James Wolcott observes: ". . .Asked by Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer (whose boyish twinkle makes every day a holiday) what he would do to stopper such outbursts, Gallagher proposed that the likes of Joy Behar and Matt Damon (whose Hardball appearance rankled the Hee Haw mascot) should be rounded up and put in a "detention camp" until the war is over. He didn't specify which war, the war in Iraq (which will probably drag out length of Bush's presidency and beyond) or the War on Terror (which could be decades-long), nor did he grasp the irony of punishing celebrities for invoking Hitler by employing Hitlerite crackdown tactics. When the other guest observed that in this country, citizens--even entertainers--are allowed to mouth off, that's what democracy's all about, Gallagher admonished: "There's such a thing as treason." Such is the caliber of intellect with which our president sees fit to confer. No wonder we're losing the war in Iraq--what a Bozo brain trust!"
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