Christopher Hitchens Getting Waterboarded Is Not As Fun As It Sounds
Christopher Hitchens, a humorless man who wrote that dumb thing about how he thinks women can't be funny, agreed to be waterboarded on video for an article about torture in next month's Vanity Fair. Unlike real prisoners, Hitchens gets a safe word (it's "red" and you might want to remember it, just in case), and two "metal objects" that he can release when he wants the waterboarding to stop. Here's the video, set to terrible melodramatic music, probably because waterboarding doesn't seem to be the most cinematic of torture techniques. If you dislike Mr. Hitchens, though, there's a wonderful satisfying moment when the metal objects fall to the floor with the clinking sound of him being a pussy. How brilliant would it have been if Vanity Fair had replaced the official torturers at the last minute with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler?
Posted by Lindsay at 2:37 PM in SNAP!
Tags: Amy Poehler | Christopher Hitchens | Tina Fey | Torture Porn
He should follow this up by trying the death penalty.
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Seriously, who chose the music? I guess I've never thought about the type of music that should be played to set the mood for torture. Maybe this was a good choice?
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I think the music is actually being played in the room while he's being boarded. He mentions it in the article, calling it "New Age techno-disco." Hitchens also mentions in the story that he had to get a doctor's note to convince the North Carolina "friends" to agree to torture him, which I find oddly amusing.
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he's an ass
i second mtobeys postion
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