I have to agree with 90% of what has been said above in response to Gary Kamiya's great article. But, I will take issue with lumping DemocracyNow! and Fox together. The marginalization of DN is symptomatic of everything Gary points to in his article. The corporate media allows no straight news and no opposing opinion. Amy Goodman is a journalist. Fox does not employ journalists. Her presentation of the news is in depth and her interviews are compelling listening. If there is any other news program in America today that reflects exactly what Gary Kamiya is trying to get across to the Democrats, I would like to know about it.

I was first introduced to the drink of butterscotch schnapps topped with Bailey's Irish Cream on New Year's Eve in Sydney Australia in 2005. They called it a "cock sucking cowboy" there.

Isn't Pat Robertson's Regent University the American equivalent of Al-Azhar University in Cairo? You know, the one that got the blogger sentenced to three years for criticizing it.

Shouldn't that pup be seen by a vet?

Whoever said the Republicans thought anyone but big corporations or Christian taliban types were their constituencies? The Dems need to cut themselves off from the aforementioned as well.

I never asked for "fair and balanced". I asked for some journalism. Facts and investigation. These you find on the left slanted DemocracyNow, but not on Fox.

who thought Democracy Now was as bad as Fox.

and Dennis Kucinich is right about why people don't vote. But I'm going to vote for the Democratic candidate (after voting my conscience in the primaries) and then I'm going to hold his/her feet to the fire about war and diplomacy, fair trade and corporate accountability, single payer health care (see Sicko), habeus corpus, civil rights - especially in the area of police powers, and rebuilding America's infrastructure. Among other things.

I've been a bitch toward my rather wonderful congresswoman if she doesn't get it right - rarely, and toward Nancy Pelosi for failing us so often that it feels like years she's been there rather than only since the midterms.

vodka, cranberry juice, slice of lime and splash of soda

Just as Barack Obama is accused of not being 'serious' in the foreign policy arena, so it is with John Pilger who is accused of not being 'serious' in the journalism arena. Seems to me that the two go hand in hand. People need to be aware of what is being done in their name. These days we need more people to speak truth to power and believe nothing until it is officially denied.

If we're polling likely voters, then all of the above (in the editor's choice letters) probably holds true, but if we are looking at who will really have to work with the president of this country, the corporations which have all too much to say about national policy, then Clinton will be perfectly acceptable. It won't be as good for average people as one would like it to be, but a Clinton presidency won't cause too much angst in the boardrooms of America. I don't think that's true of an Edwards presidency and Obama is still an unknown quantity for them, but Hillary? they know they can work with her, more's the shame.

FIRE!!! Having lived in NYC for nearly thirty years following the Kitty Genovese case, I found that many people decided that the best way to get people out from behind their doors and windows when one is being attacked, raped, mugged, was to yell 'fire' instead of crying for help. Sad to say, it would seem that one must appeal to other people's self-interest in order to change anything.

This person HATES losing control of his body. Wonder what his sex life is like?

Shouldn't we be tired of movies that give us Americans as victims, rather than the peoples of the world who are devastated by our imperial wars? How our wars affect us might be better understood if we looked at how our wars affect everyone else. Stories about the tortured souls of the slave owners or war mongers are masturbatory exercises in affirming our all too sentimental views of our own humanity and are pretty offensive to the real victims of our adventurism.

"So people serving in the military, or in our current situation very likely the reserves, some of them on their third or fourth deployment, and the families who lose them, are equivalent to slave owners? The 3700 plus soldiers killed are victims or military adventurism?"

Yes, they are the victims, not only of the actual war mongers but of our use of them as surrogates for our own "suffering" while we walk around the malls not even thinking about them.

When I was in the Peace Corps, back in the day, I got a letter from my father in California a year after Reagan was elected. He wrote, "It's harder to find a person who voted for Reagan here now than it was to find a Nazi in post-war Germany." I guess it was mostly about Reagan's saying "Seen one redwood, ya seen 'em all." He was a big supporter of the logging industry that decimated the redwood forests we used to go camping in.

I guess Texans who voted for Bush are going through some of the same thing re: his presidency.

"She was also, last week, one of only 25 Senators to vote against condemning MoveOn. Obviously, one can question the motives and sincerity of her doing all of this. But whatever else is true, as she runs for President, she has been moving steadily towards the "blogger/leftist" view on Iraq that (David) Brooks dishonestly claims she is repudiating." Glenn Greenwald

I still don't know that I trust her, but in this case I have to say, "Thank (Insert major deity or paradigm of personal belief here)!

I just want to add my voice to those who salute Brandon Mayfield's tenacity and courage. We are all Brandon Mayfield. Thank you, Garrett Epps.