that could make all the rest of the media culpable for virtually ignoring the very real damning information, or amazing lack of service records refuting charges that Bush got preferential treatment and then evaded his obligation?

Journalism enjoys (or at least used to) a special place in our legal system because of its unique vantage point and focused dissemination of information.

As long as our government undermines and manipulates the advantages and obligations of a "free press" and lets Rupert Murdoch's and corporate cartels have near-complete control of the media....this is what we will get. Selective and propagandized accounts that allow a miscreant like Bush to be elected, and then re-elected even after the facts are known. And to virtually destroy this country in the process.

Good for Dan Rather. Although it is too little, too late...one can always fall back on "better late than never." If he couldn't help prevent the carnage, at least he may be able to peel off the flight suit and expose the grotesque hypocrisy and deceit of the man wearing it.

but I'm wishing somebody thought to add a little something unexpected and disgusting to his meal. Not saying what...leaving that entirely up to the creative sensibilities and after-the-fact imaginings of the "blacks" running Sylvia's.

is that all the GOP chicken-littles and Bill O'Reilly's fail to see what a great moment in U.S. history and affirmation of freedom it is when the President of Iran can speak in front of an audience in this country. And the President of the institution where he is speaking can hold him accountable to his words and deeds.

Open dialogue. For better or worse, sometimes both, it is something I am proud can still manage to raise it's battered head in public.

Thank you, Columbia, for proving that freedom of speech has not been completely obliterated in this country.

Now, let's see if you would be vacationing in Guantanamo if you held Bush to the same standards of critical accountbility in front of an audience.

how often do you beat your wife?

We should give Rudy a break. How could he have known that perpetual 9/11 would someday arrive and transform him into "America's Mayor" and give him a shot at an office to which he could never have aspired. Stuff happens. Requiring new faces.

Honestly though, when the best you get from gun-toters is "polite applause", better start courting the catch and release fly fishing folks.

@thscuspeaks

This wasn't the slightest bit homophobic....the joke was how to get Larry Craig's attention, not by calling out his (alleged or not alleged) homosexual proclivities, but by making fun of his bathroom trolling antics.

Which, by the way, are not funny because of any connection with homosexuality, but are funny by virtue of their connection to total absurdity and the lying cover-up, thereof.

Grow some skin. Every joke isn't an insult to someone's serious lifestyle.

Here's another joke: I was living in Idaho, and wrote to Larry Craig regarding Sam Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court. (as in DON'T do it) I came across Craig's response letter yesterday, which had arrived many weeks after the confirmation hearings had ended. It started like this:

"Like you, I am concerned about the crucial moral issues that face our country today."

Rather than attacking Tim Grieve for a reasonable joke, spend the time writing to congressmen like Craig, who live one way, and vote another...and put people on the Supreme Court who will assure that our grandchildren will be adhering to their narrow and hypocritical interpretations of morality.

Thank you.

I was being honest in my anonymous letter, but unlke you, don't have the courage to tell the truth publicly about religion is such terse (and justifiable terms.)Religion makes people even crazier than politics. (or are they both now the same??)

You know who I am.

N.

Is this less about security and more about saving Blackwater's bacon in the big Iraq profit cook-off?

Blackwater caaaaan't go home. We neeeeeed them.

Yum. That's some good PR.

I thought that's where they meet now. I mean, surely they aren't doing those $1000-a-seat appearances at the "Y".

Well, there are those VFW folks, but it's worth going downmarket for photo ops with "the greatest generation" of blindly Republicanized old soldiers in 50-year-old uniforms, so I don't think that counts.

Instead of asking Mitt to respond to the incident, it would be a lot more fun to ask Giuliani, whose partner was the unfortunate Bernard Kerik, who was on the board of Taser International and made $5.5 million in stock profits.

Taser=Kerick=Giuliani Partners=war profiteering=greed=bad judgement.

So much more entertaining than a Mitt head-scratcher.

I realized these people represent a large "base" of half-witted, ill-informed, bedroom policing, small-minded, self-righteous, rights-limiting, hypocritical, authoritarian biblical automatons who all get to vote.

And those four people, who are more concerned with a cluster of cells than the hundreds of thousands in Iraq being sacrificed at the altar of George W. Bush, just cancelled out my vote, and those of three of my most globally-focused friends.

God help us. Not their God. Our God.