Comments on: Who’s Wingnutty Enough to Defend Pat Robertson, Pt II

By: harshccore

harshccore — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:59:51 +0000

Would someone other than Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton or Jaime Gorelick make the case that if we had Osama bin Laden in our crosshairs we shouldn’t pull the trigger?

Clinton, as you will recall, actually did attempt to kill Bin Laden only to be attacked as “wagging the dog” by Republicans at the time.

By: DUDACKATTACK

DUDACKATTACK — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:10:24 +0000

What a nutcase!! How can this tool be taken seriously?

By: j fyrste

j fyrste — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:36:51 +0000

Yes, yes, show him what happens to dictators when they retire! A guaranteed seat in the senate, amnesty from prosecution, and immunity from extradition while in a London hospital will sure as hell show Chavez. Oh wait, I was thinking of Pinochet who as an avid capitalist is categorically not a dictator…according to the constitution he dictated. Never mind.

By: Marq

Marq — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:23:40 +0000

There's a good article up by John W. Dean, pertaining to whether Pat Robertson broke the law. Seems he probably did, and that if anybody was interested in prosecuting him, he could get more than 5 years in prison if the judge really threw the book at him. Heh. That would amuse me too much. Too bad it isn't gonna happen.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 04:35:08 +0000

Because our national leaders lack the courage to take out monsters like Kim, bin Laden, Saddam and Ahmadinejad. They fear a war like that could come home to haunt them. Instead, lots of innocent men have to lose their lives in wars where surrogates are asked to take the risks and do the fighting.

Guh…huh? You’d think he’d at least be crowing that Saddam has been deposed, instead of…well, apparently forgetting that it happened.

And I love that he apparently sincerely believes that the Bush administration is afraid to capture bin Laden. It’s a little nicer explanation that sheer incompetence, I suppose.

By: Viserys

Viserys — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 02:19:59 +0000

I like the “not all religions are equal” argument. That’s the wingnut America for you – freedom to believe in any faith or creed, as long as you acknowledge the divinity of Jesus Christ.

By: sarin

sarin — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:39:26 +0000

>>What Chavez needs is an education about where old dictators go when they retire.

Funny, most central american dictators from the 80′s ended up retiring in Florida.

By: Marq

Marq — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:43:30 +0000

Neato! Black-on-white comments (for the time being)! Somehow, this looks so wrong…

By: Marq

Marq — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:45:13 +0000

I love Farrah's "logic," that some world leaders could prove to be dangerous--so let's kill 'em! Due to his general stupidity and, presumably, his buying into that old "American Exceptionalism" crap, he doesn't see how quickly this can be turned around. If various factions around the world believe that our President is about to order the assassination of their leader, won't they wish to preemptively strike? Do we really want a rotating array of world powers actively trying to assassinate our President? Including the present one?

By: mdhatter

mdhatter — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:19:47 +0000

damnit.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:19:15 +0000

Modern major, well put.

I believe a “D’oh!” will be forthcoming,

in the meantime

HA HA!

By: mdhatter

mdhatter — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:15:47 +0000

Osama bin laden is king of terror-vania. It’s a small province, littered with caves, and located between pakistan and the west bank.

You will know you are there when everyone is either second or third in command.

By: Kristin Sausville

Kristin Sausville — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:52:05 +0000

I missed the part where Osama bin Laden is a national leader, Mr. Farah . . .

By: justin

justin — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:56:03 +0000

C’mon, I’m not the only who has Van Halen’s “Panama” stuck in my head now, am I?

By: Modern Major-General

Modern Major-General — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:02:21 +0000

“(I stole that line from someone who has had a belly full of Jacques Chirac)”

No you didn’t, you troglodyte. The phrase “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” is from the Simpsons, in an episode from way back in April 1995 (a month before Chirac was elected President of France).

I realize this is the least of the errors in that column, but people getting geek-trivia wrong really hits close to home.

By: Scaramouche

Scaramouche — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:37:06 +0000

These are the people who think torture is OK. Once you permit torture the next thing you have is man on dog assination, oops, assassination.

Arian heresy?!? So it’s a crusade after all. So let’s just call it The Crusade to End All Crusades (teh CEAC).

Here’s a funny bit of trivia: The inquisition grew out of the Albigensian Crusade (bit harder to say than Arianism).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:10:00 +0000

1. I didn’t realize intelligence was ‘politically correct’

2. …When a bright young reporter sneers, “So what if China becomes a superpower?”

Actually, a bright reporter would realize we are well past the ‘becomes’ part of that question.

By: VKW

VKW — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:06:20 +0000

“And if Bush ever gets around to sending people to Mars, I suggest we buy the entire staff of WorldNetDaily a ticket. One way.”

Cool! It would be like the end of “Total Recall”, where Ahnuld and the cute chick and the Bad Guy are decompressing and their faces expand and their eyes bug out — but this time, it turns out that the Alien Air Machine was actually built by Halliburton, breaks down, and…

By: VKW

VKW — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:53:32 +0000

“It’s amazing how, in Farah’s mind, all eeeeeeeeeeeevil people in the world are all sitting around and conspiring to destroy the United States.”

Well, yes, like in the comic books he reads for research! And they all wear Spandex body stockings, in Farah’s mind. A scarrrryyyy place, is Farah’s mind….

By: VKW

VKW — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:50:46 +0000

“One could make the case that [Chavez] is the most dangerous man in the world today ? right up there with Kim Jong-il of North Korea, bin Laden of al-Qaida and Mahmood Ahmadinejad of Iran.”

“One could, if one is off one’s medication.”

Would one not also have to be off one’s rocker? One wants to know!