I think it would be a great idea, to finally shut him up. Perhaps there could be a fund, donated to an appropriate charity, perhaps Amnesty International, that others could contribute to... it would never happen though, 'cause Hannity is too much of a wuss.

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.....he will never do it

TeHe, I agree cwilsondrum, but its going to be a gas to see how he gets out of it. I do not believe for one new york minute that Olbermann will drop the subject, but will be beating this drum to the point where Hannity may not have a choice or lose the questionable credibility he carries. I can't wait to see!!

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I'd only back it if the family of a man who was put away for no good reason, tortured and never seen again could be the ones doing the honors.

I'll bet they would put some realism into it.

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Maybe while Hannity is waterboarded, perhaps we could sick some junkyard dogs on him like Posse Comitatus no longer applies... and what if we also encourage a standard of justice which says habeas corpus no longer applies... what if we say We, The People, no longer need Investigations of Mass Murder, as in, 9/11/01? Surely Hannity will be willing to donate to Charity, right? Torture for the truth? $1,000/second is worth it... Thanks Keith!

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Just tell me where to send my check. And please, please, please televise the event. I will tape it and re-run it by day and by night.

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http://www.waterboardseanhannityforcharity.com/

Looks like everyone wants in . . .

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sure isn't My America. He says Bush kept U.S. safe from another terrorist attack on the homeland. HELL what Bush is doing to Appalachia is homegrown toxic terrorism.

http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=138

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Why stop at Sean Hannity- why not publicly subject former VP Dick "Lon" Cheney and "Dirigible of Drivel" Rush Limbaugh to waterboarding?- let them put their money where their mouth is!

Terry

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The idea that this waterboarding will be a true test is ridiculous. If it were being done by a person you did not trust to stop at a safe time it would be very stressful but if you trusted the operator, as will be the case, there would be little stress.

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...we have a State Representative who volunteered to be tasered. He was supported by two deputies and was shocked for a fraction of a second. He was visibily hurt but laughed it off. Last month a teenaged boy in Bay City was shocked to death after being tased 13 times.

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Chain him to the ceiling, handcuffed behind his back, put him in a diaper (if it's good enough for David Vitter...), and keep him wide awake with blaring rap music for 8 days. Then put him in a coffin with some ants and mosquitoes for a while, then waterboard him a couple of hundred times in a week. After all, Jay Bybee says it's all legal and harmless.

I guess it would be too much to beat him to death, as US officials did in over 40 cases. But he'll get the message.

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Twin waterboards for Sean "Horse's-Ass" Hannity AND Glenn Beck!! TORTUREIFFIC!!!!!

I would take the day off from work to watch that, over and over and over again!!!

MUAAAAAAAAAAHAAHAAHAAAA!!!!!

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Another chickenhawk among the flock of rightwingnuts. Waterboard the lot of them! After all, "Its just like a frat prank," according to the Fat Drug Addict. "It works," per "Old 5 Deferments" Cheney. Will, Buchanan, Savage: each one a chickenhawk. If the Vietnam war were still going on, George Will would yet be a student somewhere!
FYI: I'm a veteran of 28 years active duty, 1958-1976.

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That's 1958-1986 = 28 years.

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I think that they could sell tickets...hell, rent out Yankee Stadium with the big screen TVs. "DO IT LIVE! DAMIT, DO IT LIVE!" With no safe words...no dropping the steel balls...using the same guys who did the guys at Gitmo in the same manner...how bout 6 times in a day?

It sure turned Christopher Hitchen's ass around on this issue. He was all macho until they started pouring the water and then two seconds later he was dropping the balls and screaming the safe word.

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To allow this charade to go forth would be to trivialize the torture that so many around the world have endured. Whatever this buffoon would experience in the hands of sympathetic facilitators would in no way approximate the horror that is routinely imposed on real torture victims, it would only serve to give it an inappropriate veneer of acceptability.

Hannity's offer to undergo waterboarding for charity is an asinine display of false bravado that springs from his deep-seated propensities toward sado-masochism. I see it as parallel to the twisted foreplay from the likes of John Wayne Gacey, who would "demonstrate" being handcuffed for his victims in an effort to get them to consent to trying the same experience.

How about doing it this way, ya freakin perverted blowhard, let money be raised at a $1,000 persecond with the amount raised being the determining factor in how long you get to experience this "enhanced" interrogation technique. No "safe word" for you to call an end to it at the moment of your choosing, just an open ended episode of pure terror which would still not approach what real torture victims experience.

Personally, I'd rather give directly to charity and not have this fat face involved in any way. Being completely ignored would be the most exquisite torture he could experience, and I heartily recommend everyone do it.

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unseemly. It presupposes that some charities would actually want their name associated with this
stunt. The agenda seems clear,to boost ratings. I
detest waterboarding and would like to see justice
done in regards to the implementation of it.The
job of journalism is to uncover such reprehensible
acts of government policy and let the public decide
it's level of outrage.

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1. Does HE get to say when he's had enough. Most torture victims don't you know. Olberman should be allowed to continue until he's satisfied.

2. Perhaps he should have to endure it 183 times until we get him to say what we want.

3. That would be, among others, that he retracts all those nasty things he's said about progressives.

4. I dare him.

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1. DICK CHENEY
2. DONALD RUMSFELD
3. RUSH LIMBAUGH
4. GLENN BECK
5. SEAN HANNITY
6 ANN COULTER
7. RUPERT MURDOCH
8. BILL O REILLY
9. GEORGE W. BUSH
10.ALBERTO GONZALES

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Now thats what I would call real TV !!!

Lets go Shaun.

Or shut the F!@# up already, you twerp!!!!

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If nothing else it would truly prove that Boy Hannity actually does have water on the brain. Or he would have ... for about 1.5 seconds. These blowhards never back-up their brave words with anything close to bravery.
That said, the writer Christopher Hitchens (he's in Vanity Fair, at al., & many news shows, many books under his belt, a Brit & certainly no Liberal by any stretch) had heard enough complaints about water-boarding. He volunteered to be tortured in that manner, having set-up both cameras. a doctor, & two signals to end the routine promptly (I think it was a word & a hand signal). He tried as hard as he could, knowing it was not "For Real" & no one was going to drown him. He lasted about 2 seconds, was terrified, choking, out-of-control, crying. Done with the ordeal!!!
He wrote about it (in Vanity Fair, I believe?) &
came back (when dry & able to breathe)as a
complete believer in the horror of this so-called "enhanced interrogation." And this is a tough, bright, brave man, but no cynic. At least he had the guts to "test drive" this terrible deal
on his own. I'd give anything to see Hannity
try this ... but it ain't gonna' happen, alas.

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We all know what bubbleheaded jerks hannity, limbaugh, o'reilly, and the rest of thr fox goon platoon are. We've had that one figured out for some time, now. What I'd like to see and hear more of from Olbermann, et al is somrthing a little more along the lines of investigative journalism, and the exposure of the rot in Washington, along with demands for JUSTICE.

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I hope Mr. Olbermann makes sure Mr. Hannity receives the exact same waterboarding tatics and duration as the prisoners receive, instead of a special watered down version of the torture. Otherwise you will not receive a understanding that remotely comes close to what prisoners go through when they receive these treatments, the twisting of their minds and feelings that these individuals are left with. After this/these types of treatments then the rest of us/society will have to pay for it in some shape or manner for a few individuals fantasys to act out their brutal and sick side of their personalitys that should stay in their own bedrooms. The sad part is, people only believe this is happening to terroist when torture goes on in our prisons and then you wonder why individuals are unable to return to society and handle life.
When will we ever learn?

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At first it was humorous, but the longer this thread goes on, more and more of you jumped on the torture train. In your minds you began to formulate and then to verbalize how you would love to torture those who joke about or deny the definition and the reality of torture ...

for CHARITY, no less! As if that somehow makes it all okay?

Tell me, just how is your mindset different from any of the rest you rail against?

I watch Keith Olbermann every evening, so I've been following this whole discussion. Last night I couldn't stand another moment and changed the channel. I couldn't stand one more looped video segment of the "demonstration" waterboarding and the clips from Abu Ghraib backing up the week-long punditry on this "news event."

Then it started to dawn on me: this righteous indignation media blitz is stirring up desires for retribution in those of us who feel we are civil and sane and above such things.

And this thread above has borne out my suspicions: we want Hannity to shut up, and we are willing to torture him to do it. And torture Cheney and Bush and Rumsfeld and ... and ... and .... Give 'em a dose of their own medicine! That'll fix 'em! Even if this media event with Hannity as its focus never happens, a lot of jollies were gotten here today just thinking about it.

Admit it.

Admit that you, too, are capable of torture, even in jest; that a crowd mentality as innocuous as a blogging thread can spur you on to think about doing things you claim to abhor. That you found arguments to justify your thoughts (charity, revenge, justice). Then cast your stones at yourselves and admit your thinking is not a solution but part of the problem, and reflect on the point where thinking ends and action begins.

Where does the madness stop? It should stop right here, right now.

Well, I got that off my mind ... now I feel just terribly, remorsefully sad.

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Two of this mornings papers brought editorials on torture and both authors say that the spineless Obaama administration are making it very difficult for America to stay safe. Both Delroy Murdock and Jack Kelly said that it was no big deal to torture and actually that is the wrong word because anybody can withstand this stuff. Do I want to see Hannity tortured?NO!!! It is bad for one person and especially for one of limited intelligence and with that low an IQ. Torture is bad and it is torture and you can call a pile of dog shit a bunch of roses but it still stinks. Speaking of dog shit just how is Mr. Cheney???

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Keith, As always, thank you for being the voice of reason and outrage where the unrelenting garbage is in our face.

Now, PLEASE convene a small panel of experts on the transgressions of the Bush regime and let's support prosecuting each and every one of these ruthless thugs, and let them have their say on your show.

I personally would love to see Vince Bugliosi head a panel of high-caliber no-nonsense, find-the-facts attorneys and get this thing done!

If we are to preserve our nation, our laws and our sanity, this must get done.

Thank you again.
Linda Alvarez

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I didn't expect that.

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Some of your really need to relax your sphincters just a bit. Take a nice deep breath and go to your happy place... There ya go.

Now, nobody here is actually advocating we take Mr Hannity from his home in the middle of the night and subject him to months of torture. Mr Hannity's enduring this sort of demonstration, is as closely akin to what has been perpetrated, as my walking down to the bus stop is to running a marathon at the point of an unfriendly gun. It's a trifle, it's an empty gesture signifying nothing .

What I understand from what I'm reading is that people here would really like those that made torturing possible, and those that advocate such tactics, to have a full and personal understanding of what our country has been inflicting upon people in the name of national security and patriotism. Unfortunately for non-empathetic types this sort of enlightenment usually comes at the end of a very hard lesson. And we all know that neither Shaun, nor any of his ilk, are actually going to suffer this way.

Most of us here take to heart the admonition not to become the monster we are trying to fight. Unfortunately too many in power and with a public platform didn't subscribe to that admonition, and now we would like them to face justice... not a lynch mob, nor and extended stay at one of our own "Black Ops" sites... but justice, as can be meted out by reasonable people who respect the human rights of everyone, not just people we like.

Corinne Civish
ccivivsh@gmail.com

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For all of those who are so horrified that people on this site "advocate torture," most of us are not suggesting that this be forced upon Mr. Hannity. We are simply agreeing that he should be allowed to do what he not only freely volunteered to do for charity, but that he himself does not consider to be torture.

I would add one condition, however. If Mr. Hannity agrees to the procedure for $1,000 (or more) per second to go to the troops' families, there should be an objective. My suggestion is that he be required to "confess" to something that he is unwilling to say.

Some examples:
"Barack Obama is a great president, and George W. Bush is the worst president in history."
"I am a big giant windbag and I don't believe anything I say."
"Bill Clinton was the victim of a vast rightwing conspiracy."
"Hillary Clinton is the epitome of womanhood."
"Michelle Obama's patriotism is a fine example for all Americans."
"I am a secret Muslim."
"I hate the US because of its freedoms."
"I want to donate my next five years' salary toward making same sex marriage legal in the USA."

Let's see how long he can hold out and not repeat whatever he's asked to say. That would be a really great demonstration of how it's possible to get anyone to say anything when one's life feels threatened. And an example of how easy it is to get false confessions.

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Hannity is not the first to volunteer for waterboarding. Christopher Hitchens Did it a year or two ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7u-Wk1aU-E

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Everyone claims to be against torture, Yet it's okay to pay someone to watch it! I dont get!!!!!!!

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the trouble with hannity or limberger or any of these retards volunteering to be waterboarded to "prove" it's not torture is... that THEY ARE VOLUNTEERING for it, and therefore they KNOW GOING IN that they aren't actually going to be drowned. the real recipients of waterboarding DON'T KNOW THAT. they assume- as they should- that DEATH IS POSSIBLE. huge difference. i'm sure it's a horrible experience either way, but the psychological impact of thinking that YOU MAY DIE is the straw that breaks the back of this stupid game these republican a-holes are playing. i am so SICK of them and their ignorant, arrogant grandstanding. maybe hannity will actually do it and something will go terribly wrong. what's that line from the movie "the survivors"? "there'll be one less wart on the ass of society."

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