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.

re: #77 American Soldier

Yes you have
thanks

Butler probably WILL get mortarboarded for his disgusting remarks.

Which is to say, he'll get plenty of commencement address invitations.

On top of nearly being "mortar boarded", it turns out that, according to the geniuses at CBS that " Iraqi army wasn't out specifically looking for him, Butler said. They were looking for an arms cachet."

[Link: apnews.myway.com...]

A cachet? Maybe they keep their arms cachets in nice little sachets?
Far be it for a reporter from CBS to know his cachet from his cache...

re: #79 American Soldier

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

Neither am I. Don't tell him I got an electronic copy.

re: #84 Thinking Mans Republican

They keep their arms in cachets, but their ammo in attache cases.

It is a newer, frillier Al queda.

CBS reporters don't know their cache from their oboes

If you would like Mr. Butler to know how you feel, please leave a comment at this CBS interview the ungrateful asshole: A Hostage's Story: CBS Journalist Speaks

re: #57 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Sgt. Keith "Matt" Maupin was buried this past weekend. His body was recovered last month. Matt was kidnapped from his convoy nearly four years ago.

Richard Butler can go pound sand. Just another balless wonder...

*cough*

Yeah... Americans in Gitmo treated their prisoners MUCH worse than the Islamic Terrorists treated.... Nick Berg...

sicko. What the hell is it about this boneheads that makes them think they way to be 'unbiased' is to side with America's enemies?

re: #14 BabbaZee

Stop it. You're killing me.

Come on everyone he's just trying to protect the next western journalist the terrorists capture.. a little fawning all over them and tickling their fancies will save lives.

/plus he's a anti american s^#! head lefty piece of c&$* scumbag

re: #78 Thanos

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.

This cbs reporter's attitude makes me so upset that I can hardly type. These families, and Sgt. Maupin's family have suffered so great a loss, and he's spitting on them. He's spitting in our faces and the face of this country and our troops. I can't even put into words the disgust that I feel for this creature.

re: #86 LanceKates

It takes a certain caché to keep your cachet and your arms cache in a sachet in your attache

Oi vey!

re: #91 Endangered in MASS

Ok I am starving anyway
lol
BBL

re: #39 BabbaZee

I wish Elvis did a song called. "I'll kick your ingrate ass."

re: #94 Thinking Mans Republican

It takes a certain cach?o keep your cachet and your arms cache in a sachet in your attache

Oi vey!

That's way the hell too many french sounding words.

The book deal is gonna be Huge !

re: #37 rabidsquirrel

Evidently, he hasn't taken it off.

Standard CBS-issue bag, Katie should wear one on the evening news.

re: #31 loppyd

He's in deep duh duh.

What I took the pukefaced Brit to mean was that people should not get the idea that either his blind hatred for America or his dishonest and libellous criticism of Gitmo, will in any way be diminished by his kidnapping at the hands of the terrorist enemies of his own country, nor by his liberation by Britain's American-trained Iraqi allies.

{SPIT!}

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

Jesus, Mary and Joseph!

He said that ?!?!

.

This is only the latest reason see bs is not watched in my house. My wife cannot stand katie - the smarmy little bitch and I cannot stand the constant bashing of everything I hold dear. They can all go to hell along with the raisin-seeking jihadis. Maybe he will get a crispy brown too......does shit brown or does it just melt?

I'll just save Charles the trouble & delete myself.

re: #8 Shug

Nick Berg could not be reached for comment

Neither could Daniel Pearl

re: #85 JamesTKirk

Neither am I. Don't tell him I got an electronic copy.

Ummm......
Ya know, my e-mail addy is on my blog's profile.................
.....................

“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.

Mortarboarded?!? He's some kinda dimwit.

re: #107 American Soldier

Ummm......
Ya know, my e-mail addy is on my blog's profile.................
.....................

Ya know, I already found it.

So why the fuck did we rescue this guy?

re: #110 Ward Cleaver

So why the fuck did we rescue this guy?

We didn't. Iraqi soldiers did.

Case of Stockholm Syndrome. Boot him into the Reject Bin and move on in life.

Astonishing that people can be so ungrateful. Another lefty journalist pandering to the terrorists.

Should have left him there.

There is an interview here:
[Link: www.cbsnews.com...]

He was chained and hooded and gushes about their 'kindness' towards him.

Quote:
Pizzey: Will you go back and do this kind of thing again?

Butler: Yes.

See if he can keep his head next time...

re: #108 Ward Cleaver

Mortarboarded?!? He's some kinda dimwit.

Didn't you know they have graduation ceremonies at Gitmo where all the terrorists throw their mortarboards in the air?
Personally, I like to use a mortarboard whenever I go fishing even though it is much noisier than a canoe.

re: #110 Ward Cleaver

Good question.

I believe that if he stays in country, he may have a hard time finding a decent security detail... I don't know of many who would want to protect him now, given his personal views of the situation. Also, I doubt that the military will take much of an effort to rescue him if he is again taken prisoner. Maybe then he will meet the same fate as many who have preceeded him.

Maybe this asshole should ask Nick Berg who he'd rather be captured by. Oh that's right, he can't because they CUT OFF HIS FUCKING HEAD. This fuck nutz should never have been released. He has a promising career on al-jazeera.

re: #111 LanceKates

We didn't. Iraqi soldiers did.

More proof that no good deed goes unpunished.

Too bad they didn't make a really cool jihadi video, with Mr. Butler as the star attraction.

The self-hate most people just keep inside is projected by liberals on America as a whole! Unlike most kidnapped people in iraq this guy actually gets out with his head and then has the temerity to criticize our system where most are treated well and live. Pathetic. To think we will have a Hillary or Obama presidency led by people who think like this!

re: #112 LanceKates

I doubt its a case of stockholm syndrome, this tool was likely a terrorist supporter / anti-American wanker before he was captured.

I'd like to ask this smuck: What's this mortarboarding which you speak? It must be something really new. Waterboarding I survived in survival school! This mortarboarding would probably do me in though. Sure I glad I retired prior to going to survival school refresher course.

/ guess is needed
Top

Hatred breeds insanity.

Richard Butler is British -- all his snotty comments are said with that disgustingly arrogant British accent. Send him to S. Arabia where he belongs.

re: #125 1SG(ret)

I'd like to ask this smuck: What's this mortarboarding which you speak? It must be something really new. Waterboarding I survived in survival school! This mortarboarding would probably do me in though. Sure I glad I retired prior to going to survival school refresher course.

/ guess is needed
Top

C'mon, be reasonable - he obviously meant to say "motorboating".

I wonder if he really was kidnapped? Or was he hanging out with his buddies when the Iraqi Federales busted the joint. "Oh, oh! I'm kidnapped, They kidnapped me! yeah that's right"

[deleted]

So send him back- he doesn't want to be in American custody.

Mark Steyn defines "mortarboarding":

Jonah, mortarboarding at Gitmo is when detainees are made to put on a cap and gown and listen to back-to-back commencement addresses by alternating Clinton cabinet secretaries and PBS hosts. Most of them crack during Janet Reno.

re: #64 BabbaZee

Where's the line between asshole and treasonous agitator?

Hmmm, I'm not sure.
Maybe jimmy carter or rev. wright (lack of caps, intentional) can explain it. I'm sure they both know.

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

The word "then" instead of "than" here creates a different meaning.
The way it's written, it means it was better that he WAS taken into custody by Americans...

...But I doubt that's what he meant.

re: #136 Son Of The Godfather

You're just reading the mangled grammar of the standard (or make that sub-standard grammar) of an AP (Associated press) "reporter." (Ditto for the "mortarboarding" reference). Somebody needs to go back to J school...

Here's the transcript from the actual CBS interview:

Pizzey: You were saying it is better to be kidnapped by Shi'ites in southern Iraq than by Americans in Afghanistan.

Butler: I was pleased I wasn't being waterboarded in Guantanamo or being held for six and a half years like an al Jazeera cameraman, for instance.

re: #46 SaneInMN

re: #46 SaneInMN

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?

No, 60% of all americans are stupid sheep, unable to think on their own. It shames all of us.

re: #71 Darwin Akbar

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.

yeah, and ex american presidents too

re: #22 rabidsquirrel

What, are we giving honorary degrees to detainees now?

D.T. - Doctor of Terrorism
B.S. - Bomb Specialist
M.S. - Murder Specialist
PhD - Piled higher and deeper

A mortarboard is that little hat you wear at graduation. When Dick Butler says he’s glad he wasn’t mortarboarded, he’s saying that he’d rather be kidnapped in Iraq than receive legitimate academic credentials to back up the garbage he spouts in his news reports.

re: #123 ploome hineni

he says:

(CBS) Richard Butler, who was taken on February 10 in Basra while on assignment for CBS News, has arrived in Europe.

Today he made the following brief statement:

so eating one tangerine and 3 eggs in 12 days is ok?

and 4 months wearing a sack on his head is ok?

/well he lives in Fwance

Oddly enough, if I'd been held against my will, bound and had a bag over my head, I'd feel mistreated! But that's just me.

After the door was kicked in, a soldier aimed a gun at his head. How would he know that? Was it a "see through" bag on his head?

Must be a Christian "war" maker team member. Typical leftist ingrate.

re: #138 apachegunner

I don't know if the percentage (60) is that high -- I sure hope not...but it doesn't help matters when you've got the BBC (along with many other "news" outlets) broadcasting everywhere the same themes...Here in Canada, the BBC is broadcast on at least 4 television channels (including one entirely devoted to the BBC -- that's BBC World -- it's all 24/7 non-stop Third Worldism and hate America screeds) -- not to mention the radio broadcasts. The BBC is utterly vile -- for many, many years they have been pro-terrorist (not to mention also virulently antisemitic) -- it's just what the BBC does best (a few years back they were outraged that many of their "reporters" were poached by al-Jazeera....yeah, that's the perfect fit for Beeb "reporters" -- being pro-terrorist propagandistic sycophants for Arab media.. Little wonder that the public is so misinformed.)

re: #142 MarineMomSue

Oddly enough, if I'd been held against my will, bound and had a bag over my head, I'd feel mistreated! But that's just me.

There are people who pay money for that sort of thing -- just ask Kristin.

I think that this idiot reporter was "waterboarded" by the terrorists and has lost his marbles.re: #1 TalkinKamel

So, Mr. Butler, if you would rather be with your terrorist friends than Americans, will you please stay with your terrorist friends.

I've been mortarboarded twice, once after high school and again after college. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Three to four hours hungover and sweating like a pig under a ridiculous outfit, forced to listen to inane, endless speeches and watch a procession of similarly tortured souls wander across a stage to get handed a scrap of paper not worth anything, really. All this bracketed by hours of fake-grinning in front of cameras and unsolicited hugs. The memories are seared into me.

I guarantee that, as he was sitting there in captivity, not knowing if he would survive, he wasn't thinking how much better this is than Guantanamo. He wasn't thankful that it was the compassionate Shiite terrorists holding him, instead of Americans. No. This bastard was probably on his knees praying that American Special Forces troopers were out searching for him.

Lying piece of s@*t liberal journalists. Is there any reason to EVER believe a damn thing that comes out of their filthy pie holes? They should give this tool back to Mookie's goons.

F'n ass-hat liberals are mentally ill. They are so warped by their beliefs they have lost all touch with reality.

re: #114 Chaz

There is an interview here:
[Link: www.cbsnews.com...]

He was chained and hooded and gushes about their 'kindness' towards him.

Quote:
Pizzey: Will you go back and do this kind of thing again?

Butler: Yes.

See if he can keep his head next time...

In that transcript at that link he says "waterboarded" instead of "mortarboarded;" otherwise, it's the exact same text as in the article linked at the top of the thread. Has anyone listened to the tape to see what he actually said? (I can't listen now.) Either the reporter who wrote the article at the top got it wrong, or the transcript was cleaned up to make him look less stupid. Which is it?

Oddly enough, if I'd been held against my will, bound and had a bag over my head, I'd feel mistreated! But that's just me.

I would, as well; however, there are some people who would rather suffer mistreatment than have to show a little gratitude to the people whom they loathe in the first place. Mr. Mortarboard might be one of those people.

Imagine if, horror of horrors, he had to express one ounce of gratitude to the people in the United States military. It's easier just to fall back on his liberal, white, multicultural guilt cushion and praise his captors.

I've heard that the British are masters of irony. Some are just more ironic than others.

re: #145 Lucius Septimius

There are people who pay money for that sort of thing -- just ask Kristin.

So, do you think Butler just forgot the safe word for a few months? LOL

re: #52 syndicate

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...?

We should set up an I Hate America fund to help pay for their one-way tickets out of here.

"Dick" is an ungrateful bastard if there ever was one. The sheer cognitive dissonance involved with this pathetic SOB's statement is enough to make anyone's head explode.

re: #84 Thinking Mans Republican

On top of nearly being "mortar boarded", it turns out that, according to the geniuses at CBS that " Iraqi army wasn't out specifically looking for him, Butler said. They were looking for an arms cachet."

[Link: apnews.myway.com...]

A cachet? Maybe they keep their arms cachets in nice little sachets?
Far be it for a reporter from CBS to know his cachet from his cache...

Cachets in sachets? So when you go looking for their arms stores, just sniff around for the lovely scent of lavender.

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

He was afraid he'd have to listen to "Pomp and Circumstance" for two months straight.

Maybe al-Butler shoudl go back to his juhadist friends. Ungrateful bastard.

re: #142 MarineMomSue

"After the door was kicked in, a soldier aimed a gun at his head. How would he know that? Was it a "see through" bag on his head?"

Very good observation! THAT needs to be answered. Something stinks in his captive ordeal and it isn't rotten eggs or tangerines.

re: #134 Occasional Reader

Mark Steyn defines "mortarboarding":

After going to this institute of higher learning.

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

Even worse.
"Journalists" (*puke*) who dont know the difference between "then" and "than"

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Can we give this silly SOB back to the terrorists, or would it be a "ransom of redchief" moment?

Isn't there a pre-requisite to be able to spell to be a journalist?

Mortarboarded? Maybe he became privy to a new technique where we force detainees to listen to liberal college professors' drivel until they can't take it any more and spill the beans. Unlike waterboarding, that truly would be torture.

Once again, the thought and intellect behind the press rears its ugly head.

You mean he didn't want to graduate from Gitmo Jr. High?

He drank the KoolAid?

Maybe the terrorists still have his wallet and he wants it back, thinking badmouthing his rescuers will accomplish that.

re: #84 Thinking Mans Republican

On top of nearly being "mortar boarded", it turns out that, according to the geniuses at CBS that " Iraqi army wasn't out specifically looking for him, Butler said. They were looking for an arms cachet."

[Link: apnews.myway.com...]

A cachet? Maybe they keep their arms cachets in nice little sachets?
Far be it for a reporter from CBS to know his cachet from his cache...

In much of the world, "cache" is properly pronounced "cash-ay"

re: #157 mattm

Maybe al-Butler shoudl go back to his juhadist friends.

Won't happen apparently, according to Butler himself....see end of article....

After continuing to recover at his house in France, Butler said he wants to go back to reporting in the world's danger spots. He doesn't plan to go back to Basra anytime soon, however.

So "Dick" Butler thought he'd be mortar boarded? Is that kinda like graduating high school? Wonder how many 'dick' and 'but' jokes were made of his name; since he's an obvious fuck-weasel, I'd say his classmates cleaned his clock frequently.

what a tragedy.......that this douchebag wasn't accidentally shot while being rescued by Iraqi troops.

"Mortarboarded"

Did they start conferring degrees at Guantanamo?

copy of the test for becoming a CBS journalist

Can you read?
1.No
2.Yes

Do you read?
1.Never
2.Yes
3.Do comic books count?

Do people call you oafish?
1.All the time
2.Yes, but I'm not a fish
3.Huh?

What about vacuous?
1.?
2.Yes
3. What does that mean?

A plane crashes on the United States - Canada border. Where are the survivors buried?
1.Depends on nationality
2.Canada
3.United States
4.Mexico
5.They aren't

Add all the totals for your answers(see your Mom for help on this)

Totals
0 - 2 Congratulations! you are the new president of CBS
3 - 5 You passed, report immediately to the DNC for instructions on how to write your next article
6 - 16 Sorry go back to school and try next year

What a putz! They should've left him with the jihadists.

Wearing a waterboard on his head, he has now graduated to Asshat U.

ungrateful, filthy, a**hole

A person gets mortarboarded when they graduate don't they?

And people wonder why I hate British 'journalists'.

re: #84 Thinking Mans Republican

A cachet? Maybe they keep their arms cachets in nice little sachets?
Far be it for a reporter from CBS to know his cachet from his cache...

Doesn't know his cache from a hole in the ground...

His hatred of America is a sign of dementia.

Aye! Send him back. I'm sure the terrorists will make room for him at one of their camps. Maybe he thinks it would be better to be beheaded by a rusty machete?

Wasn't it a group of CBS journalists who disobeyed coalition rules and broke out of one of the journalism pools and who got captured by the Iraqis during the first Gulf War? It's no big secret that CBS has pretty much always been anti-military. Look at Dan Blather and Walter Crank-case. This idiot disguised as a journalism is a tool. Its a pity he didn't get the Terry Waite treatment... hugging a radiator in some [bigoted word] douchebag's forgotten basement.
I started out in college majoring in journalism. When I realized it was all fruitlooops and frat people I changed. Most of these people are just idiots who are afraid to be legitimately creatve and who go along with whatever is flavor of the month.

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