In the spirit of journalists getting hurt for your amusement, we'd be remiss not to mention the above clip of Fox News's Steve Harrigan getting waterboarded last Friday for Greta Van Susteren. Harrigan's not here to debate the politics of torture, you see:

... so many people have been talking about waterboarding over the past couple of weeks. Is it torture? Should the U.S. use it? We left those questions on the side and just really tried to look at what exactly it is.

Turns out, what it is, is pretty goddamn awful. Despite his gurgling and yawping during three different subspecies of the procedure, Harrigan comes away a fan:

... as far as torture goes, at least in this controlled experiment, to me, this seemed like a pretty efficient mechanism to get someone to talk and then still have them alive and healthy within minutes.

Can you say Stockholm Syndrome? That barely scratches the surface of the S&M snuff-film dynamic between the orange-jumpsuited Harrigan and his ski-masked tormentors, but we see no reason Fox can't make this into a recurring segment, maybe with some good old-fashioned genital shocking next time.

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