on the other hand, I never know what the hell bebop is talking about

There are plenty of places in the letters section where one person has basically posted a couple of entire pages in a row...GG seems to make more of an issue of it than other writers at salon.

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Here is a blurb about Gregory from HuffPo a couple of years ago....it just shows you what kind of talents you need to succeed in his biz, pffft.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/08/21/david-gregory-nbc-utilit_e_27674.html

Is NBC's David Gregory ever allowed to take a nap? Yesterday (and last week) he was all over asking the tough questions on "Meet The Press," and this morning he's holding court at the "Today" Show, chatting about Andre 3000 and Big Boi, the magical delights of poultry, and how to rev up a lady's libido after marriage (I am going to refrain from pointing out at this time that our Mr. Gregory is one heckuva 6'5" long, tall drink o' water. Oh, what, the Today Show is allowed to run a 2-minute montage of heaving couples and we can't say boo? Hmph). Meanwhile, Gregory also anchored last Friday's Early Nightly, bringing his dominance to the web. Is there anything our David can't do?

Just as an all-important aside, right now David is kicking off a segment called "The Five Things You Need To Know About...Poultry!" and saying "Whether you like white or dark meat, we all know how popular birds are!" as a polka version of "The Chicken Dance" plays in the background.

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Well, I can't say how happy I am that we have such a skilled reporter keeping a sharp eye on our ruling class. I can rest easy now.

Vox, how do you know that the people who blew themselves up didn't consider themselves Hamasniks? Is that part of the "culture of the Middle East" thing you're studying? Communications from beyond the grave?

Hamas uses private citizens and women to carryout attacks. They use the population not only as a shield, but as a weapon. They do not 'blow themselves up'. Hamas uses others.

There are many women in the US armed forces.

Have you heard the term "citizen soldier"?

Does the US Army brass or politicians who decide to go to war fight, or do they let others do the fighting for them? Do these same people expose themselves on the battlefield, or do they hide in civilian enclaves?

Klytus, I'm not sure about.

Klytus was "Manos." He was banned from Salon and came back as Klytus. I'm not sure why he was banned.

You screamed: (Not sure why you are screaming here, but it feels like I have somehow offended you.)

"(YES ALL OF IT, BECAUSE AS WE KNOW, JEWS ARE THE SAME EVERYWHERE, JUST AS THE MIDDLE EAST IS ONE MONOLITHIC CULTURAL BLOCK)"

I never even implied such a thing that Jews or any Middle Eastern culture is somehow one-size-fits-all. Not sure where you are coming from. But I'll take your comment as a general invitation to increase my knowledge to something you feel I lack.

If you have any suggestions on reading, by all means, offer them up. I am always open to hearing viewpoints from all points in the spectrum.

Respectfully,

vv

We do beg to disagree

I can live with that.

The shame is shared

By all of thee.

I agree.

The difference is that we at least attempt to respond graciously to the host's request when it comes, or we leave.

I don't have a bone to pick with you. I read most of your posts, as I did Bebop's, because I found value there. Others haven't. I also have no problem using my scroll ball when I don't feel like reading a particular poster. Others, apparently, do.

Unfortunately, I am not the host.

"but this is another example of why I think you need to do more research into the history and culture of the Middle East before condemning Israel."

This is exactly what you wrote, and exactly what I reposted when I 'screamed'. I can't figure out what else you would mean with this absurd notion (that nevertheless seems to bear no end of fascination to certain people). If I need to understand the history and the culture of the Middle East BEFORE condemning Israel, then it seems a safe bet that I would also need to understand the history and culture of Judaism before condemning Israel. If you can find some fault in the logic loop (which is of your own construction) ...feel free.

"history and culture of Judaism before condemning Hamas."

Just as an all-important aside, right now David is kicking off a segment called "The Five Things You Need To Know About...Poultry!" and saying "Whether you like white or dark meat, we all know how popular birds are!" as a polka version of "The Chicken Dance" plays in the background.

This soft, pink underbelly of modern "journalism" is the schadenfreude the rest of us can enjoy at star journalists' expense - that even some of the most famous ones are still contractually bound to cover or talk about the most patently ridiculous topics (even beyond the quotidian stupidity of most of what they consider "real news").

In the end, after all, they are corporate figureheads and actors, often paid to do little more than read from a script, and rarely given lease to express a genuinely felt opinion of their own. You can even detect traces of this need to accommodate format when watching the comparably fantastic Rachel Maddow, when she does her obligatory cutesy segments on whatever silly thing. (And I'm not sure if it's the fault of her producers or her reaching a greater comfort level, but she's doing the cute facial and vocal thing more and more these days.)

But let's hearken back to the video Glenn showcased, of David Gregory dancing with the miserably awkward Karl Rove. That well of pleasures simply has no bottom. Watch it again and again, and steep lovingly in the hot water of its strange agony. In the dorky bobbing of the duck-tailed wisp of hair on Rove's balding head lies something approaching, but not quite reaching, amnesia of all the horrors the man helped come to pass.