Jesse Ventura on waterboarding "I'll Get (Hannity) To Say Obama Is The Greatest President"

[Richardo]

:rofl:

Jesse Ventura, the former Minnesota governor and presidential candidate, vows that if he waterboarded Sean Hannity, he'd get the right-wing Fox News host to say that "Barack Obama is the greatest president."

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Ventura says that Hannity cut short his interview with him before they had a chance to discuss waterboarding because he's afraid of the former governor and pro wrestler.

"He's scared to death of me," says Ventura. "It was over in a few minutes and that was it."

Ventura offered his own version of Keith Olbermann's vow to give a thousand dollars to charity for every second that Hannity undergoes waterboarding.

"I'll bet a thousand bucks that I can get him to say 'Barack Obama is the greatest president' -- if I get him to say it, he'll give the thousand to charity and if I can't, I'll give the money to charity."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/22/jesse-ventura-challenges_n_206694.html


....which goes to a serious and often overlooked aspect of waterboarding - it's designed to elicit FALSE confessions, not REAL information.

[Buzz Clik]

1. Please don't, Jessie. The thought of the moron uttering those words is more than I can take.

[Arkana]

2. Jesse Ventura is my new hero.

Seriously, a guy who goes on Hannity and scares him so much that the interview is cut short is a fucking god.

[Richardo]

3. He's a loose cannon for sure, but at least he's aimed at the RW for the time being

I'm diggin' it. :D

[tridim]

4. Except in this case Scammity would be tortured into stating the truth.

:)

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Well, technically it's designed to get the person to say whatever you

want him to say, true OR false. Since the victim will confess to a falsehood as readily as to the truth, that makes ALL confessions suspect.

The one thing it is NOT likely to do get get a confession of a truth that the waterboarder does not know before the waterboarding began, a fact which makes the waterboarding redundant at best.

[Richardo]

6. Good point. Thanks for the clarification

:thumbsup:

[nichomachus]

7. Wanda nailed it

you could "break" Hannity by giving him a center seat in coach.

Like 99.9 percent of blowhard conservatives, the man is a coward.

[wryter2000]

8. That was a great line

I'm not a big fan of Jesse V, but I love to watch him continue to call these cowards out.

I hope at least one of them agrees, and they tape the whole thing. I don't think Mancow is a big enough draw for most 'Murikans to want to watch.

[Wednesdays]

9. K&R

:kick:

[Cha]

10. Jesse is turning out to be

worth his weight in Gold~

[beachmom]

11. Kick,just for the headline: great President or greatest President? LOL. nt

[Tim4319]

12. Here kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty........

[davidpdx]

13. I'd rather see Hannity and Ventura go at it in the ring

So Ventura can tear Hannity to pieces. One could only dream I guess.