The Five hosts joined the Fox News torture cheerleading yesterday. They dismissed out of hand the particulars of the report, which found that torture was both more brutal than had previously been disclosed and did not stop a single terrorist attack. Instead, co-hosts Eric Bolling and Kimberly Guilfoyle seemed to be competing for ways to minimize torture as harmless, an innocuous process that keeps the country safe.  

As usual, Bob Beckel put up a relatively toothless advocacy for liberal values. He never, for example, gave the kind of full-throated denunciation of torture that his own conservative colleague, Kennedy, offered up yesterday. Or that given by Republican Senator John McCain. It's pretty pathetic when a Democrat is outdone by conservatives in advocating for liberal causes. But that's Fox News for you. And Fox News Democrats.

Meanwhile, co-host Eric Bolling announced, “For the record, I still think it’s OK to do something like this as long as it’s done in a fair way. I think the torture – I’m sorry, the enhanced interrogation techniques, I think they served their purpose. I think they made us safer.

Bolling described waterboarding as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “getting water splashed on his face.” Bolling made light of the other procedures as “getting slapped or hearing loud music or kept awake a hundred hours.”

Putin-loving, George Zimmerman-apologist Kimberly Guilfoyle interrupted. She said scornfully, “Loud music and awake for three days? It’s called law school, preparing for the bar exam.” Guilfoyle also called our allies who assisted with our torture "so courageous."

Later, Beckel began to argue that the U.S. "lives by rules and morality" that exceeds the rest of the world. "For us to step over that line and to do these things," he began. But he never got to finish. Bolling and Guilfoyle rudely interrupted.

"What line, Bob?" Bolling said, sounding exasperated."That line wasn't overstepped. It was legal."

Again, Guilfoyle interrupted. She didn't try to hide the condescension in her voice. "There was no illegal activity. Everything they did was sanctioned and put together in reports. There was no prosecution from this. Do you understand that?" She yammered on with more outrage that concluded with, "Why didn't you object then and why are you doing it now?"

Beckel never got a chance to finish his thought.

The next time you hear any of these conservatives hold themselves up as any kinds of beacons for morality, throw this right back in their faces.

Watch it below, from yesterday's The Five. (H/T Kevin K.)