you've slandered me from pillar to post

I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't slander have to be untrue?

post-mortem history will see people line up to spit on his grave

I hear they're planning to bury him at the waste treatment plant. It's the only way to handle the enormous quantities of feces and urine expected to be deposited on his burial place.

Painton snapped: "That assumes that there are errors."

There were no errors. Time did exactly what they meant to do - tell bald-faced lies. The only error was on the part of their readership for considering them journalists instead of paid propagandists.

As for Glenn's question:

Does anyone at Time have any integrity at all?

I'd have to refer to Atrios's Simple Answers to Simple Questions and say "no."

The issue of "why" the media behaves this way is complex

Uh, no, it'$ not. It'$ not at all complex. It'$ actually quite $imple.

a prosecutor like Durham would unlikely tolerate undue interference

He's a Republican, isn't he? The idea that he'd be intolerant of anything Bush wants is pretty funny.

This week's issue (the content of which, tragically, is available only to the handful of Weekly Standard subscribers)

I fail to see the tragedy in this. It seems akin to mourning the fact that venereal disease is available only to those who practice unsafe sex.

What's the book about?

It's a revisionist history.

And that pretty much tells you everything you need to know. If you liked David Irving, you'll love Jonah.

I guess my first question would have to be "how many times does somebody have to lie to you before you stop trusting them and taking their word for it?"

Seriously, the U.S. military has been lying and feeding the public bullshit almost the entire time they've existed. The only time they take a break from lying is when they're bragging about their non-existent "honor." So why is it that anybody believes a word they say? How many times do you have to be lied to before you wake up and get a clue?

If a military spokesperson said the sun comes up in the east, I wouldn't believe it unless I checked for myself. It sure would be nice if the rest of you would wise up.

Ever hear of a boil order for bottled water? Me neither.

The bastard had the nerve to give us a hard time because we weren't willing to take out a second mortgage on our house so he could do a CAT scan and brain surgery on her. To this day, he probably doesn't realize just how close he came to getting his ass kicked. By the way, this was AFTER we'd shelled out almost eight hundred bucks for an overnight stay in his clinic.

If I wasn't already pretty well convinced that most people are scumbags, reading some of these letters would certainly do the trick. The lack of empathy is stunning, particularly combined with the utter cluelessness of people whose entire lives have been so easy that they have absolutely no idea what it's like to want for much of anything.

It's one thing if you have Fluffy put down to save money to go to Disneyland, but quite another if you have Fluffy put down because you can't afford care. If you can't see the difference, perhaps you should STFU until you have some idea what you're talking about.

I have a question for all you people bragging about how you'd gladly spend thousands of dollars to save a sick pet because you'd do it for your kid, right? Would you sacrifice your own life to save your pet? After all, you'd do it for your kid, wouldn't you?

I mean, first off, he's a politician. Second, he's a Republican. That's two strikes right there.

Substance-free scandal is the only kind that attracts the intense attention of the media hordes

You spelled "whores" incorrectly.

If so, I don't think there are going to be very many elected officials left.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Zero sympathy for Spitzer here. When you make your living holding other people accountable for misdeeds, you can't really expect them to feel very sorry for you when you're held equally accountable.

Whether prostitution should be illegal isn't the point - it IS illegal, and Spitzer is one of the people who helped keep it that way. Screw him - he's getting exactly what he deserves.

It's called not having a life of your own. You might want to check into getting one - it's the best remedy I know to cure an excessive interest in other people's business.

Why they call Mac users "the Jehovah's Witnesses of computing."

that what Wright said is the absolute 100% gospel truth.

I know nobody wants to admit it, but America really HAS done some pretty shitty things over the years, and no amount of chanting "USA, USA" is going to change that.

But you guys are being a little hard on Joan. If you were getting her nice fat paychecks, you'd take whatever position you had to take to keep them rolling in just like she does.

now that ABC has apparently decided to dump that stuffy old "journalism" stuff and go with a new "all gossip - all the time" format.

Peter Jennings and Howard K. Smith must be rolling in their graves.

As a result of these claimed "lessons learned" from Iraq, perhaps our media and political elite will weigh the costs and benefits a little more carefully the next time around. Perhaps they will be marginally more skeptical of uncorroborated government assertions.

Perhaps monkeys will come flying out of my butt.

I'm pretty sure that whatever the government is doing to these terrorists wouldn't "shock my conscience."

Wouldn't you need to actually HAVE a conscience to be able to have something shock it?

Nobody thinks Barack's bowling was a good idea.

Nobody with a three-digit IQ gives two shits about Barack's bowling.