What's particularly inane about this charge of the administration trying to "silence" Limbaugh is that it's completely backwards.

I mean, even among everyone debating whether the White House manufactured this flap over Limbaugh or just capitalized on it, no one thinks that the White House wants to silence him, in fact exactly the opposite. They're being accused of "elevating him" to be seen as leader of the GOP, or "bringing him front and center" and so on. If anything the White House wants him loud and clear, dragging down the GOP.

Of course, in Paglia land it's another story. Yet another controversy she doesn't even understand.

"Yeah of course I love all the stuff the young hep cats do, you know, the Beetles, I dig those lovable flop-mops, and then what's his name, Chubby Chess...Chevy Checkers..."

What's really funny though is his self-reversal du jour, this guy is going to fall off the back of the stage soon if nothing else from all that walking himself backwards. "Did I say "choice"? Well, of course I meant the choice of adoption, you know in other words I think it's up to the woman which religious beliefs of others she wants to comply with..."

One thing is certain: whatever the Republicans have lost in viability, they've gained in entertainment value. Just enjoy it, it won't last for ever.

It might last years, but not forever.

I don't think Stewart came across as naive at all. I think in fact it's naive to assume that since only traders watch CNBC 24 hours a day, therefore that's their only, or even main, audience.

24 hour cable networks, like CNN, are designed to be on 24/7 and structured so that whenever someone tunes in-- a businessman arriving in a hotel in Hong Kong, me waking up in the morning and tuning in, etc, all get the headlines. That's why they're so repetitive.

I think the takedown was a straight-ahead burst of anger from the entire country of non-traders, pissed at the trader mentality, and not because they have their own network, which would be fine, but because they manipulate the news that goes out to the non-traders, using them as fodder, well, just as Cramer described in those clips.

Brilliant. Just brilliant. Stewart is a force to be reckoned with indeed. That clown act should never be mistaken for weakness, though some have done so, at their peril.

I'm glad someone with a column mentioned this aspect of the interview, and not at all surprised that it was Greenwald.

I would take it further however.

What much of the other commentary today misses is that Cramer is being accused not just of "not being accurate all of the time" as some seem to want to skew this. He's being accused of shilling for Wall Street. He's being accused of doing, well, exactly what he said he did in those clips that Stewart played last night. Of pumping things up in the mind of the general consumer/investor, so that the insiders on Wall Street can make money. Of using investors, those who aren't professional traders at least, as cannon fodder.

Howard Kurtz this morning claims that Cramer didn't know what the banks were doing, and the proof of this is that he didn't know that they would fail so badly.

What an absurd conclusion. Cramer knew exactly what the banks were doing, he just, like most other right wing establishment figures, had the belief that it was a good idea, that any attempts to regulate them to stop them from doing it were bad, and that deregulation led to nothing but good.

Even buying Cramer's "we were lied to" defense is being far too gullible. Watch those clips of Cramer again, the ones that Stewart ran, the ones that show Cramer explaining how he manipulated the market for the gain of him and his company, and his pals.

That's worse than being spineless. I mean it explains a lot about the motivations in this particular field, why they wouldn't ask tough questions. However it's more than just laziness or incompetence, it's being in bed with those you're supposedly critiquing.

Well, I downloaded uTodo and tried it out, and my first thought was that it looked home-made. The video demo I watched was so fuzzy you can't see any text on the app while it's being explained, and what was being explained seemed so complicated, that was pretty much strike three.

Fair enough, I mean sometimes an app works for one person and not another. Then I went to uninstall it, and it gave me an error message, it can't find utodo/uninstall.dll. I checked the folder and nope, doesn't seem to be one there.

I guess that's strike four.

Speaking of task applications, this all got me wondering whether there was a PC version of the one I use on my newly setup iPhone, which I've already become attached to, it's clean, simple, yet seems fairly robust. Et voila, I found that it links to something called "Toodledo" which is a Web application, and syncs with the iPhone. Perfect. The only possible drawback is that it's not there offline, however in those rare cases, my iPhone is there with all the info on it.

So you solved my search for an app in a roundabout sort of way. Now, if anyone can tell me how to remove the zombie uTodo, I'd be grateful. Just delete the files I guess? I already had to tick it off in the startup list, since it turned itself into "start when Windows starts" without asking me.

Yeah, and that's because you're white.

Rolling eyes.

I could think of a few words to describe him that have nothing to do with his ethnicity.