I agree about Aaron Brown. His was probably the last real news show remaining on CNN. After he was fired, the acronym for CNN, "Contains No News," became pathetically accurate.

The "management" of CNN seems determined to run that once excellent organization into a state of irrelevant inanity via a desperate but futile attempt to capture the Fox News audience.

Oh for the days of a credible old guy reading relevant news stories -- and even making rational inferences and ethical judgments once in a while.

While Bush v. Gore was an open Republican Party/Federalist Society judicial coup that awarded the presidency to George W. Bush, any objective analysis of the 2004 election must conclude that the election was stolen.

George W. Bush was never actually elected president for either of his two disastrous terms.

Anybody who thinks that the sociopaths who made torture the official policy of the US government, that sent apparatchiks like Alberto Gonzales to shamelessly lie under oath to congressional committees, that burned crucial national intelligence assets to punish a political opponent (Wilson/Plame), that trashed the Constitution under the dubious guise of a "Unitary Executive," etc., etc., would balk at election theft is hopelessly naive.

The employment of paperless computer balloting has made wholesale election theft easy. That Democrats are continuing to go about their normal campaigning without taking steps to prevent a repeat of the 2002, 2004 and 2006 (exit polling showed much larger Democratic gains than the official results) election thefts is nothing short of shocking.

Once our democracy is dead our liberties are sure to follow.

Don't forget the Contras, whom I'm sure Krauthammer's rabid support is well documented by op-ed paper trail.

Maybe he mean that as president he would pressure Israel to stop inflammatory new settlements, quit greenlighting disproportionate airstrikes and support a territorially coherent Palestinian state.

All of these policy shifts would result in reduced justifications for Hamas' militant ideology, producing a reduction in their political influence -- and thus be "Hamas' worst nightmare."

Nah. It's more important to get a cheap applause line from the rubes at a rally. If the rubes are cheering, the M$M will assume he's Serious.

With our spineless Congress' acquiescence and the constitutionally bogus claims of "unitary executive" powers and legally invalid "signing statements," Bush has been ruling as a dictator in all but name since September 11, 2001.

Any single senator with the will to resist this constitutional disaster could have gummed-up the legislative works (as Mike Gravel did with the Vietnam War) until some semblance of legal order had been re-established.

Our entire Congress is guilty of dereliction to their oaths to defend the Constitution. Straight-talkin' "Maverick" John McCain has just been more hypocritical about it than most.

Rove is a genius -- of sorts. He did manage to take a third-rate dilettante like George W. Bush and make him President of the United States (which says more about the stupidity of the American electorate than Rove's genius).

Now this despised pariah must haunt the halls of the walking dead where disgraced Republicans are consigned: Fox News.

The media-approved (Williams, Noonan, et al) version of "loving America" seems to be limited to:

* The American flag

* America as a market

* America as a labor pool

* America as an imperial super-power

As for loving one's fellow Americans, caring about their well-being and working to reduce the overall level of unnecessary misery -- it's "fuck 'em, you unpatriotic socialists!"

During the French Revolution, the enemies of the revolution fell victim to the "national razor," which was both the term for the shave that was received before execution and for the Guillotine itself.

In today's America, a more symbolic but just as effective -- yet non-lethal -- tool might be used against the shameless corporate mouthpieces (such as Williams) whoring for the military/industrial/infotainment complex to disseminate government propaganda: attack their hair.

These vain bastards might think twice about betraying the interests of ordinary American citizens -- or at least about appearing in public -- if they knew disgruntled citizens might try to jam a battery-powered trimmer into their carefully-coiffed and blow-dried hair-dos.

We have met the enemy and it is Tedd Baxxter.

While Wright can be criticized for embarassing and causing political problems for Obama (in an apparent act of ego-driven jealousy of his younger congregant's fame, success and ever-so-gentle repudiation), nothing in Wright's comments were irrational or unsupportable -- including the AIDS comment.

A case can be made that the AIDS epidemic was caused by a hepatitus vaccine trial in NYC using a vaccine contaminated with HIV.

Wright may have been right, but he now seems to be trying to torpedo Obama's presidential ambitions.

@Jack Hughes

"A case can be made that the AIDS epidemic was caused by a hepatitus vaccine trial in NYC using a vaccine contaminated with HIV."

So...you are saying a community run hepatitus vaccine trial aimed at saving lives was really a Government conspiracy to destroy the black community as Wright proclaims???

There is just no hope people...we are all doomed!!!!!

-- onecal

You're reading more into my comment than I wrote. Not a proven fact. Not a conspiracy. But one can make a case that the AIDS epidemic was the result of a contaminated vaccine trial.

One may rationally extrapolate from that possibility with the historical experience of the Tuskegee experiment according to one's personal worldview, as Wright and others have done.

Hiatt must not understand that definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result.

Doing for Somalia what we've done for Iraq? That's sure to be popular with the Somalis. But hey, it's only a couple of extra trillion dollars and a few thousand American dead.

What was the reason again?