scott you are so funny.

hey, but what about robert bork? doesn't he get a penny everytime somebody gets borked?

Yes, Skippy, Robert Bork does indeed get a penny everytime someone gets "borked", just as the President's family gets a penny everytime a tired person announces "I'm bushed" (damn-- I owe them BOTH some money now-- thanks Skip!).

The problem with giving this deal to Fisk as I see it (unless I'm missing something) is that he's a darned foreigner! The bill-- as proposed-- is therefore, unAmerican-- just like the "Rupert Murdoch protection law" that ended the foreign ownership restrictions on t.v. stations (and t.v. has sucked ever since) and the original GOP resistance to efficient federal control of air safety (the main airport security contractors were British and Swedish).

And now, once again: lobbyists for foreigners cutting themselves a sweetheart deal in Congress, at the expense of real Americans.

It makes me sick.

McDermott & Bonior sponsored the bill in the house, Leahy & Hegel in the Senate. Be sure to thank them, Dog.

The P-family also benefits from this.

Ambushed: A War Reporter's Life on the Line

Well, this certainly seems a little odd... Fisking is, after all, critique of an article. I'm unfamiliar with copyright laws, but my common sense tells me that quoting the sentence you have something to say about is perfectly normal, and does not require any special permission from the author of that statement. Does Roger Ebert or the Chicago Sun-Times have to pay royalties every time he quotes a line from a movie in his reviews?

And Fisk is getting more and more deranged... 'Yes, people have been saying 'That Fisk is a moron' for years, and I've yet to see a penny of royalties from the use of my name'. He should be glad that he's helped enrich the english language.

Err... 'More News Satire'?

Oh damn, I feel embarrassed now. I think I'll go make myself a hat that says DUNCE or something.

In my defense, I have never been on scrappleface before. Which of course is a crime in itself, so I guess I'll just make myself scarce now.

Sam, I hesitate to say this, but don't feel embarrassed. Your mistake made me laugh, and I so very much needed that laugh tonight, as the news is rather grim in my neck of the woods tonight.

Thanks, Scott and Sam. I needed that.

Robert Fisk is a self-hating westerner, whose take on anything is usually the opposite of the truth. Why then, do people accept Fisk's take on his beating? If you read that story, he didn't have any problem until he started speaking Arabic. The Afghans, IMHO, hated the Arabs, who dominated their country and their government and ran around like Pashas in their country.

Second point, does Robert Bork get a penny whenever 'borking' is used? ;^)

Great! The royalty rate means that based on my site's readership, Fisk gets, ummm . . . carry the one . . . equals . . . 14 cents.

That's it. I'm broke.

It's all OK: after we've paid up, we can beat him up and take his money. He is, after all, asking for it by being rich, white, and protected by the law...

I say,allow Fisk the royalties but have John Malkovich be in charge of the disbursement.

If this passes, I am doomed. But then again, the phrase "squeezing blood from a rock" comes to mind. Stop me before I Fisk again!

...snip...the phrase "squeezing blood from a rock" comes to mind

Remember, you cannot get blood from a turnip but it can be fun giving the turnip a fit.

Regards (and do I owe Mike 7 cents?)

Great, Mike! Now you owe "The Rock" money> (oops! so do I). Oh, well . . .

Of course, Fisk is welcome to 10% of everything I make out of my site...

I want $1 every time somebody does any math using one of these or buys one of these. Retroactive to my birth (1959) and continuing for my estate until 100 years after my death.

Don't forget Fisk also said he[fisk] would have beaten me[fisk] too; so I guess he means that those who get fisked, not only deserve it but are asking for it. Can't feel soory when those getting a good see-ing too get more than they bargained for.

May I suggest to all my UK friends that you know have use for all the shillings lying around in your pots.

Surely the Afgans who beat up Fisk were not 'anti american'? That would make no sense. The whole point is that they beat him up because he opposed the american action which rid their benighted country of the loathesome taliban?

Only now, at the end of his career, do we begin to understand the value of Jesse!

MommaBear would suggest that Blogdom resort to the well-know "Dodge" [grin] of subsituting an * for the first ' i ' in f*sking, thus protecting the membership, and, at the same time, placing said term in the category of all those other 'socially unacceptable' words.

F*sk on, fellow bloggers !!

Oops, I thought 'f*sking' was something totally different, something, ummm.... something you don't discuss in mixed company.

But in my defense, I do type with a lisp....

Wow! All those stories make MUCH more sense now!