Most are stupid, Glenn, and in electing Obama and gushing over him, along with the media, they've gotten what they deserve.

Isn't it time to contemplate moving to a country where the majortiy have a track record in voting their own best interests, over those of "the camp of big wealth"....like....France?

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair

The Brass Check (1919) Upton Sinclair

* Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.

* The methods by which the "Empire of Business" maintains its control over journalism are four: First, ownership of the papers; second, ownership of the owners; third, advertising subsidies; and fourth, direct bribery. By these methods there exists in America a control of news and of current comment more absolute than any monopoly in any other industry.

The Rich and the Super-rich: A Study in the Power of Money Today‎ - Page 206

by Ferdinand Lundberg - Business & Economics - 1969 - 1009 pages

Kennedy, even with no war providing an excuse for a coalition, awarded his chief

Cabinet posts to Republicans from the camp of big wealth. .

I am "FromCT", but it has been my eye opening misfortune to be a resident of a "deep south" metro area for most of this new century. I've read your explanations of your recent conversion to the goal of "engaging the other side." Laudable as it is in principle, I'm wondering if you have an in depth awareness of who and what Hugh Hewitt fronts for, and is paid by.

Hewitt is a talk show host whose radio show is broadcast on the hundred radio stations owned by Salem Comm. Corp., and on many of the other 1100 Salem affiliate stations. Hewitt is also the director of Salem owned "web property", townhall.com. The founders and executives of publicly traded Salem are brothers-in-law, Stuart Epperson and Edward Atsinger III.

Both men were early members and officers and/or directors of Council for National Policy.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050222053644/http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=260

Salem Comm., more than any other media group, is the extreme right Judeo-Christian propaganda arm of:

http://www.gop.com/ActionCenter/CallTalkRadio/

Glenn, I make it a point to listen daily on my car radio to the broadcasts of the local Salem affiliate and it's "SNR" "news" casts and it's stable of propagandists, Medved, Prager, Gallagher, Hewitt, and Sullivan.

They are part of a Bob Jones Univ. influenced, fundamentalist, purpose built "media entity", under the CNP umbrella with offshoots like Prince/DeVos's mercenary and private intel conglomerate, Blackwater. WHY LEGITIMIZE, TO ANY DEGREE, THESE EXTREMISTS BY ENGAGING THEM ON THEIR TURF? Pick your shots, Glenn, you should be at war with Hewitt, Epperson, Atsinger III, and CNP, as their purpose in life is to strengthen all that you intend to discredit via your exposure of what passes for "centrist politics" and "excellence in journalism". The status quo you correctly unveil and describe as adherence to a reflexive, discredited, diseased, sometimes clueless, but seemingly, and confirmed by the historical record, an all encompassing, knee jerk, right wing pox on all of our houses.

Namely....breaking almost every treaty ever ratified by the US Senate....and committing crimes against humanity that the new president is willing to "forgive", even though he does not have that aurhority? Isn't this enough to demand Obama's impeachment, especially since he is a member of the bar who taught constitutional law? What kind of examples are Obama and Holder?

So they pronounce an illegal treaty breaking amnesty to the torturers to defend the American way of life.....torture followed by illegal immunity?

state, formerly known as the US of A. We witness a president who cannot distinguish right from wrong, lawful from lawless. What is left to defend of a nation "defended" by torturers and a now complicit president and attorney general?

Why would good people stand on the same side as this president and his torturing goons, immunized to defend themselves and Obama from whom?

If we have any remaining courage and still adhere to what was embraced by the US at Nuremberg, Obama be met with a groundswell at least great enough to keep him behind the white house gates in a state of house arrest imposed by the people. I suspect instead we will post a bit, whine a lot, and do nothing.

We will be complicit with Obama and the torturers he shields from investigation and prosecution merely by our inaction!