virtue001, you have got to be kidding.

The post that offended you began:

Wow, the guys over at National Review Online are steamed about Alex Koppelman's reporting that Rudy Giuliani spent twice as much time going to Yankees games (58 hours) as at ground zero (29 hours, according to the New York Times) in the months after 9/11. Three different NRO posters weighed in so far today with three different ways of misrepresenting the piece.

It linked to Alex's piece. If you didn't read it, you are even more wrong to have commented on my blog post than I thought.

But thanks for trying to keep the debate high minded -- high above the actual facts at any given time.

livemike2, racism and logic don't mix -- you know that!

re: virtue001's complaints: The guy who called me "dogface" in his first visit to Salon letters is now the ambassador of civil dialogue on the Internet. I feel very gratified. And I'm sure he's playing the same role over on Michelle Malkin's blog.

Wow, verbarim 4692, thank you for that story.

Oh, and jack and jill, if you can read my coverage of the primaries, and my defense of HRC, and the way I was attacked by some folks I'm now friends with here...I mean, c'mon. I know more about what you're writing about than you do, for sure. Please. Click back a year. Read my blog.

And then seriously, MSWord has an awesome spellcheck function. Don't go out defending women with bad spelling, punctuation and grammar. My mom and my teachers taught me women had to be twice as smart as men to get ahead, I know others here heard the same thing. I do make mistakes, but I correct them. You just need to calm down, do a little research on the folks you attack as misogynist, then try to write well, spell check and press send.

Really, though, Calif Mike...if you've read Malkin's comments, today was special, because there is a high dittohead ratio. There are no attacks on other posters b/c...there are no attacks on other posters. I'm pretty good at pulling down strictly ad hominem stuff about other posters here. I police this thread myself, and I do have another job, so sometimes I'm late.

bigguns, thank you, and someone might be reading your post and getting ideas: Since all TV now is going to be talk or reality, why not mix talk and reality, and set a bunch of talkers who've defended the Iraq war down in the middle of the war? I like it a lot. I might pitch it. I will cut you in immediately on whatever deal I find!

Wow, jack and jill, breathe deeply, and use spell check.

Miss Otis, I regret we were ever at odds. I am the same person I always was, picking out the same kinds of hypocrisy and double standards. Thank you for your note.

You know, virtue001, my beloved nephews -- 12, 11 and 7 -- call me "Aunt Joanie." That's about it for the "Joanie." You come across as roughly their age when you use a nickname that isn't mine. It's clear it's meant to diminish -- nobody calls Glenn "Glenny" -- so stop it.

Re: Klytus, we've had our spats, but he has more integrity than all 3 of you Republicans whining about my words to him. Poco, I'm sorry I disappointed you, I'm the same writer and editor I've always been, I call it like I see it, I take shots from the left and right, and I'm proud of my integrity. I also don't hang out on someone else's blog all day to make fun of them. To each his own.

You guys are hilarious. Politico publishes something and it becomes your bible.

Did Barack Obama make Rush Limbaugh say "I want Obama to fail?" Twice? Did Barack Obama challenge Rush to a debate? Did Obama make Rush say he was afraid of having to "grab my ankles" because we have a black president? Did he make Phil Gingrey apologize to Rush? Did he make Rush go to CPAC looking like an Eastern European gangster (in David Letterman's words) and shake and scare people? Did Obama then make Michael Steele say those shocking things to DL Hughley? Did he then make Steele apologize to Rush?

You guys don't understand cause and effect. You're the ones who think Obama is almighty. (And if you think this blog carries water for Obama, you haven't been reading it very long. School 'em, Faulkner Jr. and Klytus. Carville found that Limbaugh is unpopular with young people (hope he didn't pay a lot for that poll). But it was LIMBAUGH who picked a fight with the president, not the other way around, and began this train wreck.

Sad, sad, sad Republicans. No arguments, and clearly no logic on this matter.

Jonathanseer, thank you, but I'm home in my jammies now -- who can see how much hotter and younger I am? You're scaring me, a little....kidding. But I'm gonna close the blinds.

Hi rockybalboa, I really do appreciate your trying to communicate, as much as I disagree, and occasionally you and I do agree. But I would urge you not to call Obama obie, it's really just dumb. If you'd like me to routinely call Limbaugh Limpballs, and Boehner Boner, well, I won't, because I think it's beneath me. Let's talk ideas, and people's ideas, let's leave the diminishing nicknames alone.

Listening, virtue001?

The Michael Moore comparison is unfair to Moore and the Democrats...I don't remember a single Democrat ever talking about Moore as a party leader, or ever apologizing to him for a slur; he's an outside agitator who's played a mostly good role, but he's not invited to mainstream Democratic events and absolutely no one kisses his ring. Even we've been critical of Moore -- and we've never felt frightened enough to apologize, unless we're wrong. There is simply no Democratic Rush....and there never could be.