"Condi is going...". Relax, folks. Help is on the way. Maybe she'll finally find that mushroom cloud too.

Let's say any of the broadcast networks -- ABC, NBC, CBS or Fox -- happened to be airing a report with live audio when Bush uttered his charming comment.

Or, let's speculate that a microphone happened to be nearby when Cheney graciously told Sen. Leahy to (intercourse) himself on the Senate floor a couple of years ago, and it were broadcast live.

Would the networks be liable for massive FCC fines, especially if such events happened now under the current restrictive rules?

Inquiring minds want to know -- what would the FCC say about THIS? I'd love to have the question formally posed by reporters to the agency!

Yes if only Hezbollah would stop doing this shit, and if the Iranians would stop being stroppy and the Iraqui's would stop doing their shit and......if everybody would do what we wanted them to, life would be great.

But as a senior British civil servant said to Blair recently, "we're fucked, I'm fucked, you're fucked, we're all fucked."

And if either Blair or Bush might be lying awake tonight wondering how fucked we are, I can help. We're fucking fucked.

Neither the article nor the audio deletes the word 'shit'. By the way, the BBC video I watched on the story was priceless. The female anchor even took the time to repeat, in a most proper British accent, every word the Supreme Dipshit said, in case we couldn't understand the audio.

According to Emily Post you should not talk with a mouthfull. Either Bush cant read or has no manners, or maybe both?

This has turned into the lead story on CNN's U.S. Web site. Is it really a bigger deal than the current Isreali/Lebanon violence? I mean, they ARE connected, but I just find it odd.

Shit - what I find offensive is the Times busily scrubbing a word rather than scrubbing the shit out of their ears and reporting accurately what is being said by people in positions of power.

Has not everybody on this planet used this word in one form or another in their lifetime??

Shit - what if he had said fuck?! Good LORD in heaven....

If he had called someone a cocksucker then maybe the story would have been newsworthy.

Remember when the U.S. had some credibility in the world? When we tried to stop wars instead of instigating them? When we weren't torturers and kidnappers led by chickenhawks? When the rule of law and the Constitution meant something and our republic had a time-tested system of checks and balances? When our government was run by competent people who tried to solve some of our problems, and didn't want to give away the store to corporations and the super-rich? When the truth was simply the truth, not lies or spin manufactured as "reality?" When the slaughter of civilians in Israel/Lebanon/Gaza would elicit an immediate response from the U.S. Department of State in an attempt to stop the violence and broker a peace deal?

Boy, I miss Bill.

Oooh, he said "shit" like a big tough Texan. Makes me miss Lyndon Johnson--now there was someone with a real grasp of foul English.

"Too dumb to chew gum and fart at the same time"--has anyone ever said it better?

Truer words were never spoken. This person doesn't really represent us, does he?

Has not everybody on this planet used this word in one form or another in their lifetime??

Shit - what if he had said fuck?! Good LORD in heaven....

-- mike in Seattle *

I guess for me, it's not that he swore, it's just that there are times for informality, and times for formality.