I found your comment most insightful, and often tend in your direction of thought. However, had it been true that: (1) some 85% of Iraqis were waiting with desperate breath for us to depose Saddam and end his torturous and murderous regime, and (2) they had in place a critical mass of citizenry able to implement the rule of law under enlightened liberty with little to no sectarian violence attendant thereto, then the invasion might have had an overall beneficial impact. We would have been out in 2003 but for a few thousand troops left briefly behind.

But none of that was so. Reality does matter.

And as long as you continue the salutary practice of starkly pointing out that Joe Klein per se is not the problem, that he is one of its symptoms, and that this episode is merely a most egregious display of our diseased journalism en masse, you will continue to be doing the Lord's work.

Yes, but he wasn't insane right, and he also hired mostly centrist or liberal jounralists/essayists, because Luce famously noted that conservatives can't effing write. Whittaker Chambers was the first somewhat right-wing writer he hired because Chambers was brilliant and evocative, about politics and many other things. But then, Chambers was too "liberal" for Buckley when the latter founded NR. Chambers supported Ike, and the NR crowd wasn't sure Ike wasn't a Communist. So Chambers wouldn't let young Bill put his name on the NR masthead.

Luce-era Time wasn't crazy and Luce demanded intellectual heft.

Oh yeah, that reminds me: has Jason Leopold ever said who it was who absolutely guaranteed to him that Karl Rove had been indicted?

Major screwup, definitely. But Leopold has been fired from publications and does not work for any with the cachet of Time. Time presumably would also fire Leopold, so why not at least put Klein on notice that he better behave as a real journalist in the future?

- "Pray it's a Ron Paul supporter."

That's one of the commenter at the vile Freeper site, as reported by Mother Jones.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2007/11/6370_hillary_clinton_5.html

And that shall be my sole contribution to this OT issue.

Oh, Mona!

Glenn's being bad again.

Yeah, I saw your earlier spanking threat, but not having read the whole thread, I wasn't sure what to make of it. Glenn for Giuliani!?

It was about a year ago or so that Bush claimed he was reading Camus' The Stranger. I laughed my derriere off. No doubt Being and Nothingness was next on his must-get-to list.

It was about a year ago or so that Bush claimed he was reading Camus' The Stranger. I laughed my derriere off. No doubt Being and Nothingness was next on his must-get-to list.

[Inadvertently first posted on dead thread below.]

You are Jewish. Why should you care whether Obama didn't, in your perverse view, Christianize his name sufficiently?

Granted, it's an opinion weighted heavily in their favor by common human decency and a cognitively sound relationship to the natural world — but clearly anyone who adopts those values is calling into question whether they're really a Christian.

Excellent comment, but the bizarre thing is that, as some of us who know him here are are aware, nabalzbbfr isn't a Xian. He's Jewish. A neocon Republican. This sort of tripe he writes about Obama and Xian names is sheer trollishness.

You should not be publishing students' private phone numbers, even if the # is in a press release. That's what Malkin did vis-a-vis UC Santa Cruz students organizing an event opposed to on-campus recruiting, and the students were subjected to many harassing calls -- some from deranged people, even unto issuing death threats. Not everyone on "our side" is a model of sanity, either, and we should not be promoting calls to private students who never imagined that letting their number out for a campus event would subject them to calls from every kind of mind from all over the nation.

Malkin's denial of any intent to harass or intimidate was entirely unpersuasive. Glenn could have posted that number had he wanted to. He wisely did not. You did in his comments. I can't speak for him, but my guess is he would not approve. (He's traveling and very busy at the moment and not moderating or much commenting.)

Oh, I hope Mr. de Flumeri and associates really are met with a legion of military recruiters at their big to-do. Short of that, I would like to compel (via social pressure) their explanation for not heading down to the local enlistment office. On all of that I entirely concur.

So true. It is only wrong when Michelle Malkin publishes college student activists' cell fone #s. Ensuing unpleasantness for said students cannot remotely be laid at Malkin's feet. Or if it can, it is only wrong when she and her side does it. Hey, they could just change numbers....

Umm, I must have blacked out when I was whining about Ms. Malkin’s tactics. Can you tell me what I posted?

I sure can't. And I guess you therefore approve of what she did in tactical terms. Duly noted.

What decade are you living in:

Maybe Kathryn Jean Lopez will be next, offering to pack Jonah a sandwich and an emergency quarter for a telephone call as he sets off to run into battle.

A quarter, man?! No, what K-Lo must do is what we have going at the local women's domestic abuse shelter. People contribute their old cell fones and the state police program them to dial only 911. That's what the brave Jonah must have to gird himself for this fearsome and scary foray into Amherst. Get with 2007, and save Jonah!