Right wing talk show hosts subjects himself to waterboarding, decides it's torture

Well into the future, there will surely be conservatives (ahem, Dick Cheney and Sean Hannity) who will claim that waterboarding is not torture, but as of today, this right wing talk show host won't be one of them:

And so it went Friday morning when WLS radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller decided to subject himself to the controversial practice of waterboarding live on his show.

Mancow decided to tackle the divisive issue head on -- actually it was head down, while restrained and reclining.

"I want to find out if it's torture," Mancow told his listeners Friday morning, adding that he hoped his on-air test would help prove that waterboarding did not, in fact, constitute torture.

But instead...

With a Chicago Fire Department paramedic on hand, Mancow was placed on a 7-foot long table, his legs were elevated, and his feet were tied up.

Turns out the stunt wasn't so funny. Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw the toy cow he was holding as his emergency tool to signify when he wanted the experiment to stop. He only lasted 6 or 7 seconds.

"It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that's no joke,"Mancow said, likening it to a time when he nearly drowned as a child. "It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your nose with your head back...It was instantaneous...and I don't want to say this: absolutely torture."

"I wanted to prove it wasn't torture," Mancow said. "They cut off our heads, we put water on their face...I got voted to do this but I really thought 'I'm going to laugh this off.' "

He certainly wasn't laughing after it was over.

It's too bad he had to go through that experience to realize what liberals already know: strapping someone to a table and forcing water into their nose and mouth is torture. It's immoral, inhumane, and un-American. It is never, ever justified, no matter what the circumstances are.

And those that condoned it - told the Central Intelligence Agency and the American military it was okay - must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.