Heart-ache: Robot waterboarded
posted at 10:00 pm on August 8, 2008 by Allahpundit
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The latest in the left’s ongoing effort to show the public how horrible waterboarding is by making it look completely ridiculous. I thought we’d never top the greasepaint slackjaws of UC Santa Barbara, but check this out. “Very disturbing,” says the man behind it; to me it looks like something you’d see either in an especially low-rent haunted house carnival attraction or as a high-end Halloween decoration on the front lawn of someone with a dark sense of humor. Click the image to watch, gentle reader — if you dare.
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Jumping the shark.
petefrt on August 8, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Is that Forrest Gump?
RobCon on August 8, 2008 at 10:04 PM
So we’ve waterboarded more robots than terrorists?
lorien1973 on August 8, 2008 at 10:06 PM
No!
Dash on August 8, 2008 at 10:07 PM
What else does this geek do with the dummy?
Don’t ask.
RobCon on August 8, 2008 at 10:08 PM
This is an outrage! Habeaus Corpus and all that good stuff!
carbon_footprint on August 8, 2008 at 10:10 PM
Is this a step forward or step back towards the sexbot?
lorien1973 on August 8, 2008 at 10:11 PM
I want a fountain like that for my front yard.
Laura on August 8, 2008 at 10:12 PM
And at Christmas, I’ll put a Santa hat on the “interrogator” and lights around the edge of the table. It’ll be great.
Laura on August 8, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Stupid is as liberal does.
flipflop on August 8, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Habeas Corpus
I spell wunderfuly.
carbon_footprint on August 8, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Breaking NEWS,by Bendover Backwards NEWS(BBN)
In a freak accident today,at a so-called amusement
park,a new Liberal fun ride went horribly wrong,
according to witness’s the waterboarding ride went
out of control when water was introduced into the
electronics!
And the waterboarding so-called victim, at the hands
of the Liberal owner,went amuck,killing all who were
in the area!
Authority’s have rumoured the manner of death was water-
boarding!
Next on the news is the Silky debauchery!haha.(Snark!):)
canopfor on August 8, 2008 at 10:18 PM
Had this a few days ago. They want to go for the shock value? Sorry, but you’ve got anti-war leftists who engage in street theater by doing this to real people who volunteer to be waterboarded.
They did this in Coney Island, where freak shows have guys and gals who swallow swords, eat glass, and other wacky stuff. This, frankly, isn’t going to rise above that din.
lawhawk on August 8, 2008 at 10:23 PM
Nice hair cut.
GarandFan on August 8, 2008 at 10:24 PM
I lol’d. Seriously, WTF.
SouthernDem on August 8, 2008 at 10:25 PM
Deserved it. Probably a Terminator.
madne0 on August 8, 2008 at 10:25 PM
Didn’t Disney do this? No wait…that was something to do with bears…poor bears!
AUINSC on August 8, 2008 at 10:36 PM
The reactions were absolutely priceless.
The Ugly American on August 8, 2008 at 10:52 PM
Also, I think Nickelodeon/Viacom International might have a thing or two to say about that Spongebob depiction.
The Ugly American on August 8, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Just to point out that John McCain has been at the forefront of making this interrogation technique illegal. You sir are correct in ascribing this to the American left. I wonder what the Republican candidate has to say.
……….Oh crap!
highhopes on August 8, 2008 at 10:54 PM
The animatronic Abe Lincoln is next!
profitsbeard on August 8, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Knowledge is Power FTW!
carbon_footprint on August 8, 2008 at 11:03 PM
“Most of the folks had never heard of waterboarding.”
Telling.
Connie on August 8, 2008 at 11:03 PM
*shakes head*
- The Cat
MirCat on August 8, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Likewise. I can’t afford a fountain like this for my front yard, but really, if I had the money I’d do it in a heartbeat. I’d be hilarious.
Laura on August 8, 2008 at 11:11 PM
correction: It’d be hilarious.
Laura on August 8, 2008 at 11:12 PM
The freaky pierced tattooed chick was more interesting than the rest of the piece.
Claypigeon on August 8, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Call PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Androids)!!
It’ll be fun to sick one liberal nutjob group on another liberal nutjob group: let ‘em fight it out in a cage match!!
landlines on August 9, 2008 at 12:02 AM
Hey…wouldn’t Sponge Bob like to be waterboarded??
landlines on August 9, 2008 at 12:05 AM
That robot must have done something terribly wrong.
Travis1 on August 9, 2008 at 12:16 AM
Dude, that paintball game looked like it rocked. Where can I get in on some of that?
Tim Burton on August 9, 2008 at 12:24 AM
Duh! The robot is a Cylon.
Tim Burton on August 9, 2008 at 12:25 AM
Tim Burton on August 9, 2008 at 12:25 AM
Oh. now wonder.
Travis1 on August 9, 2008 at 12:28 AM
LOL! Should we go there again.
You’ll need 38 more manikins….
Tim Burton on August 9, 2008 at 12:28 AM
R.U.R. and the ACLU are coming!
profitsbeard on August 9, 2008 at 12:29 AM
Damn, those evil corporations even bought the 1st Amendment! /sarc
Tim Burton on August 9, 2008 at 12:30 AM
Its too bad in light of the Mohammad
cartoons,that the loony left don’t have
the creativity to use a Allah,or Mohommad
as the robot to make their idiot point!
Just think of the media coverage they might
of got for “the cause”,whatever that is!haha.
canopfor on August 9, 2008 at 12:35 AM
All that’s missing is a guy in a batman mask mumbling a few questions and punching the robot in the face..that would be good video.
austinnelly on August 9, 2008 at 12:50 AM
Can I shoot paintballs at the guy that is being waterboarded?
mesablue on August 9, 2008 at 1:09 AM
I was wondering whatever happened to that actor from the movie Eraserhead…
Lugnutmegger on August 9, 2008 at 1:13 AM
he got the idea from a collage drinking game i know it .
Mojack420 on August 9, 2008 at 1:19 AM
Robot Tobor waterboarded. Talk about testing your metal. (”Yes, he can?”) Still, it was an electrifying experiment. It could have been his best chance to become a tin star. Instead, it became a three ring circuit — he just bolted. But, at least, there was no meltdown. And science will forge on.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on August 9, 2008 at 1:52 AM
I thought he did Beakmans World for a while?
JarvisW on August 9, 2008 at 1:56 AM
Robot waterboarded. May he rust in peace.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on August 9, 2008 at 2:01 AM
Heh.
ampundit on August 9, 2008 at 2:37 AM
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again… I’d gladly be water-boarded for the safety of America…
Kaptain Amerika on August 9, 2008 at 4:58 AM
I’m not watching it twice, so forgive me my tresspasses.
Company X gave funding for. . .
“The Art Project”
SHUT UP! Once you stick a dollar bill acceptor on it, it’s NOT an “Art Project”. The IRS should immediately begin an audit of this money trail. Dollars to donuts this whole setup is also a “non-profit”.
Jason Coleman on August 9, 2008 at 5:03 AM
Is it just me or did anyone else want to punch the reporters’ voice-over in the throat? Jeez what an annoying voice.
Coronagold on August 9, 2008 at 8:15 AM
But Hitchens lived, right?
Excuse me. I have to go waterboard the petunias.
whitetop on August 9, 2008 at 8:30 AM
Fools. Everybody knows that “torture” yields false information.
Robots will say anything to end their torment.
Priceless.
hillbillyjim on August 9, 2008 at 8:37 AM
The artist said it not a great leap of the imagination to look into the room and be able to see what is going on.
I like what Rush had to say about that.
Mr Powers, on Sept 11, 2001, just a few miles from your spectacle real people were not afforded a leap of the imagination, they leaped from real burning sky scrapers, ignited by real hijacked airplanes. For a few buck more, why don’t you create some robots to simulate their deaths. Or create a display of terrorists victims who have been blown up, beheaded or butchered. Why not robots representing people who have been saved by our limited use of water boarding? Of course you wouldn’t, because the truth is less amusing too you than your anti-American leap of imagination.
And you guys at Coney Island should be embarrassed to have this schlock in your park. It’s giving the other smut that you have there a bad name.
RobertInAustin on August 9, 2008 at 8:51 AM
I was stunned with the realism of it. I really didn’t know it was a robot until I was told. It was so lifelike and the screaming was horrible. I just don’t know how a civilized nation can stand for it. Oops my bad. I was watching a segment on American Idol by mistake. Ok now I’ve seen the real deal and I must say it was pretty lame. I’ve seen better torture displays put on by the local school’s haunted house at Halloween. Ah liberals, proving daily that they have IQs in the single digits. I just want to know how these losers get paid for this stuff. I want in. I want my share. I didn’t ask to be born a conservative. You liberals owe me and owe me big.
jmarcure on August 9, 2008 at 9:37 AM
They are missing the hood on the person being integrated. They also forgot to incline the board so the head in below the feet.
The hood is what makes you think you are drowning because you do not actually know your position and the water poured on you makes the mind think you are being dunked head first.
In reality, the incline prevents the small amount of water that seeps through the hood from actually entering the lungs in sufficient amoungs to drown you.
Impressions are everything, job interviews and interrogation.
MSGTAS on August 9, 2008 at 9:38 AM
hahaha I went to Coney Island last year and played Shoot the Freak! It was hilarious!
becki51758 on August 9, 2008 at 9:47 AM
I’m just an uncultured barbarian but how is this “art”?
TooTall on August 9, 2008 at 10:03 AM
If the robot dies, does he get rewarded 72 new-in-box models?
Go Bender!
Right_of_Attila on August 9, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Have the ACLU and/or Code Pinkos/anti war groups been informed about this atrocity? No doubt will require endless house, and senate investigations, because, even a dummy has rights! Does the dummy have a lawyer?
byteshredder on August 9, 2008 at 1:02 PM
THAT POOR ROBOT! Think of his robot family! Think of the rust he will now have to endure!
JG2K6 on August 9, 2008 at 2:34 PM
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