Conservative Radio Host Allows Himself to Get Non-Tortured, Lasts Seconds
As you may remember, a few weeks ago Sean Hannity offered to let himself get waterboarded for charity to show how non-torture-y the whole exhilarating experience truly is despite what anybody who has ever actually been waterboarded has ever actually said.
Keith Olbermann — not one to miss out on an opportunity to be loud and self-righteous — jumped right in and offered to give $1,000 of his own money to military families for every second of aquatic good time fun Hannity could endure.
Sean Hannity, obviously, never mentioned it again.
So, Olbermann found a Hannity-lite — conservative radio host/bovine lycanthrope Mancow Muller — to get waterboarded in Hannity's stead in exchange for precious, precious ratings.
You'll never guess what conclusion the Mancow came to…
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The best part is where Mancow says Sean Hannity called him up and said — despite everything else — that it's still not torture.
No, actually, the best part is when Sean Hannity tripped and fell off the Earth and flew into space and nobody ever saw him again because he was sucked into a black hole. That's my favorite, favorite part.
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Hannity has some balls
Nah. "Mancow" (how do you arrive at a name like that with a start like Erich Muller?) may have cojones, somewhere, but they haven't fully dropped yet. For real titanium steel cojones, like BC Woods says, see Christopher Hitchens.
Hannity thinks waterboarding is non-torture-y.
During the murder of Terri Schiavo, the L.A. Times quoted an M.D. as saying, "The word 'starve' is so emotionally loaded".
And who exclusively gets a hard time from "The Daily Show?"
I was surprised that he didn't even consent to being tied down. I saw the vide of Christopher Hitchens being waterboarded, and he went the full nine yards with it. They strapped his ass down to a board in a dark scary room, and the people pouring water on his face were in black masks.
I really hope Hannity eventually gives in. I wouldn't let him back up until he said that it was torture and then I would make him sing "Memory" from CATS.
Mancow has cojones. Sean Hannity is a spineless coward who wouldn't last a second under waterboarding. Mancow deserves a lot of credit for this. Any idiot can mouth off on the radio. But I like it that Mancow was able to back up his words with actions.
Also, I liked the civility of the debate. If lefty Olbermann and righty Mancow can have a civil discussion on these issues, then maybe we can help bridge the divide between the ideologies, and then I believe politics will become second to true human decency.
(Full disclosure: I'm on mushrooms right now.)
Mancow is still a douche, but I have to give him credit for this.
I'm still going to hear his name as "MANBEARCOW" in my head every time I see this story, though.