Sounds a bit extreme for Jones (although he did get very pompous about the Indonesian Judge reading out the Judgement in Indonesian, not English), but maybe Viva, as an avid listener can reassure us.

You have to remember all us poor souls over here in Asia where every one of our leaders follows that rule.

I was of coures, implying leaders that claim to be the moral beacons to the international community.

Since the Parliament passed this law.

Addamo – did you really mean this ? "What leader, other than Bush, reserves the right to flou ( flout ) the law as he pleases ?"

You have to remember all us poor souls over here in Asia where every one of our leaders follows that rule.

I read somewhere that Queer Eye for the Staight Guy attracted a lof of veiwers from the homohpbic demographic. Go figure.

He got fired from MSNBC in July of 2003 for the following 'on air' exchange with a caller:

"So you're one of those sodomists. Are you a sodomite?" Savage asked.

The caller replied: "Yes, I am."

"Oh, you're one of the sodomites," Savage said. "You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it."

He reaches over eight million listeners on 377 stations throughout the United States, ranking third in nationwide ratings behind Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

I suspect that your glowing referenes to the US are born out of ignorance. I spend a great deal of time in the US and happen to be in the US at the moment ; quite frankly, the state of the country has a good deal of the locals freaked out.

Needless to say, I imagine that if the Michael Savages, Sean Hannitys, Rush Limbaughs and Anne Counlters of this world directed bile towards Israel and Zionists sentiments, you would be among the firs to decry the country as a bastion of evil.

Yo seem to be confueing "delicate" with "relativity". I hardly describe Jones as shocking so much as predicatable. The again, I don't consider the Savages of this world shocking either. Hacks of this colour are rather formulaic, choosing to excrete venom rather than engange in constructive discource. While in Australia, we do not have shock jocks in the vain of Savage, we also have a greater perparedness to live and let live.

Your Stalinist observation is entirely inverted.

Only somebody who has never listened to the "real deal" could say something so ignorant. Perhaps Jones is "shocking" to your delicate little sensibilities, but he sounds just like the average Australian to me.