Unlike the person she's been filling in for, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow is far more level headed and it seems the New York Times noticed too.
As such, she's quietly become the newest talent of MSNBC and rightly so. She's a quietly spoken analyst and host, subtle enough that you have to watch closely for her take on a story.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; Rachel Maddow, just the type of person we need in these crazy times.
Torture, according to the Justice Department is "abhorrent", that word was used and many others in a December 2004 legal opinion giving the Department's stance on the issue.
Well, in true form, the Bush administration has shown it's wish and indication in black and white with this story that it pushed for torture to be carried out after former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' document which was issued not long after he started his job in February 2005. This memo, was, as all of the best White House memos are, kept secret.
Tell The Truthiness ; Reason 653 to not trust George H W Bush and his gang.
We don't have the footage of him defending himself from the last few days, but here is last year's clip of him talking to Matt Lauer on NBC. The interview is very telling of how he defends the use of 'torture' to keep people safe and invoking terror to frighten people, he talks about 9/11 and he talks about Lauer's family several times. Frightening.
