I thought it was a great interview. Koppelman asked excellent questions and made interesting points. All in all it was an intelligent discussion.

My peeps, the right doesn't have the market cornered on revisionists.

And I can't agree with those who refused to even read this interview. I'm not impressed by your vitriol. You have to try to know your adversary as well as you know yourself. Outright dismissal of someone comes from a fear of being proven wrong and WE are not wrong.

Thank you, Salon.

Glenn was right to call him out like he did. King came across as an arrogant ass. CNN long ago stopped reporting news. Now they only produce it. That goes for Amanpour as well.

I'm not in the habit of standing up for American pop culture but the following statement grabbed my attention:

"...they struggle with feelings of powerlessness and frustration, torn between an American popular culture that encourages them to be sexy and assertive..."

Anyone here ever watched Latino television knows you can't get away from "sexo sexo sexo". I recall a children's TV show host in the late 80's early 90's (Xuxa, pronounced shoo-shah). She ran around in shorts that barely covered her crotch and ass.

My point is that the sexualized culture applying this pressure and subsequent depression might be their own and not necessarily American. Really, I think that the Europeans would laugh at such a statement given all of our "repressionist" tendencies here in the USA.

Take a look at the drop off in homers across the league since the light of the torches could be seen outside the hallowed gates of MLB.

Steroids don't help baseball players? Remember Brady Anderson and Lenny Dyskstra?! Come on, dude! These drugs basically fouled up the natural order of things. A struggling fringe player takes steroids and becomes a role player. A role player takes them and becomes a starter. A solid starter becomes a superstar. A superstar becomes Barry Bonds.

We have older players hanging on to their careers longer, commanding millions, and essentially taking away jobs from those who would have replaced them. These "clean" up and comers have been cheated out of opportunities to shine on the field.

Steroids have hurt baseball. If you don't think so perhaps you should make an appointment with a good proctologist. Maybe he can get your head out of your ass.

War is a crime. The Iraq ware epitomizes that statement. And I'm all for bringing these crimes to light. However it bothers me that not one of the soldiers interviewed for this article could provide evidence.

Rational people will only listen to facts. No one wants to believe the worst (well, some people don't) but if it’s out there I want to know. If someone or some organization is doing evil shit, journalistic innuendo is not the way to be taken seriously.

Oh how differently this would have played out if the Clinton Corporation handled it. Instead we get a good look at how Obama handles controversy and conflict. He faces it with a sense of history, who he is, where he came from, determination, and eloquence.

Please let me (let us all know) know when a right leaning network/publication/website interviews you about this book. Honestly I'm more interested in the debate than being fed more red meat (sorry vegans!).

Cheers!

He made A LOT of valid points. Teachers are underpaid. Children are coddled. Everyone's feelings are put before everything else. So all of his valid points are dismissed because he advocated the No Child Left Behind bullshit? As a fiercely independent thinker it pisses me off to no end when I see this kind of treatment from the left and the right... I swear, the left rants about fanatical religious folk being blind to reason but I see logical blinders on both sides...

This is one of those personality-based bullshit story(?) or topic that Salon really shouldn't propagate; slow news day or not. It's the kind of shit that Greenwald claims serves no purpose but to distract us. Next time work harder to find some substance to meet your quota... don't get lazy and give us this shit.

I think she's horribly "wrong" but I don't think she told a lie. It's her opinion based on what she knows and how she feels. People have opinions. Some people, like Roberts sadly, are actually paid for their opinion. Really, is she still considered a "journalist" by her peers or her employer? By anyone but Glenn? Once a journalist does not mean always a journalist. I mean, look at Dan Rather. Anyway, my opinion of her is that she is just another talking head bobbing up and down in the television media cesspool.

Duh... Does anyone really believe that any country with an "intelligence" agency (USA, Russia, France, UK, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.) does not pull these kinds of shenanigans? I view the NYT's report on the increase in CIA flights as credible evidence that something's up. I'm not sure I buy this particular story though. Just like a previous story on Salon "proved" US soldiers committed Vietnam-like attrocities (all six soldiers interviewed had no evidence), this story implies instead of proves. Then again, this probably is "proof" for those who come with a certain predisposition. I guess the title of the story led me to expect more.

"A political faction like that is grounded in tribalism and the last thing they are is susceptible to changing their mind..."

Name a political faction that is not stubborn or grounded in tribalism.

I would love to see if National Review would be interested in chatting with you. For them to show the same courage that Salon had in inviting Jonah Goldberg to discuss his book. I know many here screamed their disapproval but I thought it was quite interesting.