For those of you who think there might be some profit in engaging Electro, I can only offer Glenn's comments after exchanging a few comments with him:

It's hard to believe that any sane, psychologically healthy person could write this. In fact, it's so hard to believe that I actually don't believe it.

You'll find it at http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/28/mccain/permalink/ae2d62b257da347a9a97a64bc1a1d617.html

Or click my name. You can see the exchange which led to that at ppg 325 and 326 of Glenn's archived comments.

"It's hard to believe that any sane, psychologically healthy person could write this. In fact, it's so hard to believe that I actually don't believe it."

Should have been in quotes, with Glenn Greenwald's name after it. Sorry.

For example, the celery guy will write several posts attacking anyone...

buckyl

Mr. Celery's posts "attack" people? Wow, you're reading comprhension is better than I thought. You can even find things that aren't there!

Yeah, that Celery, he really just scorches people, don't he? Just takes 'em apart.

Buckyl, you are, as the saying goes, "moo touch"!

"Who will be spurned by Loretta Lynn?"

Id rather be spurned by Lotte Lenya, if I had my druthers.

"Yeah, right. All LWM does is distract you with name calling, lies, and smear, in an effort to try and pull you down to its level and play its pointless games,"

Chris Sinnard

And he has a horrible habit of coming up with quotes and links to support his argument! Cab you imagine the ineluctable perfidy of a guy who would do that? Use links and quotes to support his arguments. Oy Gevalt, what next?

I'm glad you haven't yet descended to that level, Chris.

I was already aware of all that modern physics has to say about reality.

Buckyl

I guess how it is. Some of us can intellectually encompass "all that modern physics has to say about reality" and some of us are stuck here on the ground with everyone else.

I genuflect as you pass, Buckyl.

Electro, after exchanging just a few words with you, Glenn had this to say about your comments:

"It's hard to believe that any sane, psychologically healthy person could write this. In fact, it's so hard to believe that I actually don't believe it."

Do you care to comment on that?

Do you think there is any reason why other readers should not consider Glenn's judgement?

My pleasure, Baldie. Me, I would tend to consider Glenn's judgement pretty good. He's read a lot of comments, and replied to a lot of readers.

Bush's intent all along was NOT to make a radically conservative activist court. It was to NEUTER the court. Alito, Scalia, Roberts & Co. are more than happy to accommodate that.

-- Electro Robot

You are lying, Robotila. Even the most cursory review of your comments (just press the "Read Other Letters" button) shows the exact oppisite.

Only in this fucking shithole of a country, run by shit-heads like you,

Which part does LWM run? I haven't said anything bad about him (check my "Letters") and you never know, I may need a favor some day, you know, permits, waivers, heck, even an earmark or two, if he can manage it.

I had no idea about LWM! Now I know where he gets that crisp, executive style. An manner redolent of Napaleon brandy and fine cigars and a keen judge withal, of horse and women-flesh, both in their place, that's LWM, or is it?

Thanks for that interesting material.

Anyway, it seems Bush is just exploiting techniques and systems the Pentagon has previously deployed, and will use anytime they are not prevented from doing so.

Did you ever hit the NYT best seller list at #1?

buckyl

buckyl, guys like LWM just don't know when they've been cleaved in twain by a savege interrogative like that one there.

Buckyl, you just slayed him with that one. I doubt he'll recover.

"I'm taking a nap"

LWM, if it turns out this country is a shithole cause you don't get enough shut-eye at night and are cranky all day while you're running it, I am gonna be really, really pissed!

You have an obligation to the American people to arrive at work fully rested. If you're gonna run things, that's what you gotta do.

I bet they started the war while you were napping!

I can't recall a single instance of any international human rights activist or group pursuing prosecution for the many, many war crimes committed against Americans.

Jeesh, kd6rxl, could opportunity knock any louder? What are you gonna do, demand a search warrant before you let it in?

Imagine the praise and more tangible rewards which will arrive in a flood (the kind which "leads on to fortune" as the Bard said) from a grateful nation with each conviction of America's tormentors!

Go to it, Sir! Or Madam, as the case may be!

You should know.

I swan, it sure pole-axed me! I scratched my grizzled pate and muttered "Hah!" (and that is not an easy word to mutter. Try it sometime, you'll see) "he's got you there, LWM!"

But he might be made of tougher stuff. I wouldn't doubt it.

I really do consider all of you to be valuable contributors and don't want to discourage you from posting.

Glenn Greenwald

I can't speak, of course, for any of the other excellent commenters you mention, Glenn, but in my case, I would never have considered you capable of such a shocking misjudgement.

This throws every word you have written (and which I have assiduously inculcated, if that is the word I want, or indeed, a word at all) into a shocking new light.

I refuse to play the schlamazel to your schlemiel, and that is where a misaprehension of this type invariably leads, capiche?