Conservative radio hosts gets waterboarded, and lasts six seconds before saying its torture

[kpete]

And so it went Friday morning when WLS radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller decided to subject himself to the controversial practice of waterboarding live on his show.

"I want to find out if it's torture," Mancow told his listeners Friday morning, adding that he hoped his on-air test would help prove that waterboarding did not, in fact, constitute 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.

..............

"I wanted to prove it wasn't torture," Mancow said. "They cut off our heads, we put water on their face...I got voted to do this but I really thought 'I'm going to laugh this off.' "

The upshot? "It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that's no joke," Mancow told listeners. "It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your nose with your head back...It was instantaneous...and I don't want to say this: absolutely torture."

more at:
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Mancow-Takes-on-Waterboarding-and-Loses.html
via:
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/conservative-radio-hosts-waterboarded/

[Bluebear]

1. 6 seconds! My big brave conservative hero!

[Happyhippychick]

2. That's impressive. I listened to his show for five seconds before saying it was torture.

[Cant trust em]

3. an actual laugh out loud.

Most of the time when I wind up typing "lol" it's pretty funny, but not actually laugh out loud funny.

[Happyhippychick]

7. ..

:*

[Bluebear]

5. I digress here, but at least he lasted longer at waterboarding than making love :)

[Happyhippychick]

8. Talk about torture! His poor wife. I can see her pleading for waterboarding instead of that.

[DangerousRhythm]

48. Cheney... love?

Does. Not. Compute.

*KABOOM*

[FSogol]

22. A Duzy! n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. It doesn't take a dumbass to tell you waterboarding is torture...

...but Mancow did it anyways.

[Truth2Tell]

6. At least he had the guts to do it... unlike someone... nt

[eShirl]

9. Didn't Christopher Hitchens last longer than Man-on-cow?

[Bucky]

11. It was about that long, give or take a second.

It may not be a valid test of who's toughest. Quite possibly Hitch's reflexes are just slowed up by years of martini abuse.

[Robb]

39. It's martini "practice." Or even "training."

...Not "abuse!" :rofl:

[closeupready]

28. Hitchens didn't say how long, but he DID say it was an embarrassingly short session.

And that, like Mancow, he had gone into it thinking waterboarding was NOT torture.

[gkhouston]

42. For all we know, that may be typical. I wouldn't think it would take long for your

body to override your intellect and said, "Hell, no, we're bailing out of this 'experiment' and breathing!"

Points to the talk show host for not trying to weasel out of calling it torture after he'd actually experienced it.

[Lorien]

49. You can time him here:

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/video/2008/hitchens_video200808

Video courtesy of PassingFair.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Kudos to him for trying it and telling the truth about it being torture.

[Kurovski]

17. It really took guts, and I agree...

but having heard Mancow in the past, I also agree with Happyhippychick.

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. Oh yeah, no doubt he espouses excremental ideas for a living but credit where credit is due. :^)

[Fresh_Start]

18. I agree with both points

he deserves some credit

[cali]

12. I am in his debt and so are you. don't know who the fuck this guy is

but he tried it and didn't lie about it. he's calling it torture, and I'm grateful to him for calling it like it is.

[roguevalley]

35. his idiot listeners can't argue with him about it anymore. consider

having that done to you 183 times. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

[Hepburn]

13. IMO, Hannity should try it...

...just to make sure the other guy is correct.

I do have to give credit to the RW radio guy: At least he stood up for what he thought, tried it and when he found it was torture ~~ he came clean on it.

Better than most RWs ~~ that I will give him.

JMHO

[KansDem]

14. Wait! Shouldn't he experience this another 182 times before deciding?

183 x 6 seconds = 18'18"

C'mon, Mancow! It's only another 18 minutes and 12 seconds! You can do it!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Wonder what his fans and our friends on that other site think of this.

[KGodel]

16. Lucky he's a MANcow and not a girliecow or sissycow.

Helps to make the point.

This is all so sick.

[fishwax]

19. at least he tried it and was honest about it

Personally, I'm convinced it's torture without going through it myself :)

[Hubert Flottz]

20. Rush should try it on his show too...

And how about Cheney, Bush, Rummy and the rest of the chickenshit chickenhawks?

[izquierdista]

25. Rush could last a long time

All his hot air would turn the water to steam. Clouds of steam would fill the room, the more that was poured on him, the more he would look like a cooling tower.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

33. Not to mention with all the Oxycotin in his system....

....he probably wouldn't recognize the situation being real in the first place.

[Journeyman]

21. I wonder what plastic toy Abu Zubaydah had to signify he'd had enough . . .

[LynnTheDem]

23. That would perhaps explain why the Spanish Inquisition used waterboarding so often, hmmm?

Perhaps that would also explain why the Chinese used it so much.

And perhaps that would explain why America EXECUTED Japanese officers who used it on US troops.

Waterboarding is in fact TORTURE.

TORTURE is in fact a CRIME.

It's what EVIL-DOERS do.

[Raineyb]

24. What the hell is wrong with this fool that he needed to be waterboarded to know it was torture?

Seriously, how daft is he?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

32. The words "conservative talk show host" should explain everything.

On the entire AM dial the combined IQ of all the syndicated conservative talk show hosts can't be more than 25.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

43. Maybe he thought he was as tough as our troops who endure it.

[progressoid]

26. C'mon Sean, it's your turn!!

[Brewman_Jax]

27. Another RW talking head gets pnwed

It's no great feat to state the obvious. :eyes:

Going on live forced the scumbag to do what most RWers hate to do: tell the truth. :hide:

[suchadeal]

30. At least he had the guts to try it

Maybe some of this listeners will get the message that torture is wrong.

[merh]

31. How many conservative talking heads have to be tortured

before it is an accepted fact - waterboarding is torture?

I've got a list of those that should give it a go - voluntarily of course.

[bigtree]

34. good for him

for admitting it.

[shadowknows69]

36. And the truth will set you free

Or at least make you pee.

[Marr]

37. Where's the big man Hannity?

Conservatives are apparently completely incapable of putting themselves in another person's shoes-- it's amazing to me. I don't have to experience waterboarding to know it's torture. The description is quite sufficient. But Conservatives just shrug it off as nothing *until they experience it themselves*.

What the hell is wrong with these people? I've seen the same personality trait come out on so many different subjects. For instance, I knew a conservative woman who bitched constantly about paying for Social Security and things like Medicare, but she was the first on in line when it came her turn to collect-- and the benefits are never enough. Now she says it's not enough, it's so unfair, etc., etc.

[shadowknows69]

38. Think you just answered your own question

[Lorien]

50. Empathy is usually lacking in sociopaths

and authoritarians are notoriously short on imagination, too.

[safeinOhio]

40. Hey Sean and Rush

If it is not torture and you know it is a test and you won't die, then you should be able to go an hour if the only way for you to stop it is to say it IS torture. I would think the meaning of torture is an act that would make you tell the person something that you are unwilling to say under any condition other than TORTURE.

[Optical.Catalyst]

53. Right wing radio mouth pieces are all well and good

I want to see each and everyone of the Bush Administration who justified this with the term "Enhanced Interrogation Technique" get waterboarded on National Television.

If they said 'EIT' in public, they get water up the nose along with a camera and a microphone to state for the American people (and the whole world) that waterboarding is not torture.

Start out with Dick Cheney and follow on with the rest.

Condoleezza Rice
Don Rumsfeld
John Ashcroft
Albert0 Gonzales
Tom Ridge
Michael Chertoff

[Gold Metal Flake]

41. This is exactly why Hannity won't do it.

He knows it is torture, and he can't afford to weaken his extreme right wing position on torture. He is paid well to espouse the fascist line, and 6 seconds of water torture would force him to tell the truth.

[Echo In Light]

44. ...and then some

:thumbsup:

[Shell Beau]

51. Yep! And why would he sign up to call himself a liar?

Ain't gonna happen!

[Kurovski]

45. This news will definitely be on old man Olbermann's Happy-Time Story Hour.

Doncha'think? :thumbsup:

[Wednesdays]

46. K&R

:kick:

[livefreest]

47. this was hilarious. next week, this guy will be on Countdown with Keith.

i wonder how conservative talking heads are going to trash him now. from now on, every republican or conservative saying water-boarding is not torture should prove by subjecting themselves to water boarding.:rofl:

[jeff30997]

54. The trashing has already started.

On Youtube they are calling him a wimp,among other things that I won't mention here.

[BigBearJohn]

52. and Mancow is a MAJOR conservative asshole.

[Joey Liberal]

55. Mancow is a complete jerk. nt