You need to marginalize them. The people that our screaming at "town hells" do no represent the majority and they're so set in their beliefs that no amount of convincing is going to transform them.

However, when you simply play clips of these people waving sings with Obama wearing a Hitler mustache, you freak out people whose minds are not made up. They don't want to be associated with that. Thus the opposition becomes "crazy people." Marginalized.

I don't read bloggers calling these people racists -- I see websites posting pictures and letting their readers make up their own minds. But perhaps I just have better taste in online reading.

Frankly, this article is lame concern-trolling.

Compare Annie Lennox, David Bowie, RuPaul and Lady Gaga? The first two are highly talented artists who used genderbending to further their musical exploration -- Bowie with Ziggy Stardust and Lennox with Eurhythmic's dystopian future sound...

An accurate comparison point would be Grace Jones. But like others have noted, Gaga isn't really genderbending -- she just wears weird shit. And she makes pretty generic dance pop. I'm quite confused why her name is showing up everywhere (but I've heard she comes from money so I'm sure she knows a prominent publicist or two).

What the fuck did RuPaul ever do?

Out of curiosity, what percentage of this group do you think is white?

In the healthcare battle is the media, which seems to have made up its collective mind that the Obama plan is bad. So he was right to face them head on, but there was no chance the underdog was going to be considered the champion.

So riddle me this -- the media, which barely lifted a finger in opposition to the Iraq war buildup, is vehement about reporting how bad health care reform is.

Why is that?

Could it have something to do with its corporate handlers losing a lot of money if healthcare reform is passed?

Be skeptical, be very skeptical.

is an oxymoron.

But shirking the responsibility of office, that's another story. The man is in charge of a state and he went off the radar for five days. There's no other word for that than irresponsible.

I don't care that he got some action on the side -- that's between him, his wife and the other woman. I felt the same way during the Clinton-Lewinsky extravaganza. But Clinton never disappeared -- he never let his marriage problems affect his job performance.

You'd think after so many of these revelations that the witch-hunting would stop.

This is what I don't get... Doesn't this come off as horribly whiny to most people? Am I one of the minority that rolls his eyes every time he registers such baseless, juvenile complaints?

Kudos to Colbert... Could anyone watch Beck's original broadcast with a straight face, though?

That Ramussen poll was the only one that suggested the public isn't fully behind the stimulus. We call that an outlier.

A battle cry that hits every issue right on the mark. Kudos to you, Joan.

And extra points for noting the blatant sexism. Pelosi continues to be beaten up for her gender.

He scores.

You're the man, Tom.

The chattering classes can moan their hearts out about "center-right"--Barack Obama will just keep on doing what he's been doing, which seems to have worked pretty well.

This is not a center-right nation. This nation is very middle, with a lot of crazies on the right trying to drag it off the scale.

That was the only drag of an actually pretty good column.

I have said for a long while that the 2008 election will really be about the mass media and their piss-poor conventional wisdom. As editors, managers and owners of media outlets look back at their coverage over this cycle, let us hope they see how pathetic and empty-headed it was. Everyone should read the biggest misses column by Glenn's colleague. Such idiocy needs to be expunged from the news.

Bill Kristol--in the loser category (is that just so obvious that it doesn't need to be said?).

Why is Karl Rove not on the losers list?

with those saying this is an exercise in immaturity. These pundits get paid big bucks to shell out baseless prognostications, and they are consistently wrong. They are the products of moneyed idealogues trying to shape the opinions of the easily swayed--instead of being an informative source, our media has turned into a manipulative machine.

Others have been hoping Obama comes out against media consolidation, one of the reasons such yellow-journalism is so widespread (cough, Newscorp). While I am no fan of government oer-regulation, I think the scary amount of misinformation peddled by the mainstream media requires action in this regard. Instead of idealogues setting the agenda, we would have smaller outfits actually reporting the news. And hopefully all the idiots in this post will be out of work.

The future of media is an interesting question--I believe more and more people will turn to content aggregators to personalize their information stream. What that means for mass media... Great one to ponder.

Need to be sacked immediately.

And of course, they won't.

Perhaps it's just the wanderlust from the victory, but I believe Obama will restore our constitutional framework and relinquish much of the power snatched by the Bush administration.

On another note, when Biden appeared by Obama's side last night, I snickered "Look, it's the new Dick Cheney!" That received some chuckles... I'm hoping because it seemed so absurd.