Wait...did he just call the Roman Republic a flawless example of government? Because if I remember correctly, it was actually a pretty damned messed up system in which any idiot could gain power by simply walking into the room at the right time, and fell apart when Caesar did just that.

*headdesk*

Dude, my college newspaper has had some beastly flaps in the past, including one over a sports columnist calling Cajuns out as dumb, inbred hicks, printing an obscene template text (the templates are full of in-jokes), and even once running a cartoon about the handful of Katrina refugees that were stupid enough to blow what little FEMA money they got on bling instead of, you know, food. (Okay, so it was based on something he saw while helping out at one of the local ERs, but even still.)