Daily Show: The Loveable and Charming Antonin Scalia
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Apr 29, 2008 9:40am
Jon Stewart exposes a side of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia the public has never seen before.
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"While Scalia's ultra-conservative opinons might be controversial, the man himself is a tall glass of awesome."
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Foist!
Scalia is a scumbag.
I am so glad to learn that torture is not punishment. I was worried about but I feel much better now.
I hoping buy a franchise for a Waterboarding park. It's promising to be a hot summer and I 'm sure I can make a ton of dough waterboarding teenagers and bored moms with their hyperactive toddlers.
support the troops! shop at Wal-Mart.
Funny thing is, I have a friend who clerked for him. She's a relatively liberal person. She said he was a great guy to work for, and very charming as a person. I was amazed.
Guy's got more 'chins' than China !
I guess he'll tell the conservatives to 'get over it' when it comes to revisiting abortion.
Born March 11, 1936, that makes him 62 years old. Life expectancy for white male in US is about 78 years. That gives us 16 more years of lawlessness from this guy, give or take. Roberts has about a quarter century to go-- and by then, life expectancy may be even higher!
He was very charming on 60 minutes. He made a lot of sense, if you went along with him. He is thoughtful and he listens carefully to himself. Therefore, he is looking forward to more judges like himself being appointed to the Supreme Court.
Support Wal-Mart AND China, buy a "Support the Troops" magnet today !
I thought the Stahl invterview was a disgrace, total fluff piece. That seems to be the status quo over there on 60 Minutes of Pharma Commercials? There was no followup on anything, 2000 election, torture, pro-corporate agenda, etc...,. And how many times to we here he's lovable, not pretentious (love the part right after Stahl claims that when he says he never got anything but an "A" in school) and down to earth (hmmmm, duck hunting with the VP sure seems non-elitist to me).
How can these people call themselves journalists? This guy is one of if not the biggest political hacks in the history of the court!
I missed two on the quiz, what does that say about me?
Scalia's way of thinking frightens me. He seems to have the ability to justify anything, regardless of common sense.
Promising to kiss his ass is probably the only way she could get the interview.
g @ 6:
That is funny. It's also funny that a racist fascist is on our supreme court. I had a friend who interned for Mussolini, and he told me he made really good spaghetti.
Bush V. Gore is old....get over it??
Do I have permission to coerce an answer on this out of him? I promise it won't be torture!!!
JM @ 16:
Sorry, it may be torture, but I promise it won't be punishment!!!!
he's no "long dong silver". i'm thinking he's probably hung like doris day.
Don't get me wrong; I think Scalia is a total douchebag; however, I also think that Scalia doesn't want to be the judge that goes down in the history books as voting in favor of torture.
Cheney is either good friends with Justice Scalia or has blackmail information on him; probably the latter.
By making public statements about torture, Scalia can now claim that he is not impartial; therefore, he can recuse himself from any torture case.
A lot of legal cases, about torture, are making their way to the Supreme Court right; I think the rat is jumping ship.
I may be totally wrong; but, this may be good news.
pissed off patricia @ 13:
Yeah, so did I. I was giving the 80's Dem-controlled congress too much credit, and I've spent sooo much time hinging on every word spoken from that jurisprudential giant (okay, fat judge) that I couldn't complete his Constitutional quote. He's a seven letter word that ends in "wipe."
it's amazing. all that Jesuit education produces a mind that denies that torture is punishment of any sort.
benignly evil.
John @ 9:
Math probably wasn't one of your strong classes. 1936 to 2008 is 72 years.
pissed off patricia @ 14:
All of these so-called "anchors" from the current 60 Minutes - including you Steve Kroft - should be tied up in a video room and forced to eat steamed broccoli and drink stormwater runoff and watch re-runs of 1970's 60 minutes excertps - you know, the ones when people would worriedly close their doors to keep away from Mike, Morley and Harry. Ed Bradley's probably spinning in his grave; once every 6 months they let Rooney say something marginally critical of President slackjob and his evil weenie, and that's about it. Investigative journalism my left nad.
Teddy Phuf @ 12:
i agree, 60mins has dropped the ball on several occasions of late. and, on the same show, the piece leading up the IAF segment, bob simon repeated a known fallacy when he claimed that ahmadinejad said he wants to "wipe israel off the map." 60mins needs to a much better job. this is a poor excuse for journalism.
this 60mins-scalia reminded me of his multiple appearances on 'ethics in america' (which also had rudy 911iani), where his jocular banter belies his disgusting judicial record, and his corruption
It's that incisive, logical legal mind, you see. The common people can never grasp the hair-splitting semantics and dazzling rationalization that legal training confers. It's the same with the inspiring mental gymnastics of John Yoo. We can only sit and marvel...
Antonin Scalia - the Torquemada of the Supreme Court
I have one question for the Antagonizing Scum Liar:
Does he still sodomize his wife?
Amendment VIII, U.S. Constitution: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Tony Scalia: "Has anyone ever referred to torture as punishment."
Merriam Webster on punishment: a: suffering, pain, or loss that serves as retribution b: a penalty inflicted on an offender through judicial procedure c: severe, rough, or disastrous treatment.
Merriam Webster on torture: a: anguish of body or mind : agony b: something that causes agony or pain c: the infliction of intense pain (as from burning, crushing, or wounding) to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure d: *distortion or overrefinement of a meaning. *By this definition Scalia's reasoning amounts to torture.
US Code Title 18 defines torture as: (1) “torture” means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control;
(2) “severe mental pain or suffering” means the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from—
(A) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering;
(B) the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality;
(C) the threat of imminent death; or
(D) the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration or application of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality; and
(3) “United States” means the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the commonwealths, territories, and possessions of the United States.
Contrary to the White House interpretation, renditioning people to Gitmo or other hell holes does not suspend articles 1 and 2 of Title 18.
Further reference: Geneva Conventions, especially Common Article III.
So to the originalists, torture is just a method of interrogation and punishment is considered a sentence to jail time or execution. Excellent parsing, your eminence. None of those people in Gitmo or the black sites are actually being punished per se. They are quietly awaitng punishmnet.
However Webster's describes punishment as
1. Retributive pain, suffering or loss.
2. Rough treatment.
... speechless... seeing this on keith's show was one thing.. hearing the man answer himself... And he's one of the people in our government.
Alice (formerly Hussein, live free of the Borg or die) @ 22:
Oops. That makes it a lot better. Thanks for the correction!
Give him a call and let him know what you think. He's in the phone book.
I loved the closing reference to the recently released Grand Theft IV (Asif is driving through Liberty City, GTA's version of New York City). Hi-liarious!
What a total scumbag that Scalia is. Can you imagine how screwed up his parents were to bring up such a piece of shit ?
Mattomic @ 32:
OK, that explains it then. Because before your post I thought the whole thing was supposed to be some kind of disjointed surreal art. :)
Scalia is no better than john yoo,he has always been for the money. My rule of thumb is anyone who gets into office and gains a ton of weight is more than likely fucking us to pay for the extra food they must be hogging down-scalia -the hut----he sure looks like him. ceo
Arrogance thy name is Scalia.
That performance proves that you can be 4.0 from kindergarten through law school and still be the dumbest son of a bitch on the block.
Last night's abstinence segment was even funnier.
Chopvac @ 26:
I think its vice versa actually. I guess he uses punish me and torture me interchangeably. Go figure.
Also, he likes waterboarding himself whilst tuggin' it... a little auto-erotica asphyxiation.
I've seen Scalia speak twice and met him at a reception after one of the speeches. Amazingly good speaker willing to debate hard issues in a very civilized manner. And totally charming. I disagree with him on most legal issues but he was remarkably likeable and impressive.
Scalia's father worked for Mussolini, taught him those politics growing up, the same politics Scalia brags about today.
Fascism, pure fascism.
Clearly we just don't get it...you see Scalia's rationale about the torture vs. punishment thingy is that when you're trying to elicit information out of a suspect, heh, heh, heh, you may indeed use torture-type interrogation techniques...but it's only 'after' they've been convicted of the crimes they admit to while being 'interrogated' would shooting their scrotum full of juice be accurately be described as 'punishment' - see? I'm frankly surprised that Leslie didn't ask him, hypothetically, how he would have ruled on the question of whether 'Catch 22' would have been Constitutional?
Would somebody please get the goods on this slime-ball and blackmail his ass out of office - thats the only way we're gonna get rid of him and those like him. After all we still have to remember that the reason a lot of people aren't dead is that it's against the law to kill 'em.
g @ 6:
I have heard similar accounts. Then again, it is known that sociopaths can be quite charming individuals.
Richard @ 39:
Sorry, but what is with all this "...He's so charming? bullshit" Ted Bundy was charming too!
Richard @ 40:
The fact that you find one of the most incompetent and extremist justices to ever sit on the supreme court's bench "remarkably likeable and impressive" speaks volumes.
Al Hidalgo @ 44:
A lot of people nowadays seem to think that "looking and talking the part" is equal to "doing the part."
We are a country of boobs who no longer can understand the difference between acting and reality.
Scalia had 6 kids he spanked every night before bed because they may have done something wrong during the day that he didn't know about and Spanked them every morning after waking in case they might do something wrong during the day.
Why not Torture Suspects in custody????
Neither one is punishment!!!
This guy is one of the reasons I will never enter the USA. Disneyland is not in the cards for my kids.
Scary to think this guy "judges" Americans.
If you ever get the chance to follow your constitution again...I would consider popping over the border to get a front row seat at this "pigs" public hanging for treason.
"Get over it"... Just like Cheney's "So?" and "Go F*** yourself." Scalia reportedly can be very nice to some people, but he's also quite the bully to others.
What do we have to do to get Blitzen, Sleepy and Aquaman nominated to the Supreme Court?
Torture with love is ok.
Note to Framers of the Constitution:
"Cruel and unusual punishment" should read "cruel and unusual acts or omissions to act". Right now, cruel and unusual acts are perfectly fine, so long as it's not punishment.
He knows he is right and that should be good enough for us.
All hail Scalia!
Evil,vile,scumbag that hates the constitution. Naturally he's a friend of Cheney.
After the heartless (literally) butcher Darth Cheney, and the merciless and brainless Chimpanzee, the individual I most despise in this world is this (yet another) personification of pure, unadulterated evil (POE)- Antonin Scalia. This creature simply oozes evil and malice. One has to wonder how the intrinsically evil right-wing in this country breeds such hateful, malicious, unremittingly beastly specimens.
This POE handed the reins of power in a nation of unlimited military power and WMDs, one that has used brutality and plunder around the world for centuries- into the hands of as worthless a piece of garbage as the world has likely ever seen. The consequence of this POV's criminal act has been, predictably, deadly for the world. More deadly and more destructive than anyone might have even guessed in 2000.
This POE is malicious, xenophobic, racist, deeply bigoted, corrupt beyond human imagination, and egotistical and fatally self-righteous to the hilt. There ought to be long celebrations in the domain of the good and noble on the day this evil blight disappears from the world of the living. He may still be destructive and malignant as a zombie- but humanity will surely find some relief, some return to decency and grace on that day.
The worst part is, this will be our Supreme Court for > 30 years. Thanks so much.
I am reading the book Stalin and the majority of people accused of any crime during Stalin rein would rather confess to whatever then be tortured. Then were norsmally executed right after. Sound familiar. Always with this admin sweeping away the evidence. Remember missing e=mails. I could go on and on, it appears we have a Supreme court that is totally in line to kill anyone that opposed agenda of Facism/communism. We have unveiled entire NWO, no more hiding it.
Lesley Stall should be fired.
I watched the interveiw,and NOT ONE QUESTION about the propriety of going duck hunting with Cheney while adjudicating his case. Stupid pusillanimous sycophant.
Umf. I saw most of that 60 Minutes fellatio session. Scalia and Doughy Pantload: seperated at birth? (1) Answer the question without answering the question; (2) openly and clearly maintain that you are right about everything, in the face of all evidence to the contrary.
Al Hidalgo @ 44:
Charm is often manipulation in disguise.
I got all the questions right on the Antonin Scalia quiz.
Sometimes I scare myself. (As opposed to the Supreme Court, which scares me 24/7.)
If the nation survives the harm this court is doing it, some future supreme court is going to have a field day reversing the "errors" of this court. History is going to remember Scalia in particular as one of the worst justices ever appointed.
BTW, Scalia's argument that torture is legal because it isn't punishment is self-defeating. It's pre-emptive punishment, which mean that even if you accepted his argument, it automatically becomes impossible to deny that you are then violating all constitutuional protections against prior restraint.
Paul @ 63:
And being a "pre-emptive" punishment requires a "guilty until proved innocent" -- or is that what you meant by "prior restraint"? I though prior restraint had to do with government censorship...
A threat of death is consider torture and that is not consider to be punishment.
Then could the torture, not punishment be consider a reward by the SCOTUS?
"We are not going to punish you, and you are not going to received torture base on anything you have been found to have done, this isn't punishment. We just like to see you get hurt, and some part of the world that would be consider as foreplay. So please think of torture is a reward for your possible behavior that you may have act upon"
John @ 9:
He would be 72. That's as old as McCain. He doesn't look as old as McCain. I think this guy it probably too damn mean to die, though.
The Dude @ 45:
Extremist? Maybe. Incompetent? Clearly not. He's the best writer on the Court. And even if he was incompetent, how does that not make him likeable when you meet him one on one? And as a public speaker, he was as impressive as anyone I've ever seen (and that includes some very legendary figures).
SCALIA:
The problem with people like Scalia is they do not have the capability to understand the spirit of the law. Does anyone think the Bill of Rights meant to exclude doing something cruel and unusual to someone so long as it was not considered to be "punishment" in the strictest sense of the term "punishment" i.e. not in response to wrongdoing (Scalia mentioned using torture for gaining information does not fall under this)? No, of course not.
Does anyone really think that the founders, fresh from having seen the inquisition (which often used torture for information alone) would have said "Oh, we do not mean to include inquisitions as cruel and unusual, since they are for information gathering"? Or how about torturing someone because it makes the torturer feel good. Then it would okay because it would not be punishing you for anything.
Scalia may be have had high grades, but he's a common-sense-wise idiot.
I’ve seen Salmonella speak twice and met it at a reception after one of the speeches. Amazingly good speaker willing to debate hard issues in a very civilized manner. And totally charming. I disagree with it on most legal issues but it was remarkably likeable and impressive.
eek. is this with the writers or not?
Richard @ 40:
How come I feel like gagging when I watch him being interviewed?
Antonin Scalia is a supreme dick
Frightning to know that 90% of all young people between the ages of 16 and 25 get their news from John Stewart.
Not that CNN MSNBC or any of the other Mass Media is better... BUT This Stewart is beyond biased.
God help you fools who believe ONE SINGLE WORD that comes out of Stewart's mouth.
John Stewart is the definition of an American Facist.
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