Glenn,

As always or as near always as any human can get, you are, once again spot on. This Rev Wright story is nearly inconsequential a story as one can get. But will be used by many on the right to skewer Obama and castrate him for something he did not say or do and is only involved in a tangential way.

But why does Joan Walsh make so much of it, she must be a Hillary supporter. Joan ought to let this story go. Joan is being like a Pit Bull and flogging a dead horse. It all seems to be much ado about nothing, a storm and fury signifying very little, and of little consequence in the greater scheme of things. There I beat that into the ground, hoping Joan will get the message.

Rev. Wright was about 90% accurate in what he said as evidenced in the Bill Moyers Journal interview. So da guy ain't so bad or crazy, albeit a bit histrionic.

Glenn, you are as always the voice of sanity and a breath of fresh air. I read your stuff everyday and breathe a sigh of relief and get some reaffirmation that I'm not crazy.

The cognitive dissonance, slip sliding and total obfuscation that the right wingers, including Russert, Matthews, Scarborough, O'Reilly, Hannity, Malkin, Noonan, Ingraham, and now Brian Williams etc, et.al., ad infinitum, ad nauseam, do is so, can I say, BIZARRE!!! and FREAKY!!!

May God bless Glenn Greenwald for his ever present sanity and insight. Thats my Catholic showing. Yup, I was an altar boy, and a choir boy and an Eagle Scout and, and, and. 'nuff said.

And finally, all I want for Christmas is a new brain so I can write like some of my favorites including GG and Garrison Keillor and Amy Goodman and Noam Chomsky and George Lakoff, and my favorite evangelical, Jimmy Carter.

BTW, I just gave my email address to 'J Street'. From what they wrote they may think like those of us on this forum. So I hope my mention here gives them the coverage and publicity that sane people deserve. So far, I like the cut of their jib.

Mooses are pretty reclusive. Entertaining is usually BBQ for family B&Sil's, M&Fil. I haven't seen a napkin ring since I left Lhaung Huyland. I'm from the town that Robin, Goy Wonder, has a High School football pennant for on the wall of his room in Bats!, Man, the first Mad parody of the Adam West TV show.

These days, the big problems at Moosehall are aging parents, and how to help.

I'm not sure the satire works in this post. Some respondents said they were confused about what Mr. Greenwald meant in praising our country. And though the US isn't the perfect place described in the post, it also isn't Russia, China, Iraq (our bad), Iran, or North Korea. Mr. Greenwald's critique of the masculinist militarism that the ideologues on the right espouse (hypocritically because they all have a Napoleon complex without having his genius) is right on. Being bellicose is never always right, but a broken clock is still right two times a day. Not having to be a responsible journalist however, I can be as satirical as you like in my blog -- a satire on a currently popular blog with understated right wing tendencies masked as culture critique. Stuff white d-bags like. Check it out.

I assume you're all for equal coverage of Hagee's quotes both bigoted and war-mongering?

Have you turned on cable news today? OMG! They are talking about nothing else except for afternoon CNN devoted to polygamists.

Whoops, I guess now we're talking about the Fairness Doctrine again.

Sorry, but does "I agree with x but ..." make me sound like a concern troll? -- quickstrategy

As for handles and asses, I'm not qualified to render (heh) an opinion.

Billy T. yet again pretends that folks from Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana and other states up north have no racists or bigots. Only in the south. Blah! I know folks from those states (lots of family in Wisconsin) and the most self-righteous bigots and racists I ever met come from the north.

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Billy T. also wrote that he was not a nice man. That was nicely understated.

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Someone asked what a "concern troll" was. It is someone on your own side that you disagree with.

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The asshats calling Rev. Wright a "hatemonger" need to get a grip. All he ever did was tell the truth from the pulpit. He said that you reap what you sow --- a little karma for the yanks. (OK, karma is more subtle, but you get the drift) Check out this old essay from a California poly-sci prof from just after the 9/11 tragedy. His conclusion on the reason for 9/11 does not have to be considered; just look at the actions of the US government that he cites in the piece.

http://www.tanbou.com/2001/fall/USForeignPolicyElias.htm

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And finally; a note to Glenn. Please do not do snark in your blog posts. You do it damn well and I agree with the message. I just think it will hurt you in the long run as you try to get out the important message that you are trying to get America to listen to. One man's (or am I?) two cents worth.

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Bye, bye John --- our love is 57 channels and nothings on.

It's a habit... I went to college in the 2000s, so I have the Firefox right-click menu ready at hand, etc. It's pretty much allowed my medium term memory to atrophy, but that's... that's... what was I saying?

Sorry, but does "I agree with x but ..." make me sound like a concern troll?

And does this handle make my ass look fat?

Baldie says

I doubt anyone here thinks Wright is of no interest whatsoever in this election year

You answered by saying why Wright's _opinions_ are of no interest, which is half the story. I think his media spectacle is of news interest, and should be covered (as I commented above) but for my part, it has no (or almost no) bearing on whether anyone should vote for Obama.

(I'd take it a step farther and say whether Obama started running for Pres in 2004, and whether he was being strategic when he joined the church, are also non-issues ... though they do affect some people's perception of OB, esp on the matter of why maybe he's not so different a pol. I didn't put special weight on him over this whole aura, so I don't take any away from him now. I'm still waiting for some specifics, though)

I agree with most everything you say, but on the shame front, well, there are a long line of elections I've voted in where I thought my pride in the process and my fellow voters had reached its nadir, but ...