What does "unilateralist" mean? Judging be her snap response to the reporter she had no idea what he was talking about and was demanding he explain a concept she had not the slightest idea of what it meant. In six years this administration had gone to great pains to act like it was the alpha dog of the world and would never allow anyone to threaten it's position of military supremecy and would act unilaterally and preemptively against anyone it considered a threat to its interests. To ask "Who are you calling a unilateralist?" isn't a challenge, its a question by someone who doesn't even know what the word means.

Give a man an opinion and he rants for a day. Give him a microphone and he rants for a lifetime. Why are our media journalists so vacuous and empty, and yet so cocksure of the superiority of their vacuousness and senstive and defensive to any critique? Well... sound like people you knew in school?

My first year in a large and prestigious lawfirm was entertained by an extremely attractive young woman from a fine law school who expressing one of the few moments of political idealogy couldn't understand why there were so many unemployed people begging on the streets of Houston when there were so many job listings in teh Sunday Houston Chronicle. Most job listings aren't even for real openings, just to fill the personnell file. Most people washing my windshield or begging for a buck don't have an engineering degree. Those little facts never seeped into her well coifed and educated brain.

What you, Glenn, have not quite pointed out yet is that you get what you hire. Chris Matthews, Glenn Beck, Glenn Reynalds, Katie Couric all act this way because they are this way. They were hired for their total lack of intellectual curiousity, in the same way that Ted Koppel was released for actually having a sense of curiousity. We have the media we have not because these people take marching orders, but that they were born to take marching orders and actually believe in their own vacuousness. They wear it as a badge of honor and, if challenged, are quick to point out that they are a major media figure and you're not. Cogit ergo sum. George Bush is the Decider, the Commander Guy, because you are not.

We live in a world where people are important and must be trusted because they are important and must be trusted, not because they did anything to earn their importance or trust. Paris Hilton is the George Bush of celebrity. She has no redeeming qualifications, but, like Traci Lords, owes her existence to rich wrinkly old men with serious sexual and intellectual issues and too much money on their hands.

These same people hire morons to act as personnell directors to hire more morons. People like you, like Ted Koppell, like anyone with any sense of inquisitiveness or common sense or comes off as the least bit threatening to the more intellectually challenged, is given walking papers or a quick rejection. Gushing, fawning, photogenetic sycophantic wannabes that make the personnell director look good, their boss look good and can read anything on a teleprompter with a perky smile and straight face, are the real face of our national media.

Give a man an opinion and he rants for a day. Give him a microphone and he rants for a lifetime. Why are our media journalists so vacuous and empty, and yet so cocksure of the superiority of their vacuousness and senstive and defensive to any critique? Well... sound like people you knew in school?

My first year in a large and prestigious lawfirm was entertained by an extremely attractive young woman from a fine law school who expressing one of the few moments of political idealogy couldn't understand why there were so many unemployed people begging on the streets of Houston when there were so many job listings in teh Sunday Houston Chronicle. Most job listings aren't even for real openings, just to fill the personnell file. Most people washing my windshield or begging for a buck don't have an engineering degree. Those little facts never seeped into her well coifed and educated brain.

What you, Glenn, have not quite pointed out yet is that you get what you hire. Chris Matthews, Glenn Beck, Glenn Reynalds, Katie Couric all act this way because they are this way. They were hired for their total lack of intellectual curiousity, in the same way that Ted Koppel was released for actually having a sense of curiousity. We have the media we have not because these people take marching orders, but that they were born to take marching orders and actually believe in their own vacuousness. They wear it as a badge of honor and, if challenged, are quick to point out that they are a major media figure and you're not. Cogit ergo sum. George Bush is the Decider, the Commander Guy, because you are not.

We live in a world where people are important and must be trusted because they are important and must be trusted, not because they did anything to earn their importance or trust. Paris Hilton is the George Bush of celebrity. She has no redeeming qualifications, but, like Traci Lords, owes her existence to rich wrinkly old men with serious sexual and intellectual issues and too much money on their hands.

These same people hire morons to act as personnell directors to hire more morons. People like you, like Ted Koppell, like anyone with any sense of inquisitiveness or common sense or comes off as the least bit threatening to the more intellectually challenged, is given walking papers or a quick rejection. Gushing, fawning, photogenetic sycophantic wannabes that make the personnell director look good, their boss look good and can read anything on a teleprompter with a perky smile and straight face, are the real face of our national media.