Top bunk!

Even the Democratic candidates now running for president seem to agree that there's no need to rock the boat in Washington.

Let's face it: individual Americans have no representation in government. We have two parties that compete for corporate money and a press that functions as a PR firm.

We need a new political party: the People's Party, one which represents the interests of actual human beings, not corporations masqerading as "persons."

Glenn Greenwald for President!

Very Sorry!
Carelessly,
Ginsberg

L.W.M.:

@ Paul R - "Are you smarter than a trilobite?"

Are trilobites really extinct?

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/education/horseshoecrab/

Maybe that's just what they wanted us to think.

After all, what's global warming to a horseshoe crab?

[Glenn, from the post]: And particularly the most revered and highest-ranking among them should never be punished, let alone imprisoned (said with whispered disgust), for their "dark politics" -- whether that comes in the form of illegal eavesdropping, illegal torture, or illegal obstruction of justice.

Yep, the Stalinist "destroy your political enemies by all means possible" tactics of Rove and company should not be looked at too deeply. The "slash and burn", "commandeer the gummint for the party", "install party hacks and yes-men wherever we can" regime should be given a nod and a wink, hell, it's just 'politics as usual'.

Not to mention their abuses (if not outright violation) of the rule of law itself in the process.

On another note, this 'red herring' of "Armitage was the leaker, Libby did nothing wrong" needs to have a wooden stake driven through its heart; just because someone else did the same (or a similar) thing doesn't mean that what you did is not a crime. If Libby wanted to raise this as a legal defence, he should have shown in court not the tu quoque 'well, everyone else was doing it', but rather that Armitage had made Plame no longer a protected identity by virtue of public disclosure before Libby started blabbing this stuff to reporters. He didn't, because it simply was not true. Cohen needs to 'put down the RNC "talking points" and walk away slowly....'

Cheers,

I wasn't going to blurt it out like that but "intelligence" is difficult to quantify and their are many different metrics one might use.

Time to bash Fred Thompson. A man who oozes "sex in the dark".

http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/2007/06/heres-how-fringe-i-am-fred-thompson.html

I think he looks like this guy:

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2006/09/15/horton-hears-who-first.jpg

I think Atrios has not just his wanker of the day, not just his wanker of the month, but he finally has his wanker for the ages. The wanker to end all wankers.

Actually, I think that Richard Cohen was already the Barry Bonds of wankerdom, close to the all-time record for wankery titles from Atrios.

Hasn't slowed down Wanker Cohen in the least, IC....

Cheers,

One good thing is that the WaPo allows comments, and hundreds of people have called Cohen out on this. I wonder if he reads the comments.

People, you're not listening to me.

Glenn GREEN wald....

TAKES it...

UP...

the POOPER !!!1!

What MORE do you need to KNOW ??!

Why are we even dis CUSS ing his so-called i DEAS !??

He's GAY !!!!!!!

And what's more, he's the BOTTOM in his same-sex relationship.

That COMPLETELY INVALIDATES what he has to say... don't you people GET it ??!

Mr. Greenwald,

While I ordinarily find your writing to be insightful, I believe you are off-base in your criticism of Mr. Cohen today. Clearly, in Mr. Cohen's article, when discussing the "urging of the liberal press (especially the New York Times)" he was referring to Joe Wilson's July 6, 2003 "What I Didn't Find In Africa" op-ed. Had Mr. Wilson not pursued his personal matters so agressively, Mr. Libby's entire ordeal would have been easily avoided.

I do not understand how you missed this so obvious point.

Clue for eedjits like Jeremy: We haven't perfected time ravel yet. Thus it would be impossible for Wilson (with the complicity of the N.Y. Times) to be "urging" prosecution of Libby for outing his wife in an editorial written and published before Libby decided to out Plame in response to this editorial.

Or, perhaps, are you suggesting that Wilson should have known that the sleazebuckets in the maladministration were going to do this, and thus all Wilson had to do was "STFU" and keep a low profile and no one would get hurt (including Libby)? Interesting thesis, if that's what you had in mind....

Cheers,

As a "journalist" how much would you have to be paid to re-print the governments lies and talking points on a daily basis, and still not give a damn what the geveral public thinks of you.

Now, I wonder how much Cohen is paid. A lot less than most of us would require, I'm guessing...

And terrifying, if Cohen is actually what we call a 'liberal' and 'journalist' today.

I wish he could read his own writing with sound eyes. In his frightening world, journalists should not look into the dark room of politics because politics are crooked. What horrifying logic.

Now, too, those who protest this ridiculous war become easy rhetorical symbols for extremists and 'Stalinists.'

Does anyone know of any journalists who have had the courage to investigate their own work and take responsibility for the mistakes that led them to support a disaster? What I see here is a man so frightened to look at what he has done, that he has become as defensive as a trilobite (suitably mentioned in these letters).

From what I know, trilobites survived because they didn't evolve. They developed protective armor billions of years ago, and it has served them well.

P.S. In the spirit of 'taking responsibility,' I am the author of one of the sillier prose pieces earlier today. My apologies.

Whoa wow!

*As Fate's dark clouds portentous get lowered,

To quench the light of day and human power is dismayed,

Reading HERE...can sorta chase a gloom clouds away?

I hope.

What a desperate fray! What infirmities in this dear nation need healed! Heel! The neocon con-con who eat tin cans, is a neo-form of a Billy Goat?

Gads, and spare to provide some prudent Help-advice to rid the neo-world from the ills of the 'ole neo-creeps. A world and the USA don't need NO Richard Cohen's.

A world wound say if rid of bad-ilk, Much gracious, and good riddance. This banter HERE is valuable and never believe it is to no avail. A neocon would slay 'um.....you, and yep...f'ed-up real bad. Yes!

...All normal 'folk' need to reckon they some day do die too....No forget that fact of life/death! You can bet your life or last dollar on that. You can be assured of that...yep...You gotta pay taxes on thee judgement day...Here come a honest judge? No lie or fib. No steal.

I do believe, and I do declare, i swear, i s.h.i.t. too=so= i O, remember to tell shipmates to stack 'crap' on the upper hinter's shelf of a sinking boat, so it don't blow-up the ship if it gets to be sinking and all wet.

Holy Methane! Kaboom!