[lbo-talk] Origins of Mancow's waterboarding stunt

[Sheldon]

I would be more impressed if one of these blathermouths stepped up to
the plate with the conditions that they wouldn't be able to cry uncle
in 30 seconds. "Yeah, I will be waterboarded 83 times in a month".
After all, they still have actual control of the situation.  The
actual victims of waterboarding never had the option to throw their
signal at the first sign of discomfort.

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM, James Leveque <leveque.james at gmail.com> wrote:
>>HANNITY: I'll do it for charity. I'll let you do it. I'll do it for
>     the troops' families.
>
> This is classic Hannity. He seizes upon any chance to spin some bullshit
> idea into empty populism. I realize that he's just running his mouth, but at
> some level, I think he honestly is equating waterboarding with the school
> fair dunking booth. Olbermann's encouragement of it just deflates the
> seriousness of any discussion about torture. We've reached a point where a
> discussion of actual waterboarding has been replaced by (voluntary,
> stop-when-I-give-the-signal, do-it-for-the-troops) "waterboarding".
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