Hannity Offers to be Waterboarded for Charity

You mean growing from his body...

Teabaggery isn't likely to help. Unless it's prepared him for holding his breath.

Well said, first and foremost. I firmly believe part of what fuels the vitriolic response to Sean - other than the overarching hypocrisy of his mere existence, is that no one actually believes he ever had any intention of actually living up to his statement. There was a serious verisimilitude deficit in his assertion from the very second it left his lips. He simply thought he could say it and it wouldn't go any further than that as if it truly was not that big a deal. People are reacting to that by calling him out so he will see his words weren't as carefree as he presumed them to be.

So you know he won't do it, huh? You've talked to him? His representatives? Fox news? No, like most liberals you spew your "facts" and shut down all debate.

I tell you one thing, atleast he offered. Nothing the coward Olberman or Mathews would even DARE.

His offer was not cavalier, it was shameful! He wanted to minimize waterboarding. One can not minimize torture. Whether he does it or not is irrelevant. It would be a freak show, with an ass proving he's an ass.

You wouldn't catch Olbermann, or Matthews making such outlandish comments. They openly acknowledge waterboarding 'is' torture. I guess Hannity has a problem with what 'is' is? Bill Clinton thought he didn't have sex with that woman. It depended what 'is' is. He wasn't spared hearings. It was considered sex with that woman. Waterboarding 'was' torture.

It's not an "offer" if he doesn't to do it when someone asks him to.

A false "offer" is even worse then someone just saying "F*ck no I'm not going to do that, are you insane?!"

At least the latter is honest.

Marcbme you are a goddamn shit head aren't you? Why should Olberman or anyone else saying torture is wrong be in turn subjected to the same thing? Hannity, the fucking pig he is, supports torture and as such should know what he is supporting.

Like most conservatives, you are a moron (see i can make sweeping generalizations too!)

Perhaps it is forcing one to live by his words that you find so appalling. IMO, I believe that one should be held to his words. That's how I try to live. Perhaps that standard is too high and you find that objectionable.

Not at all, it is the fact of advocating that which you claim to despise, and even more so because it is upon someone whom you hold in disdain...I find that disturbingly hypocritical.

I don't want Hannity tortured, I want him to tell the truth, waterboarding is torture. Don't spin it as acceptable! Shut the hell up about waterboarding being okay. Our laws says it's not!

I don't think he should be tortured. I think he should be SHAMED for spinning torture as acceptable!

Conniepae,
"I don't want Hannity tortured, I want him to tell the truth"
Well then, if Hannity does go through with the challenge, then the moment of truth will before us and he as well....has he the ethics, character and courage to speak the truth?

I'm actually quite centrist, but I AM gleeful over the idea of Hannity getting a dose of reality and proving that his co-worker Shepard Smith correct in that we should not be doing this as Americans.

I generally don't like Shepard Smith, but at least he has a soul. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/22/shepard-smith-torture_n_190350.html

Nobody is advocating what we despise as there is no coercion involved in this.

No surprise, I find that bit of logic twisted...and ironic.

It's not hypocrisy if it's consensual.

Consensual irony? Indeed

I wish all of you all bashing the past president, and others who you consider right extreme right, etc, to bash the terrorists, and many people worldwide who are truly guilty of mass murders, attacks, genocide, and horrible deeds against humanity. The majority of our citizens and military are decent and law abiding people who care about their country. And How do any of us know what we would or would not do to save the lives of millions or thousands or hundreds of our fellow citizens or family members. If this administration chooses to do things differently, fine, set that up, but don't go back and pick apart the past when most of both parties agreed with this at the time.

There are many people in this world that have died due to leaders that made tremendous mistakes...I do not believe it is bashing to say that George Bush did not have the ability to make the right decisions that have led to an amount of deaths and suffering and taking this world and the United States in exactly the opposite direction from what was needed...when you see a rather large number of young people with missing limbs...remember it was partly due to some major lies from many people...but as president the responsibility lies mostly on Bush's shoulders...as it should when you decide to be President...being President can not be just the world's largest ego trip....I don't know what should or should not happen to Bush...Cheney...and all others responsible....but a good place to start would be for them to admit what drastic mistakes they made...and show some remorse...if that is bashing...I will take it over killing and dismemberment any day...and no ones life can be saved...only extended...it is not how long you live that matters...how you live means everything...and being honest means even more.....Golden Ruler....Johnnie Hargrave

Bullshit, I know Dallas like the back of my hand, and there is nowhere of what you speak...there are black neighborhoods that are a bit dicey though...and I found more racism among the blacks than ever among others...go figure, huh?
~ and don't even attempt the racist card, "cause I'm not.

I did not call Bush a racist..find Tom Hicks house on the back of your hand...he bought the Texas Rangers off of Bush and his associates...walk next door to the smaller house and say hello to your hero...and it has been widely reported that the land on which both homes sit had restrictions against African Americans purchasing land and homes there until very recently..I thought the news was always true....I know Texas like the bottom of my foot and it has many places like country clubs and many sub-divisions that have been brought kicking and screaming into attempted racial equality...and many are still not there...and it is not about color of skin...it is about being one of the boys....I don't want to argue with you..seems you have that taken care of already...Bush is a liar and that is indisputable...Will

I did not mention that you implied that Bush was a racist, and my comment is about Dallas, and 'my' exposure of racism there, and nothing about "W".
...also your reference about his drinking Jack Daniels is a gross character lie and you well know it....and why is that?
That you dislike Bush is obvious, so what else in new besides the venomous rant about the fascism of the last administration, when your boy B.O. has picked up the mantel and put the pedal to the metal careening down the path of fascism as well?

...Akamaial...I am sure we both have something better to do..first of racism exists...in Dallas...everywhere...there are communities where certain people are not welcome...it has been that way for a long time and will stay that way even longer...I see that you are a conservative Christian...do not know how many drinkers you have known in your life...they are easy to spot...you do not have to smell their breath...just watch their actions...Jack Daniels is a good old American product...it is probably more like Chivas Royal...it just does not sound as good...there was a white washing of George Bushs character that would make Hucklebery Finn proud...many of the people around Austin that had known him for years could hardly believe it...whether you believe it or not it should make you mad that they used Christianity the way they did...I am not a B.O. fan....but I will be if he stays honest with the public and admits that the job is way over his head...just like it has been for all presidents...Bush's problem was mostly with those that put him in place and surrounded him with their own agendas...sound familiar..WW2...it has happened over and over....and will happen even more...I still believe each state should get to be president for a week...one senator president...one for vices....and the best get two extra weeks...can not do anything for their state during their reign..I have written much about politics on Current....the job is mostly an ego trip and Rhode Island could have a president....so in summation...George Bush is a liar...to himself and all others...I do not know the exact brand or brands...and that is why I dislike him...Dallas has places where Whites do not want Blacks...and where Blacks do not want Whites...just like most places....and good luck on the Oil of Oregano...it truly is a miracle drug...hope more find out about it but hate to see it sell for a thousand a bottle some day....they are saying that being a contrar is a possible side effect...I don't believe it.....have been taking it for years...Golden Ruler.....Will

NONE OF US WANTS EXTREME MEASURES that would harm future people. But what happened in the past was done to protect the country. How many doctors were present for all of our people put through these awful things in all of the past wars? None! Dredging up partisan examples to try to give an excuse to let out the known guilty people at Guantanamo and discredit the very people who protect us, is just ridiculous.

Since when are people "known guilty" without the benefit of a trial? And who's dredging up partisan examples? You say that what happened was done to protect the country, like that is some blanket excuse. But that has not been proven. In fact there is evidence that these prisoners were tortured to get information to support Bush’s invasion of Iraq, not to stop some kind of ticking time bomb. Information that he didn’t get by the way, because intelligent people know that torture isn’t a reliable way to get information. But it wouldn’t have mattered if he had gotten a ton of information because efficacy isn’t the issue here. Torture is against the law. If you want to argue that is shouldn’t be, okay. Have at it. Write your congressperson…try to get the law changed. But the law wasn’t changed…it was ignored. And THAT has made our country less safe.

This has nothing to do with neutering the military. It has to do with the idea that nobody is above the law. Which is a fundamental principle the country is based on. I find it very interesting that people on the right who claim to love the country so much are ready to abandon this so easily.

On a side note, maybe if everyone smoked weed we'd all be too apathetic to hate each other. Just a thought, Gammy.

All joking aside, while the still-living half of my brain isn't randomly checking your post for spelling and grammar errors(and there are quite a few) it is looking at how weak your arguement is for waterboarding.

Government entities don't need torture as a means to extract information from anyone. It's highly inhumane and degrading to both parties. In fact, the information that is obtained through torture is more likely to be unreliable due to the victim's state of mind while being tortured. This is why it was deemed illegal by International and United States law.

Waterboarding(or more commonly known as the "Chinese Water Torture") has been identified as a form of torture for centuries, and in the past 7 years has made a comeback led by the US Government under it's current name. Maybe to make it sound... less harmful? Torture is torture no matter who it's done to, whether that person be a political pundit, a congress represenative, or an alleged terrorist/detainee. Hannity does not understand the effects of waterboarding and therefore put his foot in his mouth. Waterboarding is not an extreme sport, nor is it fun. People can and have died from it before, and to make light of a torture used on potentially innocent people based on allegations, assumptions, and borderline racism and sensationalism is not only completely ludicrous and unsound, it's complete insanity.

So before you chime in with quips about partisan fairness and motivating congress through torture, remember which officals are blocking and gumming up the wheels of the political system to slow the economy and remember which party instituted... oh, sorry... re-instituted the use of torture against detained prisoners(Hint: More than half of them are NOT Democrats).

Now if you excuse me, I have to go kill the other half of my brain with marijuana smoke. It's times like this I wish I addicted to pain pills because they're a legal way to kill your brain... Right Rush?

Well said lifestudent...you're welcome at my bong any day.

..If this is the same Gammy Sparkles I met in Vegas...the picture is all wrong...she is a knock out and she can water board me all day long....

If you are a real grammy, shame on you. I am a grammy also. For you to suggest Keith Olbermann should be waterboarded because Hannity thinks it’s not torture, is just plain sad. Keith Olbermann was not making our security a joking matter. He was talking about torture, which is illegal in America.

I can’t believe someone who wants our young men and women to be no better than the people who cut the throat of David Pearl, has the nerve to blame anything on people who support cannabis. How do you know it makes people apathetic? Shame on you! Throwing stones! Randomly with reckless abandon. Shame!

Connie... No shame on me - Keith Olbermann is the one to be shamed - His behavior over the last 2 years has been horrible. It appears, only the liberals and leftists have the right to freedom of speech. Hannity cares very much for this country. And so do we all. The point is this should not be a side show or circus after all. If any of us had had to make a decision after 9/11 - what would we have done if we had info. leading to possible other attacks on innocents? The prior administration did what it believed was necessary to save lives. Terrorists do much worse, and you would all do better to focus on how to protect us from them, instead of eating up your own from within!

"The point is this should not be a side show or circus after all." But Hannity was the one who brought this up!

Grammy, I watch Keith Olbermann, he points out the wrongs as he sees them. Many of the things he has said has turned out to be fact! If the facts hurt FOX or others who are wrong, maybe they should change their ways, not the person who is exposing their wrongs.

Don’t tell me about 9/11. It changed my life. I often told my husband, I can’t believe how this is affecting me. I live in Cleveland, the heart of Cleveland. I live within a 5 mile radius of many possible chemical disasters waiting to happen. I didn’t want to be a refugee, told to leave my home due to a terrorist attack. My sons are grown and live a few miles away. What if we could not hook up before being forced to leave? I prepared cards with emergency contact numbers. I bought road atlas’s for everyone. We have a place outside the city to go to in the event of an emergency.

But, I also lived in fear of attacking a country, which had not killed one American and was not openly threatening us. If they had been, George W. would not have had to use a forged document to present his rhetoric. The Downing Street Memos are real. I knew this stuff before we did ‘Shock and Awe’. Three planes rocked my world. What were our planes and bombs going to do to ordinary Iraqi’s? I watch shows broadcast from Iraq prior to Shock and Awe. I remember seeing the buildings before our bombs. We watched their sadness live on American TV. Our planes flying over their heads, dropping bombs. All based on fixed facts, forged documents and lies. I cried out before ‘Shock and Awe. I wrote cable news stations and begged them to listen to the voices who were saying attacking Iraq for 9/11 was wrong. No one listened! They wanted to spin, ‘Shock and Awe’. SAD! SAD! SAD! No matter what anyone says, Iraq was a war of choice.

Dick Cheney and George W. were wrong to make torture policy. They didn’t care, they were doing things in plain sight regularly. Everyone just kept moving along. Halliburton and no bid contracts, no one stopped them. They bought news stations coverage and fake news with my tax dollars. They paid for propaganda. FACT! Donald Rumsfeld even told people he was doing it, we just moved along. Cable news would feature one person pointing out facts and another to spin distorted facts leading ordinary Americans to believe it could go either way.

Just seems kind of strange that about 95% of the "enlightened ones" on here who are so afraid of interfering with the sensitivities of those captured on the field of battle, are more than ready to "torture" someone who thinks different than them.
Olberman is an opportunist of the highest degree, about 80% of his show is about things seen on Fox News.

AllIknowis, Now that’s spinning! Strange 95% of the “enlightened ones” on here ARE NOT afraid of interfering. Haven’t ya noticed, we are interfering for the ‘Rule of Law’. I want an investigation. Did they break the law? They did it in plain sight, while ‘talking heads’ spun “nothing to see here, move along” and we did. People have stopped moving along and are questioning ‘torture’. So today the ‘talking heads’ went on Sunday news shows and actually told us to ‘move along’. Peggy Noonan even went so far as to say we should move along, while stating the desire for better investigative journalists in the future. How ironic, they want their guy to get a pass and our guy to be under a microscope. Now that’s an “Assault on Reason”!

I don’t want Hannity tortured. I also don’t want him to spin torture. It’s time the stop spinning, breaking the law! How desensitized do our young men and women have to become, to follow the order to torture? Many soldiers who apply for PTSD are told it was a pre-existing condition and the VA is not covering treatment. I have read, doctors are told to avoid diagnosing PTSD.

Wow...you're wrong about so much it's hard to know where to start. The CIA WAS the organization that did the interrogations that involved the torture of people in US custody. Which is not only against international law but is also against US law. Why were the treaties signed and laws passed if we’re so ready to throw them away when it becomes convenient for us? Why was it okay for us to execute Japanese officers 40 years ago for water boarding, but now it’s okay for the CIA to do it?

When you say “These guys gave up more info than the FBI,CIA,& NSA combined.” Other than being completely wrong about the CIA, what evidence do you have that these other organizations failed before the prisoners were tortured? And what evidence do you have that the torture lead to accurate intelligence? Please, tell us how you know this.

It makes me sad to see people like yourself who think so little of our country and the people who have died defending it that you would so quickly abandon our values for the sake of a little blood lust.

Amen and thank you!

diggin that krag, preach on.

Olbermann has been using some of that footage on his show without noting it's source. Thought you should know.

Whether Hannity accepts, or not, will not change the definition of torture. But, it may teach Hannity, he can't just spin without consequence. Words matter!