Countdown: Keith Challenges Hannity; O'Donnell Takes On Right-Wing Trivialization of Torture

[Hissyspit]

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MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 23 April 2009: Keith challenges Sean Hannity on air to be waterboarded for charity, and Lawrence O'Donnell explains why the rightwing trivializes torture.

[aquart]

1. Good.

Hannity won't let himself be waterboarded because he's a coward. Excellent.

Hope it rots the blowhard's liver.

[jeff30997]

2. K&R

[DFW]

3. Hannity will surely be willing, for charity.........

....to let be waterboarded.

[lbrtbell]

4. $1000 a SECOND

Pretty big bucks to pass up, Sean. After all, it's not torture!

[florida08]

5. Lawrence

nailed Hannity and Cheney. Go for it Sean..many of us would pay to watch!

[bos1]

6. Will Hannity volunteer to be captured by Al Aqeda and waterboarded 180 times in 1 month

while being asked who's buried in Grant's tomb? That would do it

[zoff]

7. The timeline needs to be repeated over and over

to demonstrate once again, that logic and conservatism cannot coexist in one brain. And that pathological lying and conservatism are bed fellows.

[RufusTFirefly]

8. Ironically, challenging it in this way is also kind of trivializing it

It shouldn't be a question of whether or not Sean Hannity can endure it and for how long. Many people have endured torture and survived.

Torture is illegal. Not only is it morally reprehensible, but we are violating both domestic and international law by using it. We are endangering our own soldiers and guaranteeing that our global reputation remains in the toilet where George Bush put it.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

9. Another thing about this...

...When these Fox clowns agree to be waterboarded to show us how it's no big deal, it is happening in a nice clean studio with cameras running and it stops the moment they raise their hand. In contrast, when a prisoner is waterboarded, it happens in some dank pit, surrounded by the people who have been kicking him around throughout his captivity. He may also be sleep deprived, and in the case of Gitmo prisoners he's been worn down with beatings and systematic humiliation exercises, and it doesn't stop when he says the safe word.

So Sean, even IF you should ever actually allow yourself to be waterboarded, you still don't get to act like you're a big man unless I get to lock you in my basement and kick the shit out of you for a few days first.