Update on Mancow's waterboarding.
May. 27th, 2009 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redneckgaijinLast night Mancow was, indeed, on Olbermann.
Both were very, very careful to focus solely on the issue of whether waterboarding was torture. Any question of prosecuting those who waterboard, whether waterboarding is/was legal, etc. was avoided.
Mancow stood by his guns, and even said that he'd told Hannity- who still says waterboarding isn't torture- that yes, it is torture.
He tried to waffle out of saying that a terrorist being tortured would say anything to get it to stop: "If I'd had information, I'd have spilled it." He did, in the end, admit that he'd say whatever it took to get it to stop, but he came well short of the conclusion: that any data gained that way was unreliable for precisely that reason.
Most encouraging to me was that, towards the end of the segment, Mancow said that it was a horrible thing to endure... "and maybe we don't have to do it, maybe there's a better way..."
This is a man who, reluctantly, fighting it every step of the way, is being dragged by a conscience towards a major change of position on the use of torture.
I might- might- reconsider listening to the guy, when I get on the road in an area where he's on the air.
Both were very, very careful to focus solely on the issue of whether waterboarding was torture. Any question of prosecuting those who waterboard, whether waterboarding is/was legal, etc. was avoided.
Mancow stood by his guns, and even said that he'd told Hannity- who still says waterboarding isn't torture- that yes, it is torture.
He tried to waffle out of saying that a terrorist being tortured would say anything to get it to stop: "If I'd had information, I'd have spilled it." He did, in the end, admit that he'd say whatever it took to get it to stop, but he came well short of the conclusion: that any data gained that way was unreliable for precisely that reason.
Most encouraging to me was that, towards the end of the segment, Mancow said that it was a horrible thing to endure... "and maybe we don't have to do it, maybe there's a better way..."
This is a man who, reluctantly, fighting it every step of the way, is being dragged by a conscience towards a major change of position on the use of torture.
I might- might- reconsider listening to the guy, when I get on the road in an area where he's on the air.
