I'm not sure if saying, "This is B---S---" equates with Chevy Chase calling the President a "dumb f---."

You're right, Chevy Chase's comments should be taken less seriously since he is, after all, a comedian.And his comments was to an audience expecting him to be either make dumb comments or funny comments.
Whereas Novak was live on air and more performance artist/has-been journalist and not known for cussing.

Complaining about a comedian cussing is like complaining that an airport or a rock concert is loud.

And I thought it was a good comeback on my part!

My delivery must be worse than Chase's?

Meanwhile did you hear about Cheney getting cussed out while in New Orleans?
Not only was THAT not ok but the guy got cuffed:
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Bernie uses the word hypocrite quite a few times... and also attacks people for using obsene language in their arguments... and calls Courtney Love a "Ho" with no other comments. I'd say that classifies him as a hypocrite, no? Has he ever heard the old adage that an insult is not but a refuge for a weak argument??

His attacks on Jimmy Carter and Noam Chomsky, among others, were weak and shortsighted, he seems to ignore alot of evidence that doesn't work in his favour. He also attacks ALOT of very well-educated and respected individuals for any kind of anti-american foreign policy, white house, or cultural policies, values and ethics, which at times (particularly such turbulent times) need to be criticized; is this not at the heart of the democratic system? He appears so blindly "pro-war," "pro-Bush" that common sense and a respect for democracy have completely escaped him.

A broad, sweeping attack on some of the worlds most respected institutions of higher education, and those that run and manage them... is this not an ultimate representation of the cocky, smug, self-righteous, over-zealous and plain-old ignorant attitude that he accused the "liberals" in america of possessing?? I'd argue that he has done so to an even greater extreme. He is a dangerous individual... because people take him seriously. average minds discuss people... great minds discuss ideas... and the politics of the United States are in desperate need of some good ideas right now. The last thing they need is to be blindly supported by a rich, conservative, Christian-fundamentalist who unfortunately has a venue and an audience ready to listen to his dangerous and blind blabber.

Well said, Phil.
Thanks for adding your thoughts and reviving this thread.

1) Frank McCourt. I'll give'm me pot o' gold if he promises never to appear on television again.
2) The redheaded judge on American Inventor who cries with empathy every time someone shows her their idea for a new shovel.
3) People who are always on the attack with no decorum or decency till they fuck up in front of god and everyone then say 'Whoa, whoa. Can't we be civilized here?'
4) We shouldn't forget Van Halen fans.
rephrased: Thanks for David Lee Roth. Jerks.
5) Rush Limbaugh. He's been kinda quiet since the arrest, but he's a life time member of On the List for encouraging more people to express more opinions they really should have grown out of long ago, privately, than anyone or thing including Hunter S Thompson or the Internet.
6) Oh yeah. Bloggers.
7) Any jerk off who calls you a hypocrite because they can't recognize sarcasm.
8) The guy at work who's on the phone with his wife or their friends all day but still thinks he's the only who does any work around here.
9) People who complain about foul language. If you three year old's standing right there, you get an exemption. Otherwise shut the fuck up.
10) Anyone whose list ran out of gas, completely, at '8' but still had to take it '10' because that's the prescribed number

"I've wondered aloud why that's bad"

^do you seriously not realize why calling the president a "dumb f---" is bad?? thats actually kinda sad...