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Olby to Hannity: I’ll give you $1,000 per second to be waterboarded

posted at 3:23 pm on April 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
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In which Kayo, who spent last week making teabagging jokes, warns Sean to be more serious about policy matters. There’s a whiff of “chickenhawk” idiocy to this: If Olby’s hot to pronounce waterboarding definitively torture there’s an easy way for him to do so, but he’d rather bait Hannity instead — not unlike the leftists who were too gutless to sign up for Afghanistan clucking about the cowardice of conservatives who didn’t enlist for Iraq. Watch for the part where he sonorously intones about torture turning the bad guy — or rather, in Keith’s words, the “presumed bad guy” — into a victim and the good guy into an evildoer. The moral myopia of saying that about the planner of 9/11 is characteristic of the left’s hysterical sanctimony on this subject; for another example, see Paul Krugman’s piece today in the Times declaring, no joke, that “never before have our leaders so utterly betrayed everything our nation stands for.” Never? Ever?

If you’re eager to see a journalist get waterboarded and can’t wait for Hannity to take the plunge, there’s no shortage of clips available. Here’s one from 2006 and another from last week. Judge for yourself how shattered they look. Exit question: Didn’t Obama turn those bad-guy pirates into victims by having them shot in the head? Sure, he saved the captain, but at what price?

Update: From the comments, “I offer $1000 for every second that Keith can hang on to the outside of a skyscraper while a fire rages inside.”

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To the left, logic is torture.
pugwriter on April 24, 2009 at 3:58 PM

Yes, pour on more of that awesome neocon “logic” that the guy who is opposed to torture should endure waterboarding rather than the guy who dismisses waterboarding as no big deal.

benny shakar on April 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM

It’s a little different because Hannity agreed to be waterboarded for charity while arguing with a guest on his own show. It kind of opened the door to this.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 3:47 PM

If Hannity agreed to do it for charity, then its a matter of honor to do it. But it’s also Hannity’s prerogative to stipulate how much donation is required prior to the waterboarding.

maverick muse on April 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM

Am I the only one who thinks Olby needs new writers?
“Hannity Inanity”!? Who came up with that?

Trov on April 24, 2009 at 4:04 PM

Didn’t Obama turn those bad-guy pirates into victims by having them shot in the head? Sure, he saved the captain, but at what price?

This is exactly the question people who should be asking, because the situations are virtually identical – both were intended to save life, prevent death.

Why is shooting out the brains of some would-be killers acceptable and the waterboarding of others, or others who know of would-be killers plans, not acceptable? I just don’t get the argument against waterboarding but for killing in analogous circumstances, and I frankly don’t see how it is defensible on either moral or logical grounds to condemn one but not the other.

ProfessorMiao on April 24, 2009 at 4:04 PM

…see how much of ‘Ice Ice Baby’ we could get throw before throwing up.

I got to “To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal” before I couldn’t go on.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM

That’s a damn shame.

I didn’t think anybody knew all the lyrics to that song.

cntrlfrk on April 24, 2009 at 4:06 PM

If Hannity agreed to do it for charity, then its a matter of honor to do it. But it’s also Hannity’s prerogative to stipulate how much donation is required prior to the waterboarding.

maverick muse on April 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM

That’s what I’m saying. Milk it for all it’s worth. Challenge Olby to either go through it with him or donate $10,000 for every second to the charity of Hannity’s choice. The donation would also have to be made in Hannity’s name so KO couldn’t deduct it from his taxes.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM

I’ll give Olby $1,000 per second to be beheaded like Daniel Pearl.

behiker on April 24, 2009 at 4:08 PM

I completely agree. He brought this upon himself. But Olby’s still a giant douche.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM
——
Olby is a douche. Not a giant one, but a douche nonetheless.

Hannity’s next move should be to challenge all the lefty swine to put up or shut up.

This could actually raise a great deal of money for some worthy cause.

Dave Rywall on April 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM

benny shakar on April 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM

getalife killed herself, but then suddenly benny comes along to fill the void with high pressure vacuum. How odd.

DarkCurrent on April 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM

Hannity’s got to do it, but he needs to put KO on the defense by upping the ante. Say $10,000 a second and every penny goes to Palin’s Defense Fund (SitRep’s idea).

Either that or challenge Olby to do it with him. It would be one of those ‘great television moments’.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 3:31 PM

Now this is an awesome idea. Hell it could be done at the next Tea Party.

Olby is just showing how twisted liberals really are. He supposedly has zero tolerance for what he sees as torture, yet gleefuly anticipates seeing Hannity get “tortured”. Not only that, he also said he wanted Hannity to make a “confession” that Waterboarding is indeed torture and then he would pony up even more money.

So let me get this straight, this anti-torture liberal wants to use the exact same “torture” technique he claims is immoral, to get them to say what he wants?

I’m sorry, what point is he trying to prove other than the fact that he is a hypocrite and soft on terrorists as opposed to conservative Americans?

Daemonocracy on April 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM

Just listening to Col. Jack Jacobs, Medal of Honor recipient and total conservative on Imus. He said torture doesn’t work. Sigh.

SnarkVader on April 24, 2009 at 4:10 PM

This from another thread says all that’s needed.

“[a] strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means.”
- Thomas Jefferson

jp on April 24, 2009 at 11:02 AM

oldernwiser on April 24, 2009 at 4:10 PM

the guy who dismisses waterboarding as no big deal.

benny shakar on April 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM

You project a lack of thought.
You also superimpose your own take as “record”.

maverick muse on April 24, 2009 at 4:10 PM

Yes, pour on more of that awesome neocon “logic” that the guy who is opposed to torture should endure waterboarding rather than the guy who dismisses waterboarding as no big deal.

benny shakar on April 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM

Was it ok to shot all of the pirates?

the_nile on April 24, 2009 at 4:10 PM

I’ll give Olby $1.00 for everytime Mark Levin pwns him for being a sick little perv on air.

therightwinger on April 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM

This could actually raise a great deal of money for some worthy cause.

Dave Rywall on April 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM

Someone in the headline thread mentioned that people at dkos were willing to pony up. It’s a win-win.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM

…see how much of ‘Ice Ice Baby’ we could get throw before throwing up.

I got to “To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal” before I couldn’t go on.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM

That’s a damn shame.

I didn’t think anybody knew all the lyrics to that song.

cntrlfrk on April 24, 2009 at 4:06 PM

I’m not as shocked by the fact they knew it as I am that he admitted it!

Personally, I think Hannity should not have made the offer. Now having done it and got called on it. He should do it, and like BadgerHawk said – he should do it for a charity of his – not Olby’s – choice. Especially like the idea of Olby not being able to claim it on his taxes.

kybowexar on April 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM

Keith Olberman is a joke.

Knowing about MSNBC, NBC, and GE standing to make billions from cap , and trade….that reeks of corruption. I won’t give him anymore attention, that this joke of a bait deserves.

capejasmine on April 24, 2009 at 4:12 PM

benny shakar on April 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM

getalife killed herself, but then suddenly benny comes along to fill the void with high pressure vacuum. How odd.

DarkCurrent on April 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM

See I thought the wall was the alter-ego of getalife.

I personally don’t think getalife actually went away – I think he/she/it is indeed plugging away as another troll. Trolls are like cockroaches – almost impossible to kill.

kybowexar on April 24, 2009 at 4:13 PM

Pretty much proof that liberals’ opposition to waterboarding really has nothing to do with objecting on moral grounds and everything to do with their fetish for al qaeda types.

Buddahpundit on April 24, 2009 at 4:13 PM

Yes, pour on more of that awesome neocon “logic” that the guy who is opposed to torture should endure waterboarding rather than the guy who dismisses waterboarding as no big deal.

benny shakar on April 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM

Please tell us more about how Obama is a hero for killing 3 teenagers with unloaded guns.

Jim Treacher on April 24, 2009 at 4:13 PM

What there is to say has been written and rewritten ad nauseam.

Boycott stupidity.

This thread is dead.

maverick muse on April 24, 2009 at 4:13 PM

kybowexar on April 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM

It’s a great song and you know it.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 4:14 PM

kybowexar on April 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM

I

t’s a great song and you know it.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 4:14 PM

I’d prefer waterboarding to listening to a Vanilla Ice song…

kybowexar on April 24, 2009 at 4:17 PM

So if Hannity gets boarded, wouldn’t that mean he would suffer debilitating mental anguish for the rest of his life? Olby is willing to pay for someone to have that done to themselves, what is he, some sort of bloodthirsty monster?

This is a circular argument but Hannity could still offer up a trade: Hannity endures the board and Olby has to stand in a room where a dirty radiation bomb just detonated.

Bishop on April 24, 2009 at 4:19 PM

Yo VIP let’s kick it

Ice ice baby (x2)
All right stop collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop yo I don’t know
Turn off the lights and I’ll glow
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle
Dance go rush to the speaker that booms
I’m killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony
Love it or leave it you better gain weight
You better hit bull’s eye the kid don’t play
If there was a problem yo I’ll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

CHORUS
Ice ice baby vanillla (x4)

Now that the party is jumping
With the bass kicked in and the vegas are pumpin’
Quick to the point to the point no faking
I’m cooking MC’s like a pound of bacon
Burning them if you ain’t quick and nimble
I go crazy when I hear a cymbal
And a hi-hat with a souped up tempo
I’m on a roll and it’s time to go solo
Rollin’ in my 5.0
With my rag-top down so my hair can blow
The girlies on standby waving just to say hi
Did you stop no I just drove by
Kept on pursuing to the next stop
I busted a left and I’m heading to the next block
The block was dead
Yo so I continued to A1A Beachfront Avenue
Girls were hot wearing less than bikinis
Rockman lovers driving Lamborghinis
Jealous ’cause I’m out getting mine
Shay with a guage and Vanilla with a nine
Reading for the chumps on the wall
The chumps acting ill because they’re so full of eight balls
Gunshots rang out like a bell
I grabbed my nine all I heard were shells
Falling on the concrete real fast
Jumped in my car slammed on the gas
Bumpet to bumper the avenue’s packed
I’m trying to get away before the jackers jack
Police on the scene you know what I mean
They passed me up confronted all the dope fiends
If there was a problem yo I’ll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

REPEAT CHORUS

Take heed ’cause I’m a lyrical poet
Miami’s on the scene just in case you didn’t know it
My town that created all the bass sound
Enough to shake and kick holes in the ground
‘Cause my style’s like a chemical spill
Feasible rhymes that you can vision and feel
Conducted and formed
This is a hell of a concept
We make it hype and you want to step with this
Shay plays on the fade slice like a ninja
Cut like a razor blade so fast other DJs say damn
If my rhyme was a drug I’d sell it by the gram
Keep my composure when it’s time to get loose
Magnetized by the mic while I kick my juice
If there was a problem yo I’ll solve it
Check out the hook while Shay revolves it

Ice ice baby vanilla
Ice ice baby (oh-oh) vanilla
Ice ice baby vanilla
Ice ice baby vanilla ice
Yo man let’s get out of here
Word to your mother
Ice ice baby too cold
Ice ice baby too cold too cold (x2)
Ice ice baby

Daemonocracy on April 24, 2009 at 4:21 PM

Am I the only one who thinks Olby needs new writers?
“Hannity Inanity”!? Who came up with that?

Trov on April 24, 2009 at 4:04 PM

There’s a low- to medium-ranked producer who’s in charge of ginning up the graphics each night, almost certainly along with doing 25-30 other duties at the exact same time, since MSNBC is hot for layoffs is Doing More With Less like all the other journalism outlets.

In short, you don’t have a lot of time to be clever. Pump it out and move on to the next problem.

Of course, there’s also the inherent problem that liberals consider cheap shots to be the height of comedic brilliance, but even a conservative in that gig wouldn’t be churning out Emmy-winning material.

Also, F Olbermann.

The Lone Platypus on April 24, 2009 at 4:22 PM

If I were Hannity, I’d train like David Blaine and try to last for 1000 seconds.

Matticus Finch on April 24, 2009 at 4:22 PM

Daemonocracy on April 24, 2009 at 4:21 PM

When you see it in text like that it’s pretty impressive how far I got while in the CS chamber.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 4:23 PM

Please tell us more about how Obama is a hero for killing 3 teenagers with unloaded guns.

BLACK teenagers, so it at least makes him a racist profiler, right?

Matticus Finch on April 24, 2009 at 4:25 PM

Allahpundit retweeted the perfect feedback from Olby’s challenge:

RT @MayBeeTweet: Hannity should offer Olby $1000 for every abortion he assists. U can be 4 something and not want to do it yrself, right?

http://twitter.com/MayBeeTweet

Vincenzo on April 24, 2009 at 4:26 PM

Daemonocracy on April 24, 2009 at 4:21 PM

What is Vanilla Ice’s real name? Hershel? Irving? Stringfellow?

Anyway, stepping back and looking at this, Hannity just needs to ignore Olby. Hopefully, the shareholders of GE will eventually vote Immelt out of there.

kingsjester on April 24, 2009 at 4:26 PM

That was torture! All I saw for the first two minutes was a sphincter with glasses reaching out desperately for TV ratings to all eight of his viewers (not including his mother, the camera guy, and the poor slob in the control room.) Worse than Kentucky Fried Movie.

ericdijon on April 24, 2009 at 4:27 PM

I’ll give Olby $1,000 per second to be beheaded like Daniel Pearl.

behiker on April 24, 2009 at 4:08 PM

Brilliant.

Oink on April 24, 2009 at 4:27 PM

I offer $1000 for every second that Keith can hang on to the outside of a skyscraper while a fire rages inside.

Bishop on April 24, 2009 at 3:27 PM

ZING! That’s the best gobsmack anyone could have given him. Bravo! Double bravo! I hope that he hears about it on FOX NEWS hahahahaha

scalleywag on April 24, 2009 at 4:28 PM

Allah, I’m really loving your torture posts. They far more than makeup for the Meghan posts. I always like your writing, but you really seem to care more about the subject here.

The idiocy of this wager is almost too much. Olby considers this torture and yet wants Hannity to go through with it. He’s encouraging it. What kind of logic is that? Isn’t this technique supposed to be illegal? Doesn’t his side want this practice stopped? Or do they only want it stopped against people who succeeded in killing 3,000 people on American soil?

It’s hard to keep track.

For me, if I say I believe something is wrong, I mean it and won’t place a bet on whether someone can last through it. When I say I believe abortion is wrong and that it harms women I won’t then follow that up by daring women to take a bet to see how they’ll feel after having one.

But what do I know. My limbic brain is messed up or something.

Esthier on April 24, 2009 at 4:29 PM

someone’s ratings are down and it aint Sean.

rob verdi on April 24, 2009 at 4:29 PM

http://twitter.com/MayBeeTweet

Vincenzo on April 24, 2009 at 4:26 PM

That’s brilliant.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 4:29 PM

someone’s ratings are down and it aint Sean.

rob verdi on April 24, 2009 at 4:29 PM

Yeah, this is just MSNBC hitching rides on Fox.

ddrintn on April 24, 2009 at 4:30 PM

But what do I know. My limbic brain is messed up or something.

Esthier on April 24, 2009 at 4:29 PM

You’ll get a headache trying to figure out the thought process behind Olby’s reasoning here.

Where have you been lately? I’ve missed your posts.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 4:31 PM

“never before have our leaders so utterly betrayed everything our nation stands for.”–Paul Thugman

That quote fits if only you say it’s talking about the BHO administration.

jgapinoy on April 24, 2009 at 4:31 PM

Hannity is a punk. He’ll never do it.

robertnyc212 on April 24, 2009 at 3:28 PM

And so…. what?

What’s your point? Would you do it? Are you a punk if you answered no?

If you’re not going to make an intelligent contribution, at least make an amusing contribution.

landshark on April 24, 2009 at 4:32 PM

If I were Hannity, I’d train like David Blaine and try to last for 1000 seconds.

Matticus Finch on April 24, 2009 at 4:22 PM

I agree. I’d take him up on it, anyway.

ddrintn on April 24, 2009 at 4:33 PM

Torture doesn’t work.
Waterboarding works.
Waterboarding is not torture.

Actually, we fall into a lefty trap if we allow ourselves to accept the verbal equation that waterboarding = torture.

We do not torture. The one thing the memos revealed is that we are such gentle stumblers in simulating torture.

DocKen on April 24, 2009 at 4:34 PM

We should add this to CPAC or something. $10 buys you the chance to experience water boarding at the hands of a true professional.

I’m curious as to what it entails and what it feels like. I’d definitely pay $10 to give it a try.

Imagine the money that could be raised for charity!

That would also go a long way towards ending the “waterboarding = torture” meme if, every time it was brought up, it was accompanied by B-roll of a bunch of conservatives lining up to pay $10 to try it out.

JadeNYU on April 24, 2009 at 4:36 PM

Yes, pour on more of that awesome neocon “logic” that the guy who is opposed to torture should endure waterboarding rather than the guy who dismisses waterboarding as no big deal.

benny shakar on April 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM

Do you actually know what a neo-con is, or do you just use the word because you like the way it sounds?

Oh right, I forgot that words mean whatever lefties want them to – which is why putting someone in a box with a caterpillar is called “torture”.

landshark on April 24, 2009 at 4:37 PM

If Hannity worked this right, i.e. getting Olby to raise the anty, and getting other leftists to chip in too, he could raise a great wad of cash. Almost anyone can hold their breath for 45-60 seconds. Hannity could donate that lefty cash to the NRA and make Olbi’s head explode.

MikeA on April 24, 2009 at 4:37 PM

for another example, see Paul Krugman’s piece today in the Times declaring, no joke, that “never before have our leaders so utterly betrayed everything our nation stands for.” Never? Ever?
Allahpundit

That’s because Krugman has never heard of FDR. Or John F. Kennedy. Or Nixon.

gwelf on April 24, 2009 at 4:39 PM

Do you actually know what a neo-con is, or do you just use the word because you like the way it sounds?

landshark on April 24, 2009 at 4:37 PM

It’s because it’s supposed to be as dirty a word as “liberal”, which morphed into “progressive”, the shame was so great.

ddrintn on April 24, 2009 at 4:39 PM

where do I sign up to be waterboarded? I need the money…

Lehosh on April 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM

yeah if some punk reporter can do it. Ill give it a try for a $1000. Im sure its scary for the moment. Not being able to breath will do that but so many have tried it and they seem to have no lasting horrors.

Greed on April 24, 2009 at 4:41 PM

yeah if some punk reporter can do it. Ill give it a try for a $1000. Im sure its scary for the moment. Not being able to breath will do that but so many have tried it and they seem to have no lasting horrors.

Greed on April 24, 2009 at 4:41 PM

I need money more than Hannity does, obviously, but $1,000 per second? Bring on the water.

ddrintn on April 24, 2009 at 4:44 PM

OH. MY. GOD.

Can these vermin betray this country in any way that is more BLACK AND WHITE? I spit on these two and I piss on their graves. Assholes. Ingrates. Traitors.

OT: had to share

Ugly on April 24, 2009 at 4:47 PM

I heard a clip of Mr. Oberman naming the Republican party in general and Mr. Bohener specifically “The Worst Person In The World” for questioning a report of the cost of the cap & trade to the taxpayers. Then I heard that the MIT economist who had produced the report did a Oopsie and admitted to a “boneheaded” error in Excel and that the Republicans were right after all. So did Mr. Oberman take back the honor? Did he mention the revision? He’s a goof.

Cindy Munford on April 24, 2009 at 4:47 PM

You’ll get a headache trying to figure out the thought process behind Olby’s reasoning here.

True. What was I thinking.

Where have you been lately? I’ve missed your posts.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 4:31 PM

Thanks. I’ve been here regularly still, but I try not to post if I can’t read all the comments first, and some of these get full so quickly.

Esthier on April 24, 2009 at 4:49 PM

If it is torture, isn’t Obermann going against his principles in wanting it used against anyone?…

kybowexar on April 24, 2009 at 3:28 PM

You don’t understand. Terrorists are just unhappy with us because we are mean to them. The WTC was their message of sorrow to us.

The only enemies liberals have that are worthy of such terrible torture are conservatives./sarc

shick on April 24, 2009 at 4:50 PM

I wonder what olby would be willing to pay for a good teabagging??

Talon on April 24, 2009 at 4:50 PM

Olby probably pays for his personal watersports.

Ugly on April 24, 2009 at 4:51 PM

Hannity should take the bet but not for money.For ever second hannity gets water boarded hannity gets to be in a locked roon with a 2×4 in his hands and loud mouth olby standing there peeing in his pants.

thmcbb on April 24, 2009 at 4:51 PM

I wonder what olby would be willing to pay for a good teabagging??

Talon on April 24, 2009 at 4:50 PM

Pay? He does it for Obama for free.

ddrintn on April 24, 2009 at 4:52 PM

Esthier on April 24, 2009 at 4:49 PM

I know what you mean. On some of these threads, by the time I get through reading and hit refresh, there’s already another page of comments to read through.

JadeNYU on April 24, 2009 at 4:52 PM

Hell, I can hold my breath for 50 seconds.

So, that would be at least 50k.

Sign me up, turd for brains.

Saltysam on April 24, 2009 at 4:54 PM

Thanks. I’ve been here regularly still, but I try not to post if I can’t read all the comments first, and some of these get full so quickly.

Esthier on April 24, 2009 at 4:49 PM

Well either way it’s good to see you pop up in a thread every now and again.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 4:54 PM

Hannity should take the bet but not for money.

thmcbb on April 24, 2009 at 4:51 PM

If it’s Olbermann’s money, I’d definitely do it for that. I’d take that junior-leaguer for every penny he’s got.

ddrintn on April 24, 2009 at 4:55 PM

That would also go a long way towards ending the “waterboarding = torture” meme if, every time it was brought up, it was accompanied by B-roll of a bunch of conservatives lining up to pay $10 to try it out.

JadeNYU on April 24, 2009 at 4:36 PM

Thats an idea and i bet a lot of people are curious not just cons. I remember seeing video of the left even WB’d each other at some protest.

Greed on April 24, 2009 at 4:56 PM

Saltysam on April 24, 2009 at 4:54 PM

Hell, I’m a smoker & at 44 years I can still do over a minute (swim/dive team in HS)

Ugly on April 24, 2009 at 4:56 PM

Yes, pour on more of that awesome neocon “logic” that the guy who is opposed to torture should endure waterboarding rather than the guy who dismisses waterboarding as no big deal.

benny shakar on April 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM

Why should anyone be waterboarded outside of terrorists?

So stupid…

No one who claims that waterboarding isn’t torture is saying it’s fun or pleasant. That doesn’t mean that terrorists shouldn’t be waterboarded.

Kensington on April 24, 2009 at 4:58 PM

Olbermann doesn’t seem to understand that the unpleasant thing for terror suspects being waterboarded is the idea in their minds that their interrogators might actually kill them. It isn’t like being prodded with hot irons or anything. Hannity wouldn’t be under that sort of stress. He ought to do it.

ddrintn on April 24, 2009 at 4:59 PM

If I were Hannity, I’d train like David Blaine and try to last for 1000 seconds.

Matticus Finch on April 24, 2009 at 4:22 PM

My sentiments exactly. Even if he only holds out for a minute or so, that’s 60K gone from Olby’s pocket…

Take a deep breath, Sean.

CaptFlood on April 24, 2009 at 5:00 PM

I’ll bet a $1,000 per second that I can outlast Olby. Bring is on!

Sergeant Tim on April 24, 2009 at 5:00 PM

WTF Olby…please get a life,
byteshredder on April 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM

Careful – it’s like “Biggie Smalls” – hasnolife may show it’s face

Branch Rickey on April 24, 2009 at 5:00 PM

heh

Ugly on April 24, 2009 at 5:00 PM

Exit question: Didn’t Obama turn those bad-guy pirates into victims by having them shot in the head? Sure, he saved the captain, but at what price?

Good grief, you really cant tell the difference between torturing someone we’ve captured and killing people who have an American hostage? It’s really not that tough.

orange on April 24, 2009 at 5:01 PM

I know what you mean. On some of these threads, by the time I get through reading and hit refresh, there’s already another page of comments to read through.

JadeNYU on April 24, 2009 at 4:52 PM

Yeah, and I hate to be that person who says, “I haven’t read through everything, but…” I’d just rather respond to people than just post my own opinion.

Well either way it’s good to see you pop up in a thread every now and again.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 4:54 PM

Always. Hot Air is a great place with some of the best commenters.

Esthier on April 24, 2009 at 5:01 PM

Oh yeah – you can buy that shirt here

Ugly on April 24, 2009 at 5:02 PM

Careful – it’s like “Biggie Smalls” – hasnolife may show it’s face

Branch Rickey on April 24, 2009 at 5:00 PM

Have no fear:

I am banning myself.

The stink of evil on this blog is too much for me.

The devil is at work here.

I will pray for you.

getalife on April 24, 2009 at 1:32 PM

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 5:02 PM

You know Olby is just going to spin this later. “I was tongue in cheek”.

You need a poll of whether Hannity should take this challenge.

I’m for it. If Olberman doesn’t respond after Hannity accepts the challenge, he could do it anyway and really embarrass the heck out of him.

shick on April 24, 2009 at 5:03 PM

Exit question: Didn’t Obama turn those bad-guy pirates into victims by having them shot in the head? Sure, he saved the captain, but at what price?

Good grief, you really cant tell the difference between torturing someone we’ve captured and killing people who have an American hostage? It’s really not that tough.

orange on April 24, 2009 at 5:01 PM

Yeah, but did Obama exhaust ALL non-violent approaches to a resolution? Hmmm?

ddrintn on April 24, 2009 at 5:05 PM

where do I sign up to be waterboarded? I need the money…

Lehosh on April 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM

National waterboarding party!

shick on April 24, 2009 at 5:05 PM

ProfessorMaio: that’s a great point about comparing the dead Pirates to the terrorists who were waterboarded.

RedSoxNation on April 24, 2009 at 5:06 PM

^ Three cops doing that in an apartment complex, and the moonbats would sing a different tune.

ddrintn on April 24, 2009 at 5:06 PM

I will pay $1000 to Olby’s favorite Christian charity for every second it takes for him to jump from the 80th-something floor of a burning building until he hits the ground.

But before he jumps, I’ll be sure to tell him that he has to jump because we can’t waterboard someone for less time than it will take him to land, but if we could, Olby would be saved.

Mallard T. Drake on April 24, 2009 at 5:06 PM

I’ll give any HA reader $1000 for every minute they can watch Olbermann.

Sir Corky on April 24, 2009 at 3:30 PM

Can’t do it.

shick on April 24, 2009 at 5:07 PM

So if a cable news multi-millionaire isn’t willing to undergo an interrogation tactic for relatively chump change then it’s torture? If a cable new celeb isn’t willing to undergo an interrogation tactic then it’s just too much to use on a known terrorist?

I guess we can assume Olby is willing to undergo any tactics he believes we should use on known terrorists?

Sean should say he’ll get watter boarded if Olby is willing to go though the harshest tactics he believes we should use on known terrorists.

Ampersand on April 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM

This is a win/win for Olberwoman. If Hannity doesn’t do it, KayO can call him a wimp, scared, chickent, whatever. If Hannity DOES do it, Olberdouche can say, “tee hee hee, I got Hannity waterboarded.”

I think they should both be waterboarded side by side, Right Stuff style, and see how it goes. But would Olbermann even step into the same room as Hannity? Methinks not.

cannonball on April 24, 2009 at 5:12 PM

I am banning myself.
The stink of evil on this blog is too much for me.
The devil is at work here.
I will pray for you.BadgerHawkon April 24, 2009 at 5:02 PM

Missed the junior high student admitting it’s a mental midget and gets tired of being intellectually b!tchslapped.

THANKS!

Branch Rickey on April 24, 2009 at 5:13 PM

orange on April 24, 2009 at 5:01 PM

Good grief, you really can’t tell the difference between praising Obama for killing 3 kids to save 1 American, and condemning the Bush administration for splashing water on the face of the terrorist who planned 9/11 in order to save thousands more American lives? It’s really not that tough.

Jim Treacher on April 24, 2009 at 5:16 PM

Just to point out the obvious: Hannity is debating the issue with a leftist on his show, while Olby is feeding softballs to a choir member on his show. Very edgy and courageous, Olby. We are waiting for the day when you bring a well spoken conservative on your show to debate a topic, any topic.

Can anyone recall a time when Olby went one-on-one with a guest who had a dissenting point of view?

Mallard T. Drake on April 24, 2009 at 5:19 PM

Can anyone recall a time when Olby went one-on-one with a guest who had a dissenting point of view?

Mallard T. Drake on April 24, 2009 at 5:19 PM

Myopic liberals like Olbermann don’t consider dissenting views legitimate, so as far as they are concerned, there’s no good reason to give conservatives a platform.

Kensington on April 24, 2009 at 5:23 PM

Yes, pour on more of that awesome neocon “logic” that the guy who is opposed to torture should endure waterboarding rather than the guy who dismisses waterboarding as no big deal.

benny shakar on April 24, 2009 at 4:03 PM

Or, some of that awesome libtard logic that says if you haven’t served in the military you are “only” allowed to oppose armed conflicts for fear of being called a Chickenhawk.

hawkdriver on April 24, 2009 at 5:24 PM

Good grief, you really can’t tell the difference between praising Obama for killing 3 kids to save 1 American, and condemning the Bush administration for splashing water on the face of the terrorist who planned 9/11 in order to save thousands more American lives? It’s really not that tough.

Jim Treacher on April 24, 2009 at 5:16 PM

I was just going to say, “you can’t tell the difference between a mass murderer and kids who never killed anyone?” but yours is much better.

Esthier on April 24, 2009 at 5:28 PM

So…

What was said to GAL to make her exit stage left like Snagglepuss?

If she comes back, I’d be wanting to say it again.

hawkdriver on April 24, 2009 at 5:28 PM

Hannity needs to offer him a million dollars to go and live in Iran or Iraq. 2 million to go and stand on an Iraqi street corner cursing the Taliban. For that matter, give him more to go down to Texas and conduct his stupid rants from any public sidewalk in full reach of the public.
One more?? How about a thousand dollars for every second he would stay on TV without makeup.

JellyToast on April 24, 2009 at 5:52 PM

I’ll get on the plank for $750 per second. Easy money.

Vashta.Nerada on April 24, 2009 at 5:58 PM

Actually, it should be a net win for Hannity, and for conservatives in general. And a huge net minus for Olby:

Media: “Why did you challenge Hannity to undergo waterboarding?”

Olby: “To prove to him and to others like him that waterboarding is most definitely torture.”
Media: “So you approved of the torture of Mr. Hannity?”

Olby: “No, I mean, I felt it was a worthwhile exercise because the outcome would have been an acceptance by the right-wing that waterboarding is torture.”

Media: “So… You’re saying the ends justified the means? Isn’t that pretty much what the right-wing argument has been all along?”

Olby: “No! I mean, yes, but no the ends do not… I mean, yes, but…”

Kapow! Olby’s head explodes…

CaptFlood on April 24, 2009 at 5:58 PM

So…

What was said to GAL to make her exit stage left like Snagglepuss?

If she comes back, I’d be wanting to say it again.

hawkdriver on April 24, 2009 at 5:28 PM

Nothing extraordinary really, it just went suddenly and left us in peace, with a blissful feeling.

DarkCurrent on April 24, 2009 at 6:05 PM

Why doesn’t this jerk send $1000 per uh and uhm and ah that Obama speaks toward the deficit? We can be in the black within 3 months.

jimmy2shoes on April 24, 2009 at 6:09 PM

…not unlike the leftists who were too gutless to sign up for Afghanistan clucking about the cowardice of conservatives who didn’t enlist for Iraq…

If one had enlisted, would there have been the choice?

ChenZhen on April 24, 2009 at 6:17 PM

That’s a great comparison that I hadn’t thought of. Every single person who joins the Army goes through the CS gas chamber. You’re in there, unable to leave, choking and coughing, gasping for breath but literally unable to breathe.

That’s a pretty similar comparison to waterboarding, and CS gas is clearly not torture.

BadgerHawk on April 24, 2009 at 3:55 PM

Thanks for helping dredge up those memories. Although, something good did come out of being gased by the Navy – I haven’t had a sinus infection since then. If I close my eyes and think about it hard enough, I can still get the taste in my mouth. I’d volunteer to get paid to be waterboarded, but not that again.

Anna on April 24, 2009 at 6:20 PM

I would rather be water boarded than eat a bowl of peas. I would gladly do either for charity. Who do I call?

bagoh20 on April 24, 2009 at 6:20 PM

I don’t understand the entire “torture doesn’t work” meme. Has anyone ever done a double blind study?

rokemronnie on April 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM

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