Wrong again, Farhad, in your interpretation of Robert Kennedy Jr.'s expose, and more importantly, wrong in your fundamental approach to dealing with the profoundly corrupt. Another election was clearly stolen, but like a tobacco executive you continue to try and convince us, and yourself, that there is no cancer link.

I will address your criticisms in a moment, but in general, given all we know of the Bush regime's propensity to bend and break any and all rules in everything they do, and having watched them subsequently lie and cover up their numerous crimes, you do your audience a great disservice to grant them any benefit of any doubt. Any at all. Shame.

As for your specific criticisms:

- You lead with what sounds like a slam-dunk gotcha, but it is in fact a straightforward indictment of your own foolishness and/or malfeasance. RFK says "In what may be the single most astounding fact from the election, one in every four Ohio citizens who registered to vote in 2004 showed up at the polls only to discover that they were not listed on the rolls, thanks to GOP efforts to stem the unprecedented flood of Democrats eager to cast ballots." You criticize this by pointing out that Republicans as well as Democrats were turned away in equal numbers. Seriously, do you really not understand this one? In 2004, Democrats in Ohio were out-registering Republicans by an astonishing ratio, so turning away *all newly registered voters* (regardless of party) greatly advantaged the Republican candidate.

- Long lines put off Bush voters evenly with Kerry voters. Please, do your homework. Machines were a-plenty in the districts that favored Bush, while they were a-not-so-plenty in Kerry districts, leading to lines many hours long for those wishing to vote for Kerry. These are the facts, as planned and implemented by a corrupt and partisan rulemaker, Blackwell, just as Harris corrupted Florida in 2000.

- "Despite the problems on Election Day, there is no evidence from our survey that John Kerry won the state of Ohio." The source for this? A survey done by a political party machine, not the mountain of actual evidence that the election was stolen. This was a SURVEY, nothing more, performed by the official voice of a powerful political party on a highly charged political issue, facing a relentless, dishonest, Swift-boating attack machine that takes no prisoners and leaves scorched earth where they tread. Let's not forget the public witchhunt that ensued against Al Gore for daring to question the rigged 2000 election, taunts of "Sore Loserman" etc.; the Democratic Party understands that the public has little stomach for the declared loser complaining about an unfair fight, no matter the evidence. It just does not sit well, politically, as wrongheaded as that may be. The public has an odd ethic.

I could go on. And on and on and on. Farhad Manjoo has again sealed his legitimacy in the bloated ranks of the untrustworthy, those that distort to make their ridiculous arguments seem true. I doubt I'll read his stuff again.

Heather misses the point of the show; it's not All in the Family, it's The Honeymooners, only completely raw and uncensored. It's actually almost the exact same formula.

There's the dumb working class guy and his shitty apartment and his idiot friends and his contempt for his life, always to be overcome by his undying love for his dish of a wife who for some reason tolerates him. Their troubles never overcome their committment to one another. And of course, the humor is generously laced throughout and slathered on top. With Louie it's more direct and course, a sign of the times, but remarkably similar.

Lucky Louie is truly groundbreaking stuff that, for this ancient adolescent, is the best show to come around in decades.

Nothing, absolutely nothing will end (or even slow down) this horrible Iraq disaster before January 20, 2009 short of the impeachment and removal from office of both Bush and Cheney. To think otherwise is simply delusional.

Please, everyone reading this, do as I have done: call your congressman or woman and ask why they are not calling for impeachment. And when you are done with that phone call, e-mail all your friends and ask them to do the same.

It is our only hope.

To conclude, as Kaufman has, that this story is about whether the public is "up for" another OJ story, is about as imbecilic as predicting an end to hurricanes, because the Nielsens show a bottoming of the market in the key demographics for watching hurricanes on television.

There's clear audio tape of Simpson loudly, sternly threatening these people in that hotel room, "don't move!"; this is kidnapping, legally speaking. And evidence of conspiracy is established by his tone, words, the completeness of the thoughts; OJ did not randomly enter that room, this was clearly planned ahead. OJ is in very, very serious trouble here.

These are serious crimes with serious consequences, and if instead of taking the temperature of the public, you (Kaufman) paid the slightest attention to the ACTUAL STORY, you might realize the public will have enough room in their busy schedules for a life-in-prison OJ conviction.

Other than completely missing the point, well written.

The righteous indignation of these blowhards, it never ceases to amaze. They seemingly have no idea how much a part of the problem they are. Huge problems right in front of their faces, caused by the very people they are interviewing, and they say NOTHING. At the very least they are speaking to people with the power to make the necessary changes and they say NOTHING.

They focus on the trivial, the difference between what they thought would happen and what actually happened (New Hampshire) - how is that even marginally important?

Thank you Glenn for this most-appropriate smack-down. We need more of it. The more they try and defend themselves the more the expose themselves as the clueless frauds that they are.