Last week, liberal blogs went ga-ga over radio talk show host Mancow’s waterboarding stunt.
...Time for B.S. detector tune-ups, people. Next time, libs, don’t be so eager to hype a veteran radio entertainer crying “torture.”
You’re the ones who end up all wet.
Malkin's source for her jubulant little dance of joy? Turns out that it's Gawker, the website that she loves to loathe.
Gawker references three people involved to somehow "prove" that this was "fake"
-The first is a Chicago-based publicist named Linda Shafran whose clients include the Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos shows, in addition to Erich "Mancow" Muller. In describing Shafran our tipster added:
"Linda Shafran is Springer's current publicist until the show starts shooting in CT. Since Springer is her primary source of income, she's now trying to help promote Mancow nationally as a shock jock alternative to Howard Stern."
-The second person involved in this is a man named David Kupcinet. He runs a Chicago-based foundation for veterans called Kup's Purple Heart Foundation. He is the grandson of Irv Kupcinet, a somewhat legendary Chicago gossip columnist who wrote a column for the Chicago Sun Times for over 60 years. At the behest of a friend, Linda Shafran contacted Kupcinet on Thursday hoping that his relationships with Chicago-area veterans and military personnel could help her find a replacement waterboarder.
-The third person involved here, to a much lesser degree, is another Chicago-based publicist named Kathy Posner. According to our tipster, Posner is Jerry Springer's former flack and a friend of both Linda Shafran and Erich "Mancow" Muller. According to one of the emails we were forwarded, it was Posner who suggested that Shafran contact David Kupcinet to find a replacement waterboarder.
Gawker goes on to claim that the person that performed the water-boarding didn't really know what they were doing and was actually in on the hoax.
The only trouble with this, is that the bulk of the information is quotes that would have to be verified. And, considering the source, it would appear that these people would be willing to lie simply to protect themselves from admitting that "Mancow" was honestly freaking out about being water-boarded.
To a point, this all comes down to an arguement in semantics. Certainly, we aren't to believe that this is the "only way" that water-boarding is done. Anyone that has seen videos online of it being done to people can "simulate" it as well. The "marine" that performed it on "Mancow" himwself claims to have learned it that way. Even if it was done incorrectly, it could hurt a person, much in the same way that it can be dangerous to do any number of things "incorrectly".
More to the point - that Malkin is laughing because she thinks she's gone one-up on people - is that I think Malkin is full of it. She's so eager to prove that she is right that she is willing to reference a website that she has lambasted many times as a "smear machine".
From my point of view, I think that "Mancow" got so caught up in the moment, thinking it would be a "hoax", that when he got scared and his buddies ( like Sean Hannity ) called him out on it, he decided to still run with it like it was a gag.
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