America's economic disaster is the result of our self-inflicted de-industrialization and the loss of all those manufacturing jobs.

There's no way that sufficient wealth to ensure the prosperity of 300 million Americans can be generated by shuffling paper and flipping burgers.

Every dollar that leaves this country for a foreign-made car or TV makes America poorer. We've outsourced our jobs to foreign workers and then act surprised when unemployment becomes a crisis.

Only a crash program to re-industrialize and revitalize America's consumer manufacturing capacity -- with federal grants and tax incentives for new start-ups and protective tarriffs to incubate new American manufacturers -- can create the jobs and wealth required for a prosperous America.

As if the elections of Inhofe and Coburne to the US Senate wasn't enough proof that something is terribly wrong in the state of Oklahoma...

Blessed are the warmakers.

The ruthless shall inherit the Earth.

The Republicans may have created the AM radio/Fox News propaganda monster, but they won't be able to control it.

Glenn Beck already begins his TV show with "Follow Me!"

This Mayberry Mussolini may have delusions of grandeur, but his simple-minded followers share those delusions.

The Republicans may have created that monster, but like Dr. Frankenstein, they may find themselves destroyed by it.

The repeat of Beck's show I watched last Saturday night began with his vague unspecific attack on Helen Keller.

Yes -- deaf, blind, inspirational (to the reality-based community) Helen Keller.

No, I'm not kidding.

Foreign invaders can never kill enough of the native opposition to make them go away, but the native opposition can kill enough of the foreign invaders to make them go away.

This fact shouldn't be so difficult to grasp, but imperial hubris seems to induce historical amnesia.

They should throw in some tea bags, tire gauges and a few leftover purple-heart Band-Aids.

Bill Clinton actually cared about the interests of middle and lower income Americans. For his efforts the Republicans, along with their mass media allies, almost succeeded in removing him from office -- as brilliantly documented in Gene Lyons' and Joe Conason's definitive The Hunting of the President.

There's plenty of money to be made touting for the interests of the corporations and the plutocrats. For everybody else, not so much. Fox "News" is definitely on board as the propaganda arm of the plutonomy.

Fox "News" makes its viewers into rubes who cheer on the Becks and Hannitys as they attack the politicians who are actually looking out for their interests, while cheerleading for the hacks and corporate stooges that are picking their pockets.

Are you sure you're not (consciously or unconsciously) in love with Limbaugh?-This blowhard seems to constantly be on your mind.Every 3 or 4 blogs,here comes Limbaugh again.What's this power he has over you? Freud would probably define it as a love/hate relationship.Is it?

By that standard, Limbaugh has a full-blown homoerotic fixation on Obama.

The economic effect of 1% of the population owning 95% of America's wealth is now being manifested.

It's not unlike the effect if 1% hoarded 95% of the food: mass starvation.

Considering the wild accusations Beck has made so far, it will only be a a matter of months before Beck starts claiming Obama and the Democrats are reptilian aliens or some other crazed jibberish too insane for even braindead Fox fans to accept.

After prematurely amping his schtick's crazy meter up to "11," he has nowhere else to go.

After eight years of stenography and looking to Drudge for inspiration, elements of our press corps now seem confused when the Obama administration made a simple statement of fact:

Fox News is a propaganda operation.

If Fox's cheerleading the Teabagger movement into existence wasn't proof enough for those presstitutes, they're either on the payroll or hoping to be. Nobody could be that credulous.

I'm still waiting for a Fox "News" defender to deny that:

a) Fox News created the Teabagger movement, and that it wouldn't have existed without the active support of Fox News' promotion.

b) The creation of a political movement by a "news" organization is unprecedented, and not in the normal purview of a news organization's activities.

c) Does any other commentator on any other "news" channel presume to begin his/her show with "Follow me!"? Again, that's not commentary, it's rabble-rousing.

Jack Hughes

a). A commentator, not the news department, promoted (not "organized") the Tea Parties. Against the law?

b). I think the MSM helped to "create" a cult of personality around Obama, inored much of what would have been news (when it was negative), and had a strong and influential hand in getting him elected. FOX did NOT "create a politcal movement," Americans sick of what's happening in DC did.

c). Again, a commentator says "Follow me" as he goes to his blackboard to map out what's happening in Washington and connecting dots. Don't like what he says or don't like what you see, turn the channel and watch Keith Oberman's "Worst Americans."

> And about the "Tea Bagger" term: Isn't Tea Bagging the homosexual act of dropping one's nutsac into a partner's mouth? And the Left uses it as a derogatory term toward Tea Partiers. Sounds homophobic to me. Hypocrites.

You're as intellectually dishonest as Fox "News" if you are trying to insist that Fox didn't create and promote the Tea-Baggers/9-12 Movement out of whole cloth. It wasn't just Beck, it was the entire Fox lineup, 24/7. Nobody said it was "against the law," just that it was the act of a partisan organization -- not a legitimate news network.

What's hypocritical about calling those who originally adopted the tea-bag as their symbol of protest "Tea-Baggers"?