Also - how odd that you would cite the large audiences of network news shows to prove some point. Aren't those all "liberal"? -- GlennGreenwald

Fell off of my chair laughing at that one.

@PW = Monty Python And The Holy Grail- The Black Knight.

Fell off my chair laughing again. Ok so at times I am easily amused.

Ok we get it. You PW enjoys the press being stupid, or maybe just do not care if the press is a bunch of morons as long as they make a buck. Whatever, I don't know, your points shift like the wind. What is clear is that in principle you do not care, so understand clearly that most on this board, like the founding founders, DO FUKKIN CARE, in principle about the behaviour of the press.

"Why yes, the food (McDonalds) is very good. And inexpensive. And convenient. Why wouldn't it be popular? Heh. -- shooter242"

The food is cheap for "restaurant" food because it is cheap in quality. It is convenient and thats it. Go out buy some lean hamburger meat, cook it, compare the fukkin cardboard patty you get from Macs with the hamburger you cooked yourself. (Compare the cost too for laughs) Then if you can't tell the difference don't expect the rest of the world to be as food challeneged as you and by extension as politically reality challenged as you.

Straw straw everywhere

The pentagon/administration gets caught in a lie AGAIN. And suddenly anyone that calls them out hates Bush, hates the troops, is undermining America, doesn't like apple pie, and is an Alan Colmes fan.

Denial denial goes well with alcohol

Are you going to deny that such a speedboat put a hole in USS Cole? Yes you stupid fuk, one was Iranian military in radio contact with our navy in international waters, the other a private vessal in port.

"These speedboats had no reason to be that close to our warships." We of course have all the reason in the world to be so close to their waters. Like if Iran had a few warships skirting international waters right outside of our eastern ports, that would be fine. We wouldn't mind at all.

Assertions assertions all the rage

"you'd be incredibly stupid to ride a motorcycle in a threatening manner at high speed directly at a police officer and then run rings around his cruiser (in a neighborhood where other police had been brutally killed)"

Threatening manner is your assertion, and is clearly not in evidence. And WTF are you talking about - what military has been killed in the international waters where this occurred? Assertions do not well support conclusions.

Let's all get get together

Sure the political leadership lies to your face and doesn't give a shit if you know it, but why can't all us Americans just get along...(neocon bats his eyelashess)

Politely put - Inadequate facility to discriminate between ass and elbow

"the simple fact is that if any of those boats had been armed with a modern ant-ship missile we could have lost a ship or two and they [Iran] would have lost only a couple of speedboats in exchange." Oh sure - starting a war with the greatest, biggest, most destructive military force in the history of the world comes free of charge to the Iranians.

"Let's put it in perspective. We have five small speedboats attacking the U.S. Navy with a Destroyer? They could take care of those speedboats in about five seconds. And here we're ready to start World War III over this? . . . . Ron Paul

There are some issues that are complex and nuanced and there others that are so simple you'd think that even someone with the brain of a walnut could see it. We have US Navy war ships fukking around near Iranian waters, we have an occupying army in a neighboring state, we have buffoons constantly threatening Iran, with Nuclear weapons to boot, and now we have this naval "threat incident" which is the equivalent of kids with pop-guns acting tough with an Army platoon.

It is disconcerting to know that Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate who sees the absurdity of it all.

...he would have bombed the Japanese internment camps

and tortured the Italians.

Bush today stated that resolving the status of Jerusalem will be hard, (duh really, gee whiz didn't know that, maybe it'll even be "hard work"). Then he called for the end of the “occupation” of Arab land by the Israeli military. What is he thinking? That Christians occupying Arab lands is A.O.K., it's just Jews occupying foreign lands that cause a problem?

"For the record, I don't care much for Hillary, but goddamn it, at least be fair about it. SHE DID NOT CRY! Fuck!

-- Garry Owen

Sorry Gary, too late. It's part of the American lexicon and so doesn't matter if it's real or not.

Like Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox conquered the midwest, Hillary and her tears conquered New Hampshire.

Fuk about sums it up.