It’s gotten to the point where you can instantly identify the seediest, smarmiest, ethically devoid folks by how much they rail against impurity and immorality in others. Whether it’s Larry Craig, Bill O’Reilly, George W Bush, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell (or Joe McCarthy, Aimee Semple McPherson, J Edgar Hoover, and Father Charles Coughlin before them), it’s almost a calling-card for having something to hide in your own life.

The GOP’s mantra of 'family values' inevitably exposed them as a party of pedophiles (Mark Foley), sexual deviants (Bill O’Reilly, Larry Craig), drug addicts (Rush Limbaugh) and morally bankrupt degenerates (George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, etc.).

You have to wonder if it’s a subconscious self-destructive tendency in people who claim to be society's "values keepers" to always be pointing their fingers accusingly at others for what are always their most flagrant failings

"Obscenity is an appeal to prurient interest."

-- sysprog

Tell that to Lenny Bruce

"Jumping all over someone because of a slip when he has only criticized purposeful instances of profanity and nudity on air seems small, petty, and worthy of the Republicans."

-- mattcable

When my child is lying on the floor, foaming at the mouth, eyes rolling back in his head, and spinning in the center of the room (a la Shemp Howard), whether his ears were punctured with "purposeful instances of profanity and nudity" or not will make no difference. My child will still be emotionally and psychologically ruined for life.

Please, don't even kid about something that horrible!

"You try talkin' on the TV for several hours day-in and day-out. Would you occasionally make a mistake, rely on your own narrative in order to avoid dead air? You betcha."

-- WillemS

To all the Hugh Betchas in the United States of Gollygoshica who don't seem to get why hypocrisy as extreme Scarborough, O'Reilly, and Limbaugh, et.al., need to be knee-capped instead of dismissed away, I’d like to paraphrase Tom Joad:

Wherever there's a bigot preaching that others need to be tolerant, I'll be there.

Wherever there’s a guy propositioning another guy in a men’s room stall while simultaneously preaching against the “evils” of homosexuality, I’ll be there.

Wherever there’s a war on Christmas being conducted by intolerant, ego-maniacs who completely miss what Jesus’ message was, I’ll be there.

Wherever there’s a woman cynically being used as a token to further the agenda of a male chauvinist under the guise of ‘furthering women’s rights’, I’ll be there.

Wherever there’s a talk show host condemning rock n roll singers who take drugs while simultaneously being stoned out of his mind for years on Oxydcodone, I’ll be there.

In her recording of Pata Pata, Miriam does a wild scream after she says the line: "Till the morning sun begins to shine" that always brings tears to my eyes. I don't know why. It's a visceral reaction. Happens every time I hear it.... She was a soulful lady.

"Why, though, do Karl Rove and Bill Kristol, who handpicked Palin, and was so wrong about Iraq and so many other things, still get prominent posts on the teevee and even the NY Times?"

-- castorita

Did the Ku Klux Klan suddenly obtain more tolerant, rational, intelligent speakers as their hate-filled, ignorant ideology became despised by the American people? The exact same principle is at work with the national media and their refusal to rethink their deep devotion and respect to the Republican agenda. No matter how discredited and despised the GOP becomes by the American people, the media continues to treat them as "Serious, Repectable, Intelligent" no matter how much incompetence & devastation they wreak on the United States and the world.

"He's been put in place to bring about the end game. The final move towards the New World Order. Which is actually the Old World Order of oligarchy and feudalism. It's kind of funny that a black man is going to responsible for enslaving us all."

-- ChillyDogg

Look at the bright side. You'll get to masterbate to your fantasies through the whole thing.

".. former department criminal division chief Robert S. Litt asked that the new administration avoid fighting old battles that could be perceived as vindictive."

That's a very good point, but I think Mr Litt casts the net woefully short. We currently have over 2½ million people incarcerated in the United States who may or may not have broken laws in the past. We need to move on from these "old", "vindictive battles", these "vendettas", and deal with the issues facing us today. Charles Manson was incarcerated in 1969 - almost 40 years ago! What's up with that???

As President Bush so rightly said 2 years ago, "the FISA law was written in 1978! We're having this discussion in 2006! It's a different world!" Abso-fucking-lutely!!!! A lot of people weren't even BORN when tens of thousands of Americans currently in prison were incarcerated! It's 2008! What kind of madness is this!!!!

I agree 100% with the Republican Party - Empty Our Jails Now!!

"We are in a near state of emergency at the moment as a country and all of our energy needs to be focused on remedying it."

-- ealvarez12

I can walk and chew gum at the same time. How about you?

"When there is a ‘convenient’ moment to say an alleged ‘truth’ then the alleged truth is just a lie." -- Juan Enrique

Sounds very much like the summer of 2002 when there was a ‘convenient’ moment (post 9.11) to say an alleged ‘truth’ (Saddam Hussein has WMD's, ties to Al Qeada, plans to nuke America under mushroom clouds, etc., etc.) and the alleged truth turned out to be a 100% Bush administration manufactured lie.

Willam Ayers never killed anyone. I wish I could say the same for the morally bankrupt, born-again christian (sic), George W Bush and the ethically devoid Republican Party. Their murder spree is currently at over one million innocent people and counting.

Who's the terrorist again?????