Cops didn't need tasers to remove people from antiwar demonstrations years ago. The students went limp, the cops picked them up by the arms and legs and removed them. There was no need to taser the guy. End of story.

"The people have spoken, and I have won this election," Buchanan said.

18,000 people spoke and their voices are being ignored. In America, every voice is supposed to be heard.

Do over. Big time.

"He's not going to change his view because some poll says this or some poll says that"

This is a favorite Bush meme. To claim that Junior doesn't govern by polls. It's not a question of polls, it's a question about issues and morality. In a million years I wouldn't be able to be in a room with a Bush to ask a question, but if I were, I would point out that the lady was talking about A WAR and about sanctioning torture, not about a poll. It's a moral issue. She is taking issue with George W Bush's morals and judgement. That's not a poll. The morality of war, of the policy regarding capture and torture of human beings is a legitimate moral issue to be brought before a world leader.

His treatment of human beings is something people have a right to give an opinion on and to demand an explanation of. And tough shit if the Bush family doesn't like it. It's really about time people shot down this "he won't govern by poll" Rovian nonsense. He's a lying, immoral, self-centered, self-satisfied brute with a smiley face and he doesn't fool any of us (except the Wealthy Media and other members of the Bush clan).

He'll do it in a few months, maybe in a year. Rightwingers have noticed something. When people make a fuss about some ludicrous, immoral thing a rightwinger wants to do, the wingers say "OK, never mind. We're rethinking it."

A few months later, they will reintroduce it. They know that they will not get as strong a reaction from as many people as the first time because people get 'outrage fatigue' about a particular subject. "Oh, didn't we do that already? Hey look... a squirrel!" It's done in politics all the time. Take Arlen Specter. He's the GOP go-to man for voicing outrage that is seemingly populist. Then, a little while later, when nobody is looking, Specter OKs whatever it was he was pretending to be outraged by. The vast majority of the public - even the majority of those who voiced opposition and outrage - never noticed, or if they noticed, they just threw up their arms and went "Oh well, we tried."

The producers over at Fox will air the show sometime in the future, saying "People weren't ready for it yet. Now that they've had time, they're more willing to accept it." And they will find people (maybe paid shills, but maybe just ordinary lowlives who make up the American viewing public) who will say "I really want to watch it. I don't think other people should make that decision for me."

Mark my words... Murdoch will air the OJ Simpson craptacular.

As kids, my sister and I watched Johnny Carson in the 60s and 70s. Half his guests were bombed. Hell, half the guests on the Dick Cavett Show were "stoned out of their gourds" and that was the supposedly high-class talk show.

I watched John and Yoko on the Mike Douglas Show at 4 in the afternoon for a full week and they were fuh-lyin high! Richard Pryor, a favorite guest on Douglas's after-school hour show, was so high he burst out laughing in the face of Milton Berle, a moth-eaten "icon," for trying to garner sympathy for himself because some woman he (Berle) had impregnanted had an abortion. It was GREAT!

What a bunch of pussy celebrities we have on TV now. We have to resort to reality shows to get some controversy or non-rigid behavior and shit, that stuff is all manufactured!

Give me a stoned-out Truman Capote bitchslapping Jaqueline Suzanne any day over pussy-boy Tom Cruise and Oprah. And Bill Cosby, for all your self-righteousness, I saw you as guest-host on the Tonight Show drunkly mouth "He's DEAD!" after announcing that William Demarest would be the guest for tomorrow night's show. Demarest wasn't dead, but we in the home audience laughed uproariously at Cosby's remark, because we said the same damn thing as soon as Cosby announced Demarest's name. It was great television!

So Danny DeVito went on TV drunk and spoke? Big fucking deal. We've had a senile president jokingly threaten to drop the Big One on the USSR. We have a genuine member of The Dark Side coming out of his subterranean secure place, appearing like a grotesque apparition on our television sets, repeatedly telling us the same proven lies again and again as if he believes we are zombies programmed to obey his commands. We have a dry drunk mangling the English language, strangling on pretzels and giving snide nicknames to world leaders as a "president; a guy who needs a voice prompter strapped to his back in order to make it through a debate where he is lobbed nerf ball questions.

I should care that Danny had some good, clean tipsy fun and criticized Bush? Get the fuck out of here. Danny DeVito doesn't have his hand on a nuclear button.

"Hitler had the excuse of drug addiction, syphilis, and madness. What's Bush's excuse?"

Ummm... the same things?

The poor guy actually worked hard at being a symbol of celebrity decadence and excess. Procuring explosives to pack his drum kit with and blow the doors off of hotel rooms; driving cars into pools; systematically dismantling the interiors of many a hostelry; coming up with new ways to get kicked off of airplanes. It was even dangerous at times.

It's so easy nowadays. All these celebrity nitwits have to do nowadays is just exist.