I understand that Halliburton trucked in and applied the depilatory creme, which was manufactured by ADM. The lawnmowers were strictly a photo-op for our proto-Pulitzer winners, who were were picked up at Gate 14 and brought out to the site on the McCain press bus.

I have to agree with one of the fist posters. Surely this is sarcasm; surely no one with HALF a brain could find the insipid, hackneyed drivel that was Noonan's column to be anything other than hilarious...surely...

Yes, I know I'm wrong. I know that these minds are what pass for intellectuals in the Right Wing Noise Machine. What could be sadder than that?

I'm Canadian, but I honestly feel sorry for Americans right now. I feel like you are having your democratic process stolen from you. It truly WAS once a beacon around the world, but now everyone can see that the current culture of "fact-free truth" has spawned a government that does not seek to protect and nurture citizens so much as increase the wealth of a few giant conglomorates.

They are trying to ensure that your voices aren't being heard, your opinions are worthless, and that you continue to vote against your own interests.

Glenn has done a great job pointing out the hypocracy with which the Right has done these things, but it still boggles the mind.

"I'm a regular Joe-Six-Pack NASCAR fan! Sure, I make millions of dollars and live on the Upper East Side, but I know what is best for you, fellow NASCAR dads!" GAWD.

Please please please don't get distracted, and please vote for a Democrat this fall.

the 'depilated' (sic) infrastructure.

I missed that one the first time around. Hilarious! Imagine what the lawn-mower acquisition costs will do to the deficit ...

Congratulations. If William nominates you you will be given a aspirin. Wash it down with a six pack of prune juice. The rear seat pant-britches are getting threadbare from commenting here

Readers deserve a Selzer Pulitzer? Pull up the holy britches. satire? seltzer?

@ U.T. O, well. Prunes deserve an award. Prune juice with bubbling seltzer.

Sent Special Delivery from Germany via W.T. Great.

W. Timberman sends e-mails to congratulate you?

William's e-mails are 12 non-legible pages long.

Glenn, I'm now once again filled with nausea and rage. Thanks a lot! :) Please keep up the good work you do.

The NY Times articles that Williams scorns and looks down his nose at are actually just the kind of typical story that Nightly News loves to run in the latter half of its 22-minute "news" broadcasts.

On the Nightly news website right now are two items about Rev. Wright, and one about Afghanistan---if you scroll down. It just beat-out the bottom article, the one about how Americans are watching those calories.

I hate to tell you this, but you are too a commiepinko. The cabal met last night and secretly inducted you into Comrades for Peace and Justice.

... the thing confusing hell out of me is the comment trail to Williams' piece. The first ten or so praise him, praise Noonan, then proceed to bash Bush, the GOP, and the general state of things. One mentions she can't wait for Williams' upcoming segment on the 'depilated' (sic) infrastructure. She then wonders why the government didn't start a new WPA, rather than send rebate checks. Another person mentions that the only time the Correspondent's Dinner was worth watching was when Colbert was on.

While I'm no fan of Brian Williams, and think Peggy Noonan is freaking insane, surely this speaks to the larger picture?

For me, this is a key to the puzzle of why Americans respond to polls like liberals and vote like moderate conservatives, if I may frame it like that. The above commenter may not be typical, but how revealing it is that she doesn't know the difference between Reaganism and the New Deal.

That degree of naivete and plain ignorance must account for a huge part of the disconnect between what Americans want from their government and what they get.

Unless you simply believe that a middle aged white man married to a black woman is an over-educated commiepinko by definition? Yeah...that would be it, eh?

Sucks to be you.... in a free country, doesn't it?

Hell, ProWar thinks I'M an over-educated commiepinko, despite my continual defense of traditional conservative principles on this site.

I'm just not willing to call up "down" when the GOP tells me to.

That's really all it takes with these guys.

Pax. Sorry about the threats to you and your family. In light of that, I'm sure it seems like weak tea for me to assert that this isn't really representative.

There's certainly plenty of racist history down here. Denying it would be foolish, just as it would be to deny that some people still hold those views, even if they know they can't say them in public (a phenom I know is not limited to the South). But things have been changing for a long time; where/when I grew up it was still common, but had already tipped the scale in the previous 20 years. Having recently returned to the South, the change in attitudes is phenomenal, and pleasing.

What has been slower to change are the stereotypes about this region, both the good ones and the bad ones. To me, the problem is the gulf that creates between like minded people who could otherwise talk, learn from one another, and cooperate to make things better. Or less grandiosely, just doing things like capturing Eric Rudolph, the abortion-clinic bomber who disappeared in the hills near my home town. The FBI and the media showed up, did their high-handed thing and started cracking wise about the dirt eaters and niggra-lynchers and surprise, the cooperation dried up. This among people who themselves had had abortions, or amenable opinions and no particular use for someone who would blow up a women's clinic.

Not speaking of you here, but oftimes well-meaning liberal folk are either high-handed or outright insulting when they deal with people like me (or the abstraction they take me to fit); Insulting me I can handle, but the lost opportunity for shared goals and actions, especially now when so many things are going to hell in a handbasket, is distressing.

And yeah (speaking to other people out there in the crowd) that includes any of you Obama supporters that call racism or race-baiting or hypocrisy anytime someone is insufficiently breathless and venerating toward your guy, even when the fact is I'll likely be voting for him in November just like you.