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Our President
Don't you laugh when Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell or Rove says,
"I thought the president was exactly
right when he said..."
Weak & Stupid recites whatever words that Rumsfeld, Cheney,
Powell or Rove give him,
and then they come out and praise Bush's "wisdom" in interviews
afterwards?
Who's falling for this horseshit
charade?
Besides America, I mean...
From: WCR1999@aol.com
Subject: Bill Maher explained himself
I saw the show in question (and his remarks struck
me exactly the way he intended, I didn't take
umbrage to them), and also saw the show last
night. He opened last night's show with an explanation.
He said right after the first show he did about
30 media interviews, and nobody thought to bring it up,
but after someone brought it up in a newspaper,
then it stirred everything up.
He said he was referring to our POLITICIANS, not
our troops, for whom he has the utmost respect
and supports 100%, and are definitely NOT cowardly
but extremely brave. He was implying that we
need to go in and do things the right way to
get them done, but our politicians are shaped by ugly
popular opinion and don't have the guts to do
it. I understood his point, and figured most others did too.
Steve
Steve, I disagree.
He said what he said, and he can't spin it differently, now.
He should've said, "I misspoke," not "you heard funny."
He's got the same problem Rush had with Kosovo.
"If it's a good and noble war, we should be
willing to die for it."
I don't understand the thinking.
Rush and Maher are saying "Defense is bad."
Is it "cowardly" to shoot from behind a tree or a rock?
If our tanks can shoot 5 miles, and their tanks only shoot three miles,
is it "cowardly" to fight them from four miles away?
That's all those pilots are doing, staying out of the fire.
Robert Dorn has a good job
He's in charge of frisking the girls at the Miss America pageant.
From: geekypsycho@yahoo.com
Subject: Michael Jackson bullshit
I know you didn't write that Betty Bowers piece
on Michael Jackson, but I also know from
your other comments that it has your full endorsement.
They say you like emails with numbers...
That's very true.
1. Michael Jackson never uttered a Clinton-bashing
statement, or a gay-bashing statement,
or--hell, I doubt if he's ever voted for
a Republican. He does not deserve anyone's hate or ridicule.
He is as opposite from Falwell as anyone can
be.
That's true, except for the ridicule, but we'll get into that in a minute.
2. The tribute song is no more a publicity
stunt than that telethon, or Clinton's New York visit.
I never even heard anything about it on the news,
I only know from a Michael Jackson fan page.
This is what he gets for trying to help?
Totally disagree.
Michael has different problems than you and me.
At Michael's core is the need to have the most trophies, to sell the
most records,
to have the title "King of Pop," and to be in the spotlight at all
times.
He has severe psychological problems that we can't even imagine.
How screwed up would you or I have to be to travel with a monkey?
How screwed up would you or I have to be to change the color of our
skin?
How screwed up would you or I have to be to buy a tiny white nose?
How screwed up would you or I have to be to have best friends of seven
years old?
How screwed up would you or I have to be to kick Lisa Marie Presley
out of bed?
I wouldn't trade places with poor Michael Jackson - would you?
Sure, you can say it's not his fault, and if your argument is that
it's not polite to make fun of people
whose problems are beyond his control, then you have half a point,
but my answer would be
that Michael could change if he had the courage and determination to
do it.
3. The song isn't hastily scribbled out
either. It was something he labored over in 1999
but never released, and it simply fits this situation.
I'll give you that one.
There's no sense in you being shut out in this debate.
4. Michael Jackson is promoting his album
the same way as everyone else, releasing singles that scurry up
the charts. And he was in the news before
the attack Say what you will about that Sept 7 concert,
the people got their money's worth.
Koresh, you must be a big fan of his.
Hey, I'll admit, I've paid $2500 to see a concert, but I didn't sit
thru a five-hour whorefest
with every animal act and clown freak show in America. Did you catch
the part about
Marlon Brando giving his "machete" speech?
Shit, me & Britney Spears & N Sync could pack The Garden for
weeks.
Why didn't Michael have a normal concert with normal prices?
Why doesn't Michael go on tour, like a normal performer?
Why doesn't Michael go on Jay Leno and Letterman like a normal singer?
The sad truth is, he's not normal, the poor bastard, and that's how
he likes it.
I could make Michael Jackson normal in 30 days. (maybe 60)
Here's what you do: You have him go on Jay Leno each Friday.
Each Friday, he sings a song and does 15 minutes on the couch.
No chimps.
No single glove.
No oxygen tents.
No Mccauley Culkin
No Elephant Man bones.
None of that horseshit that makes him so incredibly weird.
Just a singer/dancer with an impressive collection of hits.
Michael could be normal if he wanted to. (...except for the young boys)
But Michael doesn't want to be normal.
I realize steam is coming out your ears right now, but if you only
remember
one sentence, remember this: Michael doesn't want to be normal.
He wants to be different more than he wants to breathe air.
That's what he wants.
That's why he's like he is.
Don't tell me I should be going after Betty Bowers
and not you.
You're just finally getting called out for all
the crap you've dumped on him over the years.
He may be weird and arrogant, but he's not a
whore, so don't treat him like one.
Betty Bowers is a big girl and can take care of herself.
Jocko hasn't been my primary focus, but sure, I've expressed my opinion
when
he does something particularly stupid or weird. Politically, I don't
think he's a whore,
but he's sold way more than his soul to somebody for something, don't
you think?
Oh, and that "religion is the problem" thing doesn't
wash either. Falwell and terrorists are the problem.
Statements like yours lump Mother Theresa and
Billy Graham in with them.
Geekypsycho, you are technically correct.
People who misuse religion and bastardize it for personal gain are
the problem.
"Religion is the problem," is shorthand for that.
Look, I don't hate Michael Jackson - I feel sorry for him.
I wish he had the mindset that would allow him to walk in a room without
having
the king's trumpters fanfare and twin albino monkeys dropping rose
petals
while a paid-for choir sings, "He really
is the King of Pop."
I just checked - www.beatupthehost.com is available.
Maybe I should move things over there.
Jacko Told, 'Thanks, but No Thanks'
Michael Jackson's thin, white nose is out of joint
after his offer
to perform at Friday's "Tribute to Heroes" telethon
was turned down.
Producers of the show, "felt he didn't fit the
spirit of the show," says a source.
"The fear was that his performance would have
been about him, not the victims."
The source said producers worried Jackson might
turn the benefit into another self-coronation
like the poor confused bastard threw for himself
at Madison Square Garden earlier this month.
From: prisca@physics.umn.edu
Subject: AAAH - I needed that!
Wow - I just found your website.
I am so sick of the media rolling over and playing
dead to Dubya.
I'm supposed to be putting the kids to bed, but
I wanted to see the online news first.
And then I started shouting at my terminal.
Bad news when that begins. Now after visiting
your website, I feel like
I just went to an encounter group and feel so
much better.
Well, only sort of. Because I still would
like to DO something about it.
What do you DO about this junk anyway?
Why can't we get more passionate
and right-thinking people to speak up about the
loss of our freedoms - given
over en masse (except for one notable exception)
to the Dubya?
Does your website have a plan of action or are
you just sniping?
Thanks,
Prisca from Minneapolis
Prisca,
Actually, this is supposed to be a comedy page, but things aren't funny
right now.
Emotions
Are High Enough Already
by Jimmy Breslin
Excerpt:
And I was back on a cool October day in
1988 in Christ the King High School and George Bush the Elder
was on the stage holding up officer Edward
Byrne's badge. Byrne had been killed in Jamaica. Byrne's father
had given Bush the son's badge. Bush
was running for president against Michael Dukakis.
"Dukakis wouldn't understand the grief of
a dead cop's mother," Bush said.
"This helps define the man I'm running
against. He doesn't understand police. I do."
He used the badge to inflame an auditorium
that was crowded with high school girls,
who got up on their seats and shrieked,
"Death
Penalty! Death Penalty! Capital Punishment."
It was the most embarrassing afternoon that
the Catholics have had around here.
Yeah, considering Catholics don't believe in the death penalty.
The TV season has started, so be sure to check out
Marty and The Vidiot have put a ton of work into it, and it shows.
A virtual look at the damage in New York
Warning
- Extreme Conspiracy Theory To Follow
Not for the weak of heart
From: prazeghi@earthlink.net
Subject: tribute to heroes
Bart, Your review of the tribute was on the money.
I too was moved and inspired, as everyone set
exactly the right tone.
I'm wondering how many people know that Sting's
"Fragile" was written as a tribute to Ben Linder,
a humanitarian aid worker who was murdered by
Reagan's "freedom fighters" in Nicaragua.
No one from the Reagan administration reached
out to comfort Ben's parents.
Rep. Connie Mack added to their pain by making
a snide comment about Ben
being somewhere he shouldn't have been.
It was so sad.
PR
From: joe1991@worldnet.att.net
Subject: Re: Proof before war
BC,
To paraphrase the old SNL line "BartCop, you ignorant slut!"
You've were calling us "DOVES" when we said "hey...wait
a second".
Now YOU say "We want to see the proof BEFORE
the first shot is fired."
Must be the Koresh-damn air in K-drag, it only
took you a week and a
half to see what we "doves" were saying
before the buildings even fell.
Stick to the humor, or get a couple of "philosophical
advisors"
on staff before you start spouting off
"glass the bastards!!" again.
Joe C
I don't like your tone, and your facts are in error, Cubby.
This is what I said the first day and it still stands.
> I'm a hawk on the military.
> Words mean things, but IF
we
have the proof they say we have,
> I want ground troops in Afghanistan to grab that mother.
> I say we occupy Afghanistan until they hand him over to us.
> If we lose troops - we lose troops.
> But we don't take this attack lying down.
You see that word in red?
That means something.
I never said, "Let's attack before we know who's involved."
What a suck-ass argument to go back in time and claim you were right
back
then.
Tell me - what exactly were you saying "before
the buildings even fell?"
Where do I go to look at YOUR record, where YOU displayed all YOUR
wisdom
and had all the right answers "before the
buildings even fell?"
I think you're a liar and a fraud.
You wait nine days after the attack to explain what you "knew" back
then?
Who said your opinion was so correct and noble? Don't think you
can waltz in here
with some bullshit chip on your shoulder and explain how the world
turns, Cubby.
By the way, who told you what to think?
Michael Moore or Ralph Nader?
Who's going to hell this week?
A
symposium on Bush’s speech to Congress
by Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review ho
Click Here to read the crap
Excerpt:
The president has spoken with Churchillian
clarity. He has demonstrated to his most
petty detractors — from the New York Times
editorial board to Washington Post
columnist Mary McGrory, as well as the
enemies of the republic — from the Taliban
terrorists to Middle East despots, that
Americans have wisely chosen a strong leader for the times.
Lady, Smirk isn't Churchillian, he chilling.
He doesn't have a heart or a brain or the slightest bit of courage.
Second, we didn't choose Smirk, he was forced on
us by a crooked, partisan court.
Remember?
The voters chose Al Gore, but Jeb, Katherine and Tony
preferred Weak & Stupid.
Third, if voters knew things were going to get this bad, Gore
would've won 49 states.
Maybe that horseshit
you wrote makes you feel better, or makes you some whore money,
but lying doesn't help anybody in a time of crisis.
The obscure goat story of 9-11
From: sstark@etigers.net
Subject: Why, BC, you seem to have modified your views!
You wrote:
> "Mr President,
> We want to see the proof BEFORE
the first shot is fired.
> We want to see the proof BEFORE
the next American life is lost.
> We want to see the proof BEFORE
the first American POW is tortured.
> ...and if you claim the proof is "too secret
to share,"
> then we will insist on your resignation
or we will impeach you. "
BC: While I whole-heartedly agree with you,
this sounds "nearly" dovish!
Keep on keepin' on.
Steve
The only difference I can see is I didn't spell
out earlier that I don't trust Smirk,
and that I want to see the proof as opposed
to him saying, "Trust me."
Modified?
'Further expounded on' would be more accurate.
When did I say I wanted innocents bombed?
When did I say "if"
wasn't a factor?
Making sure of your target isn't being dovish - it's being smart.
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It had everything.
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