of screaming mediocrity steeped in apathy and distraction..

Freud and a keg of sodium pentathol would be hard pressed to get to the bottom of the motivations fueling the average birther/tea bagger/town haller ...

The Conservatives I know that dislike this President are not bad people...I don't consider them racist or even harboring racial stereotypes, at least overtly..

To pretend to know the underlying drive behind another's behavior is slippery territory...correlation is not causation...but it could be..time will tell..

I think a better argument can be made in how the Right wing new media have fallen upon a winning business model...

Starting with Palin's rock star popularity last summer on the campaign trail, the model was simple...say something outlandish about BO..the more outlandish, the more attention..say it loud and with conviction and their is press and popularity to be had, with virtually no pushback..

Thats nothing new to campaigns...but when Rush came out early BO admin and said 'I hope he fails' and was promptly annointed the voice and head of the GOP, thr rest of the talking heads took notice..

Beck, Rush, Palin, Gingrich, Town hallers, and now Joe Wilson have been tripping all over themselves trying to out do each other this year...call him a commmunist, ratings go up..call him a Nazi, some notoriety, and ratings go up..

It took Beck's calling BO a racist for there finally to be some push back...but if you can say anything with impunity, what is going to get them to stop???

With Beck grabbing all the headlines of late, it is little wonder that Limbaugh has fired back with his signature move...a race baiting inflammatory comment that further divides us...

During the Gold rush of 1849, many came some boomed, some went bust...at the end of the rush, the outfit that made benefitted the most was Levi Strauss, who sold all the prospectors everything they needed, boom or bust..

What has to be looked at here is...who benefits from all this divisive rhetoric? They are scared of us...we are scared of them...we think the soul of our nation depends on us winning these small debates..and maybe it does..who knows..

But while i come here to load up on info to go back out there and fight the good Progressive fight, my mythical foes are over at FOX and Drudge loading up themselves

The more we battle, ratings just keep going up and up..

Has "The medium is the message" ever meant more?

Goethe once said and I paraphrase " we gain nothing by suffering fools..the only true solution is to make fools of the fools"

i don't know what to say other than you need to get some help...and apparently serious help..

It's perfectly OK to have different political views than BO, its perfectly Ok to not like the President for any reason you so desire..color creed..whatever floats your boat, buddy

But if you think freedom of speech does not have a responsibility component to it, you're gravely mistaken..

You need to get some help..may I suggest a brief moment of reason...support HC bill..work your local senator...you get a group plan with all you other fucktards..

Make this your bottom, would ya? you can get off the elevator, it doesn't have to reach the bottom floor...

Would you even know what a bottom is??? you'ld probably start digging...

What a fucking loser

If the last paragraph of Mr. Greenwald's essay does not rattle every Progressive's cage, I suggest to read it again until it does...

We watch in pain as our hopes for this current President, hopes born out of the rhetoric we progressives thought we would never likely hear emanating from someone residing in the WH, slowly dissipate with every highly public lurch to the Political center.

I say that without prejudice...from a Utilitarian perspective, some of the reforms hopefully to be enacted are distinct improvements from the current system. At the same time, the political pragmatism being employed does feel like a betrayal of the Progressive rhetoric we on the left fell head over heels for in last year's campaign. But any feelings of betrayal Progressives may be feeling are on us.

Our expectations of what a BO Presidency might be and the reality of what the BO presidency has become...the wide chasm between expectations and reality is full of frustrations and disappointments...only because our expectations were not based in reality

Progressives will always be a small slice in the Political pie...finding our role in our Politics will always be a struggle...All indications are, in spite of the election of BO, our country is still not ready for the ideals of the Left

But for modern muckrakers like Mr. greenwald, there will always be a chair at the table, men and women committed to fight the good fight, not for what is achievable, but deadly determined to illustrate to all who will listen, what is right

I saw the few sponsors that switched their ads away from the Beckster's show and remember when he made that comment. My question is where was the outcry by these groups when the talking heads on the Left were calling Bush a racist with the claims that he didn't do anything for Katrina victims because he hates black people?

I asked my friend if FOX had reported that 20 sponsors had jumped ship on Beck...here is the reponse

This is how they respond to anything resembling criticism