If you tuned in Olbermann in the middle of a "give em hell" rant, and then you tuned into OReilly at just about any old time, *and* if you knew very, very little about current affairs and history, then you might walk away thinking there's no real difference.

The MSM considers their audience to be generally ignorant and uninterested, and for the most part that's correct. It's the real problem, and just pointing out MSM lies and hypocrisy won't really help much. ( as much as I like Glenn's work. )

" a Republic madam, if you can keep it" - Ben Franklin.

Vidor1 shows the problem with conspiracy theories; he is only capable of thinking with movie plots.

Real world conspiracies are nothing like a movie. Real world conspiracies are messy affairs; almost no one involved understands the whole affair, and like-minded people acting fairly independently can together build a conspiracy.

Masters of conspiracy know their best defense is that thinking about the possibility of such theories causes emotional stress that most people are unwilling to tolerate.

Modern media like movies and T.V. are a blessing and a curse. A curse because such media frames thought so powerfully that many people like Vidor1 are incapable of looking at the world in any other way.

Belief in God is the feedback howl of emergent self awareness.

Don't criticize the fact that humanity hasn't outgrown superstition yet. It is happening, slowly.

It's hard work.

Norm has a habit of publicly proclaiming one way and then voting the opposite. He's the worst kind of politician.

With one plane crash Minnesota went from the best to the worst Senator. Ugh.

is that Bush wiretapped Americans without any DOJ approval at all. That's not a gray area, it's a clear violation of law.

Bush has been quoted saying "you need a warrant to wiretap,"

so he clearly knew.

As bad as Nixon was, this is *way* worse. If Congress can't get up the gumption to impeach Bush for this, our republic is done.

Good job, Gary.

"Upstream" profits, downstream profits,so what? The profits are still outrageous, and it's getting to the point where it's hard to swallow the quaint notion that the Oil Industry is in any sense a "free market."

Sure our demands are high, but not for oil. We demand transporation, that's what we want.

The Oil Industry has manipulated government for over a century to prevent any competition for their beautiful dream: an endless flow of cash, more and more! With Bush, they've reached Nirvana.

Modern American business preaches competition and open markets, but it practices collusion, price fixing and bribery for legislation.

Sure, the American people could be blamed for letting it happen, but you know the truth: most people just do what everyone everyone else is doing. And that's why we need good leaders, and why things suck when our leaders are bad.

Yes the Oil Industry is to blame. And the Oil Industry isn't just oil, it's guns and armies and cable channels and pharma and think tanks. The richest own the most of these; they live in a different world. They look down and laugh at us, the sheeple.

You don't have to be a Commie to look forward to the day when all this econonics-justifies-all and free-markets-are-god baloney is ridiculed as the fatuous nonsense it is. You really can believe in individual ownership and initiative and honest business and still hate these money grubbing, get-rich-quick times we live in.

God knows I'm sick of it.

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msgkings, the President matters.

The Oil Industry doesn't control everything, that's what makes the game such fun! It was fun beating up Clinton because he didn't get with the program ( he refused to invade Iraq, damn him! ) but it's even more fun now that our man Cheney and a Bush are in charge. Oh what fun!

"That's the last time we're going to let O.P.E.C. screw with us.

We'll get those bastards by the balls and then we'll really play with pricing, no one to stop us now!"

"and by 'us', I mean the inner circle, not you little people."

Like Red Green without the duct tape jokes.

There's no southern Garrison Keillor and the last one to fill a similar role was Twain.

I guess if the South had some more goofy and lovable stereotypes rather then just angry, violent haters.

See, these poor conservatives were always against Bush. It's just that they praised him, defended him and voted for him because they were afraid, very very afraid.

Pity them, the poor things.

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dastardlydic, you've got one mighty bad case of moral blindness going on here.

Get this; the "real crime" is treason. Simple enough for you?

Libby is a traitor, so is Cheney.

Clinton's "real crime" was .... well, no one can really say. Mr Starr didn't really say.

Adultery? O.K. I'll take adultery over treason any day.

Adultery is bad for any regular citizen, but treason is a lot worse, especially for a president. Simple enough?

Read the exploits of 6 year old Monica Lewinsky as she valiantly struggles to keep the Soviet Union from collapsing under the onslaught of Reagan's domestic military spending.

Failing at that, she moves to America on a special mission to bring down a popular Communist-loving American President in an effort to revive her beloved Communist Soviet Union.

Watch all three episodes this fall on the FOX Network, where history is always fairly ballast!

Poppy Bush pardoned all kinds of traitorous Iran-Contra criminals and is today considered a good and wise potus, at least by the MSM.

Americans know that rich men's justice isn't the same as the little guy's justice. Even the little guy doesn't seem to mind.

but then I saw the byline.

Paglia is a waste of time.