Richard Cohen said:

"His (Colbert's) defenders -- and they are all over the blogosphere -- will tell you he spoke truth to power. This is a tired phrase, as we all know..."

I have to tell you, the first time I heard the phrase "spoke truth to power" was yesterday. Am I so very out of it? Or did the time frame for random phrases becoming "tired" suddenly increase to warp speed? Because I missed the entire period when "he spoke truth to power" was on everyone's lips. Perhaps I need a neuro consult; maybe I was unknowingly comatose? Or maybe Mr Cohen has become a Decider, like Our Great Leader President Bush, and has decided (and decreed) that Richard Cohen's having heard a phrase twice or more makes it "tired."

I've noticed that whenever wingnuts want something to go away they declare "The American people are tired of this! They want to move on!" Why, just last week the adorable Bay Buchanan spat out those very words about Hurricane Katrina. The American people, she declared, are "tired" of Katrina and they want to move on. No mention of how many "American people" from Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama she quizzed in coming to her conclusion on American fatigue with one of the most destructive storms in its history (Aside -- a bit strange that Americans would tire of Katrina so quickly, considering so many of them continue to read books and watch videos about the San Francisco earthquake,"Isaac's Storm" in 1900; the East Coast Hurricane of '38, the Super Outbreak of Tornados in 1974...)

Anyway, I'm eternally grateful to people like Richard Cohen and Bay Buchanan for telling me how tired I am, and letting me know exactly what is tiring me out. I suppose I am like an over-alert toddler to them, needing to be told when to get to bed. I'll toodle off now and look for my teddy bear, for I must... be... feeeling... oh... so ...sleepy (if Richard Cohen and Bay Buchanan say I am).. sooo...sleeeepy...

You KNOW he's going to go for the Ambien defense, after recent stories of people "sleepdriving" under the influence of Ambien.

He'd be a fool not to.

Remember how the media went ga-ga over the "angry white males" during the Clinton administration? Those angry white males were the plain-speaking, working class, pc-weary, affirmative action-overloaded, NASCAR-watching everydads who were the virile, restless antidote to the squeamish, safety-obsessed, child-oriented, media-denigrated soccer moms. Oh how the media sought out and cultivated those angry white males!

Conversely, take a look at the way the media today portrays the "angry left." Full-throated, snarling, obscenity-spouting, over-intellectualized, attention-seeking miscreants who have nothing better to do than sit around at computer keyboards all day long firing off annoying little emails that media insiders sighingly dump into their desktop waste bins (after gingerly picking two or three bilious phrases to print as indicative of the entire correspondence with which the insider was rudely swamped).

My how times have changed, haven't they? The "angry left", to media insiders, aren't sane citizen activists; they aren't a huge swath of the population which has been disenfranchised in the political debate this past near-decade, even though a brief look at a list of pundits and talk radio shows would show a staggering imbalance in guests representing this political cohort. No, no. The "angry left" are frothing at the mouth freaks, they're rude Neanderthals with keyboards, they're insane conspiracy theorists and.. well golldarnit, they're spoiled brats! They won't shut up about being ignored. They think they have some kind of right to express themselves... they suffer some madness which deludes them into thinking they can demand to QUESTION the intellect, opinions and legitimacy of those obedient media-appointed insiders who have the sanity to obey a never-before observed level of decorum in order to protect a vaunted access to power.

I'm just sayin'..... what a difference a decade makes, eh?

The National Enquirer would have had photographs from the contractors parties, it would have had a headline screaming about CIA bigwigs being involved with hookers.

Once again I have to say.. what a difference a decade makes.

Sounds like this country has been handed over to a Doggie Day Care agency.

.. haven't heard about Nine Fingers yet.

The first few times people at the Post went bananas over blogosphere responses to articles written by Post employees, I was amazed at the hothouse-like atmosphere over there which made their staff members wilt and nearly faint at the sight of a full email box. Criticism of their viewpoints seemed to make them swoon, sarcasm was seen as a deadly weapon by these fellows, even though their own articles drip sarcasm and label people so freely.

Then I got smart. Hang on, said I. Cohen and others absolutely are writing these types of articles soley to get a full email box, so that they can write yet another article bemoaning the hogwild, frothing, full-charging, crazy-daisy left wing blogosphere. It gets them more coverage; it gets them more web hits. It's successful.

I don't think I'll satisfy Mr Cohen's craving for "hate mail" anymore. I was an unwitting tool to have written him in the first place, playing into his hands. He and others at the Post have discovered that writing things like his anti-Colbert piece will get them lots of attention.... and it's exactly the type of attention they crave. So I'm dumping Richard Cohen and everyone else at the Post into my desktop dustbin. My email (which was not dripping with raw hatred, BTW, it just disagreed with Richard Cohen) was part of a well-orchestrated marketing trick. It gets people to click on the Post's website, it gets Richard Cohen more online hits and his next piece demanding stop-the-madness will just generate even more hits for Cohen and the Post.

Folks, we're being played. Again.