Film Fatale

Normally I don't laugh at the suffering of strangers.

Actually, that's not true. I laughed uncontrollably at this deep, serious Fox News report about waterboarding -- not at the procedure itself, which is sick -- but at the network's JACKASS approach to covering US crimes. Instead investigating allegations of US torture in Iraq, Fox News made its own reporter submit to being manhandled by a trio of masked men, then sit down in the studio to tell us how scared he felt. He sounded kind of excited, like he was up for a TASER'ing, or maybe a wrassle down with some DEA drug-sniffing dogs.

This is about as effective and revelatory as sending the local weatherman into a TV station's flooded parking lot to tell us that it's raining real hard.

I may have to watch it again. Or at least search for a TASER demo on YouTube.