Radio Shock Jock Mancow Gets Waterboarded
That’s right. Waterboarding is so terrible, so awful, that radio show hosts do it for publicity.
Allah at Hot Air adds some perspective:
I’m too lazy on an afternoon before a holiday weekend to check our archives for how many clips I’ve posted of private citizens voluntarily waterboarding themselves to prove how awful it is. Suffice it to say the number’s greater than three, which of course is the total number of terrorists waterboarded by the CIA.
Watching it, it still amazes me that people call it torture. It’s certainly extremely unpleasant, but so is a root canal. Watching Mancow direct the guy doing the waterboarding to make sure his nose and that was clamped I couldn’t help but laugh.
Mancow refers to the waterboarding as “torture,” but that term is entirely to subjective (for some of us hearing Obama stutter his way through a speech without his teleprompter is “torture”) and the debate over whether waterboarding is or isn’t “torture” is all but meaningless.
The real question is: Would you waterboard someone to save lives? And given that waterboarding results in no lasting physical harm, given that it’s amounts to little more than stimulating a person’s drowning reflexes thus scaring the bejesus out of them but not really hurting them in any way, I think the answer has to be “yes.”
Because if we aren’t willing to dump some water on the face of a jihadi to save American lives what kind of country are we?
