Wow. Here are some typical examples of letters in the Turley Sucks category:

The torture photo issue has nothing to do with Constitutional law. I respect the Car Talk guys on this issue more than I trust Turley.

What makes him a better expert on constitutional law than, say, Barack Obama, who also taught constitutional law?

That's how I see him - the law without consideration of political fallout.

Turley is a media whore and self-promoter. Tweety with a law degree.

In the pantheon of constitutional scholars, Turley rates as number one in the self-promotion category. Beyond that, he's just one of the pack.

Turley comes off as Mitt Romney's snotty, douchebag, old money cousin and people are disappointed and outraged that people notice and more densely, regard that notice as a desire to silence the message. What is his stellar message, anyway? That torture is illegal, immoral, stupid, ineffective, and flat out wrong? Well, anyone that doesn't get that pretty much on instinct and 8th grade civics isn't going to be sold by him, if at all.

I don't see anyone making any substantive arguments against what Turley says about the law. If these people are at all representative of Obama supporters, no wonder he feels he can get away with this shit.

It's not my fault I've always been right about Obama while Johnny-come-lately is still figuring it all out.

In my experience, most people here have always had a healthy skepticism about Obama, as they would about any politician. Those who treated Obama as the messiah during the primaries and election were trounced. If you want a wider and more appropriate field in which to display your omniscience, may I suggest DailyKos?

Your glow is just too bright for us plebes.

You always come up with the best visuals.

At sig.

I forgot to add:

Surrounded by nuts.

Pictured at sig.

To me, it's John Cleese's stark staring eyes that best represent the face of that odious breed of Obama apologists. :)

It would appear that those who bring him appropriately to task for falling off of his own campaign promise wagon time and again, are nothing more than pesks to be endured like ants at a picnic.

He ignores us at his peril, I say!

I often pity Vandenhuevel {sp} on these talk shows. She's just too soft spoken, knowledgeable and intent on factual details to ever get a good hearing on such formats. It only takes the hoarse braying of a Buchanan or the reptilian hissing of a Carville to drown her out.

Oh, but she tries sooo hard! You can see the effort she makes to state her case. And it really does take a great effort when she is up against those troglodytes. I find myself cheering her on whenever I see her--Go! GO! Go! Katrina!

Reason comes on little cat feet, eh?

In the later Victorian era, there was a movement called Muscular Christianity, which was a strange mix of religion, noblesse oblige, and pumping iron. One of its proponents, Thomas Hughes, said about it: "The . . . muscular Christian has hold of the old chivalrous and Christian belief, that a man's body is given him to be trained and brought into subjection, and then used for the protection of the weak, the advancement of all righteous causes, and the subduing of the earth which God has given to the children of men."

I wonder what Muscular Rationality would look like (aside from the steel-toed boots!). Maybe Katrina could coach The Rock and send him into an actual ring with Jonah Goldberg for some debate and some wrestling. If nothing else, it would give the chicken hawks a run for their money.

omooex, that sounds like a place to avoid!

Che,

So in effect, the Executive can get away with any crackpot "law" it wants. Make it up as it goes along. Legally.

Turley said something similar the other night, that if all it takes to abrogate a law you don't like is to have some sycophantic hack lawyer write a memo, then how can we have a system of law?

But despite the enabling of this by the current administration, the shoe worship continues.

Plus, Glenn has a shitload of followers on Twitter and the number is growing rapidly, and he only just started tweeting.

I have four followers. And I don't even know who one of them is.

Che pasa, I think your analysis of what has happened to the press industry is a good one.

Who the parasites are is pretty clear when you have the vantage point of anyone outside those in power and their hangers-on.

I was watching Elizabeth last night and was struck by the similarities between the members of her court and the sycophantic elite press. They both are desperate to gain the attention of the powerful; they both get an unfair share of the wealth by taking the spoils of people who work much harder than they do; they both are tuned in, as if it were a matter of life and death, to the niceties of who counts and who doesn't; they both are corrupt and self-serving.

I've noticed several times, especially recently in the torture segments, that many things KO says or capitalizes upon sound like they came directly from Glenn's blog (including the comments herein) and were published long before the show.

I think one thing that also happens is that the MSM would often prefer to avoid covering a particular story, but then so much noise is made about it in the blogosphere that they are compelled to at least deal with it in some way, even if only to try to dismiss it.

This cracked me up. From Jon Meacham, regarding the recent redesign of Newsweek:

"We will be engaging, in depth, and tethered to the news but not trapped by it."

WTF!

Link at sig.