Here’s an update from TV Newser:

Update 2: Gawker’s John Cook also talked with Klay South, the marine who performed the waterboarding: “I know nothing about waterboarding. I had never done it before, I have no formal training in it, and I’ve never had it done to me. The only thing I knew was what I saw on the internet. I went to waterboarding.org and looked it up. I just did what I was told-poured the water on his face and that was it. I’m probably the last person they should have had do it. I didn’t know what I was doing.“

The hoax-a-meter just jumped up a few notches. . .

Update from Gawker. Hoax:

UPDATE: Mancow called us back to say that even though his waterboarder didn’t know what he was doing, and his publicist called the whole thing a “hoax,” it wasn’t supposed to be a REALLY real waterboarding to begin with. Just the radio stunt kind! “Of course I wasn’t a radical terrorist,” he said. “Of course it was simulated. To compare what I went through to what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed went through—of course it was not the same. I’m sure it was worse for them.”