As always, Glenn, the points you are making about our country's broken journalism, particularly at the "paper of record", are right on target! Have you had ANY contacts from ANY of the 24 hour news networks to discuss these issues?

I wouldn't expect a Chris Matthews, a Tim Russert, or a Wolf Blitzer to have you on, but has Keith Olbermann ever asked to speak with you (in between his constant conversations with Richard "fantastic job" Wolffe)? Or David Shuster now that he's getting more hosting duities?

The issues you're addressing are so damned important they literally mean the difference between life or death, and our media continues to allow the White House narrative, from it's lies about Iran, to it's lies about Al Qeada in Iraq, to go unchallenged.

With the ever increasing number of status-quo/sinking ship protectors popping up on this board, it's clear you're having a powerful effect scaring the rightwing "scholars", Glenn! Or as Tucker Carlson calls you, "Whatever his name is".

Now that Frank Rich is pointing out your work in his column, they're bound to start popping up and throwing their feces as hard as ever at you. They've proven to be intellectually bankrupt, so feces is all they have to offer.

For every honest disagreement, there seems to be 2-3 rightwing desperados waiting to disagree without actually saying what they disagree with. As usual, you bring clarity to the issues facing our foreign policy, they just bring … feces.

You’re the best, Glenn!

As civil rights activist James Foreman said in the aftermath of the 1965 Selma march, "If we can't sit at the table of democracy, we'll knock the fucking legs off."

Imperialist nations always fall. Imperialist nations imposing evil fall hard. If our government, and by extension it's courtiers in the Foreign Policy Community, both Democrat and Republican, continue to ignore not only the wishes of the American people, but even the most basic standards of morality and decency with their insatiable love for war, and their insatiable greed, than "insurgents" and “terrorists” will most likely become the appellation of more and more people in the years to come.

Reece0 said: "Their foreign policy views aren't the only thing disqualifying them from being credible candidates. Dennis Kucinich is pretty far left"

Can you offer something more substantive than the tired and predictable, cardboard, stereotype, propaganda of the beltway crowd? What exactly is so "far left" about Kucinich? As with the "George-Soros-is-horrible" meme, I'd like to read something substantial to back up the accepted conventional media wisdom. Especially, when that "wisdom" comes with a self-serving agenda.

Everything in American consumerism, from what we eat to who we elect, is all done by packaging. The same media that took an Ivy league New England elitist who skated through life as a blue-blooded, alcoholic, draftdodging, drug addict was miraculously turned into a "rough n' tough, regular, good ole boy from Texas" that (they told Americans) "you'd want to have a drink with"!

Similarly, taking a man like Kucinich whose views are CLEARLY in the mainstream, and are shared by more Americans than EVER shared Bush's dark, self-serving, elitist entitlement views, is exactly how one becomes "pretty far left" among the champagne and caviar set in Washington. If Bush was EVER acceptable to Americans, and Kucinich was ever out of the mainstream, it has EVERYTHING to do with packaging and propaganda, and very little, if anything, to do with reality.

Can I suggest something that I rarely (if ever) hear spoken about in the discussion of the rightwing spinning of reality? I may be wrong, but the rightwing narrative that dominates ALL of the national media seemed to have come to fruition almost singularly by the onslaught of FOX News - a network that set out to redefine the national discourse and spin reality in favor of rightwing ideology while smearing all the views they disagreed with (from science, to equal rights, to religion, to national interests,etc.). And ALL the other networks followed suit for fear of being labeled liberal (or because they agree with the righwing agenda).

That being the case, and it not showing any signs of ebbing, even after the clusterf*ck of Iraq and the Bush presidency, wouldn't it make enormous sense for the leftwing powers that be to initiate a NEW NEWS STATION to counter FOX? A 24 hour network that dispensed TRUTH, and exposed the outrageous lies that pass for "news" in the 21st century? The material is ripe (as Glenn aptly points out every day) to be coverd around the clock.

Programs that covered the news without a rightwing bias. Programs that skewered the lies (as Glenn, Jon Stewart, and Media Matters are doing so well). Programs that had experts (ie. people whose point of view has proved valid such as Scott Ritter, Wm Rivers Pitt, Robert Scheer, etc.) instead of the current status quo of "only the wrong need apply" of network broadcasting.

Supposedly, the left has "rich, liberal Hollywood" on it's side. It has uber-rich folks like George Soros. It has creative geniuses like Michael Moore whose films and TV work are ALL enormously popular. It has HUMOR (something the right is completely devoid of) to make the programming interesting.

While I agree with Glenn 100% on the horrible hypocrisy, and the endless holding up of congenitally wrong "experts" to discuss every issue, isn't it time to have at least ONE powerful, state-of-the-art, alternative to the correct this situation? If that's how the rightwing perverted the national discourse, shouldn't it be used in reverse to cleanup the mess they've created?

That being said, Glenn is doing an AMAZING job in shaking things up and challenging conventional wisdom!