I've been trying to keep up with today's comments, and so had not yet commented on anything, tho' I did see Ktw's and RMP's comments.

Mostly, I have to agree that Dodd did not come across as well as he did in that interview with Charlie Rose. Partly, that may have been because of the adversarial nature that Tim adopts-- Hah! Gotcha! ...compared with Rose's more naturally curious personality-- but I think it's more likely that Dodd simply hasn't had enough time in front of the cameras on his own during this campaign season to have worked out any kinks in his talking points. (Tho' with Rose, he didn't seem to need talking points.) In general, he's been lucky when he gets a total of 5-10 minutes during one of the debates.

I was also disappointed because I thought he was supposed to have the entire hour, and it's possible that with the extra time he might have found his stride. (No rumors of Russert's retirement, yet, I suppose... ?)

I emailed Dodd's campaign awhile back saying I thought they should do more with YouTube.

As much fun as we're all having at Boylan's expense-- in particular, his illiterate and inarticulate rantings-- shouldn't we be concerned that such poor communication skills, if representative, might eventually cause some military crisis, if only because someone didn't understand someone else's instructions, and did the opposite?

...even more abject illiteracy? (to go along with their innumeracy...)

on a related matter...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071029/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/intelligence_fema;_ylt=A9G_R3iFLyZHyk4AeBes0NUE

FEMA spokesman loses spy job offer...

By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The man who staged a fake Federal Emergency Management Agency news conference has lost a chance to be National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell's top public information officer.

John P. "Pat" Philbin, FEMA's external affairs director, who had been scheduled to move into the new job on Monday, will not be getting it after last week's phony news conference. The staged question-and-answer session was harshly criticized by both the White House and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, whose department oversees FEMA.

Granted, a few arrogant (and lying?) emails probably don't rise to the level of a completely faked news conference, but still... we can hope, can't we?

One has to wonder what a collection of such Timbermanisms might fetch on the open market.

Dread Pundit sadly lacks the capacity to understand something even as basic as the point you are making.

Undoubtedly.

Perhaps we could convince the sardonic Serai1 to write a proper spoof of "Blogging with html: 101" ...something suitable for "marketing" to the rightwing contingent of the blogosphere. Rules, conventions, protocol, etc.

This link provides just one more bit of evidence to explain why conservatives and/or authoritarians have so much difficulty with humor. Humor doesn't only rely on irony or satire or even slapstick, but is often built upon analogies... [a light bulb moment] ...and if RWAs cannot properly construct or understand analogies, then of course they'll experience a humor deficit.

And of course the problem with analogies also takes us back to the idea of a profound illiteracy...

...not away from the overall story, just from the effort to validate the emails, which already seem to validate themselves if only with their consistently ungrammatical style.

Instead, isn't it now time to compile a story with a list of other offenses... where Boylan (and others?) have repeatedly and consistently tried to intimidate members of the press and blogosphere. After all, as Zack suggested, and Glenn confirmed, that's the real story.

That tack might also serve the additional purpose of shoring up enough evidence re: the first issue... i.e., validating the emails.

@ Don Carlo

In past years each loyal Bushie thought after they retired from a tiring or underpaying government job, they'd get a cushy wingnut welfare job at a think-tank funded by Richard Scaife, but he's facing a huge divorce settlement

to think, that the future employment prospects of so many right-wingers may go south due to the failure of Scaife to draw up a pre-nuptial agreement!

go long on schadenfreude, 2008 is going to be a great year for us!

-- r€nato

Karma, reality, paybacks... they all sting.

These past 4 posts serve a much larger point about politicizing our military, and entity that should remain untouched with politics, let alone the outright liars and dirty politicians in this Administration.

Aaaand... there is also the important matter of attempting to intimidate the press, and the bloggers who are trying to inform the public. This is just one more thread of that other "politicization" that Glenn writes about so frequently. The one that has kept our media in thrall to the current occupant's maladministration.

I must admit that I, too, am obsessed. Mostly with the absurd notion that we actually have a presidential candidate running on restoring the Constitution. [Go, Dodd!!!] Who would ever have thought that possible... or even necessary? (Quite some time ago, though, I realized that restoring the Constitution was the most important item on my list of things I wanted to hear the candidates discuss.) From where I sit, just about everything that Glenn writes has some relation to that very hot topic. With which I admit I am obsessed.