Aside from the fact that he plays dirty - as in, he fights like a girl - Karl Rove is the antithesis of any normal definition of "tough guy" ever conceived. He's a big, fat, soft, pink dork who - if he's lucky - has had sex with one woman in his entire life, and it surely wasn't because she was enamored by his "toughness." Bush was a friggin' cheerleader for heaven's sake - when the hell did cheerleading become one of the "tough guy" sports? Right up there with hockey, is it?

Sorry Glenn, but your argument is too cute by half. I don't believe that journalists base their coverage on whether on not they "like" someone. This analysis ignores the fact the the major media are now owned by corporations -- who themselves are part of the military industrial complex.

Are you saying that if McCain was a Democrat Chris Matthews would still support him, because he "likes" him? Unlikely, impossible in fact. Would FOX become a supporter of Democrats if only they were more "manly"? No, they would not, this is impossible.

The media, as recently as 1983, was owned by "just" 50 corporations, today, the media is essentially owned by 5 corporations, Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) -- now control most of the media industry in the U.S. General Electric's NBC is a close sixth.

The bias in the media is easily explained without resort to mental gymnastics, it's simple, the media is owned by corporations, which in turn are controlled by the oligarchy. The oligarchy in America is the engine that drives the wars of rapacious empire, and is the cause of the many inequalities in American society. Naturally the oligarchy don't like anyone who even remotely threatens their position on the top of the heap. The many reporters and talking heads who support them, do so because they are employees, they are bought, paid for, and told exactly, precisely, what position to take on any given issue.

Holy crap, Glenn! I love reading you, and I plan on buying Great American Hypocrites, but did no one tell you that Joel Achenbach is a humor columnist? I guarantee you that when he wrote the excerpt you quoted, his tongue was stuck so far in his cheek it looked like his head was about to explode.

The most trusted man in America pronounced our democracy dead in 2004, saying that we clearly no longer had the critical reasoning ability to choose between an overqualified candidate and a transparent nitwit. This is agreed by all of the rest of the world, but somehow missed in America since it involves insulting the majority morbidly obese rednecks who pose as good Christians but can't wait to hear the worst of anyone - no matter how well intentioned - because they are of the punitive branch of religion (like the Taliban) and not the redemptive version. Hence when a peerless RFK redux candidate offers us a chance to redeem the utter ruin of our country, and concurrently the vile racism which an entire region of the country has raised generations on, there isn't enough petty nasty crap to be slung....

I once was as hopeful and idealistic as the young Obama supporters and it hurts to see them setting themselves up for such a fall. Of course, there is a chance it could work which would confound the verdict of every nation in the world about the Ruin of America (by rednecks and their Shrub), but then I snap awake realizing that there is no way the pigfatted would allow him to live if he did rise to the occasion. In this I agree with the verdict of the entire world, as pronounced by the only man every unanimously agreed by Americans to be "America's most trusted man," Walter Cronkite, that we are finished. It is a character flaw (racist rednecks, sick religionists) that is fatal and final.

It's a matter of priorities.

Ever since Watergate, Republicans have had a tendency to be extraordinarily underhanded in politics and power.

And it has not at all gotten enough exposure. The Bush administration has been perhaps the epitome of their tactics, and eventually, the destructive techniques proved themselves for what they truly are.

The generalizations you make have some truth, but they are also general enough, that they don't really make difference in terms of what people truly need to be aware of; your comments almost diffuse the poignancy and importance of these issues at this time - too much.

There's really no comparison.

How about over 300,000 new unemployed for a total of over 3 million? Throw in 300,000 troops suffering from severe depression, up to seven trillion dollars lost in the Real Estate bubble, and AlQaeda reconstituting their ability to hit the United States.

Yep, this kind of "Journalism" gets these guys elected.

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You are of course familiar with that bumper sticker that reads WWJD, meaning "What would Jesus Do?"

I have proposed two alternate bumper stickers: One reads, "If you aren't Jesus, shut up." The other is JWDW: "Jesus would do WHAT?"

Many posters on this thread have bemoaned the "inevitable" loss that the Democrats will incur in November.

That's just one more Republican fiction. The Democrats, no matter who is nominated, are going to wipe the floor with the Republicans. So we fuss and squabble and disagree. So? That's the nature of intelligence. Only the simple-minded can stick to simplistic notions.

The fact is, our citizens have been cheated and lied to for a long time, and they know it, and they know who has done it. The so-called "average citizens" suspect all politicians, and rightly so. They know Democrats are people, and are on the whole no more honest than any other group of people, but they also know right now Democrats are the best option we have.

Those polls purporting to show McCain winning? Oh yeah? You actually still believe polls?

Let the Republicans keep on lying. They're digging their own graves. Throw the rascals out? It's gonna happen.