Reply #4: Olbermann's challenge/stunt is trivializing torture

[RufusTFirefly]

I know that Keith may mean well, but his challenge to Hannity is turning torture into a kind of reality show instead of an act of cruelty, injustice, and barbarism.

This is not a game, folks. Please don't further trivialize torture. I sincerely doubt that anyone who has survived torture would be cheering on this stunt.

It is offensive and potentially desensitizing.

Perhaps Hannity would endure the torture (many have, after all). What would that teach us? Would you be annoyed or disappointed?

Or perhaps he wouldn't. What would that teach us? Would you cheer? Or pump your fist in the air?

In either case, I think it would teach us that publicity, spectacle, and mean-spiritedness apparently have no limit or shame in this country.