Joe would have loved to live under their thumbs. One was a fascist, one a Communist, but they both had one quality the likes of Joe admire more than liberty: TOTAL AUTHORITY to do what ever the hell they want.

The only difference between Bush's attitude and the dictators of old is that Bush can not just yet have people killed for disagreeing with him.

But cheer up Joe, you'll be pleased to know your Fuhrer is working on it.

Bush said: "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator... heh heh heh."

--Washington, DC, Dec 18, 2000, during his first trip to Washington as President-Elect.

Joe is our favorite Salon troll. What would we do without him.

It's sad what has happened to McCain over the past six years. Why McCain has endured the insults and the backstabbing of his own party, and grovelled before them like a cowardly dog I don't know.

Some have opined that the Republicans have something on McCain, a lurid sex perversion story or something that would end McCain's political career forever. That's why he lets them insult him and abuse him.

If somebody ever finds McCain's balls, they should put them up on eBay.

Over 22 letters on this topic so far and with the exception of BGRASSO, MAGOO, and a few others, you all are as oblivious as Koppelman, who actually took "Average Joe" seriously.

Now get this through your heads:

Joe Scarborough is an ENTERTAINER. He makes a six-figure salary by yanking you back and forth - one night he's fanning the flames of war, pulling in all the trained seals who bark and clap for Bush. The next night, he makes up a shocking question "Is Bush an Idiot" and all of a sudden, he's got the lefties tuning in to see if Average Joe has finally come to his senses.

Don't you get it, you morons?

He's playing you! Scarborough is a money-making sociopath. He doesn't have any real convictions save one: Make Money For Joe.

The one thing you can always count on is that Joe will go where the wind is blowing.

The American public was soured on Clinton? Average Joe was there to make hay.

The American public is sour on Bush? Average Joe is adjusting his show to get the best Nielsen and Arbitron ratings.

Joe is just like Matthews, like O'Rielly, like Coulter and yeah, you simple-minded suckers, just like Olbermann. They are all just hookers standing outside the corporate-owned media whorehouses trying to get you to come in and get your right-wing or left-wing nuts off. It doesn't matter. A whore will play any role you want - French maid, cheerleader, barely legal, even your mom, as long as you pay for it.

Koppelman sits through this interview with a straight face while Average Joe explains that he doesn't run for Congress again because of his sons. What horse shit. Koppelman should have had the balls to ask, "Well that's great Joe, but doesn't it have something to do with the fact that you're making so much loot now you'd be crazy to leave?"

I've got to hand it to Scarborough, just as I have to hand it to Ann Coulter and to the latest arrival Glen Beck: They all know how to get you into the GE, Viacom and Time Warner whorehouses and show you a good time.

Sooner or later, the military draft is coming back. National service is not an option when things start to get serious.

Thanks to Rumsfeld's doctrine of "war on the cheap" our military is now not capable of defending us if the shit hits the fan in the Western Pacific and in the Middle East at the same time. Instead of a measured response using troops and conventional arms, in a real emergency, not a phony one cocked up by Neocon fanatics, our only option is strategic first-strike nuclear weapons.

This is not about Iraq anymore. That little skirmish is almost over. Everyone had better understand what the Pentagon war-fighters and long-term military strategists have cooked up for you "over the next horizon."

That's how they talk at the military think tanks: "Horizons." As the sun sets on one military adventure like Iraq, eyes have already turned to the task of anticipating the next "horizon."

I don't think American "psyches" are sufficiently prepared to face what's coming next.

The basic reason why armed forces exist at all is to defend a nation. When an armed force of a nation becomes weak, as Rumsfeld has weakened our military, then other countries will exploit this opportunity.

So there's going to be a draft folks. Oh yes. And when the government gets ready to do it, you can expect that all broadcast and cable media will be behind it 100 percent, just like last time.

If Allen were smart (which he ain't), he'd dump DICK WAD-ham and just shut up and move on. As it is, Allen might as well have Macaca tattooed on his forehead.

What we have here, is a failure to communicate. Virginia is for lovers. White lovers. Just like over yonder in Neshoba County, Mississippi, back in the good ol' days, they's people movin' in here that wants to cause trouble. We don't need no Macacas and them other mixed race folks coming around, stirrin' things up. Them damn liberals and Jews gonna keep on stirrin' things up down here and pretty soon, we gonna have to take care of 'em if you know what I mean.