasn't it President Johnson (not Nixon) who said "If I've lost Walter Cronkite, I've lost middle America". Then again, what do I know, I'm just a Canuck!

  • This may be extreme but I would not be surprised if rapists tend towards right-wing political views. I say this because right-wingers tend to be more permissive of torture, draconian legal policies and hostile aggression in foreign policy. They're also more obsessed with guns and war. They seem to be more indulgent in baser aggressive human urges. It's a proven fact that people who are more open to torture and aggression are more likely to rape or be abusive.

  • I shep smith gay?....it so doesn't matter but just curious

  • Tmundo is so right.. We have to look at ourselves to find what we have done to other human beings for them to have such hate for us. Neocons have the problem in their conviction that they never make mistakes... What a whole lot of crap.

  • The terrorists hate america. If we continue these types of methods of pursuit i.e. torture, wars with the wrong countries, we become the assholes they think we are. We have to pursue our enemies with a sence of love and respect, I know that's a hard statement to take, but we must get to the bottom of why our enemies hate us, only then will they stop being our enemies.

  • Was that some common sense? On Youtube? Never.

  • When all this torture stuff was going on, you didn't hear any protest or objections from any Democrats in Congress, including Obama. As our elected leaders and representatives, they are just as responsible and accountable as Bush and Cheney. That's why the Democrats are not going to back any prosecutions. They want this issue to go away, just like the Republicans. The only ones who keep it alive is the media, because it sells.

  • I think you may have a point there

  • Thanks, of course Bush and his cronies created the torture policy in 2003, but I really can't remember any Democrats raising any objection until Obama took office and ended the policy. As soon as it became a big media issue, the Democrats had to jump on the anti-torture bandwagon. But they are not going to prosecute, because they are also responsible. If it was so reprehensible to them, why didn't they raise hell about it before.

  • At 6:39 it sounds like a Glenn Beck impression.

  • To mock propoganda with more different propoganda is kinda hypocritical, and stupid

  • Oh my god! Hell has frozen over! Judith Miller can actually make sense!! Oh my freaking God!!

  • Spektor switched back to being a Democrat because he was going to get buried if he stuck around for the GOP primary to keep his seat. Wise up 'tards.

  • "wrong by the fact that if we torture one to save many then perhaps it was worthwhile. Looking at this from the stand point of protecting a nation, the did everything they could to insure another 9/11 would not happen. Therefore, torture did work."

    I've woken up every day since 9/11. We haven't had another one yet. Does that mean that my waking up insured we wouldn't?

    Correlation is not Causation. Knowing that America tortures has helped recruit terrorists, not prevent them.

  • Wow.

  • You sir are died in the wool. You haven't an inlkling of a clue of the true nature of the enemy we face. It's one thing to be blatantly ignorant of the truth, it's another to showcase in ANY forum. Shepherd is a true patriot. Shep might not be anywhere near Walter Cronkite but YOU are no where near Shep!!!

  • FUCK "two schools of thought", FUCK "effective or not"...I agree with Shep 100%! WE DO NOT TORTURE! And if it happened under douchcriminal bushcheneyrumsfeld, we investigate and prosecute and make sure it NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN

  • I am suprised Fox can be that crittical! Well done Shep. Thats a real American.

  • Shep was right by the fact he knew that we shouldn't torture, wrong by the fact that if we torture one to save many then perhaps it was worthwhile. Looking at this from the stand point of protecting a nation, the did everything they could to insure another 9/11 would not happen. Therefore, torture did work.

  • By providing false information that ...yeah yeah!

    Really is endangering the americans who are outside of america worth it? I mean if america is allowed to torture why isn't the rest of the world right?

    So next time someone saws of the head of an american tourist..well america can complain what it wants as..america kills through torture to.

    Great idea!

  • Correlation is not causation

  • lrn 2 poop

  • Anyone else find it a coincidence of epic-fucking-proportions that this new 'swine flu pandemic' hit the media airwaves mere days after the torture memo issue started to spread like wildfire? I dunno bout you all, but I don't believe in coincidences of that magnitude.

  • Good observation. Most of the news tickers I've looked at are flooded with Swine flu information.

  • The republicans are making their own bed so to speak. After the last election you would have thought they might see that the voters are more to the middle and slightly to the left. Their answer was not that they were to far right but that they weren't far enough right. Go for it guys and let me see how that works out! They lost Spector today because they are going to far right. The latest poll say that only 21% of americans say they are republican.

  • Torturing humans is wrong.

    ... oh, he's Muslim. It's okay.

    That is pretty much the justification. It's like teaching a dog to speak by waterboarding it.

  • Where are the smart Republicans?

    Republicans argue that they are being misrepresented by the "liberal media", but I think in reality they are misrepresenting themselves when they allow idiots to speak for them.

    Do you have to support torture in order to be a Republican these days? That's just idiotic...

    Props to Smith for showing a little sack.

  • It seems the already shrinking republican party has just lost another member. Arlen Spector just announced that he was joining the democratic party. I guess that all that is left for the republicans are a few extremeists and Fox news to follow Dick Cheney into hell!

  • The problem is you can't prove a negative . You can't say that we toruted and received intel that saved americans because there is no way to know if the intel we received was truw. Also it has come to light that the good intel we received we got before the waterboarding began back when the FBI was in charge. And once you begin there is no way to go back to a different means of getting intel. And as with KSM I'd say after he was waterboarded the first 30 times any after that was to torture!

  • I think it comes down to the purpose of the torture. Al Qaida tortured westerners.... chopped off their heads, tied their bodies to the back of trucks and dragged them through the streets, hung bodies from street overpasses.... etc. WHY? What was their purpose for doing those things?

    Now we "tortured" (I use that word for sake of discussion) prisoners by simulating drowning, playing loud music for hours, etc.. WHY? To try and gain information that would prevent future terrorist acts.

  • First of all. It is torture by all definitions except Bush's. This is a false debate. It is torture no doubt about it.

    We didn't and weren't trying to gain info about terrorist attacks, or that wasn't our main objective, we were trying to illicit false confessions to justify the war with Iraq. I really don't think that was Bush's Idea I thing Cheney talked him into it. The guy has no moral compass.

  • these tortuous acts were condoned by a former president who called himself a man of god. Bush is pure evil, a satanists in diguise

  • "these tortuous acts were condoned by a former president who called himself a man of god. Bush is pure evil, a satanists in diguise"

    No, that's Cheney. Bush isn't clever enough to be an evil mastermind.

  • lol maybe not, but he's dumb enough to just be evil.

  • "While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."

    --George Washington, The Writings of Washington, pp. 342-343.

  • "Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God ... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be."

    --John Adams, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, p. 9.

  • Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ."

    --James Madison, America's Providential History, p. 93.

  • IT's been attempted, what that quote describes, but the inherent baseness and evil of human nature has prevented its realization every damn time.

  • Our government says fuck the bible and fuck god ..everything this country does as a nation has nothing to do with any of it..its a Fabrication the founders of this nation and the people who made power moves at this nations birth 90 percent of them dont care the CONSTITUTION a GREAT FREAKING DOCUMENT THAT OUR COUNTRY WONT FOLLOW CUZ COPORATE AMERICA HAS US FOOLED

  • What bothers me is ...we need to go all the way left or all the way right....stop freaking bullshting ..our country isnt founded on Christian anything...its all bullshit...nobody hates the country we hate the Lying Government. Everyone always says "liberals hate america" no ..we hate the lying cheating Government AND Corporate america we want oil..we want weapons ..we want things to run the way WE want them

  • It was not Nixon who said "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America," it was, in fact, Lyndon Johnson

  • Vous êtes absolument correct monsieur!.

  • God, these people are children...

  • I am never going to stop saying something about this because I think it is the real crime. What about our soldiers that were scape goated in this mess(Aubugraib)? These guys were only following orders and no one came to their defense because the likes Of Cheney,Bush,Rove wre protecting their own asses. I've heard Cheney whine that poor Scooter didn't get a pardon(even as he never spent a day in jail) but never gave a shit that some of these guys are still sitting in jail for following orders

  • Self defense, in law, is only justified when a person is *actively attacking.* A person who's been imprisoned, even if you believe they possess information about an attack, is not personally engaging in that attack.

    Even the *assumption* that they possess information (the so-called ticking atom bomb scenario) is always speculative.

    To know something like that for sure you already have to have the information.

    If you don't know *what* they know you don't really know whether they know.

  • Thanks for thoughtfully responding.

    You may be surprised to know that "anticipatory self-defense" is a legal theory America had adopted as early as 1837 through Secretary of State Daniel Webster after the "Caroline" incident

    This time, "try" to assume that the fact pattern involves a person who already carried out a wide-scale attack and now tells his captors that they will soon experience another.

    If you are open-minded enough, please make an argument both ways using this legal theory.