Why does Shepard Smith Hate America?

Take-away from this clip:

Shep:

Of course, we know the problem is — we know what this is, though, Cliff. This isn’t about what’s torture. What this is about is a series of dots which people are now mentally connecting in a backward fashion — If there was torture, that’s a crime. If there was crime, there were criminals. Who ordered the torture? That’s the problem. It’s political. And the Right is going, “Get away from George Bush and his administration! It’s over. Remember, look forward! Remember, look forward!”

But later — and this is even more interesting — after saying time and time again that well, yeah, obviously no one likes torture, but what we’ve done isn’t technically torture, it’s just “harsh” treatment, so, you know, whatever, it’s all cool, May says this in response to the assertion that even John McCain opposes torture because it doesn’t work:

They were using torture on John McCain to force a false confession. We’re not talking about torture for confessions. We’re not talking about it for punishment or revenge. We’re talking about it to get information to save American lives.

Which of course means that even this tool knows that what we did was torture. If he believed the bullshit he was spewing about waterboarding not being torture, he’d have said, “I agree with John McCain that torture isn’t effective, which is why we don’t do it.” Instead, May responded by pinpointing the situations in which torture is effective. Which only serves to illustrate that even the supposed torture-deniers know what we’ve done.

(And P.S., just because something is effective doesn’t mean it’s legal. Stealing money would be an effective way to pay my rent, but they don’t actually let me do that. Douche.)