[This story made me shamefully gleeful. Nothing like evil, arrogant othering stupidity being hoist by its own petard.]
http://www.alternet.org/story/140205/
Posted on May 22, 2009 From Raw Story
Right-Wing Radio Host Gets Waterboarded, and Lasts Six Seconds Before Saying It's Torture
By John Byrne, Editor, Raw Story
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.
"The average person can take this for 14 seconds," Marine Sergeant Clay
South told his audience before he was waterboarded on air. "He's going
to wiggle, he's going to scream, he's going to wish he never did this."
Mancow was set on a 7-foot long table with his legs elevated and his
feet tied.
"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."
"Absolutely. I mean that's drowning," he added later. "It is the
feeling of drowning."
"If I knew it was gonna be this bad, I would not have done it," he
said.
The 42-year-old radio host is no stranger to controversy. In 2005, he
was maligned for saying that then-Democratic National Committee
Chairman Howard Dean was "vile," "bloodthirsty," "evil" and "should be
kicked out of America."
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John Byrne is editor of Raw Story.
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