Posted on 05/13/2019 1:10:30 PM PDT by jazusamo
MSNBC host Joy Reid has been accused of slandering President George W. Bush for declaring that Guantanamo Bay detainees were starved during his administration.
“During the Bush era, we were torturing people in our custody in Iraq, etc. You know, starving people in Guantanamo,” Reid said during Saturday’s episode of “AM Joy” during a panel discussion about whether or not leaders should fear future prosecution for actions that occur during foreign intervention.
Media Research Center contributing editor Mark Finkelstein didn’t appreciate the comment, which he called “not just a lie—a scurrilous slander.”
“The truth is precisely the opposite. During the Bush era, Guantanamo officials took forceful measures to prevent people from starving,” Finkelstein wrote. “A number of prisoners had gone on hunger strikes to protest prison conditions… rather than let the prisoners starve themselves to death, the prison officials force-fed them.”
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She’s only doing what she’s qualified to do. Lie.
I do remember Clinton had about 50,000 refugees locked up at Guantanamo. Just another little tidbit for the memory hole.
What’s a ‘Joy Reid’? Some kind of disease?
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I am sure the theme is “torture” at Guantanamo so you have to look up what torture is and has been in the past then that’s what you use to accuse. They define speaking other than softly and saying please as torture but they then describe all the things they read about in the old history books because hey, torture is torture.
They were continually shown her face and made them listen to her voice.
If ever there was an understatement, that statement is it!
She’s an absolute dingbat.
Not only did they get fed...IIRC, they got “culturally appropriate halal” meals.
MSNBC has a hard time telling the truth. #FakeNews to its core!
Thanks jazusamo. Gosh, maybe she was hacked again. Or, it could just be another in a pattern of public lying.
These people prove Trump's FAKE NEWS critique every day.
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