November 9, 2007

On the Media

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🗓️ 5 May 2011

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.
0:09.5	I'm Bob Garfield.
0:10.6	And I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:12.2	On Thursday, the Senate confirmed retired Judge Michael Mukasey as Attorney General.
0:17.5	It was a bumpy ride.
0:19.2	Actually, it was supposed to be relatively smooth until he
0:22.3	bumped up against the definition of two words, torture and waterboarding. Here's Senator
0:28.5	Sheldon White House, Democrat of Rhode Island. Just to finish that thought, is waterboarding
0:33.6	constitutional? I don't know what's involved in the technique. If waterboarding is torture, torture is not
0:42.3	constitutional.
0:43.3	That's a massive hedge. I mean, it either is or it isn't. Do you have an opinion on whether
0:49.3	waterboarding is constitutional?
0:51.3	If it amounts to torture, it is not constitutional.
0:56.5	I'm very disappointed in that answer.
0:58.0	I think it is purely semantic.
0:59.8	Sorry.
1:00.8	Every now and then, this show weighs in on a word or phrase percolating up through the media.
1:05.9	This week, it's waterboarding, a compound word that sounds strangely benign.
1:11.7	You know, when you get waterboarded, it sounds like fun.
1:13.9	I can't wait to hop in my Jeep, Liberty, drink some Mountain Dew and go waterboarding.
1:17.9	But it's not benign.
1:21.1	You can end this.
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