Sunday, October 8, 2000 -- NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (AmpolNS) -- So many topics, so little time: the Middle East is in turmoil, Kostunica wins in Yugoslavia, Al and Dubya debated, so did Cheney and Lieberman, Hillary and Rick would debate on WCBS.

Most of the Sunday shows were getting ready for a real shooting war in the Middle East.  Most of the hosts actually seemed psyched for war -- as if trying to derail Al Gore was not drawing enough ratings.

Here's what we heard:

Fox Schmooze Sunday
Tony spins global unrest and the New York senate race

Tony Snow spent part of the first segment chatting up Israeli UN ambassador Yehuda Lancry about the present situation in the Middle East.   If Arafat does not put an end to the violence?  Tony got an emphatic yes.

My, that's not encouraging...

Lancry also complained about yesterday's UN resolution condemning Israel and hoped that the U.S. would continue to act as an intermediary.  Lancry deflected Tony's question about the U.S. being a friend of Israel despite not voting against the resolution (the U.S. abstained).  Did the U.S. get Israel's blessing before abstaining?  Lancry again deflected, praising U.S. support for mending fences.

Following the break -- Karen Hughes, spokesperson for Dubya.  Tony kept pushing the abstention by the U.S. -- and Hughes said it was the right thing! "So Bush thinks Clinton is doing a good job in the Middle East."  Hughes motormouthed a detailed yes.

Then talk turned to spending -- and Hughes talked about a flood of "liberal" money!  She must have missed this morning's Washington Post piece on GOP money flooding in.  Hughes didn't miss a trick -- she essentially called Gore a liar, their latest anti-Gore spin.  But Tony called her on her failure to answer specifically about Bush complaining that Gore was outspending him, and Hughes began whining about Dens outspending Bush.  Brit Hume, in his snide, wheening voice, asked Hughes if it might have been "more accurate" (gee, that's what Hughes says about Gore) to say the Dems are spending the money!

Way to go, Brit!  There's hope for you yet!  Not much, mind you.

Hughes complained about Dem spending, then tried to bamboozle viewers by saying Bush wants to help the poor and elderly and the big tax giveback to the rich is "only" billions upon billions of dollars.  Hughes claimed that Gore should be "held accountable" for misstating facts (a billion0versus-trillion slip).

Tony asked if Bush would support RU-486, and Hughes avoided a direct answer.  Tony pressed her about how Bush might influence it, perhaps through appointments.  Hughes again answered vaguely.  Brit asked if Bush might use legislation to limit RU-486 -- essentially pressing the assumption that Bush is anti-choice, Hughes did nothing to dispel the assumption.

Molegate!  Tony asked what was going on.  Hughes said that the FBI is investigating Bush's media team and that the Bush campaign would fully cooperate.

Next up -- Tad Devine from Team Gore.  Tony asked about memos from TWELVE years ago by Gore staffers advising him not to exaggerate.  Devine gave a great answer -- saying that Tony had made a slip-up early in the show on the actual election date, and people screw up.  Brit tried to make a big thing about where Tipper gets her prescription drugs.  Brit pointed out that Gore said that Russia should not get involved in Yugoslavian mediation (a lie by Brit) -- how could Gore say such a thing when the "administration was DOING with the Russians exactly" that.  Devine exposed Brit's lie, saying that Brit had no idea what had gone on in diplomatic circles.  Brit stupidly pressed the issue.  Devine said that Gore's point is not to make tough statements about foreign policy without knowing all the facts -- and who would be better on foreign policy, Gore or Bush?

Hughes, Tony said, called Gore a "serial exaggerator."  Devine called her comment a "serial exaggeration" -- and slammed the press for seizing on slip-ups rather than focusing on the issues.  Tony then pressed Gore's high school story -- the one about the girl with no desk.  Devine was not strong enough in saying that the story turned out to be TRUE -- that the letter alerting Gore to the story came from a swing Republican  dad who was understandably upset.

Devine then slammed Hughes' statement and Bush's tax cut by citing government numbers.  Brit, who wants no estate tax, brought up this issue -- and Devine derided it as more trickle-down foolishness.

Tony asked about Gore taking heat for sighing.  Devine said they are interested in what he says.  Brit said in an exasperated voice that Devine should answer the question.  Devine should have said that the press got on Gore's sighing but not on Bush's incoherent and unclear answers. 

Following the break -- Congressman Dick Armey.  Clinton vetoed a (pork-laden) water bill - will you stay in session?  Armey said yes, but that Clinton is asking for more money.  Suddenly, the GOP wants debt reduction.  Tony cast Congress (!) as the big spenders, and Armey, sounding sober, started talking about military spending, fgurthering Bush's lies about lack of equipment and readiness.  He called Congress's position one of "responding to legitimate spending needs."

Read: pork to make our local constituents happy.

Armey sounded a little flustered about the extended session -- then started talking delusionally about Bush coming to Washington.  Tony asked if Congress will approve emergency aid to help rebuild Belgrade.  Armey said that if Yugoslavia has embraced freedom and democracy, it would happen.  Has Armey conversed with the administration on this?  Armey said there were "continuing" conversations -- then claimed incorrectly that the deployment of peacekeepers in the former Yugoslavia is a "strain."

Armey bashed Gore for "making things up," comparing him to Clinton -- who he claimed "pulled it off."   He then said that Gore should but his mother-in-law's medicine.  Then Tony did some fact-checking on Cheney, saying that Halliburton HAD done well on getting contracts from the government!  Armey assumed they must have bid competitively, and it must have been a result of good management.

Tony quoted an interview with Clinton in which he told Joe Klein that scoring victories back in 1995 hobbled Gingrichian GOPism.  Armey answered by praising the Contract "On" America and complaining about a phone tax.

Congressional predictions -- Armey said that the GOP would hold its own, and probably gain a seat or two.  Now that was hilarious!  Please, Tony, make him stop it before we pull a muscle laughing!

Panel time!  Fred Barnes said that the U.S. should have vetoed the resolution condemning Israel, saying that Palestinian radio started playing war music -- Palestine should have been condemned.  Mort Kondracke characterized the situation as a civil war, and slammed the Likud for hobbling Barak with accusations of "appeasement.  Hume said Israel made huge concessions to Palestinians, and now Arafat, whom Hume called a "fraud," is blowing it up -- and the condemnation of Israel is an "abomination."  Mara questioned whether Arafat was really in charge -- and Hume snidely interjected a wordy yes.  Mort, however, agreed with Mara -- Yassir may not be completely in charge.  Juan Williams talked about Arafat using the intifada in Jerusalem to embarrass Barak.  Barnes did raise the issue of Ariel Sharon making an inflammitory visit to Jerusalem.  Juan pointed out that there are far more radical Palestinians than Arafat.

What can the US do, including reaching out to Arafat?  Mara said that the Clinton view is that Arafat has dropped the ball.

Tony then played a clip of Gore's many sighs tied together.  Kondracke said that it could be heard in the auditorium -- and may have been a tactic to throw Bush off.  FOX O-Spin-Ion Dynamics actually poolled on the sighs, along with attacks.  Tony made a lot of candidates who "make things up," nad Barnes said WRONGLY that Gore lost the post-debate and the debate would be remembered as the one at which Gore exaggerated.  Mara agreed that Gore lost the post-debate, but now Bush faces the fact that Cheney did not win the debate.  Hume claimed that the lesson is that you win by being the person people want to vote for. 

Tony then played an edited clip of Bush fumbling around.  This was telling -- Hume admitted Bush was fumbling, but how could you hate the guy?  Mara essentially said that it was edited to show Bush at his worst.  Juan stuck to the issue -- that the RU-486 and reproductive choice issues are in play nin a big way.  Huh?

Tony's final word was a dip into the mailbag -- a letter from libertarian Harry Browne complaining about no coverage of third-party types!  He thinks he can tip the polls -- talked about abolishing the IRS -- and mentioned being on FNS some time ago!  Tony put on his best sheepish look and said, "Well, I guess I had Harry Browne on the show after all.  My bad."  We loved it! 

The McLaugh-In Group
Back from Olympic exile at last!

He's back -- the Pontiff of palaver!  The Pope of Sabbath Bloviation!

John's Issue One: Pro-choice -- that is, between Gore and Bush, as seen during the debate!  The surplus became an issue.  Michael Borone said that Gore was using the estate tax as a "trick" and predicted that government will move either to the left or right depending on who takes the White House.

Then John turned to tax cuts -- he made much about Bush claiming he'd reduce the lowest income tax rate from 15 to 10%, and called the estate tax the "death tax" in line with his GE handlers, by the way.  Eleanor Clift brought up unearned income.  Eric Felten, a hard-right partisan from Reader's Digest, said that he was disappointed that  Bush was not ready with a good "top one percent" retort.  Larry O'Donnell said that Gore's own "top one percent" line was very effective.  Barone said that people should buy computer programs to do their taxes -- huh??  Eleanor said Dems are "all on the same page," and Felten said that educational tax credits only apply to one kid.

There goes Slobo (John McLaugh-In's old friend).  John ran the clip of Bush saying that it's time for the Russian president to go into action, and Gore's retort.  John made a lot of Gore's makeup -- that he was made up to look like Reagan.  Larry said that Rush Limbaugh (liar extraordinaire) made much of that.  Eleanor said that Bush stumbled onto the right answer, but looked terrible answering.  Felten said that Gore mispronounced the name of Kostunica -- but we'd point out it was the same mispronunciation used by FOX News, putting the accent on the wrong syllable.

John then asked about "non-content" -- sighing.  Larry said that Gore sighed during the Bradley campaign.  Barone said that CNN showed it split screen with Gore 6% bigger than Gore (well, Gore is more than 6% bigger than Bush, isn't he?). 

So who won?

Barone: Both positioned themselves forward
Eleanor: Gore
Felten: A draw
Larry: Bush won by not getting flattened, Gore was supposed to pull away
John: Bush -- he committed no flubs and looked presidential, and may be off the screen on being dumb

Issue two: WE CATCH McLAUGH-IN IN A LIE!  John tried to make a lot out of ore's having received a letter about a desk-less student.  John bought the school's claim that it's not true -- but it turns out that Gore was CORRECT!  Felten stupidly said that Gore had not been aware of what's going on.  Barone got on Gore's case about being at Texas fires without FEMA's boss James Lee Witt.  Eleanor even beat up on Gore for saying that he had not beaten up on Bush's lack of qualifications -- but America wants a courtly, soft-spoken fighter.  Barone stepped neck-deep into it by calling Gore's joke about the union lullaby a lie -- then said America wants a president who tells the truth, which is again nonsense.

Onto the Veep debate!  A string of Cheney's jokes were shown.  John called it a great debate, "light instead of heat."  Larry said that it's the kind of thing you see in Senate committees, Eleanor called it "more Washington Week than McLaughlin Group!", then slammed Cheney for lying about not making money off of his government experience.

did either man mar the other?  Felten said it was too civil -- he wanted rock 'em, sock 'em action!  He pointed out that Cheney may be wrong when he joked about Lieberman going back to thew private sector -- he's also running for the Senate!  Eleanor said people would love a Cheney-Lieberman ticket.

Who won?
Barone: Cheney
Eleanor: Both
Felten: Tie
Larry: Tie
John: Cheney

Final silly predictions:
Barone: Hillary " will take flak" for demanding that secret information surrounding the Jonathon Pollard spy case be made public.
Eleanor: Clinton, no lame duck, "will sign a flurry of executive orders before he leaves office relating to health and the environment." 
Felton: Bud Shuster, the House Transportation chair who was "severely rebuked for his unethical behavior, will still easily win reelection" -- Felton did admit, though, that Shuster is running unopposed.
Larry: "Lame duck President Bill Clinton" (you've gotta love the way these guys marvel at Clinton's not-so-lame finale) will get his way this on the spending bills out of Congress this year -- moreso than any other GOP Congress he's dealt with.
John McLaughlin predicted he would be the next Pope... er, excuse us, he actually said there would be a compromise tax cut of $300 billion over ten years.

Defeat the Press
Russert must go -- along with his lies and innuendo

Tim started out on the Jewish Question, using Madeleine Albright and Ariel Sharon of Israel as his pawns -- attempting to blame the Israelis for the latest Arab terrorism in Israel today. Russert seems to believe that Yassir Arafat cannot control the Palestinians because (parenthetically) the Jews aren't given the Palestinians a fair break

He then welcomed Prime Minister Barak who agreed with Albright: the world may be at the brink of war.

If the violence does not stop in Israel, the Israelis will simply bomb the crap out of those terrorists and finish them once and for all. What will happen to the rest of the anti-Semite scum in the region is your guess -- however, be prepared for America to "take back our oil."

Also, watch for the Republican army of slime to claim that Clinton and Gore ordered Arafat to start the trouble -- and don't think they won't. We have great contacts inside the "Company."

Arafat has violated every treaty, every agreement his has ever made. He wants all Jews dead. Period. And he lives in their country! The swinish Russert started quoting a bunch of nut-cases in the Israeli parliament who are afraid of finally confronting these child killers once and for all.

Barak and Sharon have the courage. Don't listen to the moronic Russert, who likes to cause trouble.

Yet Russet kept it up. He asked if it was "prudent" for Sharon to visit the Temple Mount where the Palestinians have their Blue Mosque, built on one of the most revered synagogues in the world for Jews and Christians -- the temple where Jesus tossed out the slimeball businessmen.

We say, rotate the Palestinians. Take the children away before the fighting starts, flatten them, and send them back to Jordan where they belong. And most of all, stop calling them "Palestinians." They are merely a bunch of Arab wanderers who have been sucking off the U.S. and Israel for the past 60 years.

Russert then asked if Barak is prepared for a war that would spread to Syria, Jordan and maybe even Iraq.

"If we have to struggle, we will struggle," was Barak's reply.

We would suggest that Barak first go after Egypt, the bankrupt nation which is ready for occupation and for Israeli bases. The truth is that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would probably appreciate the help from Barak. Then Kuwait and the Saudis should fall, giving Israel control of 60 percent of the region's oil. Wouldn't it be great to see the buddy of George H. and George W. Bush, the vicious and villainous Emir of Kuwait, in a tiger cage? Next, Israel should take Iraq, still swooning over Desert (Non-) Storm and Bush's push to drive up oil prices.

Russert continued to lambaste Albright, suggesting that perhaps Arafat cannot stop his own people. Those Arab slobs murdered dozens of Israelis this week. They have never stopped their terrorism.

Albright said - if you can believe it - that "this kind of thing happens when you are close to peace." How lubricious can you get?

They returned to talk of Kosovo and Yugoslavia, which Russert termed "good" news.

Albright said she is relieved. She congratulated the people of Yugoslavia (the CIA) and talked about the value of democracy and their desire to be a part of Europe. She said she supports the War Crimes Tribunal because it assigns individual guilt and expunges community guilt. We agree.

Russert wanted to know why the U.S. will not insist that the war criminals are delivered to the Hague. She said, basically, that the Yugoslavs will get behind this after we send them money (so what else is new?).

Albright shoved aside questions about Hillary Clinton thrown at her by scumbag pseudojournalist Russert concerning traitor Jonathan Pollard's life sentence, which the First Lady favors or seems to favor. Russert simply used the Secretary of State to bash Hillary and Bill Clinton once more -- the 3787^th time since we've been monitoring this loser.

Russert then opened his discussion with Paul Begala for Gore and Karl "Heinrich Himmler" Rove for Bush. He claimed the race is a dead heat -- which is a total lie. Gore is ahead in all "real" polls -- not the kind commissioned by NBC and the other networks which sample a few hundred Americans.

Rove -- we couldn't stop laughing -- said that Bush quashed people's fears that he was not up to being the President of the United States at the debate. Ha, ha, ha! great way to describe the continuing feeling of Americans, "Why we should never, ever elect a drunken brat punk to the Presidency."

Rove and Begala battled over Rove's lie that Bush was the one who got the Russians into the Kosovo elections. Ha, ha, ha -- sure! The Russians hate Bush and fear him because they know he plans to re-escalate the Cold War.

Begala shot back that Bush doesn't even understand his own tax and health care plans and said that Rove is dishonest and conflating the numbers purposely.

Well, you didn't have to tell us that, Paul. Rove, one of the sleaziest political operators in the GOP, has a decades-long reputation as a liar, thief, and dirty tricks mastermind. Now the little swine is on national television pretending to be a "budget guru."

Rove then rolled out the "GREAT ESTATE TAX LIE," whining about the plight of THE FAMILY FARMER being unable to leave their little farm to their children (who probably don't want it) tax-free.

Reality check: almost all farmers can do this already because the first one million dollars of an estate is already tax-free.

Then Russert tried to call Gore a liar concerning the trip he took to inspect the effort to combat Texas wildfires. Gore did meet with the number two man at FEMA, not James Lee Witt, the agency's head. Gore himself did not want to insult DeWitt.

Begala then -- THANK GOD -- brought up the issue of Bush's having gone AWOL during Air National Guard service -- for around a FULL YEAR. Rove cannot tell us the name of a single person whom Bush served with. Rove lied and said that many people who served with Bush during his AWOL period of one year have said they remember him. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha -- then he went on to call Gore a liar.

Begala asked again for Rove to name ONE person who served with Bush in Alabama where Bush was supposedly protecting the nation from Ho Chi Minh. He wasn't. He was instead working on political campaigns to strengthen Daddy's political hand -- and his.

Russert, instead of following up one what is a critical question -- whether Bush is guilty of a federal felony, desertion, among others he is rumored to have committed -- changed the subject.

This is typical of Russert.

Then Russert threw Rove a softball criticism, bringing up the sentiment that Bush cannot explain a coherent rationale for his Presidency. Well, how can he be coherent when he is rumored to be either drunk or coked up three-quarters of the time? And don't give us this "I found Jesus" crap, Dubya -- y'all don't "find Jesus" in the 41^st year of life as if by magic. Bush, like so many others who (unlike Bush) in 12-step programs, faked it to keep his wife and children from walking out on him in the 1990s. He may have cleaned up his act -- and expunged his criminal records, including his driving violation records by having a new license number issued and , it is rumored, making the records attached to the old license number "disappear" -- or did they? Everyone knows that Laura travels with him every moment to make sure he doesn't connect with his own Monicas, his newest addiction (women, to replace the old chemical ones).

That was it for the Russert Lies and Innuendoes Show, sponsored by GE, some of the vampire-like Pharmaceutical Companies, and the rest of the crooked firms who support George W. Bush -- a man they KNOW they can buy, because they've done it before.

This Weak
Sam girds for war

"Cocky" Roberts was off this week. Thank Heaven for small miracles. Sam Donaldson immediately turned to Israel, where Ted Koppel is covering the current disaster for ABC News. Barak is shown saying that if things do not stop then he will conclude that Arafat has abandoned the peace process and prefers confrontation.

Ted said that he has heard from the Palestinians that a cease-fire has been penciled, but the Israelis are saying no.

Sam had National Security Advisor Sandy Berger instead of Maddie Albright, because his ratings are so low. Both shows should have had Leon Fuerth, the Vice President's "shadow minister" of international relations, who knows more about foreign relations that the other two put together. We've seen Fuerth getting a bit of head time lately -- but not on the top pundit shows.

Berger, of course, said the same thing that Albright said. Sam, like Russert, is ready and psyched for War! Imagine -- the overbearing Mr. Donaldson might finally win a Pulitzer for doing something heroic -- and truthful. This Foxhole, Starring Scam and Cocky. We'd pay to see that!

Sam went into the issue of sustaining UN resolutions. Berger is not aware of any cease-fire; however, security from both sides officials did meet with US operatives last night in Israel. No word on that outcome.

Scam turns to "Yugoslobbia" -- home of the venerated YUGO car. It was the same old thing. See our coverage of Eat the Press for what Puppetmistress Albright told Berger to say.

Ha, ha, ha, ha. Puppetmistress. We thought the puppetmistress was Richard Mellon Scaife and his "pool boys."

By the way: have you ever had a load of Mrs. Richard Mellon Scaife? She has had so much plastic surgery that her face is frozen into an eerie and frightening horrified smile -- as if she just caught Dickie Boy with his mast in the gardener.

Mrs. Scaife, however, is one cool cookie: she hides from Mr. Scaife in Palm Beach, Florida, where she is VERY active in every charity possible including the American Society for Plastic Surgery for Housekeepers and Chambermaids (ASPSHC).

ABC scored a coup getting Shimon Peres, a Nobel peace laureate, to appear live with Sam and George Will. Will he, or won't he? Peres wants Clinton to intervene and call on the two sides to stop the violence within 24 hours.

Sam said, hopefully, "Well if the violence continues does this mean all-out war?" Peres said he does not think this will develop into war. We will respect human life and civilian life, he said. Sam reminds Peres that Israel has been condemned by resolution by the anti-Semitic United Nations for using too much force against the rabid Palestinians. Ha, ha, ha. Can you imagine the UN passing such a resolution against the United States when we were allowing southern Governors to slaughter and maim black men, women and children -- or when the United States Government and its National Guard, controlled by the Governors, stood by and allowed peace marchers and demonstrators to be murdered and maimed by police and National Guardsmen just because they didn't want their friends and peers thrown into the LBJ-Nixon meat grinder called Vietnam?

What a joke the UN is -- but for far different reasons than the Right Wing claims. The UN is a group of hypocrite "diplomats" from nothing nations who despise the United States' prosperity and the wealth of even lower-middle-calss individuals. It has become the United Nations Against the United States -- and we had better watch our tails, or England and France may invade at the drop of a hat.

Will said, "Isn't Israel a hostage to the Palestinians when they say that peace is the oxygen of Israel?"

Peres said that after killing 50 million Europeans, did we learn from WWII?

Then Sam -- SURPRISE! -- welcomed Palestinian mouthpiece broad Hanan Ashrawi, the latest Palestinian television sweaty-pits princess. This was far better than Russert's crap. She said that Arafat cannot give order to all the people -- only the army. Sam followed up and asked, "Does that mean he does not have the power or the will?" Sam should have said, "Is Arafat that weak a leader?" The answer is yes.

Ashrawi was getting pretty angry. Will wanted to know what the role of the Palestinian police, armed only with Kalishnikofs, was: are they there to wage war on Israel? Ashrawi laughed this off inasmuch as the Israelis have the most powerful armed forces in the region.

Will asked why school was called off, making certain all the children would be in the streets. Ashrawi said that she doesn't know where Will gets his news. Will said "from the newspapers." Ashrawi called the Israeli move to the Temple Mount an "incursion." She also blamed Sharon, "whose hands are dripping from blood," for bringing about 3,000 troops with him to the Mosque. "He chose to enter the Haram Sharid with 3000 armed forces."

Sam said that if there is no pact to end the violence, Barak will form a government with Sharon to do battle with you. Ashrawi said the Israelis act like invaders not peace partners.

Ha, ha, ha, ha -- invading their own country? These Palestinians -- hate to tell them -- lost their fight to claim what is Israel for themselves more than 50 years ago. So, too bad. You're just like the Mexican people who had to give up half the U.S. when we won those wars. We suggest that Palestinians now fight for their own place -- SOMEWHERE ELSE! GET IT? You are not wanted. You are vicious terrorists and mad bombers who act in the name of some psychotic bastardization of "God." Israelis who have owned the little slice of land they now occupy for more than 5,000 years of RECORDED history have been nice enough to put up with you. Now you've killed your last Jews.

GET OUT.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was next -- and said that Clinton should do what he is doing, but he also gets on Berger's case, saying that he should have VETOED the resolution against Israel instead of abstaining.

Here's the fact, JJ: Berger would have loved to do so, and so would Clinton and Albright. However, to VETO the UN security council resolution would have angered the crazed Palestinians even more -- so the U.S. did what it could to state their revulsion to such a resolution sponsored by the anti-Semites of this world while preserving their position as an arbitrator -- and abstained.

McCain said thinks that this will be the closest election for President, the House and Senate ever recorded in American History.

We say that if this is true, this is very bad news for the nation -- because it means that nearly 50% of Americans are stupid enough to follow the Republican Party, an organization intent on making us hate each other.

Very sad.

The Roundtable of idiots (Will, George Staphylococcus and Sam) were joined by a very bright Hispanic reporter who just laughed at the things the others were focusing on. It's true. When foreign nations look at what seem to be THE BIG ISSUES for Americans, it really is a joke -- and we become the butt of the punch line internationally.

Can you imagine what a French citizen must think about the media's "focus" on Gore's so-called "embellishments" or the assertion that Gore "used his sister's death" from cancer to declare war on tobacco companies with the President, Gore finally kicking a family of white trash out of his farm tenant house, and all of these other stupid "biggies.?"

Why don't they focus on REAL ISSUES about the CANDIDATES? For example: Bush the drunk, Bush the felon, Bush the moron, Bush the under-educated or uneducable, and especially Bush the DESERTER?

How about DADDY BUSH THE FELON WHO PARDONED OTHER FELONS WHO WERE KNOWINGLY DEFYING THE LAW OF THE LAND -- INCLUDING THE CONSTITUTION -- BY ORGANIZING A CRIMINAL RING TO SELL DRUGS THAT KILLED OUR CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD SO THAT THEY COULD SUPPLY OTHER WEAPONS OF DEATH TO NICARAGUAN CHILDREN?

What kind of a sick, very sick, society do we live in?

Are these not the major issues of character?

George Will -- who you might think would be opposite -- said with no hesitation that Israel should pull the plug on the Palestinians. Go, George, Go. Staph said "The peace process must go forward." Right, Li'l Brutus! He tried to sound like he has even an iota of power. Will said this is a clash of civilizations. Staph said the Arab world made a huge mistake. They would have given them almost everything they wanted.

That's right -- because Arabs and many Arab leaders are simply stupid. Just stupid. They don't even know what a car is, let alone the nuances of societies and, as Will said so well, civilizations.

We in America should prepare ourselves for interruptions of our oil supply -- which will lead us to get pissed off, put the "tent people" back on their camels, and put them out "to sand." Then we should dismantle the crooked oil companies who have been raping the people of the world for a century and let the people control the import, exploration and distribution of oil -- including the price.

If the United States wishes to continue to rely on polluting fuels then the United States (the people) should control it -- not a bunch of idiot CEOs who stand against the consumer at every turn.

Oil is a strategic resource, not a Barbie Doll; and thus corporations should not be allowed to control it.

Yes, that is called nationalization. Such a move years ago would have eliminated the crooked Bush Family -- notably Prescott Bush, who financed a guy named Hitler in concert with a lot of other so-called Americans during the early 1930s and until the U.S. entered World War II.