WeAreChange.org, an independent journalism outfit, snagged a quick interview with Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, at last week's presidential debate.
The National Defense Authorization Act, infinite detention, the prosecution of journalists and similar expressions of executive authority (none of which were actually brought up in the debate) are some of We Are Change's pet issues. When they attempt to get Wasserman Schultz to talk about the NDAA she won't bite. She's obviously in the "spin room" to spin the debate in President Barack Obama's favor and certainly isn't going to do something crazy like talk actual policy.
But when Luke Rudkowski brings up Obama's "kill list" of terrorist targets he's working to take out — due process be damned — the conversation turns amazingly, awesomely awful real fast. Wasserman Schultz purports to have no idea what this list even is. She may be playing dumb, but her facial expressions in the video lead me to believe that she thinks she's being punked and that Rudkowski is some sort of Borat knockoff:
Hat tip to Glenn Greenwald, who has a lengthy rant over at The Guardian about what is either an amazing amount of dumbness or an amazing amount of deliberate partisan arrogance on display.
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