This is what happens when I set my attention on some media clown, everything they do turns out to be shady or deceptive in some way and makes me feel stupid for even bringing them up. Of course, it probably was real and they are just saying this so waterboarding doesn't look as bad as it did in that video.
Mancow's Waterboarding was completely fake
Okay, read this next part and tell me if it makes any sense whatsoever:
UPDATE: Mancow called us back to say that even though his waterboarder didn't know what he was doing, and his publicist called the whole thing a "hoax," it wasn't supposed to be a REALLY real waterboarding to begin with. Just the radio stunt kind! "Of course I wasn't a radical terrorist," he said. "Of course it was simulated. To compare what I went through to what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed went through—of course it was not the same. I'm sure it was worse for them."
Undoubtedly it was. But isn't the whole point of these exercises to let people know exactly what we talk about when we talk about waterboarding? We've learned that Mancow can't take six seconds of having water poured on his face—we guess he doesn't take showers?—but we've learned absolutely nothing about the mechanics or ethics of what goes on at CIA black sites. If anything, a bullshit stunt like this one gives ammunition to torture proponents, who can poke holes in Muller's grand conversion by pointing out that it's a bullshit stunt. Keith Olbermann and other righteous anti-torture advocates are holding up Muller's experience as evidence—someone who was inclined to support waterboarding and deny that it's torture has actually experienced it, which Sean Hannity and his ilk lack the courage to do, and the facts have changed his mind. Only he hasn't actually experienced it, or anything remotely approaching what actual torture victims experienced. None of it is real.
What kind of crack are these people smoking? By "these people" I mean Mancow and whoever else decides to make light of a horrible situation.
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Fuck I'm retarded. This is what comes to mind...
I feel bad for laughing at that! I remember he was electrocuted for asking about John Kerry's Skull and Bones membership, maybe that's why these people joke about it so much... To cover it up and make it look like he deserved it.
If anyone's retarded here it's me for actually paying attention to any sort of corporate news media.
Very well put, Chris! That is why I choose to present "minor, small-time" news stories, so it doesn't have quite as much corporate ooze emanating from it, which usually gives an added effect of "man, we're screwed".
I don't doubt Mancow had to take special education courses in school. His life story is one huge mistake after another, and you have to wonder if some people just lack any sense of shame.
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