Glenn (and other letter writers here) have already done a great job refuting this douchebags "Oh yeah, well YOU'RE a doodie-head!" childish insults and rants. And one letter-writer was correct to say that this little goldmine did hit all of the tactics of the right-wing nutbag argument playbook. However it did touch on one point that I think showcases why our political and jounalistic institutions are in the gutter. BOYlan dismisses Glenn as merely "stating his opinion." This is something I've noticed on political news shows a lot. There are no "facts." Everything nowadays is all ASSumed to be mere opinion. This is what tricks many journalistic outlets to feel that they have to have both "sides" of a story to be "fair and balanced" without making a clear distinction to what the facts are. Conservative blogs and Fox News are masters at this. Don't you remember their slogan, "We report, you decide." In other words YOU decide what's "real" and "truthful" based on what you believe (with our "spin" pointing you in the right direction.) This is all based on the premise that news is all subjective and objective, agreed-upon facts doesn't exist.

These issues are nothing more then a "he said, she said" to neocons and their followers and sycophants. Getting back to the e-mail, I suspect this is why many of these idiots who criticize Glenn almost NEVER actually respond to any evidence he presentes to support his point. Because in addition to Iraq, BOYlan is also conduction the War on Facts (TM).

I mean using fake reporters to insure favorable spin? Shameful! Now I see Jeff Gannon in the back has a question...

Is this the political version of Fraiser? You know where a bunch of pompous windbags try hard to impress people and fix situations with their oh-so condesinding intellect (with the humor being that, somehow, despite their superior "genius", end up making things worse.)

So while some of the progressive population climb the golden stepladder (the better to help them get over themselves), let me explain that what the rep is suggestion is NOT "the same" as what the Republicans do. For one what WE say is (or should be) backed by actual truth. What this is, is not "dumbing it down" ("Oh if only those people were as lofty as me"), it is what people call "making it plain." For example, haven't you seen that old scene where some scientist dork is explaining so complex theroy to non-scientist, and then someone jokes, "Can you explain that again in English?" What that person means, of course is "can you explain that in a way that I can understand it?" I mean after all, ideas that can't be understand are meaningless babblling. (Who of course then wonder why "they" won't listen, "they" of course being the dirty unwashed masses who are like all icky and don't like being looked down upon by their intellectual betters like they're suppose to.)

So yes I do support making ideas vivid in the minds of "ordinary" people, even if I have to stoop to "their" level.

I think the gays will help Senetor Wide Stance (R-KY jelly) when he demostrates that he won't stab us in the back once we pick him off the ground. Given that he's a Republican, I'm not holding my breath on that.

In other word, is Sen. Wide Stance actually going to LEARN anything from this? Like I dunno, TAKING ACCOUNTABILITY for his actions (the thing that pisses me most about Republicans Judging from his defensive "I'm not gay and this is all the liberal media/Gay Agenda/Entraping law enforcement's fault" I would say no. He just wants to be let "off the hook" so we can forget this incident when he goes back to demonizing other groups in the name of "family values" (And THAT'S what he really needs to be apologizing for. And since he hasn't or given any indication that he wants to, I as a gay man can't possibly forgive him.)

I said this in another thread, but this is EXACTLY why this story needs to stay at the forefront. The Republicans like to think they can highjack moral superiority in they bring up the ol' "But look at what Clinton did!" They STILL want to be the party of "moral values" and the Larry Craig scandal makes it harder for them to do that. This scandal is a ebbing of that tactic's effectiveness.