What a load of absolute, mile-high, elephant shit!

Aside from your rote recitation of the standard baseless Republicans talking points about NBC/MSNBC (home to Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews, Mikey Weiner Savage, Andrea Mitchell, Norah O’Donnell, etc.,etc) being “incredibly liberal,” along with CNN (home to Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, Wolf Blitzer, etc.), who, in your psycho-fantasyland has ever said HETEROSEXUALS ARE BAD?! C'MON! How far up Rush Limbaugh's ass is your pointy head?

Also, name ONE EXAMPLE of our fine, national media not bending over backwards to show ridiculous deference to any asshole proclaiming to be a devout Christian. You have George W Bush, someone ethically devoid and completely amoral, but because he says (laughably) that he's a "born-again Christian," it’s like wolf bane with the media. TV Christians can openly call for assassinations, mass-murder, or any other violent criminal act, and because they say they're "men of the cloth," they are uniformly given a free pass.

To be pointing your finger accusing ANYONE else of “waste, fraud, corruption, payoffs” after 8 years of COMPLETE lawlessness run amok without any oversight, a Justice Department being co-opted as a wing of the Republican Party, and a "liberal media" that refuses to accept the idea that Republicans could possible commit Constitutional crimes, is too fucking absurd for words!

"You snivling liberals don't know what the real world is about"

-- jmklein

Bigotry is bliss.

From your comfy, cushioned, feathered little bubble, preaching about "the real world." Ain't it wonderful?

Do you want your answer in the form of a haiku, a limerick, a maxim, or a carmen figuratum?

Operators are standing by

"Suffice to say, the U.S. is the superpower now, analogous to England and France of the 1790s."

-- Tim W. Brown

Considering how well it turned out for them to overplay their hand, it would be ludicrous to listen to George Washington's words on how it would be this nation's downfall to get bogged down in foreign entanglements.

So, to recap: On the one hand, Washington's words are too "quaint" to be relevant in this highly complex 21st century, but on the other hand, let's model ourselves after the England & France of 1790!

"The FISA law was written in 1978. We're having this discussion in 2006. It's a different world."

-- History Scholar George W Bush

'nuff said.

"Would someone please check this guy out. He sounds completely bogus."

-- Acent90

Actually, a dipshit who creates a Salon account just to post that one pathetic message seems a lot more bogus.

Let me guess. David Gregory?

When you make a statement like the one you have above (or, more likely, cut and paste such statements), do you think that you're either (a) making a salient, fresh, "hilarious" point not made relentlessly by 3-fingered imbeciles on every blog and call-in show that covers the Palestine/Israeli issue or (b) that you will sway anyone with your endlessly recycled, inane point of view?

In your mind, the ONLY lives that matter are Israeli, and if the Palestinians or the Iranians are mutilated and incinerated by weaponry, well then that's the "hard reality of war that needs to be accepted!" Of course, you need not worry about any of that reality infecting your tranquil feather-bed existence thousands and thousands of miles away from a conflict you reflexively endorse. Yet, in your mind, people who don't agree with you are the naive, uninformed ones -- not you with your heroic, albeit virgin, "warrior" talk.

I guess what I'm saying is that you are very, very ignorant, and just because there are many others who agree with such dogma without thinking, you're still very, very ignorant.

Twice today, on just this post, I noticed when idiotic comments were made, it was the first posting of the account making the comment. I'm curious if these are people who usually use other names who created a new identity just for this topic (not wanting their comments associated with their usual account). Could be just a coincidence.

Hope you're having a good holiday!

“I know it's conventional wisdom, but I actually dispute the notion that the best way to persuade people is by speaking gently to them and winning them over with kind and incremental advocacy.”

-- Glenn Greenwald

Nothing proves that statement as vividly as the pre-war/early occupation years of 2002-2003 when multitudes of Americans in conversations and on blogs across the nation decided to put their brains on the shelf and replace them with small robotic devices that mindlessly repeated the media's pro-war talking points without questioning any of it: "It needs to be done, damnit!" I have never gotten into so many arguments, with so many unquestioning robotons, as I did during that period. A time when even posing contrary views to the brainless idiocy emanating from Washington terrified many people, to the point that obvious truths (such as Saddam barely had a standing military let alone the possibility to nuke the US) weren't spoken by people who knew better for fear of everything from personal harm to losing their jobs. It wasn’t a time when making gentle, rational arguments swayed some people’s opinion. They were whipped into a frenzy by extremist talk, and only by pointing out their stupidity – harshly – would they listen at all.

Belitting people isn’t pretty, but when someone’s not thinking, I find it often unavoidable.

This is off-topic, but too indicative of our :beltway media to mention today.

I just caught the end of Chris Matthew's year-end edition of Hardball. He listed the following as the Top Scandals of 2008

The #1 Scandal: Eliot Spitzer

The #2 Scandal: Rod Blagojevich

The #3 Scandal: John Edwards

The liberal media, ladies & gentlemen.