So, how quickly will Dumbass Hannity back out of his pledge to be waterboarded?

[marmar]

from HuffPost:



Olbermann Calls Hannity's Bluff: $1000 For Every Second Of Waterboarding (VIDEO)
Nico Pitney [e-mail] | HuffPost

Reporting From DC


Watch: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/23/olbermann-calls-hannitys_n_190869.html


MSNBC's Keith Olbermann announced on Thursday that he is willing to pay $1,000 to charity for every second that Fox News anchor Sean Hannity undergoes waterboarding torture.

As HuffPost noted yesterday, Hannity was prodded by actor Charles Grodin into agreeing to subject himself to waterboarding to benefit a charity for the families of U.S. soldiers.

On MSNBC tonight, Olbermann called on Hannity to stay true to his word, and argued the benefit of having the arch-conservative pundit tortured would be that he might finally recognize the "deadly seriousness" of the debate over detainee treatment.

"What a breakthrough it would be if, by having reality literally forced upon him, a buffoon like Hannity were to realize the deadly seriousness of this," Olbermann said. "The searing truth: that the moment of torture automatically makes the presumed bad guy recipient the victim, and makes the torturer into the evildoer."

From there, Olbermann laid out his offer: "For every second you last, a thousand dollars -- live or on tape, provided other networks' cameras are there. A thousand dollars a second, Sean, because this is no game. This is serious stuff. Put your money where your mouth is, and your nose. Oh, and I'll double it when you admit you feared for your life, when you admit the horrible truth -- waterboarding, the symbol of the last administration, is torture."

(Thanks as always to Media Monitor Jon for alerting us.)

[Kitty Herder]

1. I think he'll just ignore Olbermann and pretend he never said it.

It was an incredibly stupid thing to say, but then Hannity's an incredibly stupid man. He probably never thought anyone would take him up on it.

[Why Syzygy]

2. He probably wouldn't survive it.

Not everyone does. Christopher Hitchens did it, btw. It's on youtube.

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[hlthe2b]

4. Seems like we may be about to do some purging here....

Enjoy your short stay?

[marmar]

5. Sagen Sie das auf englisch, bitte.

:wtf:

[chemp]

8. first post is a sales pitch?

Bye now.

[kentuck]

6. Let al Qaeda do the waterboarding...

and then it might be similar to what the prisoners experienced? He would be talking before the first drop of water. He would lie his ass off.

[marmar]

7. "He would lie his ass off."

In other words, he'd pretty much do the same thing he does every day. :)