On O’Reilly tonight, Bill was sparring with Democrat Congressman Gary Ackerman, who is on the House International Relations Committee. Discussing the double standard certain liberals have towards Israel–condoning more aggressive prisoner questioning than they would by the US–Ackerman said, “My view on terrorism is simple–I don’t think that you should torture anybody who doesn’t need it.”
Reminds me a bit of the reported exchange “many years ago between the Chief Justice of Texas and an Illinois lawyer visiting that state. ‘Why is it,’ the visiting lawyer asked, ‘that you routinely hang horse thieves in Texas but oftentimes let murderers go free?’ ‘Because,’ replied the Chief Justice, ‘there never was a horse that needed stealing!'”
10:25 pm on July 25, 2006
