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]

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]

Coward

[yannb]

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

[ThesagaciousOne]

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]

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]

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.

[NTBoss]

Thesegaciousone...you are missing Olbermann's point...If anyone who says enhanced interrogations is harmless must know how it feels before they refuse to call it torture. C'mon, in the movies thugs call beating up a hapless person call it 'gentle persuasion' . Calling torture, torture will not let anybody's teeth fall off- it was done and right now it would be nice to know what's next? How is this going to be resolved? what are enhanced interrogations that do not and will not cross the line towards torture?

[politicalpollyanna]

Hey. Keith is just offering to help with the cause. Can he help it if Hannity is a blowhard whose mouth works faster than his brain? He was nowhere on the set when Sean shot off his mouth and volunteered to be waterboarded?

Come on, Sean! MAN UP!

[aero56]

Hannity is, as usual, all talk. He will never do it, as he is a bully and coward.

[ThesagaciousOne]

reedaleddy
NTBoss
aero56

I am not missing the point, Regardless of the reason, Keith Obermann is willing to pay to see someone he detests waterboarded. He may justify it by saying it is to teach Hannity a lesson, but he is still paying to see some one undergo a process that he calls torture.

[Dampflok]

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]

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

[goingnow]

How disgusting that he makes light of torture.

[CMinSF]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Why is there not more discussion about this???

[ObjectiveRealist]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Hope he wears waterproof mascara.

[donnybrkgr]

I had a good laugh over this comment - thanks

[Roy Littwin]

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.