Trey Parker and Matt Stone are about the least intelligent, least articulate people I've ever read interviewed by Salon. No wonder they've hit it big in Hollywood.

Trey Parker: "Look, we were below middle class growing up, and I had a dream that someday things were gonna be better, and I assume that's the way it is in Third World countries ..."

Next to these sheltered, myopic idiots, George W. Bush looks like an actual statesman.

However, not all was lost on this visit to the hotdog factory. There is value in seeing just who forges our culture. And it reminds me why over the rest of this millennium our era will doubtless be one of the least remembered eras in history. Navel-gazing has no shelf life.

-- Matt St. Amand

What a load of too-cool-for-you hooey. All these creeps prove is that you can be both a dick and an asshole, or two dicks and two assholes: three if you include their third musketeer, Dennis Miller.

-- Peter Hansen

I'm sure that detainees in the Gitmos and Abu Ghraibs the world over will be cheered by the fact that Parker and Stone are so gosh-darn "optimistic" about the direction that America is heading.

-- Kevin Leahy

Those guys are hysterically funny, obviously really smart and talented till forever. But I can't stand people in show business who stay in character during interviews with the press. Their pleas to the uninformed to stay home instead of, oh I don't know, getting informed, ring a little false.

I suppose they're purposely trying to get a rise out of politically minded people like me, and I wish their ploy didn't work. But, like I said, they're smart, and they're talented, so the fact that they're such assholes themselves in this interview really pissed me off.

-- David Zaza

First of all, I like "South Park." I really shouldn't but I do.

Second of all, I haven't seen "Team America" so I don't know whether I'd find it hilarious or just stupid.

But based on Stone's closing statement ("If you don't want to vote, you don't have to. Fuck that vote or die shit. I hate that"), I'll exercise my measly bit of economic power and boycott the movie and any future endeavors by this duo.

It is true that you don't have to vote. Like any "right," you don't have to exercise it, but to belittle the foundation of our democracy is barely defensible.

Stone laid out the reason why the youth are barely noticed by politicians while the elderly are courted with near worship.

The math is easy. Even Cartman could do it. Seniors vote in large numbers and the youth, historically, have not.

If you want to change something, you need to be heard, so get your butt to the polls. It is the least and yet the most valuable thing that this country asks of you.

-- Stacey Mathews

"South Park" is pretty funny, and the movie was terrific, but I don't give a damn what Parker and Stone actually think because they don't give a shit either. Please, please, please spare us further "interviews" with them and just allow their work to speak for itself. Beyond that, I'm not at all interested in what they have say.

-- Vivienne Leheny

Some of those old folks with the grim expressions may have taken the Southeast Asian version of the current low-budget Americans abroad tour. I narrowly missed that one myself, thanks at least partially to John Kerry having the guts to come back and tell the truth about that particular awfulness.

Vote or bite me, you jack-offs.

-- Patrick Tibbits

It's too bad that I find many of the things Parker and Stone have done are so funny. Their shallow and myopic takes on voting and our system in general are very depressing. Their "above it all" attitude about voting and our responsibilities as citizens is unfortunate. I wonder if either of them is still eligible for a draft. Now, that would be poetic justice. They could have the opportunity to actually be one of the "dicks" they talk about. Then, under fire and surrounded with blood and death, they could possibly reevaluate "assholes" like Sean Penn.

-- Bill Batten

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