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Hannity on Abdulmutallab: "We ought to be waterboarding this guy"

January 04, 2010 9:46 pm ET

From the January 4 edition of Fox News' Hannity:

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    • Author by Bad News (January 04, 2010 9:51 pm ET)
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      "Hannity the Mis-informer" Commentator in Disguise.


      Mr. News
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      • Author by temphandle tearfully55timetable (January 04, 2010 9:59 pm ET)
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        Ya know, I stop in on this site and respond a few times a day, and sometimes I turn on Fox news, why I'm not sure, I guess I still enjoy the circus. But how do the folks at MMFA go home at nite sane after watching/monitoring this crap these ppl spew all day!? Do they have decompression tanks!? A shot of whiskey perhaps! WOW, my hats are off to them.
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    • Author by Unreality (January 04, 2010 10:13 pm ET)
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      I was imagining Dick Morris and Shear Insanity as job applicants to become prospective TSA screeners laying down this talk. If you didn't need an adult diaper beforehand, imagine walking through the security check and seeing these two dolts in uniforms.

      Who would hire either of them for a job requiring demonstrated competence and credibility?
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (January 04, 2010 10:33 pm ET)
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      Hey, Sean...why don't you get waterboarded first? Then you can tell him what it's like.

      But if waterboarding isn't torture why would you want to go so easy on this terrorist guy? I thought real men endorse torture, Sean...
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    • Author by marco21 (January 04, 2010 10:40 pm ET)
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      All of our previous waterboarding sure has stopped terrorism - obviously.
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    • Author by SimonRusk (January 04, 2010 10:48 pm ET)
         
      Waterbording is torture. These two are amazingly short sighted. I thought it was great when hannity's guest pointed out that waterbording would not violate the 5th Amendment. What about the 8th? It is sad that hannity promotes torturing people. And it is depressing that people continue to watch his show.
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    • Author by raddave43 (January 04, 2010 11:02 pm ET)
         
      Sean, you should be waterboarded. Afterall, you volunteered to have it done to you. Do you honestly think this guy who was suppose to blow himself up would have actionable intel on future attacks? Do you think Al Qaida is that stupid?
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    • Author by magnolialover (January 04, 2010 11:28 pm ET)
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      Hey Sean, I'm pretty sure that they've already questioned and interrogated this guy plenty, and there will be more to come, and as mentioned umpteen times before, torturing people, gets you less actionable intelligence that other methods of interrogation, but yeah, let's just waterboard this guy.

      My lord, you are a moron indeed Mr. Hannity.
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    • Author by snoopy (January 04, 2010 11:50 pm ET)
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      When is Hannity gonna show us how to take it like a man? (sorry rush, I meant waterboarding...)
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    • Author by Patricia Kelley (January 04, 2010 11:59 pm ET)
         
      Do not insult Hannity and Morris you naive imbeciles. When the terrorists bomb America again, and they will, all bleeding heart liberals should be shipped off to Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Saudie Arabia, Afganistan and or any other "friendly" misunderstood poor al Quaeda brothers. They should put you all in their prisons. Then and only then will you realize that Hannity and Morris are dead right. These people are at WAR, Obama and his menions want to make nice with these barbarians.

      They will not "waterboard" you, that is like taking a shower...that is too easy...they will simply torture you; sort of like pulling out your nails, cutting off a couple of fingers...you get the idea..then and only then will you find peace. Killing you will bring you peace. Fools!
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    • Author by sepirothpk (January 05, 2010 12:28 am ET)
         
      So it would have been better to break international laws and the constitution itself? Right, because that's going to help your case
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    • Author by Bobby Jindal fan (January 05, 2010 12:42 am ET)
         
      I agree with Sean on this. Congress passed the Military Commissions Act and the Supreme Court upheld their constitutionality in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

      The president can declare someone an enemy combatant and provide for a military trial. Obviously this guy was not a lone wolf. We would waterboard him to learn the names of his accomplices and then hit them in Yemen with Predator strikes. He knows the names of others who trained alongside him in Yemen to do this. Waterboarding is effective - it works. KSM gave up the name Ayman Faris when he was waterboarded and we thrwarted an attack.

      I think we are irresponsible if we don't waterboard him to see what he knows. I agree with Dick Morris that it shouldn't be admissible in his trial, but we could certainly use the information to prevent future strikes.
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    • Author by Ms Net (January 05, 2010 12:50 am ET)
         
      Hannity is still speaking about waterboarding. Hannity was offered money to his favorite charity by Keith Olbermann to try it and of course being a CHICKEN he (Hannity) has not stepped up to the plate. But yet again, he has the nerve to mention "waterboarding" for someone other than himself to have it done.
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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (January 05, 2010 3:57 am ET)
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      From most of the news reporting Abdulmutallab seems to have started talking right on the airplane. So let me get this straight, the guys talking, and they still want to torture him?

      These guys claim they are supposedly Christians? How can anyone in their right mind not see through this junk?

      Oh that's right, they aren't in their right mind. They are right wing blowhards.
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      • Author by OldCon (January 05, 2010 6:50 am ET)
           
        Yeah, he started talking and might have been willing to continue to talk, until he lawyered up. This piece of garbage is an enemy combatant and should be treated as such. If he was willing to talk, great. If not, enhanced interrogation and waterboarding is fine with me.
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    • Author by jbrantow (January 05, 2010 7:22 am ET)
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      Hannity the chicken hawk was too much of a coward to live up to his promise to be waterboarded himself for charity. This low life hypocrite is so transparent and pathetic. A perfect rethuglican and teabagger leader.
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      • Author by thecynic (January 06, 2010 2:03 pm ET)
           
        A veterans charity no less. It's despicable he was allowed to renege on his offer, apparently Hannity hates our vets.

        He should be forced to go through with his promise and publicly humiliated every day until he does. I'm disappointed that this was dropped by MSNBC and other liberal outlets so quickly. FOX wouldn't let something like this die off so easily.
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    • Author by enjoyingtheshow (January 05, 2010 12:02 pm ET)
         
      The day that every senior politician on both sides of the party divide agree to submit to even one single waterboarding each I might begin to support that idea.

      You want to talk about how we should be waterboarding people? You first.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (January 05, 2010 2:27 pm ET)
         
      Hannity on Abdulmutallab: "We ought to be waterboarding this guy"

      You first Hannity!
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    • Author by tman418 (January 05, 2010 7:44 pm ET)
         
      I'm surprised he didn't cite Obama's ban of torture as a reason for this attempted terrorist attack.
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