One has to wonder at what point these loud, bullying, moronic tactics will just fall deaf on the ears of those who hear them. I'm not one to underestimate the ability of many in the general public to continuously slurp up continuous hate-talk (to wit: Ditto heads), but surely even the dimmest of our populace sooner or later hears only the ringing in their ears.

'Course, I've been wrong before....

"Free press means that you get to publish what you want (outside of outright libel). It doesn't mean that you or I get to dictate what someone else publishes. Our recourse, if we don't like the output of a certain media organization, is to not watch it, or to put up a contrary argument, unless of course you think that the folks at Fox should be able to say "that Greenwald guy, he doesn't reflect enough conservative voices, so we need to be able to edit his blog."

Yeah, and I think I'll go start an oil company so I don't have to pay so much at the pump. After all, it's a "free market," right?

He's sitting there thundering away about how the media asked all the right questions. He's completely absolving himself and his collegues of any wrongdoing, saying how great they did their jobs. He's already said it 6 ways from Sunday and we're only halfway through the show as we speak.

What a putrid lackey. I used to respect him. Just another hack with zero ability to see things for what they really are.

Toni said:

"The Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws. I know that in general this means that nobody can be charged with a crime for an act that was legal at the time it was committed, and was later prohibited by law."

And I thought the Constitution had a clause about habeus corpus. Seems that's no longer "necessary" in this country.

I wonder if total financial, social, and political enslavement will be necessary before a revolution ensues. I wonder if it will occur even then.

Glenn, In your National Interest article, you wrote:

"Yet they never learn their lesson, are never held accountable and virtually never acknowledge their errors. Political punditry is the ultimate accountability-free profession."

Sure sounds like the weathermen and women I see here in the good ol' heartland: Always wrong, never apologetic, move seamlessly to the next (wrong) prediction.

I live in the district that Sam Graves represents, and let me tell you, he doesn't give one rip about his constituents or what they want. My friends and I have written him several times and called his office for some of the outrageous things he's supported in Congress. He doesn't care in the least. Kay Barnes is the former Mayor of Kansas City, and while certainly no saint herself, would be a very intelligent and capable replacement for Graves. My S.O. and I are planning to campaign actively for her in the upcoming election. Graves' ad just made me clear even more time on my calendar for doing just that. What a friggin' scumbag.

It really IS nice to see our meager contributions adding up and then quickly translating into actions which have a direct impact. Thank you Glenn for keeping us apprised and aware.

And my 2 cents: If Carney doesn't come out and VERY publicly denounce the telecom amnesty provisions of the bill, we hit him with both barrels. If he does denounce, but ends up lying and still votes for it, we use that against him in the upcoming election. Either way, he gets a mallet upside the head if he doesn't do the right thing.

It's time to let these people know we're not going to take any prisoners along the way. Sorry, but it's not that hard to do the right thing, and telecom amnesty is so easily NOT the right thing for anyone in his district, you'd be a retard to believe otherwise.

Maybe that was the price of getting him on the show, or maybe not. Feith has a book to sell and needs publicity.

I have seen this tendency in Stewart more and more of late. I guess when the ratings get high enough, a selling-out is inevitable in order to keep those ratings and/or making them better. That would be sad if true, but more and more, I'm seeing it in his interviews. He has become less and less "tough" with guests like McCain, Lynne Cheney, etc.

If Stewart continues down this path, his show will suffer tremendously.

....if John Stewart bothers to actually read what Kristol writes. Maybe I should send this blog and the NYT op-ed to him in an email so he can use it the next time he has Kristol on his show. For being what appears to be the utter antithesis of all that the Daily Show is made of, Kristol is never properly skewered by Stewart the way he should.

I, too, dropped Williams a line at his blog. In case it isn't printed for being too harsh for the frail groupies over there, here is what I wrote:

"Brian, I think it's great that you can take time to go and tape a comedy show but cannot bother to dedicate even a minute of your broadcasts over the past 25 days to the mushrooming story regarding the propaganda program run through the retired military analysts. Your lack of journalistic integrity truly boggles the mind.

Bravo, Brian. You're so great. I'm glad you're here keeping watch over the important things."

Think the sarcasm was a little much?? ;-)