Mancow's waterboarder admits he didn't know what he was doing, also Mancow admits. . .

[wndycty]

. . . he meant for it to be a joke. LOL

http://gawker.com/5272691/mancows-waterboarding-was-completely-fake?skyline=true&s=x

From Klay South who performed the waterboarding:

"I know nothing about waterboarding. I had never done it before, I have no formal training in it, and I've never had it done to me. The only thing I knew was what I saw on the internet. I went to waterboarding.org and looked it up. I just did what I was told—poured the water on his face and that was it. I'm probably the last person they should have had do it. I didn't know what I was doing."

FROM MANCOW:

"We went into this thinking it was going to be a joke," Muller said very quickly when we called him. "But it was not a joke—it was horrible. 'Hoax' is probably not the right word, but we did think it was going to be a joke.""

[EFerrari]

1. That sounds exactly like Mancow. n/t

[Fleshdancer]

2. The actual act isn't rocket science

It obviously had the desired result so it appears the waterboarder did it correctly.

[shadowknows69]

3. Well then he's an idiot as well as ideologically handicapped

Stupid bastard could have drown for real that time.

[bullwinkle428]

4. So it's not torture if the person doing it has a degree in waterboarding?

:eyes:

[Merlot]

6. It's a little less torture if the person doing it is your friend

and you aren't surrounded by guards who don't speak your language, and have guns. And if you think they might just let you die, well, then it's a little more torture.

There's physical torture, and there is mental torture. mancow got the physical only and called it torture.

[RamboLiberal]

5. Mancow will be on KO tonight

What's more, Gawker claims the staff at Countdown with Keith Olbermann knew of the email exchange prior to his booking on Countdown Tuesday night.

An MSNBC spokesperson tells TVNewser, "We were assured by the publicist that this was just a poor choice of words in her haste to find someone to do the waterboarding."

> Update: Mancow responds to Gawker: "We went into this thinking it was going to be a joke. But it was not a joke — it was horrible. 'Hoax' is probably not the right word, but we did think it was going to be a joke."

> Update 2: Gawker's John Cook also talked with Klay South, the marine who performed the waterboarding: "I know nothing about waterboarding. I had never done it before, I have no formal training in it, and I've never had it done to me. The only thing I knew was what I saw on the internet. I went to waterboarding.org and looked it up. I just did what I was told-poured the water on his face and that was it. I'm probably the last person they should have had do it. I didn't know what I was doing."

> Update 3: Mancow will be a guest on Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight (Friday) to address the situation.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/msnbc/was_mancows_waterboarding_staged_117660.asp