Tim Blair

I have that shirt. I get a lot of compliments and smiles!

This is an unintended consequence of the'Campaign Finance Reform'/Free Speech Rationing Act. News organizations are exempt from the 60-days-before-an-election gag rule. So the NRA wants some of it's First Amendment protections back by having it's own media outlet.

btw, while John Kerry is defending al Sadr's newspaper, he's trying to stop the NRA from getting a cable channel. I guess they're not a "legitimate voice" like al Sadr.

Hey, Jeff, you don't by any chance live in Maine, do you? Not asking for sinister reasons, it's just that if you do, I may know you through a mutual acquaintance.

Great. They can have a Charlton Heston retrospective to raise funds. On second thoughts ...

Maybe they can have Rush Limbaugh speak.

He's always been the voice of moderation.

Unless of course it involves downing massive quantities of drugs in search of chemical bliss.

That T Shirt and a Hummer H2 would do me just dandy. The T shirt I can afford, the H2 Not. Waaahhhhhhhh :-(

The sad thing is, IXLDIX's jokery is about the level of humor I have experienced from Air America.

Hey, see if they're hiring, dude. Although they may not pay you right away.

Dave S:

Sorry, I don't live in Maine, I live in Washington.

IXLNUTS, you could always offer to work for their leftover morning donut and cold coffee. That would fit better into Air America's budget, and still meet your daily nutritional requirements.

A spokesman for Air America declined to comment on most of the arguments made by Law and others, but denied the frequently repeated assertion that Air America gets its money from the Democratic Party.

"There is absolutely no formal connection, although obviously they share like-minded principles," said the spokesman, asking not to be identified.

Unidentified spokesman? WTF?

Spokesman: I have a statement for the press.
Press: Who are you?
Spokesman: I am not at liberty to answer that question.
Press: (WTF?) Uh, what's it about?
Spokesman: The Crushing of Dissent.
Press: If this is about Pro-Wrestling I'm outta here.
Spokesman: No, I refer to Air America.
Press: Ah! (scribbling furiously) an anonymous source shed new light on the CIA's use of a private airline running drugs to...
Spokesman: Due to a PLOT Morning Sedition is no longer heard in major cities around this country.
Press: (WTF?) Look, I gotta go now.
Spokesman: We will take a crowbar to the head of the ***** we were renting airtime from.
Press: Okay, tell me more.

I don't think Rush Limbaugh has ever been that much of a gun supporter - he's too fat to actually use a guy (his fingers won't fit through the trigger guard).

Charlton Heston, WWII veteran, actor, author, director, President of the Scren Actors Guild, civil rights activist, President of the National Rifle Association.

Served with the U.S. Army Air Corp.

Long acting career well documented elsewhere.

Marched with Dr. Martin Luther King. Arranged meetings between Dr. King and Hollywoods technical unions resulting in opening those unions to minorities.

He saw his service as NRA President as promoting freedom and a continuation of his civil rights work.

Beloved by millions, he is hated only by the scum of the Earth.

Jeremy: I assume, considering your subject, that you meant to write "use a gun." The typo certainly brings to mind the oddest visions...

Yeeesss Tim "celebrate diversity",

"how many people different races can I kill today?"

I see there's a new troll on the block. Hey, John F, is it really dark where you are? Does it smell? Then maybe you should pull your head out of your ass.

"Yeeesss" ??? You are channelling Gollum?

Fred, old Comrade

Pull the stars and stripes off your head, mate. Chuckles saw about as much active service as Clarke Gable. Of course, he did single-handedly sink four Japanese fleet carriers at Midway, banish the Moors from Spain, beat the Brits at the Battle of New Orleans, fought diseased zombis in the street of San Francisco and sure as heckfire told them damn, dirty apes what for.

But, Fred - mate - they were MOVIES. You know, make believe. Like much of that press release you re-hashed.

It's a bit mischevious (to say nothing of absurd)linking Chuck having his picture taken with Mr King to his going on to become a mouthpiece for the gun lobby.

We've all owned guns, Fred, but the more lucid of us regard ownership of lethal weapons as a privilege that extends to responsible members of the polis, not the preserve of any idiot - like a driver's license.

Anyway, my quibble with Chuckie is that, as an actor, he makes Mount Rushmore appear animate.

Does that well-founded opinion make me "scum of the earth"? Perhaps. What it doens't make me, however, is a noisy little plonker who uses a psuedonym on weblogs.

Aw Fred ...

Pull old glory off your head, mate. Your man Chuck saw about as much active service as Clark Gable.

I know, I know ... he did singlehandedly sink four Japanese fleet carriers at Midway, drive the Moors from Spain, defeat the British at New Orleans, waste diseased mutants in the streets of San Franciso and sure as heckfire told them damn, dirty apes what for.

But Fred - mate - these events occured in movies. You know, make believe - like much of that Heston press release you re-hashed.

It really is absurd for a grown-up to link Chuck having his picture taken with Dr King to his latter day mouthpiecing for the gun lobby. We've all of us owned shooters, Fred, but some of us are sufficiently lucid to regard that as a privilege that extends to responsible members of the polis as opposed to every idiot. Ie: they're not given away like driver's licenses.

While he's one of the greatest (inadvertent) stand up comics of his time, my quibble with Chuckles is as a dramatic actor - he makes Mount Rushmore appear animate.

Does this well-founded opinion make "scum of the earth, Fred? Perhaps, it does. What it doesn't make me, however, is a mouthy little ponce who hides behind a pseudonym.

Chuck would be ashamed of you.

Bloody hell ... how did that happen? Thought I'd cancelled the first post. Ah well, s'pose it can't be said often enough ...

Fred, old mate, pick whichever pleases you most.