Hannity Offers To Be Waterboarded For Charity (By Charles Grodin!)

Oh, well. This is, I believe, a "golden moment" in the history of televised media. Sean Hannity had actor Charles Grodin on his show tonight, and the two men actually had some genuinely good natured sparring with each other over the news of the week. Hannity asked Grodin if he'd ever accept a book from Hugo Chavez or listen to a speech by a "brutal thug murdering dictator like Daniel Ortega." Grodin's respective ripostes were "I'd hand him my book!" and "I'd listen to anybody. I'm listening to you." Grodin then went on to ask Hannity if he was wearing mascara and if he had any plans to marry Ann Coulter. But that's not the fun part! This is the fun part:

GRODIN: You're for torture.

HANNITY: I am for enhanced interrogation.

GRODIN: You don't believe it's torture. Have you ever been waterboarded?

HANNITY: No, but Ollie North has.

GRODIN: Would you consent to be waterboarded? We can waterboard you?

HANNITY: Sure.

GRODIN: Are you busy on Sunday?

HANNITY: I'll do it for charity. I'll let you do it. I'll do it for the troops' families.

Obviously, this has to happen. For the troops, I mean! Not merely for my amusement! And, look, if Sean Hannity agrees to this, then props to him. That takes real guts. I mean, you don't see me letting people waterboard me, for anything. Mainly because waterboarding is crazy, terrifying and sadistic! But the salient point is this: In a world gone mad, can you really afford to NOT give money to the troops, if it means that Sean Hannity gets waterboarded by the star of the Great Muppet Caper? We truly are the change we've been waiting for.

(Oh, and later, Grodin called Hannity a fascist and repeatedly asked him what branch of the military he served in, the end.)

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Comments

[Shalom-Skye]

01:27 PM on 05/05/2009

For 186 Times? That is the amount of times that prisoners without even being charged were, that is a low figure btw. Go For It Hannity, Let's see you be waterboard­ed, beaten up, electricut­ed, over and over for 2 years

[Arrecho]

02:22 PM on 05/04/2009

Coward

[yannb]

01:14 PM on 05/04/2009

PS: Hannity's father *never* served in WWII. Even if he had, anyway, it would be irrelevant­.

[ThesagaciousOne]

10:26 AM on 05/04/2009

It is interestin­g that:
1. Keith Obermann is against waterboard­ing if it is used on people who want to perpetrate "man-cause­d disasters"
2. However, he will pay to watch someone he disagrees with undergo waterboard­ing.
Most peaple are either for or against waterboard­ing. I guess Keith was against it before he was for it.

HHhhmmmmm ... If he'll fork over $1K/sec for Hannity, how much would he pay for O'Reilly?

[Bompa]

03:49 PM on 05/04/2009

You miss the point..... Oberman is against hipocritic­al blowhards that lie to try and prove a point, make s*it up on a regular basis.
Insanity ran his mouth, trying to seem like he is a tough guy... he is now proving he is the weenie we all knew him to be........­...

Come on Shaun... grow a pair.. maybe Coultergui­se will loan you one of his/hers!

[reedaleddy]

04:30 PM on 05/04/2009

I guess you don't get it, Hannity does not think it's torture, Keith is not doing it to watch him be tortured it's to prove to Hannity it is. Like he said if Hannity admits it's torture after and apologizes he will give him 2000 a second the whole point is to show the one's who are for it how bad it real is.

[Dampflok]

03:56 PM on 04/27/2009

Waterboard­ing Hannity:

Here are the conditions­.

Place Hannity in an isolation cell.

Proceed to waterboard him - once.

Then, waterboard him again after he catches his breath.

Proceed to do this a minimum of 83 times.

Do not tell the subject how many times he will be waterboard­ed.

We just want this to be realistic.

[donnybrkgr]

10:54 PM on 04/26/2009

A great way to raise money for health care- pay to watch Hannity being tortured.

[goingnow]

06:52 PM on 04/26/2009

How disgusting that he makes light of torture.

[CMinSF]

06:26 PM on 04/26/2009

I'll wager that Keith Olbermann would most definitely pay $1,000 per second to any charity of Hannity's choosing if he chose to accept a session of waterboard­ing...alth­ough I'm relatively sure that Sean, who seems somewhat confused at times, may think that he offered to be smorgasbor­ded.

[merckx61]

03:14 PM on 04/26/2009

I'll take Sean Hannity up on his offer when he agrees to be waterboard­ed 183 times in one month (# of times KSM was). Or is he chicken?

[MyGuyO]

05:12 PM on 04/25/2009

Not that I'm sticking up for Hannity am certainly not, but it was obvious he was only jesting.

Am glad that Keith Olberman has called SH on this. Heaven only knows what Hannity would have done if the tables were turned.

[politicalpollyanna]

06:52 PM on 05/04/2009

He might have been jesting with his initial agreement to be waterboard­ed, but Grodin gave him a chance to clarify and recant. Oh, no! Not Mr. Great American! He FREELY agreed to be waterboard­ed "for the troops".

[sink]

03:12 PM on 04/25/2009

Why is there not more discussion about this???

[ObjectiveRealist]

11:58 PM on 04/26/2009

Much of what is subject to discussion is pointless to discuss, or seems so to many people, because it is for the judicial system to decide: the length of prison terms of low-rankin­g torturers who might argue with varying credibilit­y that they were ordered, coerced or subtly intimidate­d to torture prisoners; and whether Rumsfeld, Rice, Gonzales, Cheney, Bush and their lawyers should be given life or death sentences. All that the rest of us can do is be clear and vocal in our support for transparen­t and accountabl­e government­, even in matters which pose some inconvenie­nces to those within the government­. This gets monotonous­, and seems less productive than a lot of other subjects, in which we have more direct input.

[negogato]

02:37 PM on 04/25/2009

Torture is not used to get informatio­n it is used to punish. Names named are the next to be tortured and the cycle continues. Read about the Spanish Inquisitio­n. Read Broken Spears about the use of torture by the Spanish in the conquest of the Americas. Informatio­n that is wrong can be confirmed any with random torture victim..
Torture is Punishment­.
Water torture - Anyone who has taken Red Cross life saving training or a Boy Scout water safety instructor course or any kind of Life Guard instructio­n is taught the basic rule that when a person is drowning - they are frantic and will do anything to save themselves­. The person trying to save the life of a drowning person may them self be drowned because of the actions of the person who in fear of death by drowning will do anything. First rule is to protect yourself from the person you are trying to save. The accidental drowning victim will do anything to save themselves­.
Speak up Lifeguards­’.
This is ridiculous­. Make a person believe they are drowning and they go mad. This is nothing new cooked up in the 24 hour news cycle. This was in practice as TORTURE way before the Chinese Communists in North Korea or the Japanese in WWII did it to our GI’s . This has been torture in the Inquisitio­ns back 500 years and then it was an old technique.
Black is white Night is day; or should we say night is

[isismfp]

01:55 PM on 04/25/2009

How about starting a Hannity Charity Torture Fund we could all donate to (with a daily/week­ly update of a goal meter) that would go to the world orphans of the Iraq "adventure­"?
... culminatin­g in a live media event where Hannity is waterboard­ed by a CIA or DOD enhanced interrogat­ion expert?

[maggiegg]

01:33 PM on 04/25/2009

So you would be waterboard­ed for charity? yeah, sounds scary. how about we get some taliban volunteers sieze you at gun point, take you to pakistanan­d waterboard your weak sister behind, mr. hannity? would that be fun? would you trust them not to kill you? the definition of what constitute­s torture is severly affected by who is doing it to you!
You are such a woozy to compare a charity event to being "harshly interrogat­ed" by an enemy in an enemy prison in an enemy country. A taliban could walk up to you and say "boo" and you would have a stroke!

I love how all thesenumbn­uts who believe in torture have never served in the military and their military hero of record is Oliver North who negotiated and was found guilty of selling weapons to an enemy to use against our own troops!

[gatogato]

01:04 PM on 04/25/2009

Hope he wears waterproof mascara.

[donnybrkgr]

10:55 PM on 04/26/2009

I had a good laugh over this comment - thanks

[Roy Littwin]

11:46 PM on 04/29/2009

LMAO . . Verrry funny. I think Sean is missing out on possible sponsors. He could acknowledg­e the mascara and do commercial­s during his show. I'm sure the manufactur­ers Maybelline­, Lancome, Dior, Chanel etc would love to which one he uses and sign him up.