Waterboarding: Not the Same as Being in the Tub

Waterboarding – everyone’s doing it these days!  First zany writer Christopher Hitchens did it and was like, yeah it sucked.  Well, scratch that: first, the U.S. government did it and was like, it’s not that bad, people.  Anyway, now some sort of right-winger Fred-in-the-morning radio clown has tried it out on himself to prove it isn’t torture.  Eric “Mancow” Muller (want to be taken seriously as a political pundit?  One tip I can think of would be “don’t call yourself ‘Mancow.’”) got his face watered and his reaction is making its way around the internet.  

Mancow sez: “I thought, ‘this is gonna be no big deal.  I go swimming.  It’s gonna be like being in the tub.’”

It wasn’t, though.  Video and bonus video of Christopher Hitchens doing the breathless dance, ATJ:  

Perhaps the funniest part of this is when Mancow explains that as a child, he had drowned and had to be resuscitated.  So then, he might have thought that simulated drowning would bring up bad memories, no?

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Source: The Atlantic.

But really, thanks to Susan for this one!!!