Today, Fox Business Network anchor Dagen McDowell appeared on Fox News to make the case against the tax on AIG bonuses by comparing it to sexual abuse:
You don’t want to think if you get in bed with Uncle Sam he’s going to strip you naked, chain you to the bed, leave you there and then take nasty pictures of you and then put them on the Internet. Because that’s what’s been happening.
Watch it:
“Thank you, Dagen, well stated,” responded Bill Hemmer.
WTF!?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:19 pmDagen McDowell just wishes that Uncle Sam would strip him naked, chain him to the bed, leave him there and then take nasty pictures of him and then put them on the Internet.
Outside of some dirty talk with bill o’liely, this is as good as it gets for him.
In secret, he would LOVE to pay taxes if ol’ if these little fantasies of his would come true.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:21 pmDon’t really know if this is Dagan’s fantasy life or what, but am offended by his analogy. It demeans victims of sexual abuse.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:23 pmJust when you think they Can’t Possibly become any more deranged. A gentleman named George Price made this pertinent observation:
March 24th, 2009 at 5:23 pmCorrect me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?
You don’t want to think if you get in bed with Uncle Sam he’s going to strip you naked, chain you to the bed, leave you there and then take nasty pictures of you and then put them on the Internet. Because that’s what’s been happening.
– - Fox News really shouldn’t add Catholic priests into this mess.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:26 pmFox has gone off the deep end. Where are all the dedicated Fox watchers defending this guy?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:26 pmWhy do Republicans want to give my tax money to AIG executives?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:26 pmWhat is it with Fox spokesmodels (male and female) and the subjugation of women?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:26 pmDagan? Was that you?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:27 pmNot at all surprised…their mind set and dress attire, as compared to other news outlets, has sexual over tones.
To help distract the viewers?
Or because some are out right filthy demented perverts such as Billo?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:29 pmDagen would know a lot of about sexual abuse
March 24th, 2009 at 5:31 pmHow is a bailout “getting into bed” with Uncle Sam?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:32 pmI see sexual abuse and power are now the talking points on Faux Snooze.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:35 pmNice.
AIG getting federal money and then complaining about the strings attached is more like begging to move back in with your parents because you’re broke, and then throwing a tantrum when your dad asks you to turn the stereo down at 1 AM!
March 24th, 2009 at 5:35 pmWhere does Fox get these people? Do they recruit from psychiatric clinics?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:35 pmFox must get its “talent” from the same deranged labor pool
March 24th, 2009 at 5:35 pmfrom which the RNC gets our troll visitors.
Is Fux comprised exclusively of sexual deviants and fetishists? Or does it just seems so?
Geez, you folks need to go get laid!
PEACE
March 24th, 2009 at 5:37 pmThanks, but if that is Dagan’s idea of a ‘good time’ maybe someone should give her Billo’s number.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:37 pmThat’s Colbert-level satire! Wouldn’t expect that from FOX unless it was unintentional….oh, nevermind.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:38 pmTalk about needing to be regulated. WOW, Fox has no shame whatsoever. At least Jerry Springer is entertaining in a white trash beer can sort of way. What’s their excuse?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:40 pmDagan is the hillbilly female type, right? And the grin on Bill Hemmer’s face is because he’s got ideas for this week end.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:40 pm“Thank you, Dagen, well stated,” responded Bill Hemmer.
(Just like you practiced it. eh?)
I sense a lot of repressed sexual frustration with conservatives. I also have a sense that most of what fox & cnbc are doing lately is ‘diversion’.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:42 pmI think Dagan is “asking for it”, she seems to be speaking from experience!
March 24th, 2009 at 5:43 pmI ain’t getting in bed with anyone named Uncle Sam.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:44 pmyawn…howdy folks..God Hemmer is such a d0uchebag….the guy is a living, breathing tool of the highest magnitude..i remember when he was in iraq when the violence was at its height, he was dressed in some ridiculous looking flack jacket/helmet/busines suit combo, interviewing some aid worker, he kept trying to get her to say the iraqis were happy we’d invaded, he couldnt quite fathom her explanation that when you and those around you are being bombed, killed, subject to insecurity, random crime, and food and water shortages, you dont exactly have the time or inclination to be greatful to the “liberators”. this guy is seriously detached from reality…zealously egging on the notion that having your government handout (ie corporate WELFARE) taxed is equivalent to sexual torture..wow..just wow…bill..if you or any of the fungus spores that spawned you are reading this..your an extreme d0uche..
March 24th, 2009 at 5:44 pmSo , what was the Bush administration , Dagen McDowell ?
Sado-masochism ? Circle jerk ? Bukkake ?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:45 pmDagen is the typical faux news character, very creepy & possibly an extraneous creature (i.e, a mutant).
March 24th, 2009 at 5:48 pmShe’s a perverted idiot and he’s a wanker.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:48 pm*
MCMetal Says:
So , what was the Bush administration , Dagen McDowell ?
Sado-masochism ? Circle jerk ? Bukkake ?
Bush’s Wacky Iraqi Bukkake
March 24th, 2009 at 5:49 pmI think Obama becoming president has literally driven some of these Fox anchors crazy.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:50 pm>Dagen would know a lot of about sexual abuse
uhm yeah..after watching that clip..im gonna have to concur…she ran through that whole “being tied up and having naked pictures taken of you and having them put on the internet” waaaayyy too quick for her to be crafting that “methaphor” out of thin air…her voice has more than a hint of recollection when she was spouting that..and from the looks of her crooked eyes id say whoever tied her up and took pictures of her was probably related to her in more than one way…maybe a “funkle” (when your mom and her brother have sex and create you, your dad is actually your funkle…I’m from Texas, we learn about these things in school)
March 24th, 2009 at 5:50 pmthat’s a freaky crew
that have over there at fox!
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freaky!
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March 24th, 2009 at 5:50 pmI am detecting a trend here…. It seems to me that Fox News is becoming more and more SHRILL and SENSASIONALISTIC every day! No substance…..just scandalmongering. Tsk! Tsk!
March 24th, 2009 at 5:50 pmFaux Snewz: “Helping to spread more Stupid, daily”
March 24th, 2009 at 5:51 pmIs there one person at Fox that’s not batshizzle crazy?
I like Jon Oliver’s joke about how you could walk into Fox News and punch out the first person you saw and know deep down that they probably deserved it.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:53 pmanybody get a good enough glimpse at that clip to do a tooth count on Dagen? I think shes missing a few..she looks like she got mugged by the trailer park tooth fairy…you think they pay her in meth for her colorful imagery and witty opining?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:53 pmI was about to say that some of you mistook McDowell for a “he”, but now I’m not so sure myself. Look at this wo/man’s demeanor!
March 24th, 2009 at 5:53 pmWith talk like that, do you think Bildo would say she’s a “moronic girl” and that she “has it coming”?
March 24th, 2009 at 5:55 pmHow are cable broadcasters regulated? Is there some federal agency in charge of regulating which news stations are on the air and those which do not belong on the air. If the FCC is responsible for passing out fines for shitty journalism, why aren’t they doing their job?
Who do I send my email complaint to? Someone needs to light a fire under whoever is asleep at the switch.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:57 pmWho wants a scoop of Häagen Dagen? I heard it tastes the same as a Manwich.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:57 pmThe criminals are always the victims in the reich mind.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:59 pmThe Republicans appear to have the whole range of sexual fixations. Does this suggest something?
March 24th, 2009 at 6:00 pmI’ve come to the conclusion that Fake News is totally and certifiably nuts.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:03 pmIts like they are trying to be the conservative answer to the Daily Show, but with a twist of dementia. Daily Dementia perhaps? lol Someone should pass that along to Jon.
The Daily Dementia, with your host Billy Bob Stew
March 24th, 2009 at 6:04 pmBet she’s got her spurs on.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:04 pmFox News is trying real hard to become the National Enquirer of TV.
Just think, you won’t have to go read the headlines about sex scandals and Sasquatch in the grocery store check out!
March 24th, 2009 at 6:05 pmUnless they’re black or brown people, that is.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:05 pmIt always has been Freudian news with a Jerry Springerish twang.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:06 pmhow interesting the liberal wizards of smart at this blog site think that Dagan’s comments are sexually demeaning to women and yet have not problem with Ms Terkel’s demeaning a real person who was a real victim of rape by an evil criminal.
such is the warped and twisted world of the liberal-facists on the left.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:06 pmflight Says:
The Republicans appear to have the whole range of sexual fixations. Does this suggest something?
Perverts and deviants will have somewhere they can fill out job applications?
March 24th, 2009 at 6:06 pmRepublicans make labels. Labels don’t make arguments. The Republican pundits are clearly on the wrong path. I believe this will continue to get worse until the Bush-Cheney administration are brought to justice under the law.
I think the whole crazy situation is linked to the lawlessness of the bushies. The Bushies have become bad and bold as ever now – “that which does not defeat them only makes them stronger”. Bust the Bushies or kiss the nation goodbye! The only hope is that the government and DOJ steps up and does it’s job – delay makes us less safe by the day.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:09 pmWhile most Fox commentators merely plumb the depths of their inner sexual fixations, McDowell appears to have jumped the competition, and opened a railroad to hers.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:10 pmthe liberal-facists on the left
I certainly hope you didn’t pay full price for that doorstop, as they’re now selling for under a buck at World Nut Daily.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:12 pmThe liberal view of the world….”If we could just get rid of those evil foxnews journalists we could implement the ‘real truth’ and enforce it on everyone.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:15 pm>Ms Terkel’s demeaning a real person who
>was a real victim of rape
who? what? quote please?
March 24th, 2009 at 6:16 pmHaha listen,
Your post is the epidomy of how little you “so called conservatives” know of what you are talking about.
Keep making stuff up and spreading it around. Add colorful language and stir.
Also, if there were any truth in what you were saying, please point it out. Otherwise crawl back under a log, or bridge and learn to research without picking sources that bend to your simple minded conclusions.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:18 pmconservative truth Says:
Because it never happened you lying moron. You brainwashed idiot just think if you keep repeating what you have been TOLD to think it will become true through some kind of magic. What a loser you are.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:19 pmIf we could just get rid of those evil foxnews journalists we could implement the ‘real truth’ and enforce it on everyone.
I think it’s a requirement that they must first renounce the basic tenets of journalism, before joining Fox.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:19 pmSort of like a satanic conversion…
March 24th, 2009 at 6:19 pmliberal fascists. The American education system is in real serious trouble.
Either that or trolls should be forced to graduate the 6th grade.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:20 pmconservative truth Says:
The conservative MORON view. If I just keep repeating these really STUPID talking points I have been programmed with they will magically become true. You do know you are staggeringly stupid dont you?
March 24th, 2009 at 6:21 pmconservative truth Says:
how interesting the liberal wizards of smart at this blog site think that Dagan’s comments are sexually demeaning to women and yet have not problem with Ms Terkel’s demeaning a real person who was a real victim of rape by an evil criminal.
I was going to call this cow names and suggest that they pull their head out of their arses, but it wouldn’t matter. Lies are the common currency of the right side. They lie so often that even their own followers get seasick trying to keep up.
The modern GOP is dying on the vine – with this trolls help too.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:22 pmconservative truth Says:
Now look who’s trying to frighten Americans with the threatened loss of “phantom liberties.”
March 24th, 2009 at 6:22 pmTo ignore the obvious absurdity of the FauxNews commentator for a moment, what she was describing sounds to me, if I remember correctly, what Nixon (that great Republican) wanted to do with political opponents to silence them. Southern Democrats, for example, would be kidnapped and drugged, have their pictures taken with black boys or farm animals in “compromising positions,” and then blackmailed. The plan was proposed, I think, by an official named Huston or Houston, Nixon loved it, but J E Hoover blocked it, wanting to keep all blackmail information in his hands and out of Nixon’s. My memory may be faulty about some details on this stuff from over 35 years ago, but the essence is right.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:24 pmYes, in fact your next stop will be a reeducation camp to rid you of your most treasured beliefs. It’s all a big conspiracy against you. Be sure and tell the other ditto heads once you stop shaking with fear.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:26 pmLevi the Oracle Says:
How are cable broadcasters regulated? Is there some federal agency in charge of regulating which news stations are on the air and those which do not belong on the air. If the FCC is responsible for passing out fines for shitty journalism, why aren’t they doing their job?
The problem isn’t with cable in general. After all, TDS and Colbert are often far more, shall we say, bawdy. But, they don’t try to pass themselves off as a news show and they are on a cable channel actually called The Comedy Channel.
FuxNews has become its own spoof of FuxNews.
PEACE
March 24th, 2009 at 6:28 pmGood God, I truly thought the right side had at least one or two proud and smart people within it’s ranks. The trolls here do not support that hypothesis. If Limbaugh is the smartest of your crowd, please think again about setting your sights too high. It could be a hard landing. I would hate for you to get hurt. Better still, land on your head and you should do fine – nothing works up there anyway.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:30 pm… if you get in bed with Uncle Sam…
holy cow… wound like that daygun chick is having a flashback…
maybe she should’ve gotten law enforcement involved…
March 24th, 2009 at 6:42 pmaaack.
sounds link
March 24th, 2009 at 6:43 pm> how interesting the liberal
> wizards of smart
looks like someone failed their saving throw vs. stupid
March 24th, 2009 at 6:43 pmOn no, conservative truth is on to the radical left wing conspiracy to round up all righwing nuts and imprison them in all those empty FEMA prisions. I hope there will be enough room for all the Wall Street boys too. That would make for some interesting encounters, with lots of intercourse.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:44 pmconservative truth Says:
The liberal view of the world….”If we could just get rid of those evil foxnews journalists we could implement the ‘real truth’ and enforce it on everyone.
This is impressive. I didn’t know a troll could include so many oxymorons in one post.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:45 pmconservative truth Says:
how interesting the liberal wizards of smart at this blog site think that Dagan’s comments are sexually demeaning to women and yet have not problem with Ms Terkel’s demeaning a real person who was a real victim of rape by an evil criminal.
I couldn’t make this stuff up if I dropped a speedball in my Wheaties.
Amanda Terkel, a progressive & women’s advocate, somehow demeaned a rape victim. She does an account, points out a demeaning & contradictory quote, and she’s the aggressor.
In the right-wing school of thought, you can post junk in an altitude above reality as a diversion tactic, close with a few more rambling thoughts, then sign-out.
Why, again, were you able to shit on my country for the last eight years?
March 24th, 2009 at 6:48 pmkaty Says:
… if you get in bed with Uncle Sam…
holy cow… wound like that daygun chick is having a flashback…
maybe she should’ve gotten law enforcement involved…
True, she did leave out the handcuff references. Maybe she just likes guys in striped pants and stove pipe hats.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:50 pmConservatives consistently conflate, if I may alliterate, “freedom of speech” with “freedom from coherence”.
they’re not the same thing, guys.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:56 pmSooooo, Dagen, you’re relating Uncle Sam to your dad? Or is it your brothers?
Why do repukes relate most things to some sort of sexual perversion?
Oh, forgot, they’re repukes that’s why.
March 24th, 2009 at 7:14 pmFaux anchors can not even think straight. They are a bunch of fraudulent buffoons.
March 24th, 2009 at 7:20 pm48 Hoodathunk Says:
This is only partly true. There can be no question that Fox News is trying to appeal to the same “least common denominator” that the National Enquirer has catered to. The biggest difference is that the National Enquirer has never attempted to spread propaganda.
We need to be very proactive when it comes to debunking Fox News. Fox News may be the greatest threat Americans are facing today.
March 24th, 2009 at 7:20 pmOMG! This damn fool! What the hell is going on at Fake News station? It’s the other way around – what AIG execs did was like raping and holding us all hostage for our tax dollars!
March 24th, 2009 at 7:27 pm56 conservative truth Says:
Here we see a wingnut sharing his/her opinion of what he/she thinks the liberal view of the world is. He/she does bring up an interesting point, however.
The wingnut differentiates between the liberal “real truth” and the Republican version of truth. In a rational discussion of truth, we delve into the realm of philosophy. There can be only one absolute truth, for any given issue, but no man can say for sure what that truth is, because men (and woman) cannot see the big picture, we do not have omniscience.
We can, however, be certain of what is clearly untrue. We know that Fox News is lying on a regular basis. We know they are pimping the Republican alternate version of reality. My point is that the Wingnut is somewhat correct. We do need to get “fake truth” news out of the media, and replace it with “real truth” news.
March 24th, 2009 at 7:38 pmIm a moderate, but even I recognize the untruth in that taxing bonuses is like sexual abuse. Thats so far out there I doubt even conservatives, who are also angry about these bonuses, would consider taxing them to be akin to sexual abuse
March 24th, 2009 at 7:41 pmFOX better hurry up and hire Lou Dobbs too. This is another guy who gets worse by the day. We don’t need people subject to his mental issues.
In general the MSM is scraping the barrel for retorical stories and Obama is not giving them the drama they so crave now that the Republicans have been put in their place. They have picked the wrong target for their narrative and they may go down along with Bushie criminal idealology.
March 24th, 2009 at 7:47 pmBuckie Boy Says:
Sooooo, Dagen, you’re relating Uncle Sam to your dad? Or is it your brothers?
no, she really is talking about her ‘uncle sam’…
if not her REAL uncle, her mom’s boyfriend maybe…
but she was taught to call him uncle sam…
surely, someone is searching the internet for those pictures…
… snark, btw… … i never heard of the woman till this…
March 24th, 2009 at 7:47 pmWhat are people gonna do take pictures of their bonus checks and put them on the internet?
How is that embarrassing?
Do AIG folks get naked and have weird sex because they got a bonus check? Do they do like Gitmo guards and make their co-workers build naked pyramids? Do they buy hookers and blow??
March 24th, 2009 at 7:47 pmAmazing. And this from a network that gave Obama heck for saying his bowling is like Special Olypmics. Simply pathetic, irresponsible rhetoric.
March 24th, 2009 at 7:53 pmdid they call in their expert sexual abuser, bill o’lielly so he could present the “she deserved it” perspective to the story?
March 24th, 2009 at 7:54 pmconservative truth Says:
The liberal view of the world….”If we could just get rid of those evil foxnews journalists we could implement the ‘real truth’ and enforce it on everyone.
Are you talking about the same truth here?
How about just the truth.
It sounds like you get your truth from a drive up window. Would you like a super-sized order of fries with that?
March 24th, 2009 at 8:03 pmNow that, my friends, is capitol T A L E N T!
March 24th, 2009 at 8:09 pmYou don’t want to think if you get in bed with a Conservative he’s going to strip you naked, chain you to the bed, leave you there and then take nasty pictures of you and then put them on the Internet. Because that’s what’s been happening.
March 24th, 2009 at 8:11 pmHas it occured to FOX that these peoples bonuses are debt unto the people?
That debt creation in perpetuity is a sin?
March 24th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Murdoch should be arreted for implementing Pentagon propaganda on the American people, for the lies leading to the war, and for the supid comments from this imbecil!
March 24th, 2009 at 8:37 pmTURN FOX OFF!
REGULATE MEADIA OWNERSHIP NOW!
Misstypred… Murdoch should be arrested!
March 24th, 2009 at 8:37 pmSo Faux is now arguing for the bonuses to the folks who caused the problem ?
I thought even the “base” was against the bonuses.
March 24th, 2009 at 8:43 pmfas?cist [fash-ist]
1. a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
2. (often initial capital letter) a member of a fascist movement or party.
3. a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views.
March 24th, 2009 at 8:56 pmIronic metaphor considering that the American public had been “assuming the position” for 8 years during the Bush/Cheney regime.
March 24th, 2009 at 9:53 pm“Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff…”
March 24th, 2009 at 10:09 pmJust_Asking Says:
The Democrats are seizing power right before out eyes.
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Riiiiiiiiight…
Like if private money had gone in and bailed out AIG… they wouldn’t have laughed as they P*SSED on any “bonus” agreements in place and demanded the absolute right to set salaries and anything else anyway they wanted to?
March 25th, 2009 at 12:09 amI worked with Hemmer in Cincinnati.
It is amazing what some folk will do for a dollar!
On second thought, no it isn’t.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:38 amOoohhhh, Dagen, baby, keep talkin’ there, honeychile, I’m almost there,Ooohhh yeah, that’s it, right there!! Oh,Oh,OhOhOh, YEAHAHAH!!
March 25th, 2009 at 12:55 amDayum, darlin’, you’re sumpin. Pass the Skoal can, sugah, I need a break.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:56 amThese people are sick…
Not the clown performers, oh, no. The producers. The editors. The ones putting this on the tee vee. Wow.
Because this is just to get eyeballs. The theme is nonsense, dipped deeply fried in sexual fantasy.
Tied up, indeed.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:56 amSign of mental illness when people make statements that elude to representations of twisted scenarios that seem “out of this world” or “highly objectionable”. O’jively appears to have a serious personality disorder at the very least. he seems a bit on the psychopathic side much like the personality of that SS chief Heinrich Himmler. sadistic.
March 25th, 2009 at 3:05 am(emphasis added)
Where are the pictures? I want to see nasty pictures of AIG CEOs stripped naked and chained to the bed by Uncle Sam. In fact, I’d like to see them asphyxiate on the Uncle Sam money shot.
March 25th, 2009 at 3:34 amFox News is allowing sexual torture comments on their show? Wow! I guess Bill O’Reilly is right: Fox News loves and respects women! Spit.
March 25th, 2009 at 7:06 amHmmm… I see a weak analogy, an attempt at nonargumentative persuasion, perhaps an appeal to force (belive the analogy or suffer its consequences… the whole chains and pictures thing), possibly an appeal to morality, and an overall dysphemism (a phrase or word used to produce a negative assosciation with the subject — we’ll be seeing more of this term). ALL of which are automatic failures of critical arguments.
Pretty damn fine measure of illogical non-argumentation. I guess the idea is, “Believe us because we are SO zany and incomprehensible.”
March 25th, 2009 at 7:17 amOh… and an appeal to pity (”pity those poor executives who are suffering the equivalent of the sex abuse described”).
March 25th, 2009 at 7:18 amIs Dagan speaking from experience?
March 25th, 2009 at 8:49 amWell, given that Fox viewers seem to like money and covet it more than the average person those bonuses become equivalent to rape in their sorry eyes.
What wonderful “values” they have.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:47 amI assume that Dagen McDowell was speaking from personal experience, so you can imagine my surprise to discover that any one would handcuff her to a bedstead without first applying a gag. C’mon now, some stuff just can’t be believed.
March 25th, 2009 at 1:27 pmthe aig bailout is a sham , the ceo’s and the contractors , should only be paid out by the profits of AIG , no monies from the bailout should go to them at all !, lets audit all the ceo’s and contractors of AIG
March 25th, 2009 at 11:58 pmdid the government know what AIG was up to ? Maybe the gov was hoping there scam would work ?or was apart of the scam ? the bailout packages are only giving bad business men the right to thieve off the american peoples taxes !
March 26th, 2009 at 12:15 amwhat about a new name for the bailout stimula , call it the triple b {bbb} bailout buddy blist
March 26th, 2009 at 12:37 am