(1) Is what he's saying substantively true?

(2) If so, why didn't he resign?

It seems to me that some (incl Huffington) unthinkingly do republicans' work for them by treating the second question out of order.

... "What Digby said."

Atrios has already learned this.

It looks to the not-legally-trained eye that retroactive legalization functionally contains, among other things, what amounts to a pardon - which is supposed to be the sole province of the executive.

... that there's something we don't know about driving Democrats to behave in this prima facie improbable manner.

... and in the large can end in only one of two ways: with a gradual increase in the intellectual quality of the media, or with the media actively working to squash the more informed voice of "Everybody Else". Presumably, the media will work for the latter end, and presumably it'll start with the removal of comments from Time's site.

... It needs to be pointed out, and emphasized that this is not an isolated instance - this is chronic. Their next fallback line is gonna be something like an apology for a "single error in an otherwise good process". This needs to be headed off - preferably BEFORE the fact.

... Now that those claims have been shown false, he falls back to "Reps/Dems say" schtick?

IT'S TOO LATE for the Colbert satire to be applicable to Joke Line - he ALREADY started on the substantive-claim road.

You'll be amazed at how quickly things can be fixed or go away when you just fess up, with no ifs, ands, or buts.

Conversely, you'll learn how painfully slowly they go away when you don't.

... you lying sack of shit. Name one.

... there are only two kinds of women as far as he's concerned:

(1) The Ice Queen, and

(2) The Crybaby.

In the face of new behaviorial experience with Clinton, lots and lots of men simply change their assessment of Cliton from (1) to (2), if at all.

... who needs prosecutors?

They lie and say he's a muslim (aka terrorist to stupid bigoted Americans), so he has to make sure that our idiotic bigoted electorate understands he's christian. Blame the stupid bigots that infect this country, not Obama.

... Americans are mean, stupid, and bigoted.

This fundamental problem with our country can't even begin to be addressed until its existence is acknowledged.

lol - Only 30% of the SC population is black.

... Just like they will pretend that grammatical similarity = functional similarity when they read this.

"As I write in the book... spineless little creatures whose cowards and lack of manliness make them laughingstocks."

Um, if that's how you write in the book, then you need to hire a new editor. The word you want is "cowardice".

Obama Gets "Very Flirtatious" At Campaign Stop

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/01/obama-gets-very-flirtati_n_94477.html

Matthews ‘gets very ethnic,’ says no one’s surprised Obama is good at basketball.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/01/matthews-gets-very-ethnic-says-no-ones-surprised-obama-is-good-at-basketball/

"Other than AT&T, Verizon, Fred Hiatt and Dick Cheney, there is not -- and there never was -- any constituency in the U.S. demanding new warrantless eavesdropping powers and telecom amnesty."

Um, Joke Line?

Another white person saying racism isn't a big problem.

It's wonderful being the foxes that guard the henhouse, isn't it?

Thanks for the "it's just a few bad apples" white unity reinforcement post!

C'mon, Glenn. You're not fooling anybody. She's a blithering idiot.

That's pure, unmitigated bullshit, and you know it.

"A street kid gets arrested, gonna do some time

He got out three years from now just to commit more crime

A businessman is caught with 24 kilos

He’s out on bail and out of jail

And that’s the way it goes

Raah!"

Maybe it's news to certain sorts of people, but it's old hat to others.

Either reconciling Dodd's statements with yours, else acknowledging error?

is by virtue of their logical form, fool.

The inference "this ball is red, therefore this ball is colored" is not a good one by virtue of its logical form (wherein the specific meanings of the non-logical bits are ignored).

Rather, quite the opposite - the goodness of such an inference follows in essential part from the meanings of the non-logical bits. Such a notion of inferential goodness may, following Sellars, be called "material inference", by contrast with formal inference.

I more or less agree with your overall conclusion, by the way. Your reasoning for it, however, was horrendous.

In particular, were folks like Franken and/or Greenwald among them?

Froomkin got Banfield-ed.

People who believe in the dumb shit mentioned in the article, or people who are surprised that lots of Americans are dumb enough to believe in the dumb shit mentioned in the article.

on my teevee so much, anyway?

Are they really outnumbering us that much in terms of just plain showing up?

Or is the media specifically seeking them out to further their bloodsport?

To give us this wonderful article. It makes a great addition to my stack of Greenwald-go-to's (which include the rage/self-pity theme on the the right, and such things).

To Chuck "That's not the point" Todd.

The media simply doesn't care about the truth.

And that you are *therefore* a very unserious dirty fucking hippy.

then they should have no fear of standing trial.

There's not a jury anywhere in the country that would vote to convict if truly prevented terrorist attacks as a result of torture.

It's still wrong, of course - just pointing out *practical* practical evidence that not even *they* believe the apologetic they're spewing.

2) Kennedy endorsed Obama in part because of the Clinton campaigns race-baiting.

I assume you were a Clinton supporter; I'm sorry your horse lost, but that's no reason to falsify history.

Likely it stems at least partly from their being among the stupidest people with college degrees. What use does an idiot have for the truth, after all?

Just sayin'.

That would have just been too much for my delicate white sensibilities.