And it can only be comprehended and seen as a willful and deliberate attempt to lie to the American people on a scale that they have literally never before seen, and make them not see the absolutely BLATANT horseshit that underlies ALL of their hypocrisy.

This is clearly a concerted, coordinated and full-court press by the hard right to win back political power and destroy Democrats' current and still quite tenuous power by quashing the possibility of open and honest debate, which they realize that they would lose.

Whatever one might think and say about their individual and collective psychopathologies (which, of course, they suffer from on a massive scale, because you simply do not support such policies and engage in such behavior without having some very serious psychological problems), this is clearly a centrally coordinated conspiracy to misdirect from and obscure the real issues being debated here, in order to prevent the other side from winning these debates in the public mind. And Carlson has been a central player in this phony drama for over a decade.

He is doing EXACTLY the same thing that Sarah Taylor, Monica Goodling, Tim Griffin, Adam Putnam, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and all the other loyal young foot soldiers of the American Fascist Movement have been doing, in obstructing and distorting reality, and playing dirty tricks in order to further their movement's agenda. And while it's important to analyze and tear apart what each of them are doing, the key thing to remember is that they're working in lockstep to advance a common and as-yet still mostly unexpressed agenda, which is to destroy our democracy (or what is left of it) and replace it with their preferred form of government, top-down authoritarianism, while keeping its outer trappings such as the constitution in order to maintain the illusion of democracy.

Carlson is one of the less intelligent members of this junior shock squad, but he does his part as best as he can. And his continued presence as the host of a primetime political news and opinion show on a major cable network (that, of course, is wholly owned by a major defense contractor now that Microsoft has or is in the process of divesting itself of it) is both corrosive and odious, and Dan Abrams, president of MSNBC news (and no big fan of the law despite being a lawyer himself and the son of a famous first amendment lawyer), should be ashamed of himself for keeping him on, which is totally of a piece with firing Phil Donahue and Ashleigh Banfield for daring to speak some truth. I still find myself amazed that Keith Olbermann hasn't yet been fired, and we're incredibly lucky that he hasn't.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that one of the hallmarks of sociopathology is the inability to feel or understand irony, empathy or sympathy, or be able to see oneself in a way that has any bearing on reality. So while some of these creeps might be fully aware of their hypocrisy and simply cynical enough to not give a damn or be bothered by it, I suspect that more than a few of them are true believers who literally don't see the rank hypocrisy in their words, which, to me, seems to indicate some form of mental illness on the order of sociopathology. For every Goebbels, Goering or Speer, there are dozens of Eichmanns, Hesses and Riefenstahls. And since Carlson is clearly not bright enough to be one of the former, he is clearly one of the latter.

GOP Uber Alles, that's basically what it comes down to in the end with these loons.

Thanks, but I have no mind, legal or otherwise. The Repubs sucked it out of me during the Clinton witch trial and never gave it back. Now I walk around with a big hole in my head that I futily and pathetically try to hide with my hippy afro and hemp beanie as I smoke thin clove cigarettes and walk around in my Birkenstocks and "Free Mummia" t-shirt.

Peace, love and Kucinich!