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Poor John.

At this rate they'll never link him from the Fox front page ever again.

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If McVeigh were just the grunt — mixing the chemicals, driving the truck, setting the timer, and running off — guilty though he might be, if the bombing was a plot by a foreign government, his lawyer would have had a chance at the sentencing hearing to argue that others were more responsible and McVeigh should not be executed.

Let me make sure I have this straight. Fox News is saying that gun-loving, former military, right-wing, Christian white boy, Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people, including 19 children, should be spared the death penalty if big bad Saddam put him up to it? Is that what they're saying?

Gee, I guess I never thought of it that way before. I guess that means we should spare the "grunts" who bomb the abortion clinics and go after the religious fanatics like Terry Randall who support them and encourage them and fund their defense? Makes sense to me. I'm not a fan of the death penalty anyway but somehow I just assumed that the folks at Fox News sort of liked it.

They still haven't gotten over the fact that this act of terrorism was perpetrated by good ole boys with gun racks in their pickup trucks and hate in their hearts. There must have been some evil dark-skinned mastermind who conceived the whole thing and duped them into carrying it out. In which case, they are just victims themselves and not fully responsible for their actions.

The fear that the McVeigh execution might have been an error — and a mistaken execution — could put the federal death penalty itself in jeopardy.

Did he actually write that or am I dreaming? The Bush administration is worried that McVeigh's execution might have been "an error" if someone else talked him into doing it? And they're worried that the federal death penalty might be abolished because we executed poor semi-innocent Timothy McVeigh who was just carrying out orders from the evildoers in Iraq who are the true villains in this massacre?

The fear of losing the federal death penalty could explain why the U.S. government does not appear to be anxious to act on evidence it has that Iraq may have been involved in the Oklahoma City bombing.

That's My Word.

Yeah, right! The Bush administration is sitting on evidence that Saddam was responsible for killing 168 Americans but they're keeping it quiet. That makes sense. I guess the reason they kept trying to link Iraq to 9/11 in spite of a complete lack of evidence was just to mix up their tactics to confound the enemy. If we don't have evidence, Saddam did it. If we do have evidence, we keep it quiet because we don't want people to think we were cruel to execute poor little Timothy McVeigh. If they wanted him to talk, why didn't they just send him to Gitmo? That's supposed to work, right?

Let me see if I have all this straight. Saddam Hussein is in custody, Osama bin Laden is not. Therefore, Saddam is responsible for Oklahoma City AND 9/11. Makes perfect sense to me. How about you? What about Princess Diana? I'll bet Saddam was responsible for that, too.

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Gibson just couldn't stand to hang out by the edge anymore after watching Hannity, Big Paper Bag O' Oxyboy, and Coulter hurl themselves over the cliff of irrelevancy during the last 60 days.

Poor Gibson.
He was juuust getting the stench of Anarchy off of him after his "Storm the Bastille" piece where he called for Jeb to invade Terry's hospice room.

We need that drunk clown emoticon reloaded...