Gads.

I never met a Northern goose or a Moose that dismayed me as much as you!

You ought to be fed awe-naked to Panda bears while sipping via a hay straw your last beer!

*Along the plain of the burning sands,

No ant in my honey can discourage me.

No water floods the fiery landscape,

Along in the sky flows a bright light.

Fierce light, to shine upon the Blood--

Stained, soaked, and fake minions of DC.*

Me just goofing (and unintentional) stupid too.

That couldn't be Ace. He doesn't use terms like "contre-temps" or "frisson". He does think about sex alot. It tends to nauseate him, (especially if it's vaginal sex). Is this thread going to be a combination Sockpuppet Palooza and Bulwer-Lytton bad prose contest?

This is a bad thing to say, and your interpretation might be correct.

"practicing the dark art of politics. As with sex or real estate, it is often best to keep the lights off."

That sounds very close to an old cliche about one not witnessing the making of politics or sausage. So, not to defend Cohen, who I'm no fan of, but isn't it possible he worded this sloppily, recalling that cliche or something like it? Or is the following more likely?

"That really is the central belief of our Beltway press"

L.W.M. asks:

Is this thread going to be a combination Sockpuppet Palooza and Bulwer-Lytton bad prose contest?

If so, what brain modules are we going to need to evolve to deal with it? And how long do we have? (Are you smarter than a trilobite?) Any Lamarkians in the audience?

Cohen writes that not the leaker -- Richard Armitage of the State Department -- but Libby was convicted. As you well know, Glenn, this is a common pro-Libby talking point, but of course the reality is there were four leakers: Armitage, yes, but also Libby, Rove and Fleischer. IIRC, they all leaked within a short period of 24 hours or so.

As it happens, Armitage's leak was the one that led to publication. But none of them had any way of knowing this in advance, so that is irrelevant to culpability.

You may want to consider an update to point this out, as I suspect many may have fallen into the trap of believing this talking point.

"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."

- George Orwell

All's fair in love and real estate???

Perhaps a contrast between UT's inspired typos and the poisonous euphemisms of our tin-eared ruling class. Phrases like extraordinary rendition and global stabilization professionals. The living and the dead, as it were.

See you at chocobang.....

Perfectly nails the Cohen vacuity. I can't read is smarmy pap, he's so an empty suit. An expensive, spiffy suit. But an empty suit.

Is there much question whether his superficiality is genuine? Does he not make waves so as to live a trouble-free privileged life? Or is he incapable of making waves because he is incapable of ethical reasoning?

I can't read him, as all he does is whine and make excuses. He must have stood in the line behind Cheney all five times. Moral coward, gutless arrogance.

A Whitewater reference is my guess, but I don't claim to know the man's mind. I don't think it adds up to a confession that implicates every Washington journalist.

Why do we even need the MSM, if all we're going to get from them is blather like Glenn brings to our attention every day. Why don't we just have Tony Snow get on tleveision every evening, tell us what the administration wants us to hear, and leave it at that. All the rest is just a waste of time if the MSM refuses to do the job they're supposed to be doing.

Might you consider compiling said list(s)?

Your style of turning a phrase of your own would be just the thing for the transitions and for making comparisons.

...and you can imagine that you're a brilliant writer, and that your government is the best of all possible governments.

Turn the lights on ... and you realize you're just Richard Cohen and the government is ruining your country. I'd want to keep the lights off, too, if I were him.

Lights Off, Richard.

Jokers are wild. Spade? Me not believe all people are credulous. Is that a spade of a shovel you carry? Or a battle-axe stratagem? I am honestly confused.

I am dense and very curious. I not a law bred-PHD. Are you a real law expert or a non-peace penchant? I am grappling with whether I should go pick blueberries or go drink a room temperature dark foamy stout. Foam-Suds!

Wearied out at length, I got real cranky with a 'ole gaping war wound today. I am on a cleft of a hard rock too, and I believe Hump Dumber is crapping all asunder everywhere because he fell, and if falling down from a green wall, one splatters!.

Lately. I too confuses. Must I go dig a yellow corn kernal from some neocon's dung? Is that a 'rite of passage' or just too darn crude? Yes. Crude. I no got a dagger or a weapon spade to scoop poo.

What did you mean? I honestly very slow-brain today. What you finger-in' meant to say, I no comprehend, and were you offering a healing fig leaf?

Apologies If I too lamebrain. I agree with Karen. One post and down the drain goes a good/bad reputation..."flush goes a weasel,"...It is written somewhere.

Be prudent. No vote for more bereft neo-nut's to accelerate a shoo-chow train mastication's, too tragic, and NO participate in RealName brand awful desolation's.

what cohen or glenn think? Two ranters arguing.

http://www.chia.com/clapper.html

Love your use of the word "intrepid," which echoes Colbert's slap-in-the-face to the Cohens of Washington. Cohen's whiny response to that speech is another one of his unintentional classics.

In a just world Cohen would be sentenced to having INTREPID tattooed on his forehead.

someone writing in to ask "who cares"? If you don't care, why bother to write? I think a better phrase to write would be "I give up!"