PROOF-Mancow Waterboarding Was a FRAUD

Gawker/The Lid ^ | 5/30/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

Earlier this week, radio "shock jock" Erich 'Mancow' Muller allowed himself to be waterboarded and declared most positively that waterboarding is torture. The conservative radio host called himself a changed and even appeared on Keith Olbermann's show to declare the evils of water boarding. Mancow was not telling the truth he wasn't really waterboarded, it was only a simulation to try to pump up his stagnant career.

Gawker, who the other day called Mancow a hero, changed its mind after receiving the following Emails:

[Dan Nunn]

Some “conservatives” eat their own to save their career, because they know that the media will fawn over them (at least until they are used, abused, and worn out). See also: Michael Smerconish.

[markedmannerf]

Very interesting...

[dfwgator]

Mancoward was always a fraud, he would steal his bits from Howard Stern.

[jackv]

The fact he’d go on olbermann’s show says it all. pig.

[colonialhk]

It was a forced baptism

[markedmannerf]

I thought it looked fake the first time I watched it. I never understood why they didn’t have his whole face covered.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“The conservative radio host called himself a changed and even appeared on Keith Olbermann’s show to declare the evils of water.”

A changed what? Tire? Diaper? Lightbulb?

[4rcane]

to be honest, his display actually damage his argument as it doesnt look that bad when he did it

[Snickering Hound]

"Manbearpig is NOT a fraud, he's very real. I'm superserial. Oh, you're talking about Mancow, never mind."

[theDentist]

(yawn) Did anyone really care? Obviously it was a stunt to gain more audience.

[This_far]

“I thought it looked fake the first time I watched it. I never understood why they didn’t have his whole face covered.”

Residuals.

[markedmannerf]

More on this HERE Apparently Gawker talked to the Marine that did the water boarding.

So we called Klay South, the marine Mancow found at the last minute to perform the waterboarding. He says he had no idea what he was doing! To wit: 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. That settles it for us! South is the founder of Veterans of Valor, a nonprofit that helps out wounded vets, and he said he agreed to the gig just to gain a donation and publicity for the organization, a noble enough reason. According to South's main resource, waterboarding.org, waterboarders should "restrain the interrogation subject on a board" and "incline the board about 15-20 degrees so that the feet are above the head." South says Muller's feet were bound, but his arms were not. And although his feet were elevated, he was laying on a flat surface. We asked South if it seemed like Muller was faking it: "I don't know. I couldn't tell you if he was in distress or not."

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Ya’ know, no ones denying that waterboarding is not rough and uncomfortable to deal with. The question is, is it the same as chopping off body parts or kneecapping someone with a drill which everyone agrees is torture. I still say no.

It doesn’t mean that we are going to give the government the okay to waterboard junior to find out where he got his crack cocaine. It does mean that if terrorists are captured and we believe that they have information on a terrorist plot coming to fruition in the U.S. the President should be able to authorize enhanced interrogation techniques to get the information needed to foil the plot.

Hitchens and Mancow both talk about the after effects mentally. Well, you’ll recover. You can’t recover your lost hand that Abdullah just chopped off. That’s torture...

[Paladin2]

I say we should waterboard the Koran in a toilet until it confesses.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Hitches is a typical liberal wussy. He didn’t last 10 seconds before he was crying like a little girl.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

One other thing, if you look at the experts that are doing it to Hitchens, they use short pours right over the nose/mouth area. If you look at Klay South, he just takes a pitcher of water and starts pouring. A lot of the time, he is missing the nose/mouth area and hitting his neck and chin.

[jaydubya2]

I have no past experiance with Mancow prior to WLS. I like Him and Cassidy. WLS is milking the waterboarding for as many promos as possible.

[markedmannerf]

Very true. The camera seems really far away on the Hitchens one as well.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Do you think the camera is far away because they don’t want to reveal the exact techniques up close? Also, I found it interesting that they were wearing ski masks. Were they actual CIA agents doing it?