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Megyn Kelly Panelist On GITMO’s $750,000 Soccer Field: It Saves Money On Detainee Health Care

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Update: A representative from AstroTurf reached out to us to clarify that the soccer field was actually installed by another brand, not AstroTurf.

Yesterday, America Live reported that GITMO is unveiling a new $750,000 soccer field for its detainees as part of the facility’s three recreational centers. Today, host Megyn Kelly brought on a panel made up of two Christophers to discuss things further: liberal Fox News contributor Christopher Hahn and radio host Chris Plante

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Hahn (after wrapping up a previous discussion involving radio host Mark Levin) began by saying that the President cannot realistically close down GITMO at this time. Although, as Kelly pointed out, “not closing down” and “adding a pretty damn expensive, taxpayer-funded soccer field for suspected terrorists to play on” are two fairly different matters. “It’s kind of hard to grow grass there, I’m sure,” said Hahn. “So, you know, they’re buying the ‘turf’ to save some money.” As Kelly and Plante recovered, Hahn added that, besides, the field allows the detainees to exercise and remain healthy, thus ultimately saving money on health care costs.

“Jihadis love two things,” added Plante, “death and soccer, apparently.”

The two Christophers were at odds over Hahn’s assertion that, at the end of the day, President Obama is “winning on foreign policy, and Republicans know that.”

“Really?!” Plante responded, breaking into laughter.

The discussion then turned to whether or not grass can indeed grow in Cuba as well as whether the detainees can be trusted to mow the lawn for themselves if the field were to include real grass.

Kelly’s reaction? “I gotta run. Thanks, guys.”

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  • From Russia With Gloves

    What ? No golf course ?

    Call the ACLU !

  • JustAsking2012

    “Jihadis love two things,” added Plante, “death and soccer, apparently.

    Who said they’re two different things?
    http://articles.cnn.com/2012-02-02/africa/world_africa_egypt-soccer-deaths_1_soccer-violence-suez-canal-soccer-riot?_s=PM:AFRICA

  • http://twitter.com/mattparkerfl Matt Parker

    Of course this is absurd. It just reinforces the complete idiocy of keeping Guantanamo Bay open and continuing  to spend billions of dollars every month on the locked up “terrorists” at Gitmo and a failed and rapidly disintegrating occupation of Afghanistan. How many teachers could have been hired with the money wasted on a Gitrmo soccer field? how many kids could go to school, or new jobs created? Our fetishes with wars and locking up “detainees” are bankrupting America.  http://www.sunstateactivist.org

  • Anonymous

    They should plant anti personnel mines in the soccer field and sell tickets. Field will pay for itself after first game. 

  • From Russia With Gloves

    Maw is down in Tehachapi right now and all they got in the rec room is a broken ping pong table and a black and white TV.

    When I was at Q, we stayed healthy by lifting weights and staying away from the skinheads.

  • Anonymous

    Erm… maybe if Bush hadn’t started the “war on terror” we wouldn’t need a gitmo… lol, Fox News is really helping Republicans lose the election. 

  • Anonymous

    Wait a minute, the only reason Gitmo is still open is republicans claimed terrorists would be running in the streets if we brought them to an American super-max prison.  Now they’re whining about the cost of keeping them in Gitmo…..give me a break!

  • Anonymous

    How would you react to the terrorist attacks on 911?

  • Anonymous

    I’m a liberal, so no, I wouldn’t attack two countries that had nothing to do with 9/11. Then set up a zone where I can break American laws because I’m not in America, and call it Gitmo. Get a clue, your side is making America look like ****.

  • Anonymous

    I think Snowspot you would be a better frenchmen then an American! You have a retreat, hide your head in the sand, very cowardly attitude. I am so glad we dont have many of your type in this country!

  • SNAPTIE “Hope to Blame”

    Liar…Harry Reid and Senate Votes 90-6 to Keep Gitmo Open and detainees at Gitmo.  http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=7633754&page=3

  • http://profiles.google.com/anonymoususr . .

    You are the precise definition of American classic salvagism, er, exceptionalism

  • Anonymous

    Rather would be cowardly then bankrupt the country. Haha. Loser conservatives still don’t understand why Bush lost.

    We got the Statue of Liberty from the French and they helped inspire our own independence from Great Britain. In fact, many of our ideas of how to run a country come from the French.

    You guys lost the election because of the war, and you still don’t have a clue, lol. Iraqi’s didn’t attack us, what don’t you understand? Our enemies wanted us to overreach, ruin our values, invade countries, destroy our image.. and people like you have no shame and buy right into that. On top of that, you have no idea what the word “cowardly” means. You’re really pathetic.

  • BooBoo Bear

     The US could have paid for TRUE Universal Healthcare for all with the money spent in Afghanistan & Iraq for years.

    True Universal Healthcare the European/Canadian way.
    Not the Obama version, which just lets people buy insurance, even those with pre-existing conditions.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyrell-Vance/100001724083380 Tyrell Vance

    No Snow job here, lets just shoot everyone of the Gitmo detainees and then we can just shut her down next week.

  • BooBoo Bear

     Joe doesn’t understand the word “suspected”. He’s a Bushite who believes everyone that is suspected is guilty. He doesn’t understand the American “Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyrell-Vance/100001724083380 Tyrell Vance

    Bush lost what, get your facts straight.  Oh thats right you are a liberal, can’t get your story confused with facts.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyrell-Vance/100001724083380 Tyrell Vance

    The only reason Gitmo is still open is because our wonderful administration doesn’t want to deal with them like we should.  Just blow them all away and close the damn place.

  • Anonymous

     So let’s attack Libya, then, right?

  • Anonymous

    Harry Reid and the rest of the Pussy Democrats caved to pressure from the right and the unrelenting stream of lies coming from Fox news.  Fox news sent a “reporter” to then Rep. Jack Murtha’s district in Pa. and showed them pictures of captured terrorists and asked if they wanted them living in their backyards.  Typical of Fox, they worked the fear angle and smeared Murtha for suggesting we close Gitmo and move the terrorists to a Super-max prison in the states.

  • Anonymous

    I fixed it, thanks :P

  • Anonymous

    21st century version of an internment camp operated by another Democratic president

  • Anonymous

    Yeah… and our “attack” on Libya is over. Whereas, the wars Bush started have gone on for nearly a decade… is this hard to figure out on your own?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/IMV632O25TUUNCMDYKQ4GY7U2Y Shawn H

    Just blow them away? You should head overseas and join with Al-Qaeda, you certainly share their morals and barbarism. 

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