Even before his Law & Order depiction of district attorney Arthur Branch, Thompson nearly always played variations on the same character -- a straight-talking, tough-minded, wise Southerner -- basically a version of what his supporters say is his true political self.

And he is often cast as a person in power -- a military official, the White House chief of staff, the head of the CIA, a Senator or even the President of the U.S. It could be called the Cary Grant approach to politics. As the legendary actor once explained his own style and success, "I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be, and I finally became that person."

Are you f#cking kidding me? How is that this person is able to call himself a jounralist? Did he seriously write that? Have I fallen through the rabbit hole or something? In Time magazine we have someone who is supposedly a "jounralist" suggesting Thompson would be a good president because "he is often cast as a person in power".

Well, hell. Sign me up. I'm on board. What we need is someone who can act like the president. Gene Hackman has played the president a couple of times ... I bet he'd be a good president. Except in the Eastwood film he was corrupt ... this is where I would need Halperin's journalistic expertise to make up my mind.

rewards Beltway journalists such as Mike Allen and front "news" services like Politic and flat out propagandists like Drudge and Hannity and Limbaugh, real news organizations like Media Channel are going under.

http://www.mediachannel.org/

That's one of the best sources of news and media criticism out there, but it is going to shut down in 29 days if it doesn't raise enough money to function for another quarter while it searches for some sort of partner to keep it afloat.

From their about page

MediaChannel is concerned with the political, cultural and social impacts of the media, large and small. MediaChannel exists to provide information and diverse perspectives and inspire debate, collaboration, action and citizen engagement.

More than ever before, we are living in a media age and a media world. Nine transnational conglomerates dominate the global media; multibillion-dollar deals are concentrating this power even further. Yet we are also experiencing a technological revolution that empowers independent media, worldwide communication and innovative media projects for everything from community development to political action.

In the current climate, we all need to be aware of how the media operate. Making sense of the steady stream of info-culture requires background, context and interpretation. The vitality of our political and cultural discourse relies on a free and diverse media that offers access to everybody. Journalists and media professionals, organizations and activists, scholars and citizens all need improved access to information, resources and opportunities to reach out and build connections. MediaChannel has been created to meet this need at the dawn of the new millennium.

Produced by Globalvision New Media, a project of The Global Center. Founded in 2000, MediaChannel is the first media and democracy supersite on the World Wide Web.

It's worth saving.

Does anyone have any figures on what percentage of the public supports impeaching the president and vice president? I'm guessing that even if polls came back at 100% Democrats would still not do it.

And yes, the media has grossly failed the American public, but by this point we should have found enough to be out in the streets chanting for an impeachment.

Thankfully, immediately following Wolffe's tribute to the core Goodness of Dan Bartlett was James Moore, author of Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential. Moore proceeded, in very blunt terms, to swat down the script of adoration adopted by Beltway journalists about Bartlett, explaining that one doesn't stay with George Bush for 13 years by telling him that he's wrong, but rather, by becoming a loyal member of his "coterie of sycophants." Moore also reported on just some of the very controversial conduct engaged in by Bartlett, including his role in having Bush's National Guard records "scrubbed," which people like Allen and Wolffe don't think is worth mentioning.

That James Moore ended up on the No Fly Watch list?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/branded_b_13272.html

So somewhat might have already said this, if so, sorry.

It's not just that Bush is disposable. He could also be put back on a pedestal in ten or 15 years ... it's entirely dependent on what suits the needs of the movement, the noise machine can facricate a reality to suit its ideology so that no one within the movement's alternate reality ever need be bothered by such a thing as cognitive dissonance.

For all we know, in 15 years GWBush will be remembered by the movement as a great man who was stabbed in the back by America's eternal enemy the Liberal.

Paris Hilton is going back to jail! That's the REAL NEWS!

If someone wanted to set up a chain of dominoes with the final domino falling signifying the end of American democracy, the first domino being tipped could well be represented by starting a war with Iran

I think that they' start out with air raid and all that. Iran would pull some strings and shoot the price of oil up and play havoc with our economy. Our military would not be able to defeat their military and the inmates running the insane asylum would engage in "tactical" nuclear strikes,instantly turning virtually every Arab and Muslim on the planet against the United States of America, making it only a matter of time before some terrorist detonates a nuclear device on American soil.

Then it would be hello police state America.