Chicago radio host Erich “Mancow” Muller decided he’d get himself waterboarded to prove the technique wasn’t torture.
It didn’t turn out that way. “Mancow,” in fact, lasted just six or seven seconds before crying foul. Apparently, the experience went pretty badly – “Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw the toy cow he was holding as his emergency tool to signify when he wanted the experiment to stop,” according to NBC Chicago.
Can’t people just put a washcloth over their mouths and try waterboarding at home if they’re so curious about it? Also, I thought Mancow was fairly libertarian/independent/whatever.
That’s cool, he was really up front about it afterwards and instantly called it torture. No need for sneering, seems like a pretty straightforward conversion.
It’s the cloth + the water + the angle + THE INABILITY TO STOP IT BY SAYING UNCLE that blend to make waterboarding what it is. What this guy and other stunt geniuses have done shows you a percentage of the experience, but for obvious reasons is never going to give a full accounting of what it’s like to have it done against your will and/or repeatedly. It’s impressive, though, that it’s so immediately, ass-kickingly unpleasant anyways.
No one should try it at home or without some serious infrastructure to back you up if something goes wrong. I’ll make an exception for you, though, as a celebration of your newfound “deadpan” status.
That’s a bit unfair, but certainly there is a class of conservatives that falls under that, yeah. Way too many, too. OTOH, I think a lot of liberals are OVERLY sensitive and end up expressing pity rather than sympathy, which isn’t a great virtue either.
Mancow is the reason that I am an avid NPR listener.
Seriously, when we lived in Chicago-land 10 years ago, our favorite morning show was axed for mancow. He’s a racist sexist ass. The guy is just mean. (And I like Howard Stern and juvenile humor). Trying to get waterboarded and failing does not surprise me.
