Mancow Waterboarded: Admits Instantly That It’s Torture

By Daniel Miessler on May 23rd, 2009: Tagged as Politics

I give Mancow, a conservative talk ratio personality, significant credit for going through with this, and readily changing his mind in such a public fashion.

But I give Christopher Hitchens more credit. The way he did it was with all the trappings of an interrogation. He was strapped down. He was blindfolded. It was scary before it even started.

Mancow was able to control everything, including where the towel was placed over his face. Still, he did it and I give him props for that. But Hitchens has my utmost respect.

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Here’s Hitchens doing the same thing:

All I want for Christmas is Sean Hannity and Dick Cheney on that demonstration table. ::

  • http://www.seanmcollins.com/ Sean

    I saw this on Countdown and it took the whole program for it to sink in. Astounding. I give Mancow huge amounts of respect for putting his money where his mouth is.

  • http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel Miessler

    Same here.

  • http://www.seanmcollins.com/ Sean

    I saw this on Countdown and it took the whole program for it to sink in. Astounding. I give Mancow huge amounts of respect for putting his money where his mouth is.

  • http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel Miessler

    Same here.

  • http://www.alfin2500.blogspot.com/ Alice

    Your point is valid if the person denies that waterboarding is torture. Cheney no doubt knows the technique is torture, but who knows about Hannity?

    Publicly expressing the wish that someone be tortured is a fine way to promote compassionate atheism. Why not put together a torture wish list?

    Personally, I would like to see Nancy Pelosi waterboarded for her recent hypocrisy, but that's just me.

  • http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel Miessler

    You have two major problems with your comment.

    1. Hannity has expressed MANY times that he doesn't believe waterboarding is torture. This is widely known and is the entire reason he's been a focal point of the debate.

    2. I didn't propose that anyone be actually tortured. I proposed that they go through the DEMO of being tortured. What's the difference, you ask? When it's a demo you can tell them to stop.

    Perhaps you'd like another pass at commenting?


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