Sean Hannity completely loses it, when he gets confronted by a senior reporter at Think Progress on cowardly backing out of his offer to be waterboarded back in 2009.
Here is the audio:
Transcript via Think Progress:
SCOTT KEYES: Before we get started I wanted to say one quick thing. Back in April 2009, you’d made a very generous offer. To prove that it’s not torture, you agreed on your television show to be waterboarded for charity and to donate the proceeds to the troops’ families.
HANNITY: I said Charles Grodin could do it.
KEYES: Now I know you’re an honorable guy Sean, when are you planning to hold the event?
HANNITY: You’re obviously taping this. I’m not getting into your five-year-old issue. Here I am bringing you on the program and give you an opportunity to give your pretty radical left-wing point of view, that’s kind of the way you treat me. But that’s all right.
KEYES: Sean, I’m just curious because you don’t think this is torture.
HANNITY: Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. I get to ask the questions on the program.
Hannity was lying. Here is what he said to Charles Grodin in 2009:
GRODIN: You’re for torture.
HANNITY: I am for enhanced interrogation.
GRODIN: You don’t believe it’s torture. Have you ever been waterboarded?
HANNITY: No, but Ollie North has.
GRODIN: Would you consent to be waterboarded? We can waterboard you?
HANNITY: Sure.
GRODIN: Are you busy on Sunday?
HANNITY: I’ll do it for charity. I’ll let you do it. I’ll do it for the troops’ families.
This is why right wing media doesn’t like having guests on from the left or middle. Hannity, like his guests, is used to never being called out on anything. When someone from the left or middle invades the conservative bubble of ignorance, their world dissolves into chaos. Their only response is to label the questioner a radical left winger. It sounds like Hannity was this close to screaming socialist and running out of the room.
Hannity offered to be waterboarded for the “troops’ families,” and then he showed his cowardice by rewriting the history of the offer to claim that he never made it. He is not only letting his fans down. He is hurting the troops. Sorry Sean, you offered to be waterboarded. America is waiting for you to follow through on your promise. A true patriot wouldn’t let his country down like this.
Come on, Hannity. Waterboarding isn’t torture, right? So wrap yourself in the flag and do it for the troops.
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Reynardine
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 11:44 am
Actually, Hannity is one person on whom I’d like to try out *all* the “enhanced interrogation” techniques.
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Conservative Heart
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 11:45 am
Sean Hannity is a patriot and a saint. He does not get waterboarded no matter how much liberal filth scream about it.
Waterboarding is for terrorists and unpatriotic liberals who pose as journalists and dare to ask questions.
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Sally
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 11:53 am
Saint Sean, huh? Don’t there have to be recorded miracles before someone can be nominated for sainthood? Tell you what, the day Hannity uses his program to tell the truth, I’ll nominate him myself, because that would surely qualify as a miracle.
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Mike
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 12:14 pm
What a dolt.
Youre either Sean Hannity, or youre straight up trolling.
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Reynardine
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 12:33 pm
¡Poe!
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SinghX
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 7:10 pm
Newbies…In all honesty, he’s a bit off of his irony game on this one.
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Churchlady
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 6:03 pm
Conservative Heart – then he should NOT have said he’d do it. He insists it’s not torture; you say it is. That’s the point – he made a statement AND a promise he refused to honor.He should not make statements he runs away from.
NO one in the US ever endorsed waterboarding from the founding of our nation, and the Army Field Manual specifically outlaws it. We have never as a nation used torture as an authorized measure until Bush and Cheney did. Anyone studying torture knows one KEY THING – torture is NEVER to get information since anything obtained under torture is totally unreliable.
Torture has one and only one purpose – to terrify surrounding populations and make them afraid of the nation or ruler or despot using torture. It is used to shore up power that otherwise has no legitimacy. It is that and only that.
So saying it’s used for “terrorists” means we, the United States of America, are so impotent we’ve resorted to becoming terrorists ourselves. Hannity dismisses it as torture – you don’t – but you still think it’s OK. That shows NO faith in America at all.
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jerzygirl45
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 6:23 pm
So people can exercise their right to free speech, unless it agrees what you say? Sean said he’d do it, and then he backed away from it. He’s just another talking airhead.
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jerzygirl45
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 6:24 pm
*agrees with what you say*.
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SinghX
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 7:05 pm
Oh Con-Heart, you wily rascal, you…where ya’ been?
Glad you’re back, reeling in the unsuspecting, over-killing the audience with redundant talking points and playing on with your own brand of cynicism!
Although, this post did do a good job flaming, it wasn’t your usual dry irony. Sorry to sound critical old boy, but, there have been so many trolls here, I’d hate to see you wind up blending in if you don’t kick it up a notch.
My, my, it’s really and truly you, the original faux-troll…Anytime you wanna’ rear back your head and talk in tongue-ga’nese, just jump in…the other trolls just don’t have the talent, ya’ know?
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Anonymous
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 10:44 am
Keep eating up that propaganda and garbage because you just make yourself seem ignorant. You must love fox news.
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Schmice
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 1:36 pm
Hahahahahahahahaha
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Garp
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 3:36 pm
Surprised, and honestly somewhat saddened, as to how many people didn’t recognize the sarcasm.
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Fox-Spirit
Feb. 2nd, 2013 at 3:49 am
Dude, it’s a wonder you can operate a computer. You sound so incredibly brainwashed. We have police officers that are sitting in prison right now because they were waterboarding American civilians. Our court system has already confirmed that waterboarding is torture. It’s only the capricious morality of hardcore republicans and overzealous religious nutbags that believes this sort of behavior is humane. Social Conservatism is a joke, fiscal conservatism is where it’s at for the republican party. They ought to be instead use common sense on civil rights issues.
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Sally
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 11:51 am
“But but but…you stupid far left liberal. Even if I did say it, I didn’t mean it. What are you, retarded or something? Come on, Graham said Hillary got away with murder in Benghazi. Defend that. How can any patriotic American look at what happened in Benghazi while she and the anoited one were watching it happen, and not say they got away with murder? Now, look, I’m not calling the President a murderer, but Linday Graham did say that Hillary talked her way out of a murder charge last week, right? So, gee, let’s talk about something not five years ago, because I, Sean Hannity, do not lie. My Fox network co-workers have been accused by the left of not telling the truth, and I’m here to tell you, that’s not true. We are fair and balanced, it says so right there on the wall, and walls don’t lie. So, give it up. Waterboarding is not torture, never was, and is the reason Bush finally killed Osama bin Laden. So there.”
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Eykis
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 11:52 am
One of the myriad reasons to call SeannieBoy El Estúpido and COWARDLY LIAR~
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get real
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 11:55 am
You almost fooled us.
We know that you are actually a Liberal Democrat having fun in the comment section impersonating a typical brain-dead hypocritical ignorant Republican moron.
Well done!
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Allyson Harris
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 11:57 am
Conservative Heart – it’s not a question of what Mr. Hannity is or isn’t, it’s a question of what Mr. Hannity said he would do. And clearly he will not do what he said he would do. It’s that simple.
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kat from ky
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 12:01 pm
Where is Charlie Sheen when you need him? Charlie- you were right about Lance being a d#$k! Sean is a bigger one!
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Eva
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Sean is a horrible person. Someone goes on his show, he shows so much disrespect for them it isn’t funny. He is a loud mouth idiot that is so far out on his comments that he probably cries like Boehner does during a commercial. He is just plain stupid.
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D. W. Skinner
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 12:25 pm
the only people who watch Hannity do it when they’re not breeding with their sister.
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VALERIE MARTIN
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 12:32 pm
He is just TWISTED!
In his world, up is down, left is right, right is wrong!
He does & says whatever is necessary to keep his
multi-million dollar salary rolling in.
If that means lying and throwing America and Americans under the bus, well….so be it.
But folks, “let not your heart be troubled” (hehe).
His party is on the brink of extinction and no one is fighting to save it!
They will not be missed!!
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Cheryl
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Any Republican that says waterboarding is not torture, should try it out. Hannity is an a loser, of course he would back out.
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Edna
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 1:13 pm
@Conservative Heart: Your statement about Sean Hannity is proof positive that Republicans are dead from the shoulders up. If he doesn’t want to be waterboarded the dumb f*** shouldn’t have offered to undergo the procedure. He was showing off and acting like the “big dog” saying waterboarding isn’t torture. Dumb-ass. Even you said it was reserved for terrorists and “unpatriotic” liberals posing as journalists. Then you said the absolutely MOST RETARDED THING I’VE EVER HEARD COME FROM ANYONE’S MOUTH, EVEN FOR A REPUBLICAN. Journalists aren’t supposed to ASK QUESTIONS????? What kind of idiot are you??? By definition, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO. A very wise person told me once that ANYONE who wouldn’t answer a direct question in a public forum, especially when they are “selling” something, was a spineless coward who was doing something so wrong he refused to answer questions about it. Sean Hannity is a Class-A low life who can’t put his money where his big, fat mouth is. We call that a chicken-shit weasel where I’m from. Shooting your mouth off is a good way to prove just what a coward you are. He says it isn’t torture, but he’s too scared a titty-baby to prove it. That’s because he’s wrong, naturally. Just like Gush Limpballs saying he was moving to Costa Rica if Obama got elected again, but did he do it??? Of course not. He’s still got his fat ass parked on a chair in his little 10 x 10 universe where he is GOD, or thinks he is. Petty little men who are heavy on lip service but no game at all. All they CAN do is talk because they have NO WALK. Idiots.
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bluerose
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 1:24 pm
i would volunteer anytime any day to waterboard (drown) this nutjob
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Grrrr!
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 2:26 pm
How ironic that ol’ Hanshitty is all, “What, waterboard ME ???”
Just 10 minutes of his cheesy, stupid, suck-ass show and I confessed to masterminding Benghazi, causing the Recession AND global warming, and sexting the HELL out of Manti Te’o before the FBI finally managed to escort me back to my bicycle.
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Just A Dumb Fireman
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 3:27 pm
Thank you, TP, for calling out this POS on his cowardice AND mendacity!!
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Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 3:57 pm
Mancow did it sean, but then again he is man enough to grow a beard
The real reason he will not do this, is because he is afraid they will start asking questions about where he hid the money from his freedom concerts. The ones where the money was supposed to go to children of our military people for their education. The one that just a couple of percent of that money went to anyone except for him and ollie North
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mjh
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 5:26 pm
Sean Hannity: “I’m not getting into your five-year-old issue.”
This from the guy who all excited over a Breitbart.com video of Obama hugging his college professor . . . in 1990:
http://www.newshounds.us/hannity_agog_over_breitbart_s_recycled_obama_race_video_exposing_whom_obama_hugged_in_1990_03082012
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Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 5:42 pm
Good find
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LookingForward
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 8:15 pm
These far righties are all the same….chicken hawks! They can talk a good game but when it comes to action, they’ll send someone else to fight the war! Look at Rush, he’s the same and worse, a draft Dodger, because of a ingrown hair on his butt!
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majii
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 10:41 pm
I’m still waiting on Hannity to be water boarded and I’m waiting on his explanation on why his charity for wounded vets and their families spends so little of what it collects on them.
“According to the 2011 earnings report to the IRS, the charity took in contributions of nearly $8.5 million but distributed less than $300,000 in grants and contributions. More than $1.8 million went to salaries and compensation, including an annual salary of $286,000 for president and founder Richard Van Houten. Jones also said chapter managers could earn large bonuses if fundraising goals were met.
The charity also claims that it has housing programs in six chapters, including Tennessee, that aim to provide “sober, subsidized, transitional living for indigent veterans and to offer supportive services to help veterans recover from addition and/or life’s misfortunes quickly so they can return to a successful, independent lifestyle.”
The charity’s former workers said all the program amounted to in Tennessee was a rented house. They claim they were not provided with food, clothing or social services…Gary Thomas, a 57-year-old Vietnam veteran, said he was introduced to the VSO when he went to the Madison office seeking money when he was between jobs and living in a camper. He said Jones gave him $100 and a job as a solicitor.
Thomas said the amount of money they raised compared to what they were giving out didn’t add up to claims the charity makes about how it uses donations.
“What they are doing is scamming a lot of people, taking money out of the state, not doing what they said they will do and faking it with phony figures,” Thomas said.”
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/6938/sean-hannitys-freedom-concert-scam-only-7-of-charitys-money-went-to-injured-troops-kids-of-fallen-troops-g5s-g6s-for-vannity/
*Even conservative Debbie Schlussel exposed Hannity’s charity scam: ‘Sean Hannity’s Freedom CONcert Scam: Almost None of Charity’s $ Went to Injured Troops, Kids of…
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Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 11:47 pm
Thats why he wont be waterboarded, he is afraid they will ask him questions
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Prehensile Phallus
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 12:42 pm
Grodin: “Would you consent to being waterboarded so we can get the truth out of you”?
Hannity: “Yes. Yeah sure.
Grodin: “We can waterboard you? Are you busy on Sunday?”
Hannity “Haha, I’ll do it for charity. I’ll let you do it. I’ll do it for the troops families.”
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Anonymous
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 3:41 pm
Fundraising for military families? Hannity said he would do it and then he backed out? Typical. He has no courage.
Re Sally – on Hillary Clinton, I can’t believe that Republicans said they let her get away with murder! The congress people on that committee need to take responsibility for their actions and step up and do the right thing. Don’t they believe in law and order and holding people accountable. Let’s hold them accountable for not standing up for their belief that she is a murderer. Call their offices! Tell them how they let us down. Support a different candidate in the next primary or election.
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 4:19 pm
he didn’t back out, he had to of profited handsomely. Because none of that stuff went towards the kids. $300,000 equals none of that stuff compared the amount of money they took him. Sean Hannity and Oliver North screwed a lot of people and got away with it
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greg
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 9:14 pm
There was a website that was gathering pledges to donate to Mr. Hannity if he would follow through. I am not sure if it is still out there. However, the $60 pledge little 30/K a year me made, stands Mr. Hannity.
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Rich
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 12:56 am
Sean Hannity = chickenshit bellyrubber.
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