Well, since he hates us so much, and loves the terrorists, I say we send him back to the terrorists.

This had better be Stockholm Syndrome.

/probably isn't

Throw the little fish back!

Then by all means, feel free to spend as much time in an Iraqi prison as you'd like.

Rumor has it that his next assignment will be cushy. Exclusive footage of Wright's next gig.

This chicken should make his roost in an Islamic country.

Ungrateful bastard......

Butler said he felt it was better to be kidnapped in Iraq then taken into custody by Americans in Afghanistan.

Nick Berg could not be reached for comment

I say throw the bastard back if that's the way he feels.
[deleted] 'em!

Right, so can we give him back? Maybe Al-Jazeera will do a Prime Special on his beheading.

People like this are truly insane. You know, just when I think I (sort of) understand the minds of these people, something like this happens and my brain starts to hurt all over again. I mean WTF happened to these people to make them so delusional?

/Channeling Butters: "Ouch. That made my brain hurrrt."

That's why America is the greatest country in the world. People like this are free to criticize without fear. It's the price of liberty.

He was taken from a hotel room in Basra, where he was on a trip to meet the chief of staff for anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr

Sounds like he got duped.

[REDACTED]

thrice.

MFer.

... candidate for most despicable mainstream media comment of the week.

Hold on Charles, it's just Tuesday. There are sure to be more.

Mortarboarded? That only happens to America Haters at our Liberal Universities when they get honorary Phd.s!

"Mortarboarded"?

Moron.

re: #11 MellyMel

I mean WTF happened to these people to make them so delusional?

It is called Journalism College. Probably Ivy League.

I feel moronboarded.

No wonder they have earned the name See-B.S.

why didn't we find out if this richardcranium wanted to come back before we risked going to get him....hell. let em have him....

“I was pleased I wasn’t being mortarboarded in Guantanamo..."

What, are we giving honorary degrees to detainees now?

. I must have missed the part where Butler thanks the Iraqi army for saving him.
/

Give 'em back!

Rich hates America? Easy solution. Revoke his American citizenship (assuming he is American) and let him apply for citizenship in Afghanistan or Pakistan - his choice. Problem solved. Rich is now happy.

Change!

I see he's a Brit.
Somehow that makes it easier to understand.

re: #17 Occasional Reader

"Mortarboarded"?

Moron.

Isn't that when the mortarboard is shoved up his ungrateful a...never mind.

"Mortarboarding"?!?!
Whadda maroon. Typical Mainstream presstitute.

Ungrateful assh*le.

Go back to England and stay there if you have such a problem with the United States.

Butler said he lost about 42 pounds and during the last 12 days of his captivity, ate one tangerine and four boiled eggs.

Yeah, just like at Gitmo.

Oh, wait... the Gitmo detainess GAIN weight... never mind.

Can't we just return him?

re: #28 Jon Carry

"Mortarboarding"?!?!
Whadda maroon. Typical Mainstream presstitute.

Ta Da!

Mortarboarded? What's that? I think I got a mortarboard when I graduated from high school and college. So, is he saying he's glad he never graduated? And this is what CBS calls a journalist? Oi veh!

re: #12 Golem Akbar

I just read the part in Liberal Fascism where they explain what the SDS is, and I'm under the impression that an SDS member who got drafted and liked it is quite a rarity. o___O

I was pleased I wasn’t being mortarboarded in Guantanamo

See, even the Terrorists get their degrees in US Custody

Talkin' trash when you're safe and secure doesn't impress me. You got no balls, sir.

Butler said he lost about 42 pounds and during the last 12 days of his captivity, ate one tangerine and four boiled eggs.

The thugs held in Guantanamo gain weight, you ass hat.

re: #2 laZardo

This had better be Stockholm Syndrome.

/probably isn't

You're right.

He said he tried not to be belligerent and make a human connection with his captors.

Butler, a British journalist kidnapped with his interpreter on Feb. 10, was rescued by Iraqi troops on April 14 when he was found with a sack over his head in a house in Basra.

Evidently, he hasn't taken it off.

Is 'mortarboarded' what the freemasons do to the new recruits?

Return to Sender.
Address Unknown.

Elsewhere in media bias, WaPo shills for Soros' Open Society;

French Prisons Filled With Muslims

...About 60 to 70 percent of all inmates in the country's prison system are Muslim, according to Muslim leaders, sociologists and researchers, though Muslims make up only about 12 percent of the country's population... In Britain, 11 percent of prisoners are Muslim in contrast to about 3 percent of all inhabitants, according to the Justice Ministry. Research by the Open Society Institute, an advocacy organization, shows that in the Netherlands 20 percent of adult prisoners and 26 percent of all juvenile offenders are Muslim; the country is about 5.5 percent Muslim. In Belgium, Muslims from Morocco and Turkey make up at least 16 percent of the prison population, compared with 2 percent of the general populace, the research found.

Sociologists and Muslim leaders say the French prison system reflects the deep social and ethnic divides roiling France and its European neighbors as immigrants and a new generation of their children alter the demographic and cultural landscape of the continent.

French prison officials blame the high numbers on the poverty of people who have moved here from North African and other Islamic countries in recent decades. "Many immigrants arrive in France in difficult financial situations, which make delinquency more frequent," said Jeanne Sautière, director of integration and religious groups for the French prison system. "The most important thing is to say there is no correlation between Islam and delinquency."

Yes, most important "to say there is no correlation"... rather than to confront the hard reality. Naturally, the biggest complaint also has nothing to do with Islam;

The refusal of prison officials to provide halal food, particularly meat products, is one of the biggest complaints of Muslim inmates across France and has occasionally led to cellblock protests.

/slouching toward Eurabia

I see he's a Brit.
Somehow that makes it easier to understand.

For CBS, only our betters will do.

re: #18 rawmuse

It is called Journalism College. Probably Ivy League.

My daughter (a college grad now) was into "Journalism" in high school --she was on the school newspaper and such. All her 'friends' on the paper were moonbats-in-training. They start young.

Fortunately my daughter was strong enough not to brainwashed.

First a happy note- it is the 24th anniversary of Mothra v Godzilla!

The fact this guys is alive at all is because he is a leftist sympathizer of the Jihadis. If Michael Yon or Michael Totten ever get taken, they would be horribly tortured then killed.

The enemy already got the full value, they get the ransom and another useful tool on their side.

re: #17 Occasional Reader

"Mortarboarded"?

Moron.

It must have knocked him into Bolivian.

re: #29 loppyd

Ungrateful assh*le.

Go back to England and stay there if you have such a problem with the United States.

With Brits like this, I can see why the UK is on verge of becoming an Islamic State.

A sizable percentage of the press, including this maggot, comprise an unarmed portion of the enemy. We can't shoot them, but we can expose them. My only worry is that A; Can we expose them to the masses (i.e., get wire stories, such as this one, beyond the fire-wall of CBS, NBC & ABC news), B; If successful regarding A, will informed Americans recognize what a disgrace the press has become?

We have an early leader for the Fiskie.

[Fisk] was set upon by a group of Afghans, who struck his face repeatedly with large stones. Rescued at the last minute, Mr. Fisk ... wrote of his attack in his newspaper: "If I was an Afghan refugee in Kila Abdulla, I would have done just what they did. I would have attacked Robert Fisk. Or any other Westerner I could find."

Why on Earth would a British journalist think that the United States would want to "mortarboard" him?

CBS reporter Richard Butler, kidnappedrescued by terroristsfreedom-fighters and heldhosted for two months before being freedkidnapped by Iraqi troopsstooges of the imperialist Americans

Re-written for CBS News release

"I was aware that we were driving out into a quieter area," he said. "I couldn't tell exactly where we were going, but I was aware that there were no more streetlights, for instance, and there were no more dogs barking. You didn't hear any cars. So I thought we were being taken out into the desert and, you know, we were just being shot in the desert."

Oh yeah Richie, that's sh*tloads better than being mortarboarded (those damned Masons) or held for 6 and a half years like some terrorist cameraman.

Apparently, he has a house in France.

What more need be said?

OT---Charles, you might want to take a look at the end of the UCI hate-fest thread; a clean-up might be in order there.

Personally, I think that every American who hates America so much be given the opportunity to give up their citizenship and move to the third world country of their choice, never to return.

Now, who were those pathetic actors who were going to move out of the USA of Bush was elected...Alex what's his name...the alcoholic...?

re: #2 laZardo

This had better be Stockholm Syndrome.

/probably isn't

No, it's only Stockholm Syndrome if your opinions changed during captivity, not if they were the opinions you already had.

I suggest that he be returned to the area and suffer the fate of the three guys who had flammable liquid poured on them and then thrown into the burning trench. I dare say his opinion, if he survived, which is doubtful, would be otherwise.

re: #31 loppyd

Ta Da!

LOL!ROFLMAO!

Lops...you oughta be ashamed creating such controversary...

re: #18 rawmuse

It is called Journalism College. Probably Ivy League.

Excellent point my friend. It is unfortunately clear to me that these people are part of a cult. It may have different names at different times, but it is still a cult.

1. IHAC - I Hate America Cult (all of the below can be a member)
2. IAGBFC -- It's All George Bush's Fault Cult
3. AACASC -- Average American Citizens Are Stupid Cult
4. IIGTWKMFC -- Islam Is Great, They Won't Kill Me First Cult

I am sure they are many more that could be added to this list.

Daniel Pearl could not be reached for comments.

I was pleased I wasn’t being mortarboarded in Guantanamo

They're holding graduation ceremonies at Gitmo now?

Ungrateful POS. Find a better country, A-hole, and move there. I dare ya.

“I was pleased I wasn’t being mortarboarded in Guantanamo or being held for six and a half years like an Al-Jazeera cameraman, for instance,” he said.

Wait, we have a university in Cuba? That's news to me.

re: #12 Golem Akbar

That's why America is the greatest country in the world. People like this are free to criticize without fear. It's the price of liberty.

It's the most annoying thing about the oath of office. We're sworn to protect, with our very lives if needs be, the right of some people to be insufferable assholes.

re: #40 Terp Mole

The refusal of prison officials to provide halal food, particularly meat products, is one of the biggest complaints of Muslim inmates across France and has occasionally led to cellblock protests.

"This is food. Eat it, or starve. We really don't care which."

This is the country we live in, folks. It's not pretty, but there it is.

re: #33 laZardo

I just read the part in Liberal Fascism where they explain what the SDS is, and I'm under the impression that an SDS member who got drafted and liked it is quite a rarity. o___O

Yup, you got that right. Between the time of my leaving SDS and getting drafted (about a year), I went through a lot of changes (and drugs). So, about the time I got to Vietnam, I was sober, in great physical shape (except for the cigarettes I smoked), and not totally hateful of the military. Some of my other SDS pals weren't so lucky.

One thing to note: I went to an SDS meeting where they were planning a march in downtown LA, and were going to carry flags of the North Vietnamese. I left the meeting and never went back. Shortly after that demonstration, they began talking of using violence to get their points across. I heard about it through a buddy, just before he went to Canada. whew

re: #60 American Soldier

It's the most annoying thing about the oath of office. We're sworn to protect, with our very lives if needs be, the right of some people to be insufferable assholes.

Where's the line between asshole and treasonous agitator?

Read John Ringo's "The Last Centurion" when it comes out. I already have, and it rocks.

I get the feeling Daniel Pearl might have a different take on it than this tool.

re: #40 Terp Mole

French prison officials blame the high numbers on the poverty of people who have moved here from North African and other Islamic countries

Ah... so these people are being imprisoned for poverty. I see.

Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev, and Gilad Shalit could not be reached for comment.

re: #63 Golem Akbar

Sometimes a Golem absorbs the truth from that scroll placed...wherever the heck a scroll is placed to activate one. >__>

/don't recall seeing the NV flag while I lived in the States back in '04-'06...but I did see quite a few SV ones...

Freed CBS Reporter Hates America

Fake but accurate.

His fellow Englishman Kenneth Bigley could not be reached for comment, either.

Perhaps they can send him to the Gaza Strip. Hamas loves to demonstrate its hospitality to Useful Idiot British journalists.

Still, he has a point - being bound with a bag over your head without food is a better gig than having to report on speeches by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

A Dan Rather understudy ?
The hate America tripe from the MSM should be dealt with

re: #38 Wyatt Junker

Yes, I guess he doesn't just hate America he's ignorant too. He doesn't want to graduate!

Mortarboarded?
Must have studied under that eminent scholar Ward Churchill.

Give him back to them, while he's spewing his bullshit agitprop six other hostages of the same people are dead.

re: #72 LeftJustAintRight

A Dan Rather understudy?

Did the terrorists call him "Kenneth" and demand the frequency?

re: #64 BabbaZee

Where's the line between asshole and treasonous agitator?

I've written about that here.
Unfortunately, in the absence of martial law, I've got to wait for a Federal Prosecutor to wake up, see the light, and wager a career against true evil.

The other six hostages had their fingers chopped off and sent to their parents before they died. Is that worse than gitmo? In CBS's eyes no.

re: #65 JamesTKirk

Read John Ringo's "The Last Centurion" when it comes out. I already have, and it rocks.

I'm envious. I've corresponded with him, but I'm sure not on his advance reader list.

Mortarboarded?

Douche.

Here's my reply:

Free American hates CBS.

MICHAEL YON IS ON THE LAURA INGRAHAM SHOW.

A REAL journalist and decent human being in the New Media.