Day: February 15, 2010

StopBeck.com:

In the past two weeks, Glenn Beck lost his 100th, 10st and 102nd sponsor. His sponsor lost seems to be having a real effect as his show in the U.K. was without sponsors 4 days last week. This must be striking a nerve as the right-wing attack machine is already churning out nonsense…

Who knew Beck was on in Britain — why? I guess it’s fair, however, since they shipped us Benny Hill.

Help Pressure Remaining Sponsors

On Twitter: watch out for tweets to Glenn Beck’s sponsors. You can help by re-tweeting them or sending those sponsors tweets of your own.

Sometimes a sponsor needs a bit more of a nudge than Tweets. So, keep an eye on the site (or Twitter) for announcements about sponsors to email.

ABC NEWS:

CHENEY: I was a big supporter of waterboarding.

ANDREW SULLIVAN:

There is not a court in the United States or in the world that does not consider waterboarding torture. The Red Cross certainly does, and it’s the governing body in international law. It is certainly torture according to the UN Convention on Torture and the Geneva Conventions. The British government, America’s closest Western ally, certainly believes it is torture. No legal authority of any type in the US or the world has ever doubted that waterboarding is torture. To have subjected an individual to waterboarding once is torture under US and international law. To subject someone to it 183 times is so categorically torture is it almost absurd to even write this sentence….

So the former vice-president has just confessed to a war crime. I repeat: the former vice-president has just confessed to a war crime. There is no statute of limitations for such a crime; and the penalty under law is either the death penalty or a prison sentence for life…