In the immortal words of Jeremiah Wright:

Can I get an amen?

AMEN!

Do you mean "most readers" the same way Cokie Roberts refers to "most Americans"?

In my mind, the Wright story is the right stuff. Why, I'm sure McInsane would agree, but we don't want our press talking about that, because it would be unfair to Saint John and his lovely wife. Barbecue, anyone?

Well, I think we can all thank the Supreme Being that at least Salon! hasn't succumbed to the Wright inanity!

On the one hand, your point, brilliantly made, stands on its own.

On the other hand, I'm not certain that you and the Rev. Wright aren't saying pretty much the same thing.

Jeremiah Wright, as a story to be exploited against Obama, is properly ignored, but Jeremiah Wright, as a story about speaking truth to power regarding hypocrisy and the sorry state of America, is not so easily ignored.

The Man should not be wielded for the purpose of damaging Obama's candidacy, but should his Message inflict a few wounds to the idea of American exceptionalism...

I expect Joan will want to fire you for this, but thank you so much for saying what hundreds of letter writers have been saying to her, all to no avail.

I've been reading for years and -- given that you have the best commenters anywhere on the web -- never felt like any contribution of mine was necessary. But this was a generous post, given where you hang your hat. I so dearly wish you were editor-in-chief.

Thank you.

Barack in a press conference an hour ago, has with much anger and sadness totally rejected Rev. Wright after he viewed this morning the reverend’s media performance yesterday in Washington. CNN and MSNBC want us to believe that he did so because his campaign has been so badly damaged. I agree with Glenn’s snark and Barack’s comments that this distraction is keeping his campaign from discussing much more important issues faced by the American people. Barack wanted to lessen the media damage, but he also was clearly very upset with Wright.

Richard Wolfe said that he had never seen Barack and his wife Michelle that angry during the entire campaign. You could see the pain Barack was feeling to know that his relationship with Wright was ended. Barack told the media, more than once, that until he had seen the video, he was not that upset by what he had heard, yet the TV pundits are all saying that it is the polls that motivated Obama to renounce Wright. The M$M hears what they want to hear and then falsely misleads on something as important as Barack’s motivation for his actions and holding a press conference.

What angered Barack the most, was the implication from Wright that Barack was politically pandering when he rejected Wright’s soundbite remarks. To me, Barack doesn’t pander and does speak the truth as he sees and believes it. When you question his political integrity and his life values, you are saying he is just another politician. It’s apparently too hard for the M$M, to believe that a politician might not be a liar, skillful deceptionist and opportunist. The main reason for that may be that the fake M$M journalists have spent so little time seeking or caring about the truth.

"Your post contained 150% of my daily allowance of sarcasm."

You are obviously are a fan of the crude, unrefined variety such as is usually to be found emanating from the mouths of obnoxious 14 year old girls.

We can discuss Glenn's inability to use sarcasm or irony with anything close to an ounce of wit, panache or lightness of touch elsewhere, meanwhile, a translation of Glenn's post for the uninitiated:

"Fuck. My guy's really getting trounced today."

Someone please print this post, preferably magnified on a minimum 12x18 board and hang it prominently in Ms. Walsh's workspace.

Gen...ious. One of my favorite Salon items EVAR!

Bravo!

We're not a problem-plagued nation. Seriously though, you just don't get how the news works. If this were 1932 you'd be complaining about all the coverage of the Lindbergh kidnapping. And back then we really did have problems. However, you do get a brownie point for your last post. I'm not sure if it matters that Brian Williams is a fool, but I'm pretty convinced that he is one. I'm a conservative and I thought that column was garbage. Who cares about how Obama feels about the Wright Brothers? And Brian tells us to "curl up" with it, give it some quality time? Amazing. What about the claim that Hillary learned the importance of the Wright Brothers/Henry Ford/the Gold Rush "in her long slog through Arkansas"? Why did it take until she got to Arkansas? Why didn't she learn it growing up in Illinois, or working in Washington? What is that supposed to mean? That the authentic America only exists in poor, rural southern/midwestern states? We're all Americans. But back to Wright, besides the fact that the news will always tend to cover stuff other than the "real problems" that plague the country, one could at least make a case that the Wright fanfare speaks to some of those real problems. Unless you think that race no longer matters, but I doubt you think that.

with so many of your collegues taking the easy route (propogandists for profit, a la rush fox and their ilk), it's good to see professionals still exist.

Remember the saying "Do not become the story"? How did we get here from there. Now you must become the story. Get people angry. generate hit's or named mentioned, or times on the cable shows. Taking money to destry your nation used to be called treason.

Thanks again Glen. The only "prize" used to be credibility. Journalists and newsmen strived and worked their whole lifes building credibility. What could be more important than credibility to a bringer of news?

Stay true to you glen. Stay true to yoru profession, and your profession will stay true to you. Thank you for not selling out, when so many have. Rather than fighting with us when the time came, so many progressives/liberals are taking the coward route. Our children will have to fight the same battle. And their children. And their children. Unless we take a stand now and end this propoganda for profit and gossip heresay us weekly stories. Thank you for being a voice of resaon. Thank you for being a guiding light in a sea of darkness.

Good luck and God Bless. Stick to it. Credibility and truth trumps all propoganda. In time you will be rewarded, if not so yet. Don't follow Joan and those like her down the fox/hannity rabbit hole. Traitors. no one will or can say it, but it's true. To willingly mislead your readers to line your pockets is treason. It is taking the easy route to line yoru pockets. I'm glad to see their are still professionals and patriots out there glen. keep up the good fight. You are a major voice. They right fears you. not because of any external or internal source. They fear truth. As long as truth is on your side glen, you are invincable.