The misrepresentation of this screed is perfectly represented by the title. Anyone who's watched Gore's documentary and can classify it as "sobbing" has a very dim connection to reality. It's a wake-up call, even a call to arms. And yes, Eliot did make those comments about reality; whether Jung said something similar is not clear. But here's something Jung did say: "We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." This article isn't just oppressive, it's claustrophobic, issuing from the same echo chamber that has dominated our politics, our culture, and our media for six long, degrading years.

Matt Lauer is consistently one of the worst interviewers on TV: inept, unprepared, bumbling. Inspector Clouseau could have done a better job with Larry Craig--and it would have been entertaining, at least, rather than just painful. Lauer goes in with a vague and creepy agenda, and here it was clearly to help the Craig PR machine, just as he interviewed Kitty Kelly when her Bush book was published, determined to undermine her. He couldn't even do that very well, coming across as little more than a good manicure in a lovely suit. What continues to surprise me, though, is that someone like that who has to have staff researchers either ignores their work or doesn't push them. I guess when you're making millions a year, it doesn't matter.

The last time I got a call from the DCC asking for money, I said I wasn't planning on giving the Democrats another dime because they were cowards and could not stand up to Bush and the rightwingers. There was a silence, and then the fundraiser said quietly, "I know what you mean."

Why? Why would 20 years at the CIA make anyone think that their cover would be blown by something a spouse had done?

Pam, I agree with everything here, but honestly, his calling us liars is hardly demonization. We should be careful about the terms we use when talking about people who distort language and reality on a regular basis. His other comments are beyond the pale, of course.

It's a poorly written, dimly expressed letter, which points to how fuzzy the man's thinking is. Isn't it grand knowing that we have such people defending our freedom?

There's a hilarious moment in "The Imposters" where the Nazi-ish Campbell Scott catches up with Lili Taylor and notices the sweat on her brow. He says, "I, too, am moist," and her look of disgust is classic.

Let's face it, the WaPo has become a mostly worthless propaganda rag. This is, after all, the paper that recently published a loathsome article about The Hugger-in-Chief, touting Bush's feeling and manliness. It read like a mash note, despite the injection of a studied note of cynicism. It was as bad as the NYT's early breathless columns about how "Bush holds his cabinet meetings on time and everyone wears jacket and tie!" Easy to meet deadlines, of course, when the cabinet gatherings were mere photo ops--as departing administration officials revealed.

You can bet the farm on Feinstein and some other Democrat on the committee being a Quisling, ditto when the Senate votes. Mukasey's confirmation is as good as done.

If Giuliani was so responsible for the safety and security of millions of people, why did he let 9/11 happen? He'd say it wasn't his fault? Well he can't have it both ways, can he? No, of course he can, he's a Republican. He can have it any way he wants and the MSM will do its best not to expose his lies, but they will obsess about Clinton's laugh and whether it's "authentic" or not.

How are her screeds about Clinton and Obama any less loathsome than Ann Coulter's typical slumgullion? To paraphrase Churchill, every word they both write subtracts from the sum total of human knowledge.

So GK makes a grand conclusion based on one friend in Berlin? Has he himself ever been to Germany, met Germans?

I've been there three times, twice on book tours promoting my books that had been translated into German, spent a great deal of time talking to people over meals, and everywhere I spoke and signed books, I met Germans who had moved--to Munich, Berlin, Hamburg. Why? Jobs. The point of GK's essay could have been made without this fallacious (and lazy) assessment of Germans.

I've reviewed for NPR, the Detroit Free Press, Washington Post, Boston Review, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Jerusalem Report and there's nothing sloppier than a reviewer printing a spoiler--revealing crucial information readers/viewers don't know. Ms. Williams has one in the first few sentences. How hard is it to think before you type?

Whatever happened to the second part of the 9/11 investigation, where we were going to find out how the White House used the information given to it by the CIA et al.? Why has that report not been released or even completed or talked about? What are the Democrats afraid of? More sliming by Rush and his myrmidons?

Why?

Because of this one line:

"To turn your failures into pop songs is to make commodities of them"

Would you have preferred her to do an MFA somewhere and write short stories, or would that be commodification, too? Oh, maybe she could just write them and lock them away and never try to get them published. I wonder what you're commodifying in your new book? Or are you above that?