Olbermann Rescinds Charity Offer For Cowardly Hannity, Donates $10K For
Mancow’s Waterboarding »

Last month on his Fox News show, torture enthusiast Sean Hannity claimed
he would agree to be waterboarded “for charity…for the troops’s
families.” MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann immediately took up Hannity’s pledge,
offering $1,000 to charity for every second Hannity withstood waterboarding.

Over the next 30 days, Hannity went completely silent on his pledge,
opting not to go anywhere near the subject of waterboarding again.
Olbermann repeatedly reminded Hannity of his pledge to donate to charity
in his name, but to no avail.

Last night on Countdown, Olbermann announced that he was rescinding the
offer to Hannity, and instead giving $10,000 to charity following radio
host Erich “Mancow” Muller’s waterboarding attempt. Olbermann promised
to donate to the charity Veterans of Valor, founded by Sgt. Klay South,
who administered the waterboarding to Muller. Olbermann revealed that
Mancow’s publicist had contacted Olbermann’s show yesterday to see
whether Olbermann would make a similar offer to Mancow as he did for
Hannity:

OLBERMANN: Mancow Muller had the guts to put his mouth where his
mouth was, and the guts to admit he was dead wrong. As you saw, he not
only said it is torture, but that he had nearly drowned as a boy, and it
is drowning, and that he would have admitted to anything to make it stop.

So the offer to the coward Hannity — a thousand dollars a second he
lasted on the waterboard — is withdrawn.

And to Mr. Muller, whose station’s publicity person contacted us
yesterday saying she’d heard I’d offered ten thousand dollars to anybody
who would do what he did –

You got it. Ten thousand dollars to the military-families charity
of the man who did the waterboarding, Veterans Of Valor. [...]

As to Hannity, you are now unnecessary.