Bread and Circus
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Wed Mar-04-09 05:47 PM
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Chistopher Hitchens gets waterboaded... |
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http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/video/2008/hitchens_video200808He doesn't last long and seems to draw some pretty profound conclusions from it. Sorry if this had been posted before.
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Wed Mar-04-09 05:48 PM
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1. Yeah this is ridiculously old. |
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Edited on Wed Mar-04-09 05:48 PM by vaberella
I saw this either on MSNBC or CNN...a news program had talked about it. I think it was MSNBC when it was on channel 40/44 in New YOrk.
But it's still freaky to this day..definitely lasts the tests of time.
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Bread and Circus
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Wed Mar-04-09 05:54 PM
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2. I just found it on Huffpo... I guess I missed the first train. |
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Wed Mar-04-09 05:58 PM
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3. De nada, you're here now. |
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It's scary isn't it?! Talk about cruel and unusual punishment and there were people who didn't see it as torture or defended it's usage. Pure stupidity.
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Wed Mar-04-09 06:25 PM
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but at least it made us realize that the man might be human after all.
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Wed Mar-04-09 07:31 PM
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5. I can't believe he agreed to it, but the fact that he did tells me |
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Edited on Wed Mar-04-09 07:35 PM by Phx_Dem
he really believed it wasn't going to be that bad. He wasn't just saying it for ideological reasons. Now he knows differently.
I'm no fan of Hitchens; I find him arrogant, condescending and rude but I have to admit he "walked the walk." Good for him.
Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rushbo . . . if you weren't such chickenshits, you'd either admit it's torture or do what Hitchens did and find out for yourself.
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Wed Mar-04-09 08:55 PM
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6. Thanks. I had never read that article. |
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I knew he had done it and the outcome, but the personal report is chilling.
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Wed Mar-04-09 10:37 PM
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7. Judging from his general libation habits, water must TERRIFY him |
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I'm reminded of the wag at the end of "A Star Is Born" after our heroine's sot of a husband suicides himself in the surf: "First drink of water he's had in 20 years, and then he had to get it by accident."
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