Sunday, February 01, 2009

Joe Lieberman: Proof positive that all Jews are not funny

Via Think Progress:

Lieberman jokes about waterboarding at black-tie dinner.»

At last night’s black-tie dinner at Washington’s Alfalfa Club, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) couldn’t resist cracking a joke about torture.



More from Senator Lieberman: ‘We had hoped Vice President Cheney would be here tonight. I hope it’s not his back injury that’s keeping him away. Apparently, he hurt it moving some things out of his office. Personally, I had no idea that waterboards were so heavy.'


Last year, Lieberman, who has voted against banning waterboarding, “reluctantly acknowledged” that he doesn’t believe that waterboarding is torture. “It is not like putting burning coals on people’s bodies. The person is in no real danger. The impact is psychological,” he said.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

"all Jews are not funny"
or
"not all Jews are funny"?

Ben Varkentine said...

Whichever pleases you--but I meant the latter.

chas_m said...

Lieberman needs a taste -- just a taste mind you -- of what waterboarding actually is.

I think that would change his mind as it has, say, Christopher Hitchens'.