Wow, do we need some of that sort of reporting in this country! It was so refreshing to see those journalists hold these people to account for their decisions and to not back down when they attempt to dance around a direct question.

I think our American journalists simply tend to identify with the person to whom they are speaking. It is part of America's democractic, populist culture to feel like we are all more or less the same at some level. The adversarial stance which Glenn rightly holds up as necessary for establishing truth just doesn't come as naturally to our reporters as it does to British ones. Our guys and gals tend to "like" whomever they are talking to and want them to like them back.

This is not to say that they shouldn't be criticized, merely to suggest a change in tack in that criticism. My sense is that they are not (outside Fox news), knowingly corrupt or even particularly intent on ingratiating themselves with the powerful in order to retain access, they just have not recognized how their desire to be nice and empathetic to their subjects interferes with the perfomance of their duty and allows them to be manipulated by people who do not share the same values.

I think criticism which acknowledges that they might be working in good faith, but under mistaken assumptions, may have more effect than that which suggests they are knowing sell-outs. They need to be awakened to what they are doing, and that means showing them a picture in which they can see themselves.

It's wrong to amuse Self at the expense of another? Not always is 'my' rule.

Getting embalmed, shamed, humiliated, spell-checked, punctuated, and

suffering embarrassments is never personally enjoyable. Touche. Buffoon?

Shame is something different. Ah-huh. Hush? Speak the dang gone truth!

Tucker Carlson does not appear brave, virtuous, or honorable , Shame him!

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IMHO, We People will become hopeless on the terms of any Code of Conduct.

It's okay to indite, mock, or to be properly humiliated for national or decency sake.

Self-improvement can be Honorable. Tell the fakes they appear as a big mule-rear.

To appear in public as a pathetic pundit puppet for WHO? Look at these damn stooges.

A jester never tells a Tucker Carlson pundit politico he's a real idiot WHO adores DC fools?

Honor dictates honorable persons to... pray-tell... they have Lost respect and speak babble!

The batch of swamp-rotten mouthpieces WHO affirm and condone the bawling GWB are worst!

Tell the war-mongers of these days, "on the record".... Honorable citizens see disgusting twits!

FIX the fakes some swampland and mothball soup? A person who is thin-skinned must prepare to stew? A cooks sweat and and smells foul armpit odor around the bad-batch of sop... Yuck.

It's so pathetic to listen and watch these public stools. O sweat in the White House kitchen and barf WHO?

hush? virtue.

Say no more?

Speak the truth.

Birds twitter ah-huh. squirrels chirp

Lies are exposed. So Speak the truth.

By the way ~ A honest person isn't humiliated if skin is a tough hide ~ as-they-say.

So Speak.

It's essential to expose these fake hypocrites. A majority of humanity call see a mule=arse.

In DC ETC., citizens expect better. The reckless do enable (I agree) a bunch of real fools to play as saboteurs of all that's potential Good. Read the post and comments that tell the truths...

The terrified politico's feel nothing if they are half-dead and numb before rigor - motise comes in to settle the matters?

See Nothing? Hear Nothing? Gads.

The fake adores the flatulent Gas!

Glenn needs to warn of sitting too close to the fire and chat? Boom! Whom? Hume and Tucker, that's who. What falsification of facts....

Accuse them for they lack all that is virtuous.

5 years on, Iraq war has changed lives

By KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 35 minutes ago

Five years after U.S. troops invaded Iraq, there are many tears — though not everyone is crying. For the great majority of Americans, this is a war seen from afar. They turn off the news and forget about what is happening a world away.

Then there's the other war, the one that's a very vivid and present part of some Americans' lives.

It's the war that more than a million U.S. soldiers have fought, leaving nearly 4,000 dead and more than 29,000 wounded in action. The one in which thousands of contractors rushed in to serve and to make a buck — though some paid the ultimate price, as well.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080308/ap_on_re_us/5_years_in_iraq_changed_lives

@ Kitt

You say, in reply to my post, that you're glad that Ms. Peev did not "usurp" your right to have an opinion. Because she duly reported that Power called Clinton a "monster", you get to decide what you think about that.

-- John Randolph

No, that is not at all what I said. Did you see somewhere in my post that I wanted to form my own opinion as to whether or not Clinton is a monster? No, you didn't don't see that in my post because I didn't write that. What I did write was that Peev gave me the option of reading what S.Power said rather than allowing S.Power to decide for me or decide for Peev if what she said should be published. If S. Power had said that Clinton is angelic, but she wanted to keep that off the record, but Peev chose not to, I would be afforded the option to read what Power said, due to Peev's journalistic standards. So, you see, what Power said has nothing to do with what I was objecting to or qualifying.

I hope you understand the difference now. I'm not confident that you will since you have already inserted words into my comment that I did not say. If I am wrong about your reading comprehension skills, or your desire to honestly or dishonestly "paraphrase" what someone has written please elaborate, if you wish.