I would never be in the position of fielding questions in a live chat since I'm just trailer trash. But if I *were* I would be every bit as disdainful and then some. The questioners obviously have no manners, whatever their views.

This is the same attitude that pervaded discourse when I was growing up (and still pervades the common discourse) - the snidest, meanest, most petulent looks wise, smart, and insightful.

So yeah, it's funny. But it's a rose by another name.

On the other hand, I'd rather see an honest answer to the last question.

AK

yes, I see your point; it is a bit high-school snide, isn't it?

Still, several of the questioners are clearly misinformed, and he deals with them the way they probably should be dealt with.

As for calling terrorists "fucking murderers" --

well, seriously, we can call them that here, but I don't think that's the way a serious news site should term them.

As for murderers-- well, yeah, they are murderers, and it gets annoying that the media won't call them that.

They have no problem with calling racial-killers murderers, even though those racial-killers might think they're fighting for some "cause." So why do they call racial killers by their proper name -- murderers -- and yet feel the need to avoid judgment with terrorists?

I can just see the front page of Newsweek:

Fucking Murderers Suspected in String of Bombings

Coooool.

While it was funny to read, and I do realize that a good number of questions were pretty stupid, he seems to be something of a douche.

Actually, I'm kind of surprised that a bunch of those questions were let in - I figured those kinds of chats were a lot more heavily moderated than that.

On the other hand, his last entry seemed fairly accurate:

"Thanks for your questions.  I have tried to answer them in the spirit they seem to have been offered."

I won't comment about the 2nd and 3rd questions, but the 1st was clearly moronic. Sure there's a bunch of DU laying around on battlefields, but its about as "hot" as ordinary lead. The Amerecium used in garden variety smoke detectors on your wall or ceiling is a LOT hotter than DU.

Rod Nordland went to far in the last response but I gotta hand it to him, that was a great line!

I'd like them to be called "rebels" kind of like in Star Wars and the Rebel Alliance.