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MR. SHADY... YOU CAN TAKE THIS AS A WARNING: So, the Secret Service have spent a couple of days thinking about it and have produced a statement about the Eminem lyric about "rather seeing the president dead":

"The Secret Service has no current plans to open an investigation into this matter [but we are] concerned about communications that can be interpreted in a manner perhaps not intended by the artist, and the potential peripheral impact that such lyrics can have on other individuals. The Secret Service takes every potential threat against the President seriously. We don't have the luxury to do otherwise."

Oh, for God's sake. No wonder there were people in Washington who believed in the weapons of mass destruction - if the authorities there believe that a bloody lyric in an Eminem song is something that has to be taken "seriously" as a "potential threat" against the crayoning kid in the White House, how can we expect them to sift any intelligence reports with any degree of sophistication?