Chris Sinnard.... It's remarkable to me and not a little disappointing, that try as you might, you can't see any truth in the equation, Racism=Power+Prejudice. Really? Have you listened to that much of this relatively new Righty #1 hit that it literally rings in your ears?

For Pete's sake. One could argue that slaves and their later facsimiles that persisted until disturbingly recently throughout this country were probably "racist" against their overlords, but a lot of good it did them. Brown v. Board of Education? 1954. Civil Rights Act? 1964. Voting Rights Act? 1965. Most of WWII was fought with a segregated military.

Credit where it's due, minorities who are, as you call it, "racist" have, unlike you, plenty to be racist about.

Worse, most politicians on the right have continued to attack minorities, not unlike you're doing today, with rhetoric ranging from "welfare queens" to, say "Dune Coon." (I prefer both words spelled correctly....). Illegal Immigrant hysteria, English-only movements, Michelle Malkin.... Need I go on?

Racism is the province of those empowered to practice it. To its victims, it's a luxury they've never been allowed to sample.

Everyone knows that we no longer have laws, founding documents, or legal traditions; they have all been replaced by brands, slogans, and jingles. "Keeping America Safe" is no more or less manipulative and counterfactual than "supporting the troops" or any other such construct, but these relentlessly repeated phrases may be strung together in any order to suit the narrative of the day. Watch FOX to get each one hot off the ticker; read the NYT to hear them dutifully quoted by a think (!) tank hack.

It seems that the Frank Luntz/Newt Gingrich use of manipulative language to replace honest dialogue has driven the latter entirely off the field.

Look for "liberal activist," "legislating from the bench," and all the SCOTUS-specific claptrap in the days ahead....

Who said the following words, followed by a vacant stare?

"We should just trust in our leaders and be faithful in what happens, and blah, blah, blah....."

A) Britney Spears.

B) Woebegone.

C) They're the same person.

It looks as though "Woebegone" has both excessive free time and a lot of piss and vinegar worked up. (I'd put the car in the garage, Glenn.)

Up till this moment, I never saw any value in pursuing a political career; vices would have to be curtailed, and suffering the insufferable would be a dawn-to-dusk activity. Not to mention the fact that unless I did so as a Republican any attempts at self-enrichment would be always under annoying scrutiny.

Now that tossing people in the dungeon and many other pleasures have been thrown into the mix, maybe all those other sacrifices can be seen in a new light.

Under my administration, those Americans who agree with me would finally start getting something for their tax dollars.

Everyone at Fox News would get to experience waterboarding first-hand, rather than just cheerlead for it. Better yet, the videotapes thereof would replace their shows.

The whole Bush Administration, including its embedded minions in every agency, would just "not show up for work" one day. The media would duly cover only those young. female, and attractive enough to matter.

The Mormons, and other "christians" who can't seem to mind their own business would go back to being lion food.

Something really bad but yet undecided would happen to both Tom Friedman and Maureen Dowd, but I'd promise to come up with it in my first 100 days.

I'm counting on support from the usual suspects here for my "leadership."

The rather pathetic piece of Pentagon "stastistics" used to arrive at this wholely false number of "terrorists" returned to the "battlefield," collapses so quickly even Elizabeth Bumiller of the NYT was unable to hold it up. (she did save the most serious debunkings for the end, which won't run in Wichita, natch...)

The number, 74, is immediately reduced to 29, because 45 are "secret," and further reduced when 16 of these are said to be "new." As though they've been withholding all this so as not to toot Bush's horn too much. They may be anonymous, but they have Principles over there at the Pentagon.

Nonetheless, figures that are massaged, reduced, and altered to reflect untimely deaths are dutifully punched into a calculator to come up with "1 in 7," the kind of number that Republicans like to repeat so much that they even did so before it was published.

But was flat-out false propaganda being pumped out by the Pentagon and Republicans to support the unsupportable the story? Of course not.

I guess Harry Reid is one of those you can fool all of the time, even when Bumiller gets the joke.

As illustrated by the demented yet lame blather pouring out of the torture trolls this morning, they are stuck between the twin messages of their hypnotists and the contradictions therein.

Having been told, relentlessly, that A) we don't torture, and B) they deserve it anyway, a perfectly reasonable couplet to folks that dumb and gullible, they're stymied by its ineffectiveness when used with an audience whose IQ tops room temperature.

Quelle surprise.

Thanks for pointing out what a great day it is to watch FOX. I'm sure they're having about the same reaction that the abusive husband has when the sheriff shows up with the restraining order. Schadenfreude comedy gold. They don't know much, but they know the meaning of symbolic (if not substantive) defeat. Bill's going to really need a loofah today.

What's funny about all this is that being a whorish media star would usually mean servicing whoever's in power, while Ross et al are still kneeling in a doorway for the last administration, which is considerably more disturbing. Perhaps because of his tax bracket, Ross has now picked his patron, and in office or no, that patron will be served.

I can understand the selfish motives, but the flirting with irrelevance I cannot. I guess Ross just likes Dick.