Well, of COURSE she's doing her book tour in places where there is demand! Do you expect to find professional surfers signing autographs in Kansas? Why is this newsworthy?

You ran this:

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/08/28/qotd/index.html

and didnt bother to retract--or even delete the post!!-- despite the fact that it was widely reported to be a misquote pretty much moments after you posted it.

I'm sure there are plenty others. Pot, meet kettle

Ammiano is a poor representative of the sane liberal majority in SF. His behavior has made Joe Wilson look civilized. Even as a city supervisor he was more concerned with getting headlines than with doing his job.

I could barely contain my grin talking to a right-wing co-worker this morning who was bashing Obama and his Nobel when I asked him, "Why do you hate America?"

When Kennedy died, a colleague was making some snippy remarks about seeing a flag at half-staff for a murderer (his words, not mine). We got into a shouting match, I called him Unamerican-- among other things-- and I refused to speak to him for a week.

I'm no fan of either Kristol, but am disgusted by people who are so willing to anonymously insult someone that has just died. I guess that attributing crass and tastless behavior only to Fox News zombies is naive. It fits a lot of you, too.

People posting here are no better than the loons carrying "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy" signs.

What a bunch of thugs and pigs

Yay. Lipstick on a pig.

The content of Salon has been degrading to irrelevancy for a long time. Get an actual writer (at least one that will pull inaccurate material for starters) for War Room and I'll think about resubscribing.

like the one from Friday? Kopplemans source for it issued a correction-- guess he at least sources journalists-- but Salon keeps it up on War Room. Very Fox-y of you guys.

Too lazy to correct the erroneous quote, or just dont care? Think Progress did

Koppleman, you are the equivalent of Fox News. I hope the right wing wacks get hold of this.

Star Tribune has the quote a LITTLE different:

Among more than 100 people who waited in line for over an hour to get into the event was St. Francis City Council Member LeRoy Schaffer, who was decked out in a tuxedo with a black top hat. Schaffer, who has become controversial for comments that led his fellow council members to censure him, dismissed the claim of some Republicans that the Democratic plans amount to socialized medicine.

"I'm on Social Security and I've got Medicare," said Schaffer, 70, before entering the auditorium. "I have socialized medicine. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world

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Glad to see someone as credible as Leonard make the Facebook/the Well comparison. As with many new tech tools that become as ubiquitous as a Facebook, the shiny new toy that gets described as a real game changer is really just an evolution of someone elses revolution. Facebook, Tivo, the iPhone, many others-- great products all-- didnt change the world, just put a prettier face on an old idea.

There's an entire tradition of big-screen science fiction that begins with a sinister and/or satirical premise and then degenerates, suddenly or gradually, into standard chase-and-kill. Come to think of it, virtually all sci-fi movies, good or bad, work that way.

Yet another movie reviewer that seems to have not the slightest clue what 'sci-fi'--- let alone GOOD sci-fi really is. By this same simplistic standard, the 'Die Hard' movies are prototypical dramatic fare.

Most of my favorite sci-fi flicks are ray-gun free.

Really, really hard to take anyone in the blogosphere seriously these days when they behave with less maturity than my teenage kid.

Bloggers are apparantly following the BillO/Olbermann model. Screw the news-- its all about us! My ratings are better than yours! I've got more followers on Twitter!!

And Koppleman is an enabler. At least the day-old news that gets tossed in my driveway every morning is written by adults

I find writers that hide behind silly handles to be childish and weak, frankly. If one is going to report news or attempt to steer the big-picture debate, they should OWN their words.

(yeah, yeah. How ironic. The guy posting comments using his initials and a 4 digit number is railing on anonymous posters. Very different deal. My very minor and infrequently updated industry-specific blog has my name on it)

Come on! Why ask single-issue screamers like savage or partisan hacks like Norquist for a thoughtful opinion on a broad subject? You might as well have added Sean Hannity to the mix!

Oh, I also like your throwing in of a silly political blogger that is only identified by their stupid handle. Grow up.

Worst Republican trade since Dubya unloaded Sammy Sosa!

Faux has a, um, "news" outlet for just this sort of thing. There is zero issuse with citizens access to this press conference. Any suggestion that the networks *must* cover this is frankly a bit chilling in a 1984-ish kinda way.

My bad. I could save that from the family budget with one less six pack of beer for the year.

but COME ON!!

I could save the equivalent from my family budget this year by:

-driving 700 feet less

-drinking one gulp less of milk at dinner tonight

-run my laptop 15 minutes less

-4 fewer breath mints

I'm frankly insulted that the Obama administration came up with this.

Didnt we all read this in college and pretend we were in on the big secret of the world?

Then, we all got jobs and grew up.

The funny thing is, all the wingnuts jumping in on this silly little 'movement' deeply resent the wealth of the closest things we've got in the world to John Galt-- the Bill Gates' of the world fire up the resentment of the fake libertarian populist crowd in a big way.