Darn that liberal media!

My point was that the 5things feature on Salon is horse shit. I wouldn't waste my time sending emails to the '5things' address in order to get noticed.

Calm down. Kitt knows what you're saying. Your anger appears to be blinding you.

Brian and Peggy

Sittin' in a tree,

K-i-s-s-i-n-g

The tone of the article is surprise, what, Brian Williams isn't a Liberal newscaster? Okay thats' a rhetorical device, but Kitt's personal slam distracts us from a serious issue, and that is classic Right Wing smear tactics.

And if you're uncomfortable with that, so am I.

YKW wants Peggy Noonan to be his mother? 242 chirps like a wing flapping cicada. A shrill noise machine sputters by puffing out the chest. The noise is reduced as people express further disgust towards the flailing. The oral cavity of the failed-media is a disgusting vehicle. It's a foul breath rancid era. 'Um are chickens scraping the molt feathers together. Astonishing.

What irritating pest.

This will surely end.

It smells. Shrill boxes.

Well. Ignore it? No. It soon dies tho.

Pesky Peggy Noonan's are short lived.

Insects serve a role? The human voice pierces.

The GOP group are empty bad flute players. enemas.

Keep prodding the media. Inform that they are blood-sucking mosquitoes.

...is, of course, Andrew Sullivan. In a post around the time of his recent wedding he compared his own beloved mother to Noonan. For all its unintended hilarity, this was clearly meant as a compliment to both women. I can't remember the precise wording but apparently both women share an inate decency, a quiet conservatism (!) and a well-mannered tolerance of those with whom they disagree. Having watched Noonan politely murmur the most condescending, mendacious, hateful commentary, I wondered if Sully's mother, or Sully himself, understood how viciously backhanded this 'compliment' was.

Brian Williams nominating Noonan for a Pulitzer is unintentionally revealing and creepy. Andrew Sullivan comparing her to his own mother is unintentionally revealing and way, way creepier.

Elizabeth Edwards' piece you rave about was almost bold. But why is the "media blackout" on Biden more important than the media blackout on Ron Paul? Why does she not even allude to Dr. Paul like she does of the other republican contenders for the presidency? Ron Paul just got 16% of the vote in Pennsylvania, for crying out loud. Dr. Paul's ideas on our economy and health care and foreign policy are equally as importnat of Biden's. Media blackout is alive and well with Mrs. Edwards. Isn't it easy to spot bias in others' work.

Just listening to Dubya ramble on this morning on his presser. Someone asked him about the oil price crisis -- Bush got that smug look when he's trying to explain something really simple to his inferiors and said that it was Congress's fault because they've been blocking drilling in the U.S. since the 90s.

Did anyone follow up and point out that the Congress has mostly been Republican since the 90s? That he's been president for 8 years? That the turmoil in the Middle East, borrowing huge amounts of money to pay for his war in Iraq, and the plummeting dollar also have a great deal to do with rising oil prices?

Crickets.

When Bush blamed rising food prices on bad weather in Australia, did anyone ask him whether rising oil prices might also play a part?

Crickets.

We have become a really dumb nation. Ignorant and easily bamboozled.

And Shooter thinks flag pins are a real issue. Thanks for illustrating my point.

... 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?

What can you expect of Williams when he stands up for Rush and calls him a friend, and much more? Case closed.

I have posted about her before, and will do so again because most people haven't heard Noonan in person. Her fake-rhapsodic tone is even more unbearable when she speaks uninterrupted for an hour or so, and her air of self-importance is stunning because there is absolutely no substance to what she says. She gave one of the worst, most pompous and uninspiring keynote addresses I have ever heard anywhere. She is so clearly in love with herself, the sound of her voice, and the soi-disant brilliance of her insights that there's something really macabre about the whole performance. Maybe she's really one of Tracy Ullman's characters. . . .

..is an insult to the Prize. Williams is a fool. I haven't watched TV in two years, but from this I am guessing the slide to the dung heap has picked up speed.

Just curious, who would slap Noonan out of her drunken stupor so she could crawl to the dais and collect her award? Pathetic.

Glenn, you comment on the decline of the viewership of the evening news broadcasts. Perhaps it has to do with the decline of the evening news content. About 25% is commercials, 25% seems to be nothing but blurbs for upcoming segments, and 25% is fluff. Compare that to when Walter Cronkite and anchors of his day read the actual news reports. Even aside from making news of trivial issues like lapel pins, today's "news" program is so bloated with special effect graphics and swooshing sounds and sensationalism that there's hardly room left for the news.

I feel I have a good, almost again to use the word tactile feel for America.

- - Brian Williams, interviewed by Brian Lamb, 12/26/04

Apparently no one has told ol' Bri that his 'tactile feelers' need to be retracted from Limbaugh's wazoo and redirected under Vinnie's bathrobe.

Feeling up Peggy doesn't count either. ;-}