Right wing crazy person and Fox News pundit Sean Hannity may have let his crazy talk get the better of him recently.As is common among Fox News pundits, they play down the fact that waterboarding is actually torture, and causes serious psychological damage to victims. So a few days back Sean Hannity went so far as to claim that waterboarding is such a trivial matter that he would personally volunteer to undergo the torture himself, just to show how it is no big deal.
This may ultimately prove to be a very foolish boast, because his MSNBC rival Keith Olbermann has stepped up to make the proposition a little more interesting: He called Hannity out for his stupid statement, and offered to pay him $1,000 for every second he endures waterboarding. The money would of course go to troops and their families. He further offered to double the money if Sean Hannity later renounces the practice as torture and admits that he feared for his life during the torture.
I'm not as rich as Keith Olberman, but I'll be happy to chip in $100 an hour if Hannity has the balls to go though with his stupid boast. He can spot me the first hour, but for every hour of waterboarding he endures, I will be happy to send some cash to that charity. And I'll double it if he begins campaigning for prosecuting members of the Bush administration for war crimes.
Now I suspect that Sean Hannity is probably going to pretend he never made such a boast, or simply finds an excuse to wimp out. Time will tell if he really believes his own bullshit or not.
