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Not "many" Americans. A few. Probably fewer than a hundred on a couple of social media sites.

The problem is even the hundred odd Americans making such comments on a couple of mainstream social networking sites is disconcerting. These people actually did put up such comments. Who knows how many others exist who did not publicly make such comments just so they were politically corrext?

Well yes. But show me a country of 300 million or so where you cant round up a sizable mob of knuckle-dragging morons. It reflects poorly on them, but the fact that it was a story at all is due to the context in which it was presented (I found out about it on the Daily Show and posts to my facebook) because most Americans found it embarassing and absurd.

I wish reporters and pundits would just quit mining twitter for stupid quotes. It is like shooting fish in a barrel. It means exactly nothing that a couple of hundred, or even thousand, people said something dumb on twitter.

What this judge said is definitely newsworthy. Some random anonymous user on twitter who is probably trolling, stoned or both saying something means bupkis.

Although I did get a laugh out of Colbert's take - "705 people saw a woman in a bikini and thought, 'Muslim Extremist.'"

http://gawker.com/stephen-colbert-had-the-perfect-response-t...

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