Of course Williams is attempting to trivialize last week's Sunday Times (not a terribly difficult thing to do these days, sadly). As several commenters on the referenced blog post pointed out, that was the edition that exposed the utter mendacity of NBC News (and others) with respect to the Pentagon's propaganda operation. "Nothing to see here folks. Meanwhile, did you see those stories about sex chairs and gay weddings?"

But it's all good. Afterall, Brian tells us he's a NASCAR fan.

News anchors are chosen for three reasons:

One, their telegenic appearance; two, their authoritative voices; Three, their complete willingness to toe the corporate line.

They coast on the public's fond remembrances of the Murrows, Cronkites and Brinkleys of former days, when TV newsmen actually had intelligence, independent thought and the ability to understand and make understandable current events. Those days are long gone.

The great irony is that a "free" press, envisioned by our founders as the foundation of a democracy and the essential ingredient to its success, will end up being its downfall. On the plus side, Williams has now exposed himself as the hollow and not terribly bright shill he is, and while not a pretty sight, that is more educational than most anything he has broadcast.

Keep it up, Glenn. If our democracy survives it will be because of people like you.

"Curl up with this one and give it the quality time it deserves."

Brian Williams

I just read the Brian Williams blog. I can't believe Glenn was taken in by this! This is world class snark from Mr. Williams. You've really got to hand it to him. The "curl up with this one" line really gives it away.

Either Williams was snarking or someone hacked his blog. Right? This is obvious, isn't it?

Isn't it? Please, someone tell me I'm not missing something here.

Please. Please.

Peggy Noonan has gradually morphed into a parody of herself. Her offerings are larded with pseudo-mystical bs and that has made her into a regular at the MTP table from time to time. Like Broder she has this special gift which enables her to identify real Americans: somewhere out there in the misty middle of America. I don't know why they are always White, Anglo-Saxon and churchgoing. I don't see Indians, Latinos, the Irish and Blacks in this wonderful rural setting.

What a smarmy, asinine and pointless comment.

Sure, The New York Times' circulation is down--during the same time the NBC Nightly News' ratings have gone down, same as everyone's ratings except possibly the cable news outlets--whose ratings are stable, not growing.

Why is Brian Williams writing a blog? Because that's the future, baby, and he knows it.

What a fucktard. I take back anything good I ever said about this asshat when he alone, in his blog, reported about the Army generators in New Orleans being set up block by block to accommodate Bush's speech in Jackson Square. The Army turned on the juice, and the streetlights, etc, as Bush rode through in his motorcade...

...and when Bush left, they turned them all off, one by one, as he swept through each block. Williams was the only person to report that.

But...Peggy Noonan? His stripes are now showing.

You're doing superb work, Mr. Greenwald. Nothing is more obnoxious than the media claiming to speak for everybody, defining everybody, and then getting prickly when people call BS on them.

I wonder if you might be able to turn your withering criticism on some of Salon's "political commentary" as it has become very gossipy and trite (Joan Walsh's column in particular).

Keep up the good work!

As I remember it Henry Ford was an anti-semite and believed Blacks are inferior to Caucasions. Why should any Afro-American or Jew to get misty eyed over him?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18351716/

MODERATOR [Rush Limbaugh]: Let’s now begin the questioning. Senator Clinton, your party’s leader in the United States Senate, Harry Reid, recently said the war in Iraq is lost.

A letter to today’s USA Today calls his comments “treasonous” and says if General Patton were alive today, Patton would “wipe his boots” with Senator Reid.

Do you agree with the position of your leader in the Senate?

[...]

MODERATOR [Sean Hannity]: Senator Obama, you have called this war in Iraq, quote, “dumb,” close quote. How do you square that position with those who have sacrificed so much? And why have you voted for appropriations for it in the past?

[...]

MODERATOR [Laura Ingraham]: Senator, thank you. Senator Edwards, you’ve spoken with great passion and energy and eloquence about the issue of poverty in the United States, your “two Americas” theme.

And yet I want to read you a quote from the political journalist Roger Simon: “Many people miss the point about the haircuts. The point is not the cost. John Edwards is a very rich man [...]"

OOPS *** UPDATE *** CORRECTION *** I was guessing the identity of the above "moderator" based on the wording of his/her questions, but I neglected an essential clue - - the senators, when replying to the "moderator", addressed him as "Brian".

What annoyed me the most about the MSM-manufactured "Bittergate" affair was that right-wing elites, who haven't been near any working class enclaves in their lives, and who have purposely played on cultural hot buttons such as race, religion, and guns to win elections, have had the nerve to heap it on Obama for a few ill-considered remarks that were basically true.

Noonan's column is a prime example of this phenomenon. She studies the so-called normal folk from afar, miming faux outrage on their behalf at Obama, yet would be the first to attack him as less-than-masculine if he got misty-eyed about anything.

I guess nobody bothered to tell her, while she was getting all weepy about Henry Ford, that he was a vicious anti-Semite whose screeds about the Jews inspired some of Hitler's minions. But, then again, those kind of sentiments probably wouldn't bother her if Ford were alive today as long as he wore a flag pin on his lapel.