Probably the most astonishingly dimwitted part of such a rich smorgasbord of Archie Bunker minus the funny was the idea that men don't care about a clean house or "well-reared children." For Pete's sake. Yeah, Bozo.... every guy I know would rather live in a filthy, chaotic pigsty full of screaming brats who later grow up to be hookers and meth-heads, but they don't just so they can get a blow job now and then. How stupid can his readers really be?

I'm with previous commenters who surmise that this is calculated garbage no one could possibly believe, and is merely intended to appeal to a certain type of thwarted personality who wishes for things that never were.

Also, to those who question the seriousness of this topic or its appropriateness in this forum, I would like to point out that Glenn's most recent book, "Great American Hypocrites," dealt extensively with this mindset, and its pernicious effects on American politics and society. That's just a fact of Unclaimed Territory, and Glenn's work.

Happy to help out, Glenn; I envision a palmy Rio backdrop for you to differentiate yourself from the interchangeable blatherers with identical-looking skylines behind them. Paypal, which I find duly mysterious as do others, worked so well I didn't even have to pay at all. I had a forgotten balance larger than my intended donation, so I was able to give more generously without cutting into my booze budget. Win-win, I say.

Yesterday's NPR piece was such a delicious dose of uber-Greenwaldianism, coming on the heels of several other greats, that I'm sure purses are being dumped from sea to sea.

Keep up the great work, Glenn.

Maybe Paypal will quit spamming me, now that I'm a pauper there.

It was announced today that Alicia C. Shepard will be leaving NPR to serve as Communications Director for a new Washington Think Tank, Journalists Against Common Knowledge, Singing Hymns In Tune. "It was getting really tiresome having a job where a bunch of score-settling liberals are always calling you names, and Republicans are always telling you you spelled something wrong," Shepard told CHNN, "And besides, at JACKSHIT, where I'll be joining an organization that is chaired by David Gregory and Shailagh Murray, and has Karl Rove and the Donalds, Rumsfeld and Graham, on its board as Chairman and Treasurer, alternately, I'll really have a chance to make much more of a difference than I ever could in a governemnt job."

Several names have been mentioned as replacements for Shepard, but Frank Luntz and Rudy Giliani are said to be the leading contenders, since Bernard Goldberg bowed out for "personal reasons."

When I criticized the vocabulary, I fully recognized that each word was chosen for its manipulative value, LL, this is a righty practice from the Nixon era, which became much more brazen during Gingrich's reign, when he actually gave out a list of words to describe Democrats, regardless of what they might be advocating, natch. It probably has reached the pinnacle of sophistication with Luntz and that religious charlatan Gerson during Bush II. You can bet they "pored" (sorry...) over a Thesaurus, and I'd like to "pour" something on them.

Admittedly, such a clumsy writer as Harris could hardly be expected to have any synonyms floating between his ears, but I just find it insulting that the overwhelming majority of "journalists" don't even try to sound like they're not taking dictation.

Aren't there any liars who can at least write?

....to laugh a bit, and chaff a bit, and joke a bit in season. Nice picture, Titonwan. I think you left out a couple, though.

Omooex.... I had a client once who worked for the Oregonian, and had worked for newspapers for years. He had framed front pages from whatever small town rag he labored under, things like "Man Lands on Moon," or "Nixon Resigns," etc. During that time, the Oregonian sought to "save" its now-vanished afternoon edition by using such huge type each day, leading to irrelevant poll results and celebrity claptrap being bannered as though the world was either coming or going, fast, when it was clear to the even the marginally sentient that no such thing was happening.

CITIES SAFER THAN SUBURBS was my personal favorite, played like Pearl Harbor and based on a routine, boring study that showed that the excessive driving associated with suburban living statistically reduced life expectancies more than, say, drive-by shootings in the 'hood. (This was the mid 90's).

I cut out the front page of that edition and proposed that we hang it with the others, and he declined. I wonder what he spent his buyout on.

What I would ordinarily find disturbing, but anymore find just merely boring, is the way that the WaPoo's editors and the Obama Administration use not just the same ideas, but the same actual words, to make their specious arguments. Heaven forfend that the hallowed Government would be "chilled" by people who might point out what liars, sociopaths, and thieves they are, as they conspire to consolidate their power free of bothersome back talk from the rabble.

I guess that deceptively selling such flagrantly counterintuitive ideas is so exacting a task that, drawing from the entirety of the English language, only the 200 word vocabularies of Cheney, Luntz, Rove et al are loaded and deceptive enough to effectively put them over.

On everything with which the Village is underwater, often quite deeply, in public opinion, the words to discuss it are reduced to a semiliterate bureaucratic Haiku, set to a Sousa march, that comes bellowing out in unison from all directions.

When deeply important public policy questions start to sound like overplayed radio commercials, that in itself should preemptively disqualify the arguments made, but unfortunately it's the opposite.

These guys should at least get a thesaurus.