On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> [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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