Twitter ate Jake Tapper’s brain.

We’ve already documented a few of ABC Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper’s Twitter atrocities, and, to be fair to Jake, he’s always been especially lame, but it seems that the unfiltered nature of Twitter is really allowing him to expose his stupid.

Today, while covering Dick Cheney’s torture-slobbering “speech,” Tapper came up with these gems:

in all honesty, this is a great thing for America. a substantive debate on an important issue. Two distinct worldviews.

Not 2 be corny, but on that level, we all should all feel proud of today. Lots of places in this world where this debate is impossible.

He obviously got blasted by a number of people who, presumably, told him that they didn’t actually think this was a “debate” to be proud of (for my part: because we’ve already had this debate when we made, you know, the Constitution and signed the Geneva Conventions, although I did concede to him that there are “lots of places in this world where this debate is impossible” because, for instance, there are plenty of places where they would just throw torturers in prison and lose the key instead of pretending those torturers were legitimate voices in our public discourse and asking who “won” in a “debate” between those war criminals and our President), because he quickly started defending himself thusly:

to say im praising a debate on whether brutal interrogation methods considered torture by the intl cmte of the red cross is unfair

i’m saying that for one sec we shld appreciate that we live in a country where debating serious issues on national security is possible

was expressing an appreciation of free speech and a substantive moment for the nation – we shld have had these debates in 2001/2002 etc

Jake, you still don’t get it. You know, I would even agree with him if this were just an issue of “free speech,” because then Dick Cheney would just be talking theoretically about whether or not we should torture and he would be laughed out of the room. Instead, Dick Cheney is talking about actual torture that we actually did and how it’s super hunky-dory.

This is not a “free-speech” issue.