Olbermann Calls Hannity's Bluff: $1000 For Every Second Of Waterboarding (VIDEO)

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MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann announced on Thursday that he is willing to pay $1,000 to charity for every second that Fox News anchor Sean Hannity undergoes waterboarding torture.

As HuffPost noted yesterday, Hannity was prodded by actor Charles Grodin into agreeing to subject himself to waterboarding to benefit a charity for the families of U.S. soldiers.

On MSNBC tonight, Olbermann called on Hannity to stay true to his word, and argued the benefit of having the arch-conservative pundit tortured would be that he might finally recognize the “deadly seriousness” of the debate over detainee treatment.

“What a breakthrough it would be if, by having reality literally forced upon him, a buffoon like Hannity were to realize the deadly seriousness of this,” Olbermann said. “The searing truth: that the moment of torture automatically makes the presumed bad guy recipient the victim, and makes the torturer into the evildoer.”

From there, Olbermann laid out his offer: “For every second you last, a thousand dollars — live or on tape, provided other networks’ cameras are there. A thousand dollars a second, Sean, because this is no game. This is serious stuff. Put your money where your mouth is, and your nose. Oh, and I’ll double it when you admit you feared for your life, when you admit the horrible truth — waterboarding, the symbol of the last administration, is torture.”
Happy to see this….how will Hanity respond….will he respond?
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  1. brokentapedeck reblogged this from fairestfall
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  3. dederants reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
    This is exactly why I LURVE Keith Olbermann. peterwknox:
  4. thenewrapunzel reblogged this from justspeakeasy and added:
    This is absolutely amazing.
  5. bryanwashere reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
    lafuguedantoine:politicsfordummies:
  6. kemiii reblogged this from dharrison and added:
    definitely watched this.
  7. jakemadison reblogged this from lafuguedantoine and added:
    Well, Christopher Hitchens only lasted 17 seconds. politicsfordummies:
  8. djnewstyle reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
    Reblogged from peterwknox, lafuguedantoine, and...I agree - Waterboarding
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  11. mattbarron reblogged this from awesome-everyday and added:
    most of the time i find olbermann pretty annoying and a bit of a blowhard but this is good stuff. it’s about time...
  12. dharrison reblogged this from awesome-everyday and added:
    Olbermann= Bauceeeee
  13. motionsensorsoundtrack reblogged this from shorterexcerpts and added:
    The battle of who’s the bigger dipshit is now underway. I hope Hannity does it actually. He can last 5 seconds. The...
  14. boggle reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
    lafuguedantoine:politicsfordummies:...Olbermann’s got game. OK THIS IS FANTASTIC But...
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  17. peterwknox reblogged this from lafuguedantoine and added:
    politicsfordummies:...Olbermann’s got game.
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