Burns Says Terrorists Drive Taxis by Day

When do they sleep?

That's not offensive at all.

Oh wait...now that I think about it.

Clown.

Oh well -- things like this just make November that much easier.

This man is suffering from foot-in-mouth disease. Bet he spends a lot of time hailing taxis and watching them drive by from now on.

mmm stereotype much?

They drive Taxis because terrorists are bad swimmers...oh wait no that was the racist from AL running in FL. I get confused. They all sound alike to me.

I think terrorists work in convenience stores and laundrymats too.

Is senility setting in, Conrad?

How about you just shut the hell up?

I love that he went after a Hotshot crew. Hotshots are crazy. They jump out of perfectly good aircraft into forest fires with a shovel and an axe.

They get paid jack-squat to do it too.

I know a few people that work in fire for USDA out of Virginia. That Staunton crew deserves a medal, not this crack-pot's scorn.

Is it me or does Laura look more like Dubya every day?

He saw a rerun of the De Niro movie and thought it was a documentary. Be afraid, fellow citizens -
"On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody."

Well Conrad has admitted that he can self destruct in one word.

Remember the cab-driver who took you wherever the last time? He's the bogeyman. And he's foreign-and evil!

The Middle-Eastern Terrorist Union #406 issued a statement within hours that they are "shocked" and "deeply offended" by Burns' insensitive remarks. "Terrorists have strict regulation codes on personal hygiene," said Union Spokesman Ralph Greenburg, "and our strict policy of learning fluent spoken English is unmatched in the International Terrorism industry." Greenburg requested a written apology; Burns' office could not be reached for comment.

What the hell does he know...They don't even HAVE cabs in Montana

I'm always glad to know that if the Montanians want him out, they have the power in their hands to kick him out of congress. I wish i could but I don't reside there. Darn! If you don't like your congressmen or women, just don't reelect them. They only get one chance and if they f*** up then it's up to use you power.

I know that "profiling" is a dirty word, but instead of worrying about offending people, wouldn't it truly serve the cause of justice more fully if we asked the deeper questions of why some stereotypes are true?

Just thinking out loud, here, but instead of getting our feelings hurt, for instance, over the fact that blacks are profiled for dealing drugs or gang violence (more so than whites), wouldn't it be more "just" to take a hard look at our educational, prison, and economic systems and try to fix the reasons why some black kids are driven to drug dealing and gangs? As late as the forties, our federal government kept black families out of white neighborhoods because they were worried that property values would be affected. To this day, houses in predominantly black neighborhoods (a problem created by our government) do not appreciate in value at anywhere near the rate as white neighborhoods, and the value of one's home is by far the greatest contributor to wealth in this country. While Jack and Jill up the hill cash out their home equity to send little Brianne and Mason to private schools, their black neighbors across town go to a school that has 15-year-old history books and no music classes.

Now it's true that everyone has to make their own choices, but in our society, some people start out with the deck stacked against them. So again, what would be more "just": apologizing for putting more cops on the street in black neighborhoods, or fixing our broken economic system? Instead of saying, "Sorry I profiled you," we should be asking, "How have I failed you?"

So instead of getting up in arms about Burns' comments, lets take as a given that most taxi drivers in the US (especially in large cities) are foreign-born. Then let's ask why people in the world (especially the Mid-East) want to kill Americans so badly. Isn't that the question we're trying so desparately to avoid? Aren't we hoping (on both sides of the debate) that we can sloganize our way out of the harsh fact that the East hates our hypocrisy, our promiscuity, our freedom, our God, our gods, our money, our attitude, our ideas, our sin... all our triumphs and dirty laundry we transmit over the airwaves, satellite signals, and a McDonalds near you?

We need to recognize that there are people who live among us who will kill us because they think it will make the world (or at least their part of it) a better place. Instead of tarring and feathering anyone who would dare make a non-PC statement, let's do the harder work of trying to fix the real problem.

And I don't know what the answer is. I love America with all its faults, much as I'd like to change them. But we can't invade a sovereign country and not be seen as imperialistic. We can't promote "freedom" by sexually objectifying women in advertising and not expect the family-oriented (if too patriarchal) Arab world to feel threatened. If I lived in Lebanon or Iraq, I'd be scared of America, too.

So how do we keep the world from hating us, without changing what's best about us?

Hmm let me see..

He has drawn criticism in recent weeks for calling his house painter a "nice little Guatemalan man" during a June speech.

Burns, whose re-election campaign is pressing for tighter immigration controls, also suggested that the man might be an illegal immigrant. The campaign later said the worker is legal.

Burns, 71, also had to apologize after confronting members of a firefighting team at the Billings airport and telling them they had done a "piss-poor job," according to a state report, while the Hotshot crew had traveled 2,000 miles from Staunton, Va., to help dig fire lines for about a week around a 143-square-mile wildfire east of Billings.

and now...

says the United States is up against a faceless enemy of terrorists who "drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night."

Is he committing a political suicide or is he really out of touch from the world? He probably needs to get out of his bubble. First of all, through my experience in the East, most cab drivers are from India and the Middle East and as far as I know, India have not produced any terrorist.. so far they have been attacked by terrorist. And not to mention in the West, there is a wide mix of races of cab drivers. So that comment was really unintelligent and unnecessary.

Wonder what Timothy McVeigh and his friend Terry Nichols did for living?

When ever senators get so out of touch they get foot in mouth disease they should be forced to retire to public housing.

I'll give Mr Burns the benefit of a doubt. Maybe what he meant was that terrorists blend into our society, and a taxi driver was just the first American thing that popped into his head..

No? Okay, it's a bit racist...

I'll be proud to be part of voting good-ol-boy incumbent Mr. Burns out of office! Exxxcelent....

Wow, The republican party just won't stop. This coming right on the heels of Catherine Harris's religious comments. The Republican has really become the party of extremists.

somebody should haul burn's ass to the mess he and his buddies have made of baghdad and shove it taxi cab for ride around town and see what they've done.

Mr Burns says "Let the fools have their tar-tar sauce".

EEEEExecellent

You know what I call this @!$%#

Provocation

He's trying to piss off every middle-eastern taxi driver in America, until one of them reads this and say "HEY WHAT THE @!$%#", gets pissed off, and does something stupid

Then this Mr. Burns can point finger and say see? see? I told ya

You suck Mr Burns.

ps. Your assistant Smithers is in love with you.