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Via Five Feet of Fury, I came across a story at Gawker that seems to show “Mancow” Muller’s waterboarding was faked!

Here’s the key email that was sent, one day before he was waterboarded,

  From: [redacted]
  Date: Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:38 PM
  To: [redacted]
  Cc: [redacted]
  Subject: Re: URGENT

  You are a ROCK STAR!!!

  It is going to have to look “real” but of course would be simulated with Mancow acting like he is drowning. It will be a hoax but have to look real. Would be great if they could dress in fatigues and bring whatever is needed. We will supply the water

Of course, they’re denying this is a hoax, but assuming Gawker has the real deal—and I have no reason to think that they don’t—I doubt they’ll stick to their story for long.

Now, here’s a guy who’s supposed to be a “right wing” shock jock (I’ve heard of the guy, but have never listened to his show nor even knew prior to his waterboarding that he was supposed to be “right wing”). So naturally, when he said waterboarding was “torture,” liberals loved it. It made news all over the place. This guy was on Olbermann. He got tremendous publicity out of this—and meanwhile, it was playing all of you. All you liberals got suckered. I love it!

Let me also just say this: not only is Mancow a worthless piece of human debris for doing this, all of the liberals who rushed out to shout, “Waterboarding is torture because Mancow says so” are almost as idiotic as the guy who hoaxed you.

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1) Mancow volunteered to do this live on his radio show. How many people would genuinely volunteer to be tortured? Anybody out there want to have your toes broken with a hammer? Okay then, who wants to have bamboo shoots jammed under your fingernails? Anybody? All right, lets go halfway and use a technique the terrorists actually use against our guys—who volunteers to have a power drill run through his leg? Nobody? But, but, but…people are falling all over themselves to get waterboarded, so they can talk to the press about it? Why aren’t they willing to have these other forms of “torture” done to them? It’s obvious. The reason people are willing to be waterboarded is that while it may be extremely unpleasant, it’s not torture. They know it will be a short, miserable experience, then it will be over and they’ll suffer no lasting effects or trauma from the experience.

2) 30 seconds after Mancow was waterboarding, he was talking live on the radio. How can that be if it’s “torture?”

Let me just put it this way: waterboarding isn’t torture. I’m not the least bit sorry, embarrassed, or troubled that it was used at Guantanamo Bay. In fact, I wouldn’t have been troubled if it had been used on fifty times as many prisoners. They’re terrorists who use real torture on our men. Stop crying into your pillow about how tough they have it. Last but not least, I hope the United States uses waterboarding again after Obama is out of office.
 

Looks like Mancow is a member of the leftie/libertarian Liars Club.