Montgomery Burns

Nonsense. There is no proof of that and you are going to have to come up with something better than a link to the notoriously radical truthout.org. And even if he was a "known GOP operative" how did he convince that union goon to rip up that little girl's sign? Mind control rays? 264 Democrat, Republican, and Independent Swifties said Kerry was unfit for command and a lying phony. Kerry had 6 on his side and he was flying them all across the country and putting them up in 5 star hotels and feeding them gourmet meals. Kerry's campaign admitted that he was never in Cambodia on Christmas Eve under Nixon's orders (who wasn't even inagurated yet), despite Kerry claiming that that fact was seared - seared! - in his memory. Kerry's campaign admitted that his first Purple Heart *might* have come from a self-inflicted wound. On my scorecard, that reads: Swifties - 2 Kerry -0 I never said the Kerry campaign ran those ads. Nonsense. I saw those Bush=Hitler ads. Getting 11,572,717 more votes than he received in his last win is "one of the worst election performances by an incumbent president in US history"? That doesn't say much for Clinton who only received 2,492,468 more votes when he was reelected. IOW, I have nothing else to say at this moment, but I will do a frantic search of truthout.org and get back to you.

New Ann Coulter photos! Ann is joined by the Marines and other fans at the backstage party of her appearance on the Craig Ferguson show. Enjoy! Lucky Craig Ferguson getting to hold Ann's hand and escorting her to the guest's chair! Enjoy!

No, they are just informed enough to know that it was BS. So Mr. Burns, unintentionally, demonstrates that PIPA was right. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No. Since Fox News was the only channel to report Tenet's letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee, it proved that people who watch Fox News are 4 times more informed than PBS viewers and NPR listeners. The letftwing PIPA screwed up big time!

*flame* When your that low on the evolutionary scale, you can type with your feet Wow Monty... im impressed. I never thought brainwashing could be so effective. Fox news has little to do with the truth or reality. It does have alot to do with propaganda, lies and deception. It might as well be called the Republican channel of propaganda. You can't honestly say its fair and balanced... without lying. Of course you can believe whatever you want... lies are still lies even if you call them fair and balanced, its just another lie btw i recommend reading Lies and the Lying liars who tell them its funny as hell. I don't agree with everything he says but he does prove Anne Coulter and Bill O'Reilly to be hypocritical liars. No not all… but your unabashed support for fake news makes me thing that you are. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Translation: I can't rebut Monty's facts, so I will resort to the left's tried and true tactic of hurlingt insults.

Translation: I can't rebut Monty's facts, so I will hurl ad hom attacks.

Black Dog says: I can't rebut your facts, so I will hurl insults. That's the one thing us leftists are good at.

And the world saw how well that worked in Iraq. And of course, you offer no proof for your wild-eyed claims.

After countless demostrations by unwashed, unkempt Saddamites and neocoms with their paper mache puppets, signs saying "we support our troops when they shoot their officers", pro-terrorism and anti-Israel signs, signs that incredibly compared President Bush (who is hardly a socialist) to the National Socialist Adolf Hitler, the neocoms were sure that the world approved of their mature displays of morality and logic. But when Afghanistan had its first ever free election last fall, the neocoms frantically tried to discredit the success by claiming that there is now more opium being grown in Afghanistan than when the Taliban was in power. Female neocoms were furious that the first person to drop a ballot was a 19 y/o female. After Australia's John Howard - a staunch US ally who insisted Saddam comply with international law - was reelected to a 4th term and an increased majority, the neocoms were simmering with rage. But the neocoms were sure they could sway the American people to vote out President Bush. They knew that the MSM had dropped all pretense of being trying to be fair and was openly and blatantly cheering on Kerry while viciously trying to discredit Bush with forged memos, ignoring the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, lying about 380 tons of Weapons of Mass, er Medium Destruction that had disappeared right under the nose of the US military, gave credence to a thoroughly discredited "study" that claimed that 100,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed by US troops, claimed that Bush had a "plastic turkey" when he visited the troops in Baghdad on Thanksgiving, devoted entire news shows to naming off every dead US soldier in Iraq, refused to report Iraqis taking to the streets to demonstrate against terror, ignored the fact that a cable news channel had 2 Kerry advisors hosting a debate show, made Abu Ghraib the top story for 2 months straight (while Sandy Berger stuffing top secret documents down his pants disappeared from the news after 1 day), and in a moment of candor, admitted that they wanted Kerry to win and would portray Kerry/Edwards in a good light that would be good for 15 points for Kerry. Now it was up to the neocoms to do their part. So they committed drive-by shootings at Bush/Cheney headquarters, broke into and vandalized Bush/Cheney headquarters, grabbed and tore up a Bush/Cheney sign that a 4 y/o girl was holding (making her cry), called for Bush's assassination on Air America, called for Rumsfeld to be murdered, attempted to murder Katherine Harris, made swaztikas and set them on fire on the lawns of Republican supporters, rioted outside the Republican National Convention and beat a policeman unconcious, keyed cars that had Bush/Cheney stickers, slashed the tires of Republican "get out the vote" vans, paid crack dealers to bring inner city people to vote for Kerry, bribed inner city people with $10 (cheapos!) to vote for Kerry, ran 2 ads comparing Bush to Hitler, and the owner of the #1 leftwing blog on the internet said (regarding the 4 US contractors that were burned to death and hung up on a bridge outside Fallujah), "Screw them. I feel nothing for them." The neocoms were confident. Surely the average husband and wife with 2 kids would be impressed with such progressivism and tolerance. But then the unthinkable happened. An overwhelming amount of Americans came out and voted for Bush on Nov 2 - 62 million in total; the highest in history. Bush won most of the states and took 51% of the popular vote compared to 48% for the Dems. The neocoms were stunned. What was this crap about "values" that voters said was their #1 concern? Those ignorant gun-toting bible-thumping family-values rednecks just didn't understand progressivism! They just weren't as enlightened as the neocoms! And then depression set in. Therapists and psychiatrists were making a fortune treating the neocoms for PEST (Post Election Selection Trauma). Websites went up apologizing to the world, etc. The neocoms wallowed in their grief. It was truly a thing of beauty. Although thoroughly demoralized, they still had hope: The upcoming Iraqi elections. Hopefully they would be a debacle and the turnout would be poor. Their partners-in-arms, the National Socialist Saddamites, had promised that the streets of Iraq would flow with the blood of any Iraqi that dared vote. The neocoms were licking their chops. Finally Bush's evil enforcement of international law would be proven a failure. But again the unthinkable happened. Like the stunning turnout in the American elections, the Iraqis turned up in droves and voted - proudly displaying their purple fingers for the cameras. Indeed, 60% of the electorate voted despite being threatened with their lives. The numbers were even more impressive when one took into account that much of the 20% of Sunnis boycotted the election. Female neocoms were furious that 1/3 of the Iraq Legislative Assembly were going to be females. Thoroughly dejected and demoralized, the neocoms had only one hope left: The UK elections. If they could at least take down "B'liar", then they could save some face. But to the neocoms dismay, Blair won a historic 3rd term, the conservatives (another pro-enforcement of international law party) came in 2nd, and the anti-war party (Liberal Democrats) were a distant 3rd. Indeed, Labor and Conservatives garnered 68% of the vote. So the necoms are 0 for 5 in the last few months. They are filled with such rage that they have taken it upon themselves to assault conservative speakers across the US, people like David Horowitz, Bill Kristol and Pat Buchanan. Two necoms even tried to assault the fun-loving best-selling author, Ann Coulter, while she was giving a speech. We all saw the neocoms go batshit when Ann Coulter was on the front cover of the new Time Magazine (I bought it, of course). What happens if the mayor of Baghdad does indeed erect a statue of George W. Bush (like he said he wanted to) in the same place where Saddam's statue once stood? Will we see neocom heads exploding worldwide?

Indeed, it is chilling...that you would drop a link from the ultra-left commondreams.org site and expect anyone to take you seriously.

As for Ann Coulter, sure she is a flame-thrower, and I love her for it. I love how the left's heads explode when Ann pokes fun and mocks them for their idiocy and hypocrisy. Nobody can get a reaction out of the left like Ann Coulter. It's nice to have someone on our side who is willing to be just as mean and vicious as the left always is. Except Ann is better because she is funny. The left has dissected the 1000 pages in her 4 books, the hundreds of thousands of words in her columns, and her hundreds of TV appearances, found a handful of errors, and now proclaim that she "everytime she moves her mouth she is lying." Just like CBC did with her. They did a 3 hour interview with her, found one tiny error (Canadians actually did fight in the Vietnam War), only played that 3 minutes of the 3 hours and gleefully suggested she was an idiot. How dare Ann not be an expert on Canadian history? Doesn't she know that Canada is important and influential in the world? Hasn't she ever Paul Martin embarrassingly proclaim that "Canada leads the world"? As for Black Dog bemoaning the fact that "progressive" (code for socialist) pundits can't attract the audience that conservative pundits do...it's because progressives are irrational blathering hateful idiots that offer no ideas except for insulting the president. At least conservatives offer ideas and generally reasonable clearheaded solutions - and they do it in an entertaining way. Conservatives know they have to entertain; they understand free markets. If you aren't entertaining, you lose advertising dollars and then you lose your show. Air America has been a disaster. A bunch of rich leftists buy airtime so they can bash Bush 24/7. They've even called for Bush's assassination - twice - on the air. Do you really think that the average Joe and Sally family with 2 kids want to listen to crap like that? Hell, Rush Limbaugh gets twice the ratings that Air America does in true-blue New York City.

Indeed, the leftwing PIPA inadvertently proved that Fox News Channel viewers were the most informed about the Iraq situation, although that wasn't PIPA's intended result. According to the October 2003 PIPA report, it was considered erroneous to believe that there had been a solid connection found between Iraq and al Qaeda. They said that Fox News viewers believed this by a rate of 4 to 1 over PBS viewers and NPR listeners. In other words, Fox News viewers were uninformed. The left triumphantly proclaimed that they finally had proof that Fox News was truly "Faux" News. However within hours the left's glass house shattered. Apparently PIPA had "inadvertently" forgotten about a letter CIA Director George Tenet issued to the Senate Intelligence Committee in October 2002 - a year before their study was released. The eye-opening letter said: Copy of the letter is here. The Fox News Channel had reported this letter; apparently PBS and NPR hadn't. Indeed, it was Tenet’s letter that later led James Woolsey, Director of the CIA under President Clinton, to remark on CNN's Late Edition, to Wolf Blitzer, on November 16, 2003: Illiterate. I think that sums it up nicely.

The Fox News Channel is a breath of fresh air. I'm so glad that the Liberal Party-controlled CRTC lifted its 5 year ban of the FNC. I doubt that they would have ever lifted the ban if not for their error in approving the anti-American anti-Israel Al Jazeera. Then public pressure became too great and they had to lift their 5 year ban. Why does Canada need another anti-American anti-Israel channel? The state-run taxpayer-funded Soviet style CBC does an excellent job in that market. How refreshing to see a channel that gives just as much air time to conservative views as liberal views. The news is fair and balanced, although I have to say that there seems to be more conservative pundits than liberal pundits. If you look at their primetime line-up, you see: 1) The O'Reilly Factor (No Spin Zone): Calls himself a traditionalist, but leans to the right - although he angers many conservatives too with his pro-Kyoto Accord, gay marriage, and abortion stances). Some liberals are chicken to go on his show and defend their views. The "no spin" part seems to make them wet their pants. 2) Hannity & Colmes: One conservative and one liberal. I find it very telling that after O'Reilly and Hannity, Alan Colmes is the 3rd most hated pundit on the FNC by the left. I guess he isn't loony enough for them. But I think he does a pretty good job sometimes poking holes in some Republican viewpoints. It's not his fault that some many liberals are made to look like fools by Hannity. The left has gotten lazy because they are not used to having pundits on other channels challenge their viewpoints. That's not Alan Colmes' fault. 3) On the Record: Greta Van Sustern. She is a liberal. Final score for primetime: 2 conservative pundits and 2 liberal pundits. Why does the left think that is unfair? I know why. Because they don't think conservatives should be able to give their views. I watched the Chris Matthews show a couple of weekends ago and he had a panel of 4 people discussing the Bush administration. All 4 were liberals. You can guess how fair they were to the Bush administration. When Fox News has a panel, it is always 2 against 2, or 1 against 1. Geraldo is a liberal and so is Chris Wallace. Both have their own show on the FNC. Who was the reporter that broke the Bush DUI in 1976 story days before the 2000 election? Carl Cameron from the FNC. I like the fact that the conservative pundits refer to the terrorists as terrorists. However the channel's reporters still use the annoying "insurgents" tag that the leftwing media does. Remember when the networks were showing the clip of that Marine colonel saying that is was fun shooting at the Taliban? The leftwing media only showed that part of the clip, but Fox showed what he said before that; the part where he said that the Taliban were a bunch of bullies who had been slapping women around for 5 years. Fox News was reporting about the UN Oil for Food scandal back in January 2004. The leftwing media flatout refused to report that because they knew it would help Bush. Only after November 2, when they resigned themselves to 4 more years of Bush, did they finally start reporting on the biggest scandal in history. I love it when Fox News has that tiny little American flag waving graphic in the top lefthand corner of the screen when they go to a live event. I know that drives the left wild with rage because they hate America. Sometimes I open up a window and put my ear outside so I can listen to the gnashing of teeth from the left as they see that little flag waving. And Fox News has the best looking anchors and reporters on TV. Wow! All those conservababes! For all the whining the left does about the so-called lies and propaganda by Fox News, they have very little evidence to back up their claims. Indeed, it is the leftwing media that has been involved in all the scandals. Just a few that come to mind off the top of my head: CNN admitting that they overlooked Saddam's atrocities so they could keep their Baghdad bureau open. Makes you wonder what they are overlooking in Cuba so they can keep their Havana bureau open... Jayson Blair from the NY Times. Associated Press lying that Bush supporters booed Clinton's name when Bush wished him luck for his then upcoming heart surgery. Dan Rather using fake memos; the infamous Rathergate scandal. The NY Times' 380 tons of Iraqi weapons disappeared under the military's nose lie. Paul Begala and James Carville hosting CNN's Crossfire while at the same time as they were advisors to the Kerry campaign. Peggy Noonan took a leave of absence from the Wall Street Journal when she became an advisor for the Republicans; Carville and Begala should have done the same. Ted Koppel travelling halfway across the world to communist Vietnam to interview some North Vietnamese military guy (who had his communist minder standing right beside him), who just happened to - surprise! - agree with everything Kerry said and concluded the Swift Boat Vets were lying. No big surprise there since Kerry's picture hangs in the Vietnam War Museum. Apparently Koppel couldn't be bothered to pick up the phone and have a Swift Boat Vet come on his show. And the latest: Newsweek's "950 page Koran book flushed down the toilet" lie. Incidentally, Newsweek's managing editor admitted last year that the press was favoring Kerry. His exact words were: Let's talk a little media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win and I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards I'm talking about the establishment media, not Fox. They're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and there's going to be this glow about them, collective glow, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15 points. No wonder everyone is turning to Fox News. They are looking for fair and balanced reporting; not the propaganda that the leftwing media offers up as news.

Black Dog wrote: It might seem like I am picking on you, but again, where in the hell do you come up with this stuff? Osama bin Laden has publically said that Canada is #5 on their hit list. The full article is here. But why should we pay attention to the National Security Advisor when we have Black Dog assuring us that Canada doesn't face any threats...

Black Dog wrote: I'm not trying to pick on you, but where in the hell do you come up with your crap? And yet you think that conservatives are all stupid and anyone that watches Fox News is stupid! I have this image of you getting all your news from the far-left Toronto Star and Canada's state-run, taxpayer-funded, Soviet style CBC news channel. Do you even know of the "Authorization for the Use of Force in Iraq" resolution? Bush sought and obtained it in October 2002 and it was passed by both the House and the Senate, with Democratic as well as Republican majorities. It has a total of 23 clauses. These 23 clauses spell out the rationale for the war. Out of all 23 clauses, there are only 2 that even mention stockpiles of WMD. If this was the "primary rationale" for the war, the resolution surely didn’t make much of it. What the resolution did stress – in 12 separate clauses – were 16 UN resolutions that that Saddam had ignored or defied. These Security Council resolutions, were more than mere expressions of UN opinion. The first two of them 687 and 689 constituted the terms of the truce in the first Gulf War, whose violation was a legal cause of war itself. I suggest you educate yourself and go read the Authorization for the Use of Force in Iraq resolution instead of calling conservatives and the viewers of Fox News stupid.

Black Dog wrote: You want to talk fundamental hypocrisy? How about the left's fundamental hypocrisy when they think nothing of killing innocent defenseless babies, but react with outrage at the thought of a serial killer being executed? Who was chanting "Die with Dignity! Die! Die!!" when Terri Schiavo was dehydrated and starved to death? Like when the left lined up to their beloved USSR?

Black Dog wrote (regarding Fox News and its viewers): A classic example of a reply from the typical leftist elitist. All conservatives are STOOPID!

Good grief. Are you not aware that Clinton-appointed federal judge Harold Baer ruled in a court of law that the state of Iraq was involved in 9-11? I understand that the leftwing media tried to ignore and bury the story (just like they buried the fact that Jean Chretien's son-in-law's father is the largest shareholder in France's TotalFinaElf oil company - a company that had huge ties with Saddam), but come on! This is common knowledge to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Iraq being involved in 9-11. If you continue to get your news from the propaganda that passes for news from the leftwing media, you will continue to be ignorant of political affairs.

Black Dog wrote: Here's an Ann Coulter quote for you: "If conservatives complained about CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Reader's Digest, NPR, etc. etc. half as much as liberals scream about Fox News, even I would say conservatives were getting to be a bore on the subject."

And let's just ignore the thousands of Canadians that hop across the border to get medical treatment in the US. How many Americans are coming to Canada to get medical attention? I've got a friend in California who pays $280 per month for medical insurance; one of the higher rates in the country. That works out to $3360 per year. Since Canadians have to pay 11 weeks more of taxes per year than Americans, that works out to $710.77 for 11 weeks. How many Americans don't make $710.77 in 11 weeks?

caesar: If it was a typo, fair enough. I took it as you trying to say that inbridled was a real word. The bin Laden family has long disavowed Osama (since the early '90s), and has cooperated fully with several federal investigations into his activities. And it was Richard Clarke who allowed them to fly out, not Bush. From Richard Clarke: "After 9/11, I think the Saudis were perfectly justified ... in fearing the possibility of vigilantism against Saudis in this country. When they asked to evacuate their citizens ... I thought it was a perfectly normal request," he explained. In May, Clarke admitted that he, and he alone made the decision to approve the flyouts. As for your hapless attempt to portray Osama as supporting Bush's re-election (when in fact he said so on tape -right before the election - that states that didn't vote for Bush would be spared terror attacks), I wish you wouldn't naively swallow everything you read when you do a google search. You have little credibility on this forum and you are only making yourself look worse. Why can't you just admit you made an error? As for Michel Chossudovsky, would this be the same Chossudovsky who spoke at a program sponsored by the International Action Center in 1999? And who is the International Action Center allied with? International ANSWER (act now to stop war and racism). And who created and controls International Answer? Why, it is the communist Workers World Party. The despicable record of WWP in promoting Stalinist and fascist dictators is old news. WWP, the patron of International ANSWER, is on record supporting: 1) The pitiless massacre of Chinese protestors by the armed forces in Tiananmen in 1989. WWP states, "troops were issued arms after some students took some soldiers hostage. On June 4, 1989, the demonstration changed from a peaceful protest to violent attacks on the soldiers… events were a battle – not a massacre." Everybody in the world knows this is a disgusting lie. 2) The dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, among whose defenders WWP are doubtless the most fawning. Their newspaper, also titled Workers World, wrote gleefully, in 2001, "more and more countries had begun individually breaking the ban on flights and other sanctions against Iraq." Right: countries with an equally bad or worse record, like Yugoslavia, which supplied Iraq with illegal chemical, biological, and other weapons. 3) The evil regime of crazed North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. WWP hack Deidre Griswold, who has been shoveling this manure for some 35 years, recently wrote, from the Communist hell itself, "People here in the socialist north of Korea are well aware of U.S. President George W. Bush's remarks branding their country as part of an ‘Axis of Evil.’ It has in no way dampened their ardor for their independent socialist system. Koreans today are celebrating the continuity of leadership represented by unity around Kim Jong Il, who is pledged to follow the course of national independence and socialist construction charted by Kim Il Sung… the North Korean socialist system, which has kept it from falling under the sway of the transnational banks and corporations that dictate to most of the world." No mention here of the numerous individuals and families that have risked their lives and those of their relatives to escape the reality of North Korean socialism, or of North Korean international weapons sales, kidnapping of foreign nationals, terrorist attacks, or other details. 4) In one of its most disgusting, and continuous, displays of admiration for genocidal fascists, WWP, the leaders of International ANSWER are prominent defenders of indicted Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic. When the trial of Milosevic began 3 years ago at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands - The International Action Center (who Michel Chossudovsky supports), predecessor of International ANSWER, "sent a delegation to take part in activities showing solidarity with the defendant and opposing the ‘trial’ as a NATO frame up." They declared, "Washington and its NATO allies hopes (sic) to pin the guilt for the 10 years of civil war in the Balkans on the Yugoslav leader." Who in the world, aside from fevered extremists (Caesar?), believes this swill? WWP has also published expensive volumes defending Milosevic.

eureka: When one has no chorent point tomake, one always attacks placement of commas or exlamation points. Who do you think mocks Bush for mangled syntax?

I agree. The Conservatives seem to waffle when it comes to being a true conservative party for fear that the liberal media will tear them up as being "intolerant." Say that you are against reversing a 2000 definition of marriage. I see different polls, but I suspect that most Canadians agree with this. The referendum in 11 of the US states towards gay-marriage in their federal election was rejected in all 11 states - eeven the ones that Kerry won. Say that you are against partial-birth abortion. I saw a Macleans poll and Canadians overhelmingly agree that murdering babies is wrong. Campaign on getting rid of the state-run, taxpayer-funded, propagandic, Soviet style CBC. It is a drain on taxpayers and nobody watches it. The only thing they do well is Hockey Night in Canada. The latest ratings for the top 20 shows in Canada had 1 program from the CBC and that was a Harry Potter movie. 17 of the top 20 were American shows (CTV national news, Canadian Idol, and the Harry Potter movie on CBC were the only Canadian shows). Let the CBC go at it alone like the other stations have to. Strongly assert that Canada's military needs much improvement. I'm sure that, deep inside, most Canadians agree with this. With a decent military, that might give Canadians some pride, and quell this knee-jerk jealousy of America. And campaign on scrapping the ridiculous state-run day care. Campaign against making prostitution and drugs legal. These are moral issues and morality makes for a strong country. Look at what happened to Europe when some countries implemented the legality of these things. Now much of their citizens protest the liberation of 50 million people and demonize Israel (which used to be the only democratic country in the Mid East). Morally bankrupt, bitter, unhappy (look at their suicide rates), and discouraged about their future (witness their small fertility rates for women); sadly, that is much of Europe.

lammiBC: Care to share with us your assertion that "bible-thumpers", white-power crew (I thought they disliked the Jews...wouldn't they be at an anti-freedom protest like their anti-semitic leftist brethren?), and "hard-right" people? And no I do not agree that these were mostly regular, hard-working folks. How in the world did you arrive at that conclusion? And these people should quit sticking their noses into the US defense plans. I can't believe you would try to discredit that site without even offering an explanation of why! What false information is the site giving? Sigh. So many trolls and so little time...

The Terrible Sweal: Instead of throwing around baseless accusations, why don't you share with us what is untrue about the articles on the site? caesar: Please put down the Kool-aid. Enforcing a broken ceasefire and 16 broken or ignored UN resolutions is NOT illegal. See what I mean about the moral bankruptcy of the left? *Sigh* So many trolls and so little time...

caesar: Care to name these experts? It is a fact that Iraq was harboring terrorists and sponsored international terrorism. AS for Iraq being awash with terrorists now, of course! That was Bush's brilliant plan. Like moths attracted to a lightbulb, they cannot resist going after the US in Iraq. Better the US track and whack them there than on the streets of the USA. Please turn off the CBC propaganda and open your mind and your eyes.