...here's one former executive willing to apologize and admit error. It's refreshing, and worth applause.

Yeah. And not good enough. A half assed apology, nothing more.

When he starts campaigning for tighter trading, derivatives and banking regulation, then I might believe him. When he blows the whistle on Citi's shadier dealings of the past decade, then I'll believe him.

Until them, it's just another case of an overpaid and unaccountable banking executive trying to cover his ass.

OnTheBeat

What more needs to be said? Sheesh.

Read all your letters. They are pretty stupid. You repeat every stupid GOP meme smugly, mindlessly, robotically. You think you're a "wolf" because you watch Fox News. And you like guys in G strings.

Nobody's going to silence you. Keep on discrediting yourself.

Troll.

The reason why The One and his acolytes are picking on Fox is that they are used to handling criticism Chicago-style, which is to say, by smashing mouths and cracking heads. Since that's not so easy at the national level -- although Olbermann and Matthews would approve -- they're reduced to crying.

George Bush with all his faults is ten times the man this president is. He just can't take it.

GO FOX!! FAIR AND BALANCED!!

In this letter are the following conservative memes:

1) People who voted for Obama worship him as "The One" uncritically and with dewey eyes full of butterflies.

2) Only liberals cry, being the effeminate bleeding hearts that they are.

3) George Bush is manlier than the manliest liberal. (I love that one.)

4) Conservatives have their lies debunked is the equivalent of their heads and mouths being smashed and cracked, oppression and censorship of the worst.

5) Fair and balanced = true.

Reality 1): even on a liberal site such as Salon you will find consistent and fact based criticism of the Obama administration. This is true throughout the liberal blogosphere.

Reality 2) Conservatives also cry. In fact they cry much louder, more obnoxiously and about things of much less consequence, or shit they just make up. For instance, I have yet to see a single mainstream liberal call for the return of Fairness Doctrine, however wingnuts seem to seem to think think they are one step from being hauled away to reeducation camps.

Reality 3) The latent homosexual and daddy-crush overtones of the conservative obsession with manliness never fails to crack me up. They see W cutting brush in Texas, get a boner and for ever afterwards they get all dreamy eyed when they talk about his manhood. As if any of that was anything more than media manipulation.

Reality 4) In the response to this column so far, I have seen a lot of conservative bitching about how they are being victimized... how? Who is smashing your fucking mouth Mrackovcic? Who is silencing you? No one.

Reality 5) Fair and balanced is an ad slogan, nothing more. And I have yet to see a conservative post here in response to Lyon's article who cares if Fox reports facts or not. They only seem to care that they have an ugly, pasty guy like Beck up there to get all weepy for them. You fucking pussies.

Please do not construe this as a defense of MSNBC. I don't think any cable news is really worth watching these days... too many talking heads and not enough actual news.

Rather, take this personally as a questioning of your manly credentials and dick size.