"I simply refuse to believe that people in Pakistan and Somalia would go to their deaths because the Palestinians don't have a state."

Now there's a good little ideologue, Dinesh. Simply refuse to believe what's actually true about the world so that you can make up quotes to support your own politically convenient theory.

It's true people need to be motivated properly to die for a cause. But D'Souza truly believes that the freedom of people to watch "Fear Factor" in the US (his example on the Colbert Report) is by far more compelling than decades of American support for oppressive regimes where 90% of the population is mired in povery and unemployment -- which, sadly, is also true of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians? And it is, somehow, liberals who insist that "Fear Factor" remain on the air and draw millions of viewers?

What color is the sky where you live, Dinesh?

If 9/11 was a retaliatory attack for the "threat" of American pop culture and not its international trade and military policies...

...why did the hijackers fly planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, not Universal Studios and Sony Records?

And while we're at it, Dinesh, what was the connection between Iran and 9/11 again? Iranians hate America; 9/11 hijackers hated America; ergo, Iranians = 9/11 hijackers?

Hey, worked for Iraq!

If O'Reilly sends enough books, soldiers can finally have a way of armoring their Humvees.

Yes, the best way for Obama to move ahead in the polls is more Fox News coverage. How else will he find an audience for his message that, as someone raised as a Muslim terrorist, he wants to destroy America and kill your families?

Is it a "school-yard taunt" that somehow makes it not an anti-gay epithet? (And if Ann or anyone believes that, they haven't be on a school yard recently -- yes it means "wuss," as in "you're a wuss because you're gay."

OR is it a reference to "Gray's Anatomy' (and yes, she did say "Gay's Anatomy" first) -- where it was CLEARLY and INTENTIONALLY an anti-gay epithet?

And really, Hannity is going to get his panties in a bunch about people going after Ann "who has no power" (REALLY?!) just weeks after the right ousted feminist bloggers from the Edwards campaign? After years of saying certain Democrats (in power) are from the "Michael Moore Wing of the Democratic Party" (not in power, and not in the Democratic party -- remember how he campaigned AGAINST the Democrats in 2000 as "evil")?

The right, and especially the right wing media, specialize in selective moral outrage. There would be no Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh without it. But apparently there's nothing more morally outrageous than moral outrage at their own moral outrageousness.

Please, tell me more... about this "separation of powers" of which you speak?

In the early years of the Republic, presidential spouses often died in the White House or on the way there.

One can walk around Baghdad with ONLY the kind of physical protection that surrounds the President of the United States in public! Why, that's hardly protection at all!

And just ask Gerald Ford: Poland wasn't under Soviet domination in 1976!

"It was always, 'Socrates, what is Truth? Socrates, what is Beauty?'

It was never, 'Socrates, hemlock is poison.'"

Shoot me now. In the face.

We removed Saddam Hussein so that Iraqis can freely and openly express their feelings of hatred toward America!

And we had to invade, because 9/11 showed us that many in the Middle East hate America!

So... we've been at war for 4 years to... um... get Iraqis to be more open about their feelings? Couldn't we have just sent Oprah?

saintzak asked, "Where did they get a stars and stripes rug? Linens n Things Baghdad?"

No, "Bloodbath and Beyond."

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Check out Weird Al's "Bob," done entirely in palindromes. Bonus points for the dead-on take-off of the "Subterranean Homesick Blues" clip from "Don't Look Back."

http://youtube.com/watch?v=j_pYYff7qP0

That said, we are in a troubling state of culture when things like the Seuss parody get squashed. Not because this is mounmental work that needs to be preseved for all time, but because it reflects perfectly the creative impulse: "I bet I could create something -- I did!" In a country that's becoming so uncreative in ways that counts -- as in figuring out our most vexing national problems -- it's going to be popular innovation that saves us in the long run.

That said, I guess it's not a good time for my book, Horton Hears "The Who", where Horton the elephant winds up at the tragic Who concert in Cincinnati.