I thought at first that he was being coerced. I was concerned that he or his staff were being threatened. He sounded like someone who had been captured and was spouting off to save himself.
I was listening for "hidden messages", clues that he was saying things like "helping the protestors", alluding to Bush not caring about the Iraqi people, were just a way of saving his life.
No! He seems to be free enough to give interviews to the Today show saying he shouldn't have said what he did. So it doesn't seem like he is a prisoner or anything.
He must have been really drunk to have thought that what he was saying was going to further his career. And it was about him and his former glory. Next, we will get to hear that he's checked into re-hab. He's really sorry........
I think that people like Arnett, Natalie Maines (of the Dixie Chicks), and Michael Moore say the ridiculous things they say, not because they're bold and intrepid, but because they think there will be no consequences. And they think there will be no consequences because they think nearly everyone agrees with them. Michael Moore has said as much many times.
They have no idea just how far out on the fringes they are. They are surrounded by hundreds of people who all think/speak/write anti-war, anti-Bush diatribes for a living and they begin to think that only a tiny few small minded people must support the war in Iraq. They are quintessentially out of touch liberals.