Gawker and the Miami Herald Television Critic Glenn Garvin are claiming that emails from the publicists for Mancow and promoters claim that the waterboarding was a hoax. Why would he fake it, is there a motive?
from http://miamiherald.typepad.com/...
I dunno, maybe actual NBC reporters don't want to come on Keith Olbermann's show since he took to bellowing insults at them on the air while anchoring the network's coverage of the Republican convention last year. Whatever the reason, he's now apparently resorted to faking stories. The media-news site Gawker has been reporting for two days that the video of waterboarding you can see up above was faked. And, Gawker adds (though, it should be noted, without attribution), Olbermann knew it.
This is not altogether surprising, since the supposed object of the waterboarding was Erich "Mancow" Muller, a Chicago shock-jock who regularly does silly stunts on the air. Nothing wrong with that on a morning-zoo radio show, but it's a little dicey when you're presenting yourself as a news operation. The idea was that Mancow would undergo waterboarding to test the contention of former Bush administration officials that it doesn't really amount to torture.
But Gawker reprints a series of emails between Muller's publicists and promoters prior to the waterboarding that reveal plans to fake the whole thing. "It is going to have to look "real" but of course would be simulated with Mancow acting like he is drowning," says one. "It will be a hoax but have to look real." The military veteran who supposedly administered the waterboarding later admitted he's never performed the procedure, been trained in it, or even know anything about it. "I didn't know what I was doing," he told Gawker.
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here is ther link to gawker..
http://gawker.com/...
I don't think that Gawker is a totally reliable news source, but the Miami Herald News Critic apparently does..,
What do you think..
UPDATE: I REDUCED THE QUOTE FOR THOSE OF YOU CONCERNED I QUOTED TOO MUCH
THANK YOU!!