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    Image of karion karion
    05/29/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    Fucking go, Cajun. This is awesome.
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    Image of DorothyBarker DorothyBarker
    05/29/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    This is my question though--the standard question to ask, usually, I think: Why? If Mancow is a right wing, torture-loving, Cheney/Bush/Gonzalez apologist why FAKE the waterboarding to then proclaim it absolutely is torture, worse than drowning, etc. etc.? The only thing he can do is alienate his base. What's his endgame? Until that becomes clear, I'm going to reserve judgment.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    America demands a do-over.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    So, basically, if I wanted to waterboard myself I could lay in my bathtub and turn the faucet on? Because I do that sometimes when I'm drunk and I've yet to admit to myself why I keep drinking.
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    05/28/09

    @Private Hangnail: This from the Mancow version, because Christ, Christopher Hitchens' made my head hurt.
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    Image of TittiBarr TittiBarr
    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    Well at least we're not talking about whether it's torture or not anymore. I guess we know the answer to that. The discussion has turned to DEGREES of torture. Hang Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld!
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    05/29/09

    @TittiBarr: Who isn't? A friend of mine told me last week that if I thought waterboarding was torture I didn't know what torture was. This from a woman who graduated from high school, got married, had a kid, and was a stay-at-home mom until the kid was 15 (coupla years ago). Where in that history does her torture expertise come from?


    (My personal feeling about having babies and then raising them aside.)

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    Image of kiyoshimartinez kiyoshimartinez
    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    So, when does Gawker do their own REAL waterboarding on one of their (un)lucky staffers?
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    05/28/09

    @kiyoshimartinez: It's like I said...watching the Mancow vid I sort of thought, "Hmmm...that doesn't look so bad." But then rewatching the Hitchens video wants me to have nothing to do with it at all.
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    05/28/09

    @jazzy: I was going to say, isn't Chicago radio jock and massive tool redundant? Except for Steve Dahl: disco still sucks.
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    05/28/09

    @belltolls: I don't know how that happened. I am not drinking or anything. That was for @jazzy.
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    Can someone who has friends please try this at home and let me know how this really goes? Thank you.
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    Image of jazzy jazzy
    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    Looking at the two side by side? and i think your whole face HAS to be covered doesn't it? it looked like he kept his mouth shut but the dude stopped long enough for him to breath out of his nose as well.


    I'm from Chicago. Mancow is a joke.

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    Image of MyCubeHas3Sides MyCubeHas3Sides
    05/29/09

    @jazzy: Also in Chicago and also LOATH HATE Mancow!
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    Image of ellagood ellagood
    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    this post is a form of torture.
    wha?!
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    05/28/09

    @ellagood: I will spank you.
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    Image of Pesti-Esti Pesti-Esti
    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    What happened to the Scientology post that was on the front page? Did their lawyers call already?
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    05/28/09

    @Pesti-Esti: No...I accidentally posted it for a minute...meant to put it in draft and accidentally hit publish...wasn't quite finished with it yet. It'll be up in a few...sorry bout that.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    I knew we hadn't seen the last of that truly mesmerizing and chilling Hitchens clip.


    Now it highlights (by critique, I mean) everything that was shallow and cowardly about the eight years of GWB. Got to give the Hitch points on this one.

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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    Well, Mancow is in showbiz, isn't he? And it is called show "business." I guess we will have to follow the money, that is, what specific benefit will he wring out of this that he couldn't have achieved with other means? I think it would be particularly low for him to have chosen waterboarding for general publicity purposes, but it's topical and it certainly got a lot of attention.
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    Image of Awesome X Awesome X
    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    Waterboarding Parties are the new Hipster Kickball.
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    Image of MoeGolden MoeGolden
    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    OK, so which publicist on the cc list is Gawker's rat?
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    05/28/09

    @MoeGolden: WE'LL NEVER TELL!
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    Image of Disco-Johnson Disco-Johnson
    04/14/09

    In reply to No Hitchens Party At This Year's White House Correspondents' Dinner
    In other news, no noms for Gawker sites in this years webbys [www.webbyawards.com]
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    04/14/09

    @Disco-Johnson: i was really rooting for them in "banking/bill paying" too.
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    Image of alorsenfants alorsenfants
    04/14/09

    @allyzay:


    Aww -- they didn't have a chance. With all the Web 3.0 types in the Writing category?


    And face it, the Times really has some kind of a lock with that "T" Magazine shit.

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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    04/14/09

    @alorsenfants: maybe next year they should try harder for "activism"?
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