Hume laughs at idea of Americans being beheaded.
By on Jan 31st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Hume laughs at idea of Americans being beheaded.
During the “Political Grapevine” segment of Fox News’s Special Report last night, host Brit Hume noted the negative criticism that the town of Brattleboro, VT has received for a petition calling for President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to be arrested. Chuckling so much he could hardly contain himself, Hume recounts how “one caller from Minnesota” told the town clerk “he’d like to see terrorists cut off the heads of town officials.” Watch it:
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Maybe we could start with Hume
January 31st, 2008 at 3:02 pmThis fox news is why America is the way it is
fox news is the Christian fundamentalist televised madrasa
January 31st, 2008 at 3:03 pmSo that’s where all our trolls were a couple of days ago!
January 31st, 2008 at 3:04 pmWingnuts are terrorists, so they can joke about them.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:05 pmHahahaha, yeah beheadings certainly are laughable, Hume.
Fukking hilarious.
:|
January 31st, 2008 at 3:06 pmSo, how are folks like Hume BETTER than “tha terraists”?
Oh… Brit was just “kidding”… it’s a “joke”, see?
Just***disgusting***
January 31st, 2008 at 3:08 pmhttp://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=getting-duped
Getting Duped: How the Media Messes With Your Mind
January 31st, 2008 at 3:11 pmWe have some very sick puppies in some very powerful positions in this country………very sick indeed.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:11 pm“one caller from Minnesota†told the town clerk “he’d like to see terrorists cut off the heads of town officials.â€
He were one smart feller thar, yuk, yuk.
“Hume laughs at idea of Americans being beheaded.”
Maybe we should start with you Hume.
Faux NonNews is the ideal format for those ChristoFascist lowlife scum sucking knuckle-dragging neanderturds.
Buck Fush
January 31st, 2008 at 3:12 pmHA HA HA. Everyone here at FOX knows that all real Americans love the Bush/Cheney administration for removing the threat of WMD’s and credit them for their current prosperity.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:13 pmThat brown jacket just isn’t his colour.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:13 pmthat’s why fox news took another nosedive. See headline at C & L today. Hume is a fascist and so his organization.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:15 pmAs the GOP-ers get cornered they are going to fall back into McVeigh mode.
Just watch.
They are already planning circulating e-mails to target Muslims.
They are going to be getting violent very soon.
-GSD
January 31st, 2008 at 3:15 pmAh, bugger off, masturbastic…
Is there any right wing nonsense you won’t stoop to defend?
January 31st, 2008 at 3:17 pmRemember Hume’s reaction to the London Subway bombing a few years back: his first instinct, he said was to short sell the market so he could make a few bucks. He said this on tv. really. He is a conservative at their most honest. Kill liberals and profit off the pain of others.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:18 pmre 15:
Yup, don’t forget, McViegh had been a registered republican. He was a Gulf War I vet as well. He came home, was disenfranchised and turned on his country. Good work republicans.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:20 pm11 if you think this is funny then you deserve everything negative that comes your way, on this board and in life.
People like you are not normal. I’m sorry but did your mom drink while she was pregnant? Is that why you have no concience?
If we had a real, efficient medical health care system, people like hume and capmantastic would be identified, removed from society and treated.
Seriously there is something that smacks of mental illness associated with this type of behavior.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:20 pmThat brown jacket just isn’t his colour.
Comment by DennisRaines
No, but a brownshirt is just his style.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:21 pmthis country’s moral compass is all fu(ked-up.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:22 pmwe need more Brattleboros!
This is the neo-con philosophy in a nutshell… it’s funny if it doesn’t apply to you or your beliefs, its not torture if its done to people you oppose but IS torture if its done to you, its legal if it furthers your goals and illegal if the other side gets caught doing it.
Basically, a spoiled child’s view of the universe..
January 31st, 2008 at 3:23 pm11 if you think this is funny…
Comment by Fred
Fred,
January 31st, 2008 at 3:23 pmHe was the caller from Minnesota.
Ya know, Arn, that bit of video where Brusch talked about watching the first plane hit the Trade Center really needs to be looked at more.
The man is either totally disoriented, or he gave it away in that clip. Why aren’t people questioning that more?
January 31st, 2008 at 3:24 pmComment by shoeless
Sorry, I knew that but I just had to try to make a point about how sick this is…..
January 31st, 2008 at 3:25 pmWell, come on. Extremists (on the left and the right) and their ideas, are often times, laughable.
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 3:13 pm
Very true. However, there’s also the element of good taste. One does not make jokes on television about people dying — as John Gibson found out in the wake of Heath Ledger’s death. Many people find that offensive, and rightly so.
I wonder what Hume’s reaction would have been if the Brattleboro town council had called for Bush and Cheney to be beheaded, instead of impeached. Would he have “chuckled so much he could barely contain himself”?
No, my guess is that he would have condemned Brattleboro for such an outrageous petition. And I would have joined him in that condemnation if that was the case. Calling for somebody to be killed isn’t funny, even if it’s someone you’re not particularly fond of.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:26 pmComment by shoeless
and I’m not interested in addressing him directly…..just to make a point about what he said.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:27 pmHume-orless
January 31st, 2008 at 3:31 pm“that bit of video where Brusch talked about watching the first plane hit the Trade Center”
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity
He said it twice, then they tried to make up a story about the school having a video lead from the twin towers….not possible unless they knew ahead of time. And Bush was in his limo watching it, which means he knew about it all along, that is why he just sat there waiting for the second plane to hit.
But if any reporter digs into this, they had better not open their mail for awhile, because they will send them a little Anthrax just like before.
Buck Fush
January 31st, 2008 at 3:33 pmWell, come on. Extremists (on the left and the right) and their ideas, are often times, laughable. Comment by CaptainMantastic
.More often than not they are not funny. Hume shouldn’t be repeating the rantings of someone rallying for the death of Americans because some nut job, seeking attention, may just decide FOX will give them what they want.
Hume is being very irresponsible here.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:33 pmHume is the hair apparent to John Gibson.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:34 pm(No, that’s not a typo.)
I’m all for setting up a guillotine on the National Mall for beheading Bush/Cheney, their supporters, and their enablers. I want a front-row seat.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:34 pmHume is a soulless hack. Just like his comrade O’Reilly who wants SF destroyed, Hume harbors fantasies by which liberals are killed by terrorists while he huddles under his desk. Hume knows he is no danger because Jack Bauer will surely save him.
shoeless: Hume would’ve worn his brownshirt but it was at the cleaners.
AF
January 31st, 2008 at 3:35 pmAny coverage of VT’s desire to arrest Bush/Cheney is good.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:35 pmFOX will never learn.
“one caller from Minnesota†told the town clerk “he’d like to see terrorists cut off the heads of town officials.â€
How much different is this from O’Reilly inviting terrorists to bomb San Francisco?
January 31st, 2008 at 3:36 pmDid he have a stroke or something?
January 31st, 2008 at 3:37 pmMcVeigh would have turned on his country no matter who was president Southern Man.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:37 pmI’m all for setting up a guillotine on the National Mall for beheading Bush/Cheney, their supporters, and their enablers. I want a front-row seat.
Comment by Uncle Ho
first time I’ve heard the National Mall mentioned……..does anyone here know where it is and what it’s for? Have any of you been there not as a tourist?
January 31st, 2008 at 3:38 pmComment by ralph the wonder llama — January 31, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
It’s not, ralph. They’re one and the same.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:38 pmcan’t believe that sm and cap would try to defend this….sick, sick , sick.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:40 pmGotta wonder what it would take to get Faux Schnooze Ex-Humed.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:41 pmFred; been there last year 3x for antiwar demonstrations.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:41 pmIs it a lack of parisan motivation?
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
Good grief, masturbastic… the French have nothing to do w/ this situation. And it’s “Parisian”…
January 31st, 2008 at 3:41 pmStupid comment by Southern Man
I don’t generally respond to stupid, so I won’t.
FU SM
Buck Fush
January 31st, 2008 at 3:41 pm“one caller from Minnesota†told the town clerk “he’d like to see terrorists cut off the heads of town officials.â€
How much different is this from O’Reilly inviting terrorists to bomb San Francisco?
Comment by ralph the wonder llama
Or this:
“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.â€- Ann Coulter
January 31st, 2008 at 3:43 pmNiceConsider this: I believe what is offensive here is the ‘lumping in’ of those that would call for Bush and Cheney to be arrested (would include many here) with a sole lunatic who would call for the beheading of a town council (which is ridiculous and laughable).
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
Good work, masturbastic… yer jumbling up the thread nicely. A few more comments like the one above and folks won’t know if they’re coming or going, and yer job here will be done.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:44 pmFred; been there last year 3x for antiwar demonstrations.
Comment by Uncle Ho
honestly haven’t been there myself for quite a few years…..did my time there I thought. Looks like I may have onece again to join you there. Where are the young people?
January 31st, 2008 at 3:44 pmcan’t believe that sm and cap would try to defend this….sick, sick , sick.
Comment by Fred — January 31, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
I’ve lost some respect for the Cap’n today… Southern Mammal on the other hand, is just acting true to form.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:44 pmCute. You think the US deserved 9/11, too? Osama was also mad at Clinton (and Bush, and Reagan… well, maybe notsomuch Reagan).
I’ll take your Ruby Ridge and raise you a world in which the government doing horrible, unconstitutional and unconscionable things to its citizens is NOT shocking or wrong, but rather just another day in the War For Terror.
Seriously though, dude. I’ve notseen a pro-McVeigh troll in AGES. Thanks for that.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:44 pmOh yeah… Anne Coulter… isn’t s/he the one who laughed about poisoning judges and stringing up reporters from lamp posts?
January 31st, 2008 at 3:45 pmThey don’t call him Shit Fume for nothing.
-GSD
January 31st, 2008 at 3:45 pmcan’t believe that sm and cap would try to defend this….sick, sick , sick.
Comment by Fred
American right-wing terrorists and Islamic terrorists seem to have much in common these days.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:45 pmI’m all for setting up a guillotine on the National Mall for beheading Bush/Cheney, their supporters, and their enablers. I want a front-row seat.
Comment by Uncle Ho — January 31, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
See, I find this laughable.
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
As well you should, Cap’n, as I suspect that Uncle Ho is using hyperbole for the sake of making a point — a technique that you yourself employed on an earlier thread this very day.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:45 pmSchadenfreude = the only form of “humor” Repukes understand.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:46 pmHe turned on his country because of Clinton and Renos handling of Waco and Ruby Ridge. He stated this before he was executed by the federal goverment. Good work democrats. I know living in the world of “progressive make believe land†that only republicans deny the rights of it’s citizens, but go ask the children who died in Waco if their rights were upheld by the constitution that Clinton held his hand up promised to uphold. Oh wait, there dead.
Comment by Southern Man — January 31, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
i’m surprised it took this long for a “clinton did it too” troll to chime in.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:47 pmyou guys are slacking!
Fred; been there last year 3x for antiwar demonstrations.
Comment by Uncle Ho
honestly haven’t been there myself for quite a few years…..did my time there I thought. Looks like I may have onece again to join you there. Where are the young people?
Comment by Fred
They’ll be along, once John McCain starts the draft for his many upcoming wars.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:47 pmAnyway, Hume and FOX are dangerously irresponsible in their effort to create partisan controversy in order to raise ratings. What the people in Vermont think has, really, very little to do with Humes special report.
And this further proves that FOX is not fair and balanced.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:47 pmI thought it was the Parisian’s that were driving the impeachment. My bad. Thanks. :)
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
Actually, I think it’s those bastards from Boulogne.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:48 pmOh yeah… Anne Coulter… isn’t s/he the one who laughed about poisoning judges and stringing up reporters from lamp posts?
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity
Yes. More good family values from the right.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:48 pm“… the Parisian’s that were driving the impeachment.”
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
Is “The Impeachment” a new car from Renault?
January 31st, 2008 at 3:48 pmChuckling so much he could hardly contain himself, Hume recounts how “one caller from Minnesota†told the town clerk “he’d like to see terrorists cut off the heads of town officials.â€
Laugh it up, fuzzball!
Yeah, and I’m sure the families of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl find you hilarious! What’s next? Laughing about school shootings? Burn victims? Dead celebrities???
January 31st, 2008 at 3:48 pmIf he keeps this up, maybe he’ll be invited to view torture tapes at the White House with Chimpy and Deadeye Dick.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:52 pmDead celebrities???
Comment by DRxJ — January 31, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
Well, in all fairness, John Gibson already nailed Heath Ledger.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:52 pmbut go ask the children who died in Waco if their rights were upheld by the constitution that Clinton held his hand up promised to uphold. Oh wait, there dead.
Comment by Southern Manless — January 31, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
but, go ask the children who died at the daycare in the Oklahoma City bombing if they should be “collateral damage” for politics. Oh wait, they’re dead!
You sir, are an idiot, to even give the bomber of OC (whose name I will never use) justification for mass murder!
January 31st, 2008 at 3:52 pmI’m all for setting up a guillotine on the National Mall for beheading Bush/Cheney, their supporters, and their enablers. I want a front-row seat.
Comment by Uncle Ho — January 31, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
See, I find this laughable.
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
i’d laugh too.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:53 pmand applaud.
and cheer.
and enjoy my popcorn.
Think people, think.
Comment by Southern Man — January 31, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
Uh, sure… what ever you say…
Who was it… Cofer Black, who wanted to bring Bin Laden’s head in a box to the WH?
Yuk… yuk… yuk… jes’ as funny as Tr/anne Coulter makin’ jokes about poisoning judges or Dild O’Lielly talkin’ ’bout bombing SF…
A real larffs-fest!
January 31st, 2008 at 3:56 pmIs it possible that he was laughing at the absurdity of the statement made by the caller??? I think if we lived in Saudi, this comment would be taken seriously, but we live in the U.S., where we don’t cut off peoples heads.
Comment by Southern Man — January 31, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
Yes, Southern Mammal, it’s possible. But, given the prevailing political leanings of Mr. Hume, not very likely.
Especially since the caller wished that TERRORISTS would cut off the heads, not American law enforcement. But nice try at misdirection.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:57 pmComment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
Unless a Dem is in the driver’s seat…
January 31st, 2008 at 3:57 pmHmmm, I’m from MN, but I didn’t make the call.
I do support Brattleboro’s agenda, however. The more sunlight these scurrying rodents have on them, the clearer we can see what they’ve done in the dark.
Brittainy Hume has his own problems, one of which is his employer.
?…how does one with slurred speech, terrible posture & a morbid personality get to be ‘Senior News Correpsondent’, or whatever Hume’s current title is?
January 31st, 2008 at 3:58 pm-Blowjobs on Big O?
-Blowjobs on Billy Krisco?
-Blowjobs on Rupert?
-All of the above
As for McVeigh Souther Man; McVeigh wrote in Prison: “Do people think that government workers in Iraq are any less human than those in Oklahoma City? Do they think that Iraqis don’t have families who will grieve and mourn the loss of their loved ones? Do people believe that the killing of foreigners is somehow different than the killing of Americans?” -Wikipedia
McVeigh was surely delusional, and much of his mental problems/anguish seems to have come from the first Gulf war. [Bush Sr.]
January 31st, 2008 at 3:59 pmGOP lie # 2002 debunked:
Ruby Ridge happened when George H.W. Bush was in office.
-GSD
January 31st, 2008 at 3:59 pmHe got what he deserved, and I bet many of you anti-death penalty supporters were cheering this one. -Southern Man
Drop the strawman BS. McVeigh asked to be put to death.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:00 pmOf course the trolls scoff at the idea of arresting Bush and Cheney. They don’t believe in the rule of law.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:00 pmDrop the strawman BS.
Comment by Xisithrus — January 31, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Republicans have only three rhetorical tactics:
Straw man arguments
January 31st, 2008 at 4:01 pmThe false dichotomy
Lying
GOP lie # 2002 debunked:
Ruby Ridge happened when George H.W. Bush was in office.
Comment by GSD — January 31, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
And Waco happened two months after Bill Clinton’s oath of office.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:01 pmSouthern Man,
Don’t forget what your good book said.
Also read # 83 for some light on the lie that you are perpetuating.
-GSD
January 31st, 2008 at 4:02 pmI’m all for setting up a guillotine on the National Mall for beheading Bush/Cheney, their supporters, and their enablers. I want a front-row seat.
Comment by Uncle Ho — January 31, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
See, I find this laughable.
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
i’d laugh too.
and applaud.
and cheer.
and enjoy my popcorn.
Comment by LividLib — January 31, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
I respectfully disagree with all of you. Perhaps my sense of humor is just different, but I don’t find cheering anybody’s death laughable — not even for the death of Bush or Cheney, or any of their minions.
Yes, I believe both should be impeached. I believe they have trampled all over the constitution, I believe they have worked outside the laws of this country to satisfy their agenda and their buddies, I believe they have mislead and lied to Americans, and I believe they have abused the power entrusted to them by the American people. And that’s just for starters.
But I don’t wish to see them killed, and I wouldn’t say so even as a joke. If I did, I would be no better than that sicko from Minnesota.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:02 pmRuby Ridge happened when George H.W. Bush was in office.
-GSD
Southern Man is trying to revise history, yet again, to fit his irrational reality. Blame, it seems, must always be placed on those he deems to think differently than him by whatever biased means possible.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:03 pmSouthern Man,
Don’t forget what your good book said.
Comment by GSD — January 31, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
Wouldn’t he have to read it first, in order to forget it?
January 31st, 2008 at 4:03 pm“And Waco happened two months after Bill Clinton’s oath of office.”
But in GOP minds Bill Clinton was responsible for 9/11 even though it happened almost a year into the Bush Residency.
-GSD
January 31st, 2008 at 4:03 pmComment by missmolly — January 31, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
Well said, missmolly.
You are always classy.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:04 pm“And Waco happened two months after Bill Clinton’s oath of office.â€
But in GOP minds Bill Clinton was responsible for 9/11 even though it happened almost a year into the Bush Residency.
Comment by GSD — January 31, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
Exactly.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:05 pmToday’s word: Inflatuation / Known malady among Trolls who allow methane to build up to a point intestinally that the gas escapes from the opposite orifice. Commonly found on progressive blogs, due to a Troll’s lack of cognitive reasoning. (i.e, Clinton did it, too.)
January 31st, 2008 at 4:05 pmWhen in fact, it was the actions of Clinton and Reno that warranted in his sick mind to kill fellow Americans.
Comment by Southern Man
And such is the danger behind Humes irresponsible report.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:06 pmWhen in fact, it was the actions of Clinton and Reno that warranted in his sick mind to kill fellow Americans. Slacking?
Comment by Southern Man — January 31, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
Google it, dumdum.
McVeigh was mad about Waco, but he was also mad about Gulf War I and Ruby Ridge, and Ruby Ridge happened in Aug 1992, BEFORE Clinton was in office.
It’s spelled G*O*O*G*L*E… Google…
January 31st, 2008 at 4:06 pmThe majotity of vets are republican. So what’s your point there? And how does being a Gulf War 1 vet matter? He did come home disenfranchised, and he did turn on his country. He turned on his country because of Clinton and Renos handling of Waco and Ruby Ridge. He stated this before he was executed by the federal goverment. Good work democrats. I know living in the world of “progressive make believe land†that only republicans deny the rights of it’s citizens, but go ask the children who died in Waco if their rights were upheld by the constitution that Clinton held his hand up promised to uphold. Oh wait, there dead.
Comment by Southern Man — January 31, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
I am a veteran, and not Republican.
Also David Koresh is the one who caused those deaths in Waco along with his moronic followers. He was molesting those children and it was he who ordered his followers to open fire on the FBI agents serving the warrants.
If you open fire on police or the FBI, they will shoot back.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:08 pmGo ahead an try it sometime moron and we will be reading about you in the paper.
If I did, I would be no better than that sicko from Minnesota.
Comment by missmolly — January 31, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
But I would love to see Brusch and Cheney being led off in orange jumpsuits… for incarceration… for a long, long, long, time.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:09 pmHey, lets get back on topic. At least Some folks are Finally speaking up. Its late in the day, but some folks are acting like true Americans and speaking the truth to power. “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”. (George Orwell) Thanks, Vermont, for maintaining the revolutionary tradition of America.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:10 pmImpeach Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution.
McVeigh was mad about Waco, but he was also mad about Gulf War I and Ruby Ridge, and Ruby Ridge happened in Aug 1992, BEFORE Clinton was in office.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — January 31, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
It’s absolutely amazing that the antagonists here continuously pick and choose their facts. But then again, they are in lower percentile (of Bush supporters).
January 31st, 2008 at 4:10 pmSouthernManlove, you. are. an. IDIOT!
Amen Miss Molly.
Always a voice of decency.
-GSD
January 31st, 2008 at 4:13 pmAsk yourself this question: did anyone here really consider the town council beheadings a serious threat? Or is it crazy and laughable.
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
It is crazy, but not necessarily “laughable”.
At any rate, Hume is a “news” network anchor, not the host of a comedy show. Perhaps if he finds an item ridiculous, he should make clear the object of his ridicule.
As I pointed out above, given Hume’s (and his network’s) demonstrated political bent, it is at least as likely that the object of his ridicule was the small-town assembly in Brattleboro, and that he appreciated the opportunity to repeat the words of an anonymous caller, saving himself the responsibility of saying it himself.
He wouldn’t be the first Faux News personality to wish a terrorist attack on those seen as “disloyal”.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:16 pmFox News will become more irrelevant as time goes by. Likely by next year.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:16 pmThe terrists could try to cut off their heads, but they would freeze to death in mid-slash.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:17 pmSorry folks, normally I’m reserved (ha!) and rarely, if ever, lash out and name call.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:19 pmBut…
the bombing at Oklahoma City was unforgivable, and to project blame on Clinton is also unforgivable, as well as immature, and really shows disrespect for any human life. These are the same people that feel the Iraqi civilians are some how inferior to Americans. And these type of people I will not tread lightly. I will call them out, each and every time.
Ask yourself this question: did anyone here really consider the town council beheadings a serious threat? Or is it crazy and laughable.
Comment by CaptainMantastic
no you moron, its the formula that is part of what offends…..
repubs like hume win by using a formula.
1. attack
2. render irrelivant
3. slander and besmirch
the key is #2.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:19 pmMaybe we’re all taking ourselves a little too seriously. And maybe Humes bemusement hit too close to home.
Comment by CaptainMantastic
So, this is how you wingnuts talk to yourselves? Are you sure it isn’t your dogs talking to you?
January 31st, 2008 at 4:20 pmaw shucks maam captain….you are such a phony. You are as capable of being as nasty of a human being as ever drew a breath….you posting in this thread is a perfect example..
January 31st, 2008 at 4:23 pmGW was in office nine months when 9/11 happend? Does he get an excuse card in here?
Comment by Southern Man
No.
Bin Laden Determined to Strike U.S.
August 6, 2001 PDB
Declassified and Approved
January 31st, 2008 at 4:23 pmfor Release, 10 April 2004
GW was in office nine months when 9/11 happend? Does he get an excuse card in here?
Comment by Southern Man
uh, yes he did…..a big one…..which he misused…….where were you?
January 31st, 2008 at 4:24 pmComment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
OK — I can buy “absurd”.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:25 pmI would like to offer this as a definition as laughable:
absurd: incongruous;inviting ridicule
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
Fine, Cap’n, but if that’s the definition with which you were working, why use it to justify Hume’s actual laughter?
January 31st, 2008 at 4:27 pmAsk yourself this question: did anyone here really consider the town council beheadings a serious threat? Or is it crazy and laughable.
Comment by CaptainMantastic
Here is why it’s a serious threat, pal. One media personality’s joke or inflammatory remark makes it ok for some deranged loon to act.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950727/07270422.htm
January 31st, 2008 at 4:32 pmGW (and Condi) had advance knowledge of 911 and it still happened. How’s that?
January 31st, 2008 at 4:40 pm121 – It happened because they were way too busy planning the occupation of Iraq.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:48 pmI guess we could make the argument that unless we ridicule inappropriate ideas, we somehow enable them.
Comment by CaptainMantastic
like if someone were to ridicule ultra-nationalism by burning the flag?
January 31st, 2008 at 5:12 pmThe over the top vitriol is laughable (ridiculous).
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
Actually, it’s not. People get hurt because of sh*t like that.
January 31st, 2008 at 5:19 pmSome guy, told my 3 cousin,told my brother in law….that
January 31st, 2008 at 5:21 pmoh pleassssssssssssssse. Good bye fox and all your ‘hate TV and radio’.
Hume is among the lowest of the Fox-scum willing to lie any lie for a buck.
January 31st, 2008 at 5:25 pmThats funnie.Glad to see libs wasting taxpayers money
January 31st, 2008 at 5:30 pmFlag burning is an important element of free speech.
Shouldn’t crossburning be free speech to??
January 31st, 2008 at 5:30 pmWasting… taxpayer money… okay…
Either a new troll, or an old one w/ a new internet connection.
Giving “no-bid” contracts to Halliburton, or losing track of 100K plus weapons in Iraq, is wasting taxpayer money.
January 31st, 2008 at 5:33 pmShouldn’t crossburning be free speech to??
Comment by Ricl077 — January 31, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
SORRY! Big difference.
Cross burning is meant to terrorize a select group of people.
NOT free speech.
I know that requires some “thinking” on yer part, and it’ll make yer head hurt, but hey, you’ll feel better in the morning.
January 31st, 2008 at 5:34 pmflag burning while chatting death to america is not??
January 31st, 2008 at 5:36 pmFlag burning is an important element of free speech.
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 5:21 pm
But shouting “Fire” in a crowded theater is not. Brit Hume has a national audience for his comments. He’s also being broadcast over airwaves that are regulated by Federal law. Huge difference between flag burning and comments like the one Brit made.
January 31st, 2008 at 5:36 pmlag burning while chatting death to america is not??
Comment by Ricl077 — January 31, 2008 @ 5:36 pm
Ummm… who chants “Death to America”???
January 31st, 2008 at 5:37 pmLibs in Portland has they burn American Flags and dummies dressed has soldiers.
January 31st, 2008 at 5:40 pmThats funnie.Glad to see libs wasting taxpayers money
Comment by Ricl077 — January 31, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
flag burning while chatting death to america is not??
Comment by Ricl077 — January 31, 2008 @ 5:36 pm
proof positive we’re not spending enough on education.
January 31st, 2008 at 5:46 pmproof positive we’re not spending enough on education.
Comment by LividLib — January 31, 2008 @ 5:46 pm
And how much money is diverted from public education to faith based schools and home schooling? But our childrens is learning!
January 31st, 2008 at 6:09 pmOh lord. Abysmal ignorance strikes again!
January 31st, 2008 at 6:15 pmFlag burning is an important element of free speech.
Shouldn’t crossburning be free speech to??
Comment by Ricl077
The US flag stands as a symbol of free speech.
What is a burning cross a symbol of?
January 31st, 2008 at 6:19 pmHow are we diverting money from public education when we don’t use the resource, but still pay for it?
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 6:29 pm
Ever hear of school vouchers, Cap’n?
January 31st, 2008 at 6:34 pmparting shot here; food for thought-
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy
January 31st, 2008 at 6:52 pmComment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 7:05 pm
chuck you’re right.
brit’s laughable and ridiculous.
all at the same time.
good point.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:13 pmOk…..who stole captainmantastic’s name and came here as a reasonable person….this is just messed up.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:37 pmOk…..who stole captainmantastic’s name and came here as a reasonable person….this is just messed up.
Comment by Fred — January 31, 2008 @ 7:37 pm
there was no reasonableness exhibited. cap’n loves to pass the buck. securing Iraq means killing them all, as far as he’s concerned. he think most vets are republicans. How stupid can you get?
January 31st, 2008 at 7:49 pmPeople who burn flags want to spread hate and fear.They are just like the klan .
January 31st, 2008 at 8:02 pmPeople who burn flags want to spread hate and fear.They are just like the klan .
Comment by Ricl077 — January 31, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
Okay, somebody better tell Frank M that Ricl077 is stealing his material.
January 31st, 2008 at 8:12 pmI homeschool my kids…
Comment by CaptainMantastic
Oh no! Not only is it reproducing, it is also mindmelding with it’s offspring.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:58 pm