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Coltrane Donating Member (261 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 09:44 AM
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FOX News promotes Torture Video!
Sean Hannity talks to narrator Mark Taylor from "Buried in the Sand"
scenes of torture shown repeatedly throughout the segment

Hannity: Think to yourself how this compares to photographs of American soldiers last spring, you know, pictures of underwear on peoples heads etc.. that shocked the American country...
Mark: It's gratifying to me that on Amazon.com, we just displaced Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 as the number one documentary...
Hannity: I want everybody to please buy this video !

http://www.crooksandliars.com has the video!
It is clear that Hannity is down playing our role in Abu Ghraib to, as Limbaugh stated "a sorority prank!", while justifying the war in Iraq because of an evil, tortuous dictator, rather than what was originally given to the American people: a war against terrorism!


Why do certain right wingers have this affinity for violence and torture, yet anything even remotely sexual is taboo?

You show a whipping, a good beating and that won't scar our children?

Ann Coulter (MNF skit): Violence has been around since Punch and Judy, since Cowboys and Indian movies. There is an enormous difference between violence and smut. They (kids) are not watching real blood, they're not real bullets. When you see for example nudity, it's a real woman. This is specifically corrupting and degrading...

Did Ann watch Saving Private Ryan or The Passion of the Christ? How could a child tell if those were fake bullets, phony arms and heads exploding? Would a child be able to discern the agony Christ faced at the hands of the Romans as make believe?

However, if children get a glimpse at Nicollette Sheridan's naked back, they are unable to draw the same conclusion that violence holds?


FOX News promotes Torture Video!

Hannity talks to narrator Mark Taylor from "Buried in the Sand"

Hannity: Think to yourself how this compares to photographs of American soldiers last spring, you know, pictures of underwear on peoples heads etc.. that shocked the American country...


Mark: It's gratifying to me that on Amazon.com, we just displaced Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 as the number one documentary...

Hannity: I want everybody to please buy this video !

Video there are scenes of tortue in this segment

It is clear that Hannity is down playing our role in Abu Ghraib to, as Limbaugh stated "a sorority prank!", while justifying the war in Iraq because of an evil, tortuous dictator, rather than what was originally given to the American people: a war against terrorism!


Why do certain right wingers have this affinity for violence and torture, yet anything even remotely sexual is taboo?

You show a whipping, a good beating and that won't scar our children?

Ann Coulter (MNF skit): Violence has been around since Punch and Judy, since Cowboys and Indian movies. There is an enormous difference between violence and smut. They (kids) are not watching real blood, they're not real bullets. When you see for example nudity, it's a real woman. This is specifically corrupting and degrading...

Did Ann watch Saving Private Ryan or The Passion of the Christ? How could a child tell if those were fake bullets, phony arms and heads exploding? Would a child be able to discern the agony Christ faced at the hands of the Romans as make believe?

However, if children get a glimpse at Nicollette Sheridan's naked back, they are unable to draw the same conclusion that violence holds.
As with John O'Neal, Hannity will let Mark Taylor be a frequent guest.

PopMatters review excerpt: The film falls laughingly short of the "documentary journalism" status conferred by the producers in terms of both form and content. Like so much hard-line rhetoric, Buried dresses its "truth" in bogeyman foreboding

EfilmCritic: Finally! A film that combats the liberal view that we should not be in Iraq! A film that argues how Iraq is better off today thanks to the removal of Saddam Hussein,Oh, wait, this is not that film.

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Francesca Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 09:50 AM
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1. @#&$%#*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would love to play a "fraternity prank" on Hannity and Coulter...
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 09:51 AM
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2. You have to love someone who thinks that displacing Moore's
film at number one for a day or two after months at the top and record breaking theatrical release is "gratifying."

The guy should come back once his "film" has actually done anything close to what Moore's accomplished.
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Vasmosn Donating Member (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 09:56 AM
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3. So I guess then....
that Coulter would ok let's say cartoon sex since they're not "real" women. So all the anime should be deemed viewable by kids. I'm sure a lot of kids wonder what the sex lives of their favorite superheroes are like. How did she ever get a job anyway?
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johnfunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-22-04 06:57 PM
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4. FOX News Channel itself IS a torture video... that having been said...
... it's no surprise that Sean Hannity was the one exploiting torture. Let Freedom Ring, my rosy prolapsed sphincter!
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