I visited Sean Hannity's website today to see it he made good on his offer to Charles Grodin to be waterboarded for charitable purposes.
To make Hannity's waterboarding event a big success, Kieth Olbermann upped the ante by making a generous offer pay $1000 a second for every second Mr. Hannity endured the waterboarding.
It's important that we all remember that this isn't some stunt dreamed up by Kieth Olbermann to make Hannity appear foolish. It was Hannity himself that agreed on the air to be waterboarded for the a charity that assisted families of American military personnel.
Strangely enough, on his impressive official website, in which Mr. Hannity offers his views of nearly every topic discussed on his show, there isn't a single mention of his offer to be waterboarded for charity. Huh?
Not to worry, Sean! Kieth Olbermann and millions of YouTube viewers have your generous public offer recorded on digital videotape, just in case you forgot your offer. One does not make public offers of charity and then forget about the offer two days latter. We're here to remind you, Sean!
Could it be that Mr. Hannity is a phony who talks the big bad Republican talk, but when it's time to walk to walk, Mr. Hannity is a really sissy boy who's afraid to get a little water in his face to raise thousands of dollars for the families of American GIs? Say it isn't so, Sean!
Rupert Murdoch will be pissed when he discovers he has a high profile employee that's a deadbeat on his public pledge to raise funds for a charity.
At least most liberals have the honesty to admit they wouldn't want to be subjected to waterboarding. But deep down inside all of us liberals secretly believe Hannity is a coward who'd probably go running home crying for his mommy before he's spend 1 second on a waterboard. This is Sean Hannity's golden opportunity to prove us wrong.
For the record author Christopher Hitchens spent a couple of seconds on a waterboard, before he begged for mercy. Mr. Hitchen's summary of his experience?.."If this isn't torture, then nothing is."
A few right wing blogs attempted to change the subject by making ad hominem attacks on Kieth Olberman instead of encouraging their hero to make good on his waterboarding offer and put that troll Olbermann in his place, by collecting $1 million dollars for charity from Olbermann. Here's an example of one right wing blogger's attempt to turn the tables on Olbermann by (strangely enough) accusing him of being the coward:
Mr. Olbermann, you are the Gary Coleman of the news industry small, once funny, and always looking for respect you don't deserve.
Mr. Olbermann, if you had any journalistic guts, you would examine how much Nancy Pelosi knew. Of course, you comedy routine won't take a chance of hurting your only friends--the scum who call themselves Democrats.
Something tells me Olbermann wouldn't pay up if Hannity took up his waterboarding challenge. Heck, Mr. Olbermann, I will do it to show Americans that this act is a joke and was used to save American lives. Would somone remind Mr. Olbermann, that it was under a Democratic administration in which the government started injected syphilis into black men at Tuskegee. I don't know Mr. Olbermann, there something much darker about the Tuskegee incident, but of course since it was under your party the experiments started, there must be something enlightening to you about them. Waterboarding radical Islamic terrorist isn't the even close to being dark considering Mr. Olbermann.
I've got to give the blogger credit for the Gary Coleman remark, it least he's a bit more clever that most of his conservative peers in the blogosphere. But then the blogger forgets the topic is Sean Hannity's waterboaring offer, and proceeds into the usual right-wing partisan trash talkin' about Nancy Pelosi and the "Democratic scum." For chrissake's, stay focused Mr. Right Wing Man!
Then Mr. Right-wing blogger insinuates that Olbermann isn't a man of his word and wouldn't pay up if Hannity made good on his own offer (not Olbermann's) of being waterboarded. Isn't he forgetting that it's Hannity that is proving to insincere by refusing to follow through on his commitment to a national audience of views to be waterboarded. The question of whether Hannity follows through on his waterboarding offer is irrelevant to Mr. Olbermann's generous pledge of $1000 a second for Hannity's waterboard telethon.
If Sean Hannity wanted prove Olbermann was a phony, he could follow through on his much anticipated waterboarding event and if Olbermann didn't pay up, Mr. Olbermann would be in the uncomfortable position of losing all credibility as a man of his word.
Then in his final coup de'grace the blogger constructs a tortured analogy to the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment which has as little to do with Hannity's waterboarding offer, as the outcome of the 1986 World Series.
The conservative Hannity defender doesn't even speak the point of the argument at hand, because he never makes a single point relevant to the argument at hand, except that there's a remote possibility that Olbermann may be a deadbeat. In that case, the best thing Hannity could do to prove Olbermann is a deadbeat is to make good on his offer and then walk up to Kieth Olberman and say, "Pay up Mr. Bullshitter."
Mr. Hannity's right wing defenders are going to have to do a whole lot better than this blogger to get Hannity off the hook, because Olbermann going to be like a pit bull who won't let go of his grip on Hannity's leg until he proves that he's a man of his word or publicly admits he's a phony.