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Fox News hosts discuss whether they'd rather swallow a live fish or be waterboarded

June 14, 2009 2:32 pm ET

From the June 14th edition of Fox News' America's News HQ:

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    • Author by budrykzp9226 (June 14, 2009 2:54 pm ET)
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      Is "listening to this crap" a third option?
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      • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (June 14, 2009 3:47 pm ET)
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        Doesn't seem like a very tough choice for Fox hosts or their target audience. Apparently they can swallow just about anything.
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        • Author by magnolialover (June 14, 2009 3:49 pm ET)
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          *RIMSHOT!*

          Good one.
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        • Author by snoopy (June 14, 2009 6:54 pm ET)
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          awesome! Now you owe me a beer for making it squirt out my nose!
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        • Author by reanna-mator (June 14, 2009 8:35 pm ET)
             
          A witty retort, sir.

          I would have been more upset if they would have said that they'd rather be waterboarded. It would have been more promoting of the idea that waterboarding is "just having water poured on you." As it is, joking about the act is only slightly potentially offensive.

          What's more telling than them joking about it is the fact that the clip that made them think of waterboarding looked very little like what the act looks like. Almost as if the issue was on the tips of their tongue waiting for the faintest excuse to bring it up.
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        • Author by pete592 (June 14, 2009 11:44 pm ET)
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          The big exception being their pride.
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    • Author by TonySmith47 (June 14, 2009 4:50 pm ET)
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      Oh come on now. I hate Fox News as much as anyone, but this is just a throw-away line that anyone could have said. There is plenty on Fox News to hold up to ridicule, but I've got to give them a pass on this one.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (June 14, 2009 5:24 pm ET)
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      It wa actual news until Miss Big Mouth made a whimsical waterboarding connection.
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    • Author by jbrantow (June 14, 2009 5:44 pm ET)
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      I say let's waterboard both of them...(someone should come up with a web site, with bids on different fox hosts to be waterboarded-build up from keith olbermans challenge to hannity) and then see if they continue to "joke" about torture. These two are both morons.
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      • Author by magnolialover (June 15, 2009 8:20 am ET)
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        That would be kind of sweet to see what kinds of bids we could get on people who say waterboarding isn't anything to think of at all, and that it's not torture. We can start the list:

        Hannity
        Cavuto
        O'Reilly
        Wallace
        Kelly
        Doocy
        And so on...

        I'm sure we could get a lot of donations to help the soldiers if we did that.
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    • Author by JetfireK (June 14, 2009 5:53 pm ET)
         
      What have they said about the Dave Letterman Sarah Palin dispute?
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    • Author by eweston8542983 (June 14, 2009 9:39 pm ET)
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      Will this be expanded into a series?
      An extension of a Firesign quote I did a while ago.
      "Ok Mrs Preskey which would you rather do? Hit this jew over the head with a bag of sugar, or beat out that rhythm on a drum?"
      "Oh I, um."
      "Come on love!"
      "I'll take the bag!"
      "All right here you go!"
      "But but, this is a bag of sh*t!"
      "But its really great sh*t Mrs Preskey!"
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    • Author by teabaggers ♥ [wing]NUTS (June 15, 2009 12:11 am ET)
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      these people are clowns... why would anybody use waterboarding for a punchline or joke?

      and i might be wrong, but has anyone else noticed that ever since the waterboarding debates have really come into the mainstream, fox news anchors and personalities have done everything to downplay the effects of waterboarding? many times even making jokes about it. its so noticeable to me.
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    • Author by njguy93 (June 15, 2009 12:45 am ET)
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      Does this mean they're admitting waterboarding is torture? In some backhanded kind of way? All of these so-called patriots who think waterboarding isn't torture seem to never want to undergo it themselves, with a few exceptions.

      THANK YOU.
      njguy93@yahoo.com
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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 15, 2009 7:53 am ET)
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        Does this mean they're admitting waterboarding is torture?
        No, they're trying to equate it with the ancient college joke of eating live goldfish. They want us to think that waterboarding is no more torture than college fraternity hazing or pranks.
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        • Author by Prospect (June 15, 2009 10:46 am ET)
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          Ya know before.. I used to think Fox News anchors were just dumb.. but now I think they do this crap on purpose.. nobody can be that stupid...
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