Glenn throws out a banana peal

In this column, Glenn doesn't mention the actual slur, and seems to imply that it is not significant enough to raise eyebrows. Actually, the offending picture is still all over the Internet, and as such, will be forever. Actually, it is a big issue, more so than “raising a few eyebrows”. The mood of the nation is such that whoever the Democrats nominate will be the next president, so long as they are not “swiftboated”. The candidate will be subjected to the dirtiest and most illogical attacks, and they will inflict damage, not because of their merit, but because religious cronies want them to. Hillary has created a potential “swiftboatable moment” for herself only because the graphic of Lieberman has been preserved and she has managed to associate herself with it. Woops!

-- Woody_Chipper

Refer to subject title.

If you seriously can't figure out what was offensive, you're either very young, very insensitive, or you've not spent any time in the USA. Regardless of which, I have a feeling that a quick Technorati search will provide you with ample opportunities for reading about why some bloggers found it offensive.

LOL!

It's really difficult to objectively read these rules without an inner dialog filled with disgust. The DOJ has been corrupted deeply by these jackals. I share your hope, but I'd sure like to see the profession take responsibility for it's part in the mess.

-- Politically Lost

Yes. For example, David Iglesias was on The Bill Maher show this week. He stated - which he has done before - that if Gonzalez and crew hadn't publically announced that he (Iglesias) and the others were fired for 'performance reasons' he and they would have remained silent about why they were actually fired.

Iglesias is being given a hero's treatment now for speaking out. it seems to me that since he had received inappropriate phone calls from two New Mexico Congress persons urging him to pursue Democrats and voter fraud cases, without the needed evidence to so, no less, and since he knew that he had been fired for political reasons he should have spoken out sooner. That he didn't shows complicity and cowardice.

If that isn't the biggest crock of shit I have ever read...

Let the accusations of anti-semitism commence...

-- L.W.M

Calm down. You're not the only one who realizes that AIPAC isn't representative of Israel or Jews in general. I equate the repeating of the 'antisemitism' charge against those who deride AIPAC with the Anti-American charge repeatedly claimed against those who oppose the GWB administration or, for that matter, against those who oppose US Government policy in general. The US government is not America. AIPAC is not Israel or the be all to end all representative of Jewish-Americans. Most of us are aware of that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_fullscreen?video_id=jFfWKZrW74Y&l=362&t=OEgsToPDskLAn0aacaVs7cB05Wr0ogVp&sk=wHhjWMXyAVqDUX5N_FkkKgU&fs=1&title=Bob%20Dylan%20%20-%20%20Like%20A%20Rolling%20Stone

@Hume's Ghost

"Powell and Tenet are clearly not sociopaths."

"How do you know this?"

-Jonathon Hoag

I agree with Jonathon. Tenet has been privy to such a long line of lies, and has participated in moving those lies along for so long, to declare that he could not likely be a sociopath seems presumptuous or outside of 'reality based' thinking.

Jonathan, thanks for the 'tinyurl' link yesterday. I bookmarked it and will read it and learn how to use it eventually.

Ordinarily I wouldn't link to an off topic youtube like I did yesterday, but since the conversation had evolved all the way into Startrek territory I didn't feel that it much mattered at that point. And, yep, I was having fun.

Political Sociopathy

I think it's likely that a pretty good case can be made that Bush and Cheney are both sociopaths--which is really pretty remarkable, when you think about it. Sociopaths are generally regarded as making up 1% of the population, so the odds of any two-man team both being sociopaths is 1 in 10,000.

If you take into account how those two became a team, the odds of that having happened shrink measurably. Bush was chosen by a long list of sociopaths to run for president. Dick Cheney chose himself to be his running mate. Takes one to know one...or something like that.

Kovie, I don't claim to know much more than squat about what exactly it is that clinically defines a sociopath. But I'll tell you one thing. New Orleans is still - after, what, three years now - a cesspool full of suffering people. As is Iraq. The two people at the very head of the United States government, the two people who have more opportunity than any other people on the planet, seem to sociopathologically not give a flying burrito, brother, about those two facts.

Kitt/Paul

I hope it didn't seem like I was actually trying to defend these scumbags.

-Kovie

No, I didn't think you were trying to defend them. I've just been taking part in a conversation, is all. It seems we're all pretty much in agreement on this issue.

"I prefer to note that he seems to have less regard for human life than does the average tornado and call it a day."

-- Paul Dirks

A day.

--Kitt

L.W.M.:

I see light at the end of the tunnel.

--Walt W. Rostow, National Security Adviser, Dec. 1967

"And its a freight train, coming right at us!"

-- Paul Krassner, Abbey Hoffman, and at 10,000 other smart-ass anti-war protesters, as soon as they heard those words being uttered, as far as I can recall.

Am I right? Or do does someone else have a more accurate recollection?

-- Paul Rosenberg

Yep. Those lazy dumb sounding cliches will get you in trouble just about every time.

For example: "Bring 'em on."

--Gdubya Codpiece