when will I get an apology from my government for the wasteful spending and high taxes I pay? When will the military get an apology from the dummies who call them names? (Durbin, et al?) When will algore apologize for his hysterical foolishness?

Kinda rhetorical, huh?

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

I never want to hear newsbusters whine and moan about comments left at dailykos, huffingtonpost, or anything else that gets your panties in a tither.

It is no mistake that A.A.B.C (ANTI AMERICAN BROADCASTING CORP) changed the story to invent news. This is exactly what the N.Y.T does with the news, they still have not learned that circulation is down because credibility is down. A.A.B.C will be in the same financual straits as the N.Y.T because both attempt to make the news instead of report the news.  

I'm just a few years younger than Limbaugh and although I've heard of Curious George, I had no idea he was a freakin' monkey.

As soon as the official media honeymoon is over, I'll be curious to see how the political cartoonists are going to draw Obama.

Very carefully, that's how.

Not Limbaugh, not the caller but the daughter of a caller equates a political figure to a cartoon character and the media sees racism. I also like how the media had to point out the fact that Curious George is a monkey in case the knuckle draggers out there didn't understand what the 'insult' is all about. Is the monkey the insulting part or is it being compared to silly inane cartoon? The media I would compare to a bunch of monkeys but Senator Obama is closer to a silly cartoon.
Assuming this was a child I would prefer to believe it was said with the innocence of a child and not the loathing self-centered egoism that is the news media.

Have and continue to refer to the current President as "the chimp" and that is not news, let alone reported. It's apparently OK to refer to a Republican in a derogatory manner but not a Democrat.

Thanks ABC for showing us your version of fair and ballanced

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

The very second thing I'm buying on payday is this book, "The Liberal Mind:  The Psychological Causes of Political Madness".  I've read a 16-page excerpt of it and it so totally pegs the whining neurosis and thumb-sucking helplessness of liberals.  It will be a joy to read - kind of like getting a root canal.

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

Whenever I think we are maturing towards the subject of race here in the US, I read something like this, where someone stretches to be racially offended, and I realize we haven't come very far at all.

B HUSSEIN Obama is more of a Howdy Doody than a Curious George.  A dummy being controlled by the mob, that fits.

Old, Retired and glad of it.

I didn't know who Curious George was until a few years ago, when a friend's kid showed me her CG book. These characters have a way of going in and out of popularity. My childhood must've been in one of his down times.

Do you think McCain will also issue an apology - and state that Limbaugh does not speak for him?

I'm 47 years old, I watched alot of TV when I was a kid. Of the many cartoons I watched, Curious George was not one of them. I thought he was that guy that hides in crowds and you have to find out where is curious george. I've heard of the name, just didn't remember the character. Maybe it's old age, but there are many cartoon characters that I can't remember what they looked like. So I guess instead of being forgetful, I'm racist. Was el kabong a horse? Was Boris and Natasha American or foreign,? By their accents which I remember I can't tell you where they came from. Maybe Russia?

Rush-Haters are evil.

; )

I'd like to point out all of my ignorances right now in case I'm confused of "conveniently" being ignorant in the future.

-I have never seen a film involving Shrek. I've seen pictures of him but don't know anything about the movies.

-I've never watched Borat. I've heard of it but couldn't point him out in a lineup.

-I haven't seen Austin Powers.

-I know what Britney Spears looks like but could only name about two of her songs.

-I wouldn't recognize a 50 Cent song if I heard it.

-I've never seen a full episode of Family Guy and could not tell you what the characters' names are.

-After checking the current Billboard Top Ten,  I confess to recognizing two names and none of the songs.

-I've heard of bands like Journey and The Police but could not name the members.

-The only songs I know by The Beatles are "Hold Your Hand" and "Yellow Submarine."

-I've heard of SouthPark but did not watch it.

-I never watched the new Star Wars movies.

-As I mentioned above, I never watched Knight Rider until recently.

-I'd never heard of Hellboy or the Fantastic Four until the movies came out.

-Of the top ten box office movies this weekend, I've heard of five and seen one.

So that's that.

I practically grew up with those books, as my parents bought them all for me and my siblings.

And I have to be honest here, but I agree with Rush's caller. Obama looks a lot like Curious George.

Sorry.

Theme for Election '08: I want my mommy!

"3) Racist or not, I think it's sound advice to avoid comparing black people to monkeys. Never a good idea."

Especially when you view everything through the prism of race. Sometimes(more often than not I'd bet) comments like the kids have nothing to do with race at all. Pretending that they do only perpetuates the problem.

I have a hard time believing Rush doesn't know who Curious George is. It may be true, but it is hard to believe. But what bothers me is that he felt he had to apologize for anything here. That kind of pandering doesn't help either.

"Pig and elephant DNA just won't splice"

Regarding calling someone a liar:

Before I would call anyone a liar, I would have to have some solid evidence that:

1. They said (or wrote) something that was false.

2. They knew it was false when they said/wrote it.

3. They did it with the intent to deceive.

Without those three points, calling someone a liar says more about you than it does about them.  Certainly it shuts down communication channels and perhaps that was the intent this afternoon when all the animosity occurred here.  Someone noted that some number of people (six, I think) claimed to not know who Curious George is.  Well, there are hundreds of people who actively post here, so 6 out of 200 or so, is not that big a group.  Not only that, but liberals regularly accuse conservatives of not being well read, so someone not knowing who CG is, is in fact right in line with your prejudices, isn't it?  Thirdly, one could have heard the name and not seen the cartoon and thereby not know that CG was depicted as a monkey.  Almost finally, only in smallish minds does a monkey=racist.  Most of us pretended we were chimps, orangatangs, gorillas as we grew up.  There is a lot of affection for the lesser primates.  And finally, Curious George was a good guy, hardly an insult.

I know this is meandering, but aren't there better things to do with an afternoon that call someone a name, especially when you cannot prove it and saying it proves nothing?  Kumbahya my Lord, Kumbahya......

Just my two cents. I was born in the late 50's, and I was an avid reader from the age of four.

 If I hadn't become a parent, I would have never heard of, "Curious George."  Assuming that Rush Limbaugh is a liar is ludicrous.