You forgot to include poor Nozzlebuffer. I'm sure you meant well.

'Nozzlebuffer' or however s/he spells has been figured to be a cipher for 'anonymoose'.

Rather sad when even handled commentators think they have to hide their 'names'. Wonder what her/his childhood was like.

How about $100/gal and $50/loaf of bread for starters?

Already started, largely thanks to the occupation of Iraq.

With the help of your pals Chavez and unreconstructed British leftist unions? Not to mention internal fifth coumnists (e.g ELF/Greenpeace/PETA/Congressional Democrats) who maliciously sabotage our energy independence initiatives like ANWR?

'Internal fifth columnists'? Did someone rewind us back to the 1950s? Who the hell uses language or identifiers like that?

Come to that, who the hell thinks ANWR drilling leads to 'energy independence'?

I am not afraid to call a spade a spade.

Ah, good old fashioned prejudice.

I am sick and tired of Wright/Farakhan/Elijah Mohammed/MalcolmX apologists.

Of course you are. You prefer Reagan apologists.

Moreover in my second post above I outlined a perfectly reasonable path of rehabilitation for Obama.

Are you Chris Matthews? Are you trying to impose Victorian literature to the current day? Or do you simply lack such self-awareness you don't realize how useless you sound?

"When Louis Farrakhan speaks, it's like when E.F. Hutton speaks...Black America listens."

The Jeremiah Wright non-issue was in the previous thread. Do TRY to keep up will you, son?

You’re preaching to the choir my friend. This 1000 word diatribe states (and restates) facts that all of your readers already know.

All of which deserves repeating, don't you agree? And its not all choirs and angels here either.

Brian Williams is a talking-head nothing. We all know that.

No argument there. But he is nonetheless a quite good target.

Why do you waste your time (and ours) pointing out his pin-head shortcomings.

Why do you waste your obviously precious time reading and commenting if its such a waste?

Plus (in your update) you “threaten” him with an interview. What’s the point?

A simple request that Mr. Williams speak on the matter is now a "threat". What a truly bizarre (and sad) world you live in.

We all know that in a one-on-one with you Brian doesn’t have a chance.

We all "knew" the Democratic caucus would cave in on the expansion (ie nullification) of FISA demanded by Bush. To date, it hasn't happened. Williams might just surprise us as well.

Why not set your sights a little higher. Start sending letters to the head of NBC, or GE. You’ve got the clout. Do it!

Why don't you? Why don't all of us? Why should all the lifting - heavy and otherwise - be left on Glenn alone?

Hey Iokannan, get a grip. I can tell by your post (and your archived comments) that you either “are” Glenn Greenwald or someone who sleeps with him.

Grip gotten, but for the record I'm neither Glenn nor his partner.

Setting aside your obvious resentment,

Not resentment; fatigue. Simple, all-too-human fatigue with all this madness.

Apologies for any offense caused.

They know something you don't.

Very likely, but equally likely its of no relevance to the issue at hand.

There is also the pressure of acutally being responsible for something rather than just yapping at people's ankles.

Something you would know nothing of, eh?

But as always I don't expect that kind of imagination from people convinced they are right with religious impenetrability.

Something you could teach college courses on, eh? I mean, when have you gotten something completely, stunningly, mind-numbingly wrong?

Hoyer and his litter recognize this and have backed off in time for the election--a prudent political decision.

You seem to be making the same mistake Brooks, Kristol, and the rest of the Beltway/Village Pundits do: asserting (I paraphrase) 'the American people believe' X without providing evidence that "X" is anything more than your personal opinion.

How do you know the American public see lawsuits against the telecos as "futile" or that they don't worry their privacy is/will be violated by this out-of-control surveillance?

Please, elaborate and define your evidence for this.

To Friends of Ahmadinjag

The very last person we we need for SCOTUS is that hack socilaist politician from South Chicago. The second last we need is that cute cuddly getting stout Hilly.

Although I doubt that many of you pray, it isn't chi chi you know, try to pray for our country before the socialist anti American Americans prey upon it.

I have no clue what s/he is saying here. Can anyone translate it?

Gordon, Perino, Miller, et al appear firmly fixed in the "stenography" sort: repeating what is told to them without much (if any) reflection and even less investment in the possible consequences. They're just concerned about getting their stories out and their names on as many bylines as possible.

The "investigative" sort, exemplified by Seymour Hersh and James Bamford, is now the exception rather than the rule. Its also (depending on subject) a slow-going process and out of place in the 24/7/365 news cycle our culture is exposed to.

It doesn't help that there's no reliable indicator of either the attention span of the American citizen any longer, nor any way to guage how much 'hard' information/facts they've can or will absorb on a given story. One would think that given what we know of the Administration's policies/actions to date there would be routine burnings-of-Bush-in-ephigy around the country.

Instead we hear a lot about Uma Thurmon's stalker and the latest episode of "Dancing With The Stars". I despair at the state of world my children will likely inherit.