They are really despicable human beings. What the hell is the matter with them? And what does Fox get for acting like this?

I do not watch Fox cable and it is rare for me to watch Fox at all.

Is that a real Fox network show or is it local cable time anyone can buy? I've never heard or seen any of the people on the show, so I'm thinking it's a local studio people can rent for cheap and share with call in astrologers and students trying to get into broadcasting.

it comes on late on FOX cable, I think. But it is a FOX show. Never watched it but saw a clip of it while watching another show.

"And what does Fox get for acting like this?"
Like the GOP, Fox plays to the lowest possible human denominator. Just when you thought you had seen it all with Billy O, and the prime time line-up at Fox. What a disgusting group of talking heads.

It would be helpful if someone could make a list of Rupert Murdock's Canadian assets and interests so Canadians could express their opinion of this charlatan by hitting him in the wallet. I have not knowingly bought a Murdock product for over a decade and I implore others to do likewise.

Thanks Lulu. It was one of those astounding "wrong word at the wrong time" moments I think. With those 4 caskets coming back, just after they'd said it.

But thanks for your thoughts. Have a great night.

I also believe that the anger will fade.

What is interesting to me is the level of anger over this incident. It communicates a change in Canadians, not normally a people easily moved to anger, or a people who have a strong, pro-military tradition. If anything, Canadian comedians have always been able to target the military for how weak it is in terms of Canadian investment in military equipment.

It's not so funny anymore.

And I attribute it to the public way in which Canada now honours and mourns each of the soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

It is always front page news. Right across the country, no matter which province the soldier was from. Their lives, loves and loved ones are described and mourned for what won't be.

When the caskets arrive, they are always greeted by a member of the Canadian government and/or the representative of the Queen, the Governor General.

There are stretches of highway that have been designated as memorial highways. I live near a 100 mile stretch known as The Highway of Heroes, which goes between Trenton (a Candadian military base) and Toronto. When the hearses, carrying the flag draped caskets, drive along this stretch of highway, people line the overpasses, as do firetrucks, ambulances and police cars, flashing their lights to also show respect. Police block the entrances on to the highway, to ensure uninterrupted passage for the soldiers caskets and the rest of the motorcade, carrying the families of these soldiers.

It's extraordinarily moving.

Each time, through this public ritual of acknowledgment and mourning, Canadians as a whole have to confront the reality of one more dead and the commitment that has been made in Afghanistan.

These people are not numbers to us. We know each of their faces, their lives, their hopes, and how they died.

For a country that has a tradition of self-effacing humour directed most often at laughing at our own foibles, there are some things that are no longer funny to us.

A country that remembers and honors its fallen soldiers in such a public way will be less likely to put them in harms way for foolish pre-emptive wars of choice like Iraq. We have a lot to learn from our northern neighbors. And I would have welcomed a peaceful Canadian takeover of the Eastern and Western coasts of America during the GWB years.

Like Lulu, I apologize for the chickenhawks of Fox on Red Eye. I guarantee they have never worn the uniform of their country but have the audacity to challenge those who have. It is appalling.

They are smug, self-righteous, hypocritical, loud-mouthed cowards as are most media conservatives. How much would you bet that NOT ONE of those four Fox asshats trash-talking Canada's military has ever served a day in the U.S. military?! They all look young enough to enlist and fight, why haven't they? They claim to support the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Oh, that's right, they're probably following in Dick-'five deferments'-Cheney's shoes. Dick claimed to support the Vietnam war (as did W.), he just didn't support it enough to go fight it himself. What more needs to be said to discredit all of these people than that?

I appreciate that so many commenters here get it.
The military toll resonates in part because half the population doesn't think Canada should even be in Afghanistan.
Yes, unlike Iraq, it's a defensible, justifiable war. But our entry into it was morally ambiguous.
Pressed by Bush to join the nascent "coalition of the willing," our prime minister offered instead to take a major combat role in Afghanistan, freeing up a similar number of U.S. troops for Iraq.
So, from the start, many Canadians saw our Afghan involvement as surreptitious support for an illegal, immoral war.
I miss the days when Canada explicitly set peacekeeping as its No. 1 military role, and earned international respect for it.

Now THAT is change I can believe in!!!

Expose what Murdock owns and get out of his revenue stream!

Uffda, great info. Sometimes there comes to us a little justice.

As someone living in close proximity to Canada, with MANY Canadian relatives, I have to say how sorry I am for the compounding of your country's loss by such an insufferable turd.

Gutfield is nothing but a worthless prick. Check out his Twitter feed (how utterly apropos that something named TWITter is the Republicans' greatest new intarwebz tool - they are too stupid to know how it works!) to see what this mendacious scumbag continues to say. I guess he hasn't yet realized that feeds can be subscribed, stupid mouthbreathing piece of shit that he is.

FUCKS NEWS: So fair, so balanced - just like a show trial at Gitmo.

Yeah, that about sums it up.

I'm loath to defend Fox, but the show did air before the latest four soldiers were killed. Still, even a minimum of research would have shown that over 100 had died, hopefully prompting the show's producer to think twice about mocking Canada's war effort.
What can you say? It's Fox News.

From hanging around TPM, it's clear to me the assholes are definitely in the minority.