Ben Grivno: hilariously inept, blatantly dishonest

Ben Grivno is yet another wingnut with a blog. He calls his blog The Crowbar, apparently in honor of the tool that was used on his head, resulting in the peculiarly malformed thought processes he is so proud to put on display. In a predictable post that pooh-poohs the whole idea that there could be anything the US does that could be called ‘torture’, he states:

Take a look at Wikipedia’s waterboarding entry – it has Liberalati fingerprints all over it. Who are those “legal experts, politicians, war veterans, intelligence officials, military judges, and human rights organizations”, anyway?

Well, gee, let’s take a look at the passage from Wikipedia that has poor Benjie so befuddled:

See those little blue numbers, Benjie? Those are called footnotes. You click them, and they show you more information about what’s being discussed. In this case, they show you bibliographic references where you can find out who those “legal experts, politicians, war veterans, intelligence officials, military judges, and human rights organizations” actually are.

You knew this, of course. When you copied that passage out of the Wikipedia article and pasted it into your blog, all the superscripted footnote links came with it. You had to manually strip them out of the text you had just pasted in. SO please spare us you faux puzzlement. You knew that the references were supplied. You simply decided that being dishonest was an easier way to make your “point”.

As with all wingnuts, Ben Grivno cannot help but provide ample evidence of his incompetence and mendacity. It would be so much harder to discredit them without their eager assistance.