Masterfully done! And, very well said. I feel honored to be a foil for such a comment.

They rely on their good relations to get people to come on the air. If they seriously challenge any one with real questions there is no show. We have been seeing that for the last 8 years. They have not learned their lesson and refuse to accept that they are not doing their job. Gregory and Williams both rejected any criticism of their "reporting". So don't expect to see anything different.

"It's like the bar, "Cheers"

Said Retzilian, catching his reflection in his computer screen and momentarily mistaking himself for the exceedingly handsome Ted Danson. But then:

"There must be fewer IDIOTS allowed to trash the place or they will destroy this blog. I know of what I speak."

Said the once again not quite so handsome Retzilian, having just remembered all the bars in Boston over whose rest rooms he had righteously and copiously puked before rapidly making his exit in the hope of avoiding detection.

Ah, the ups and downs of life, where would we be without them?

Well, it's a damn shame what happened here today. I frequently use my scroll button on GG's threads, primarily for trolls, often enough for legitimate yet excessive or contentuous posters, but rarely for B & K. Anyway, scrolling works for me. Happy New Year to all...

The virtues of rye should not be overlooked either, while we are appreciating American whiskeys, especially in properly built Manhattan Cocktails, which have been particularly edifying for me of late.

Sazerac Straight Rye Whiskey is lovely for that purpose, and the name is somehow onomatopoeic, though I can't explain why I think that.

geh (give them hell) say: goeson.

Thanks. Your father loved you.

Every single post gets deleted.

No reconciliation is possibles.

It's enmity. It's mysterious.

Happy New Year. Delete?

Let Light Perpetual Shine.

Rest eternal if you dead?

Sad beyond words. Yes.

I get scared trying to "geh" on GG threads. Like the Cowardly Lion. Yes, my father loved me very much. So, I try. It will not be a happy new year if you don't post anymore. Sigh. Sad.

geh (give them hell) say: goeson.

Thanks. Your father loved you.

Every single post gets deleted.

No reconciliation is possibles.

It's enmity. It's mysterious.

Happy New Year. Delete?

Let Light Perpetual Shine.

Rest eternal if you dead?

Sad beyond words. Yes.

geh (give them hell) say: goeson.

Thanks. Your father loved you.

Every single post gets deleted.

No reconciliation is possibles.

It's enmity. It's mysterious.

Happy New Year. Delete?

Let Light Perpetual Shine.

Rest eternal if you dead?

Sad beyond words. Yes.

geh (give them hell) say: goeson.

Thanks. Your father loved you.

Every single post gets deleted.

No reconciliation is possibles.

It's enmity. It's mysterious.

Happy New Year. Delete?

Let Light Perpetual Shine.

Rest eternal if you dead?

Sad beyond words. Yes.

but none for Gregory. His admission that it is not his(and the General Press') responsibility to refute known lies, or to confront officials that are lying to the US condemns the traditional press to the tar pits of history. That Gregory and his ilk choose extinction rather than participating in revival of journalism is predictable.

Sazerac Rye Whiskey. What's changed?

Why, If I go buy Rye, sip. My eyes blur.

Why, my kind comment goes boohoos.

Why. all my ideas are so horrible. Why?

Ay heehaw, Baba, Mamma, Happy, Ay!

It is not admirable to draw your argument to support a preconception. This is not journalism; it's a rant. And by the by, putting statements in boldface italics comes across as screaming---hysterically. It fails to trust the reader to make educated evaluations. It's bullying.

Spot on post, Glenn. The canonization of Tim Russert may well have been justified on a personal basis (I didn't know him, nor do I know many saints), but I was thoroughly disgusted with his work at the time of his passing, and his deference to power had become unseemly.

If David Gregory is going the same route - and he clearly is - I'm not interested in his "interviews." How can anyone claim to be a journalist and not ask the tough questions? Do they think we don't want to know the answers?

Give me Dick Gregory instead of David.

He was essentially pushing her into invading Gaza and deposing its democratically elected government

How is it any more relevant that Hamas was elected over let us say Hitler was elected?

I doubt you'd advocate that it was wrong of the Allies to remove Hitler from power because he won an election in 1933?

In the real World, you don't get to advocate the destruction of your neighbor, then launch missiles at that neighbor, then complain that your neighbor is stronger than you. It's beyond silly.

Why don't we allow me to slap you about 4 times a day, right across the face. Really, a slap doesn't do much real harm, and those missiles have murdered so few people in Israel. BTW, you don't get to do anything about my slapping you, you just have to take it over and over. That's just the way it is.

That's your essential argument.

Is the Israeli response going to solve all the issues. No. Hell, it might not even solve any of them. But just as you won't line yourself up for some slaps everyday, no country will allow rocket attacks against it to go unanswered.

When journalism is broadcast to the public via trans national corporations and those corporations are very few in number the message pushed will be whatever forwards the corporate interest. I remember a story a few years back where Russert was going to ask some questions not becoming to Bush when all of a sudden Jack Welch CEO of G.E. (owner of NBC) shows up in the control room. A message was relayed to Russert and with it the unbecoming questions disappeared from Russerts script. The reason these guys are paid so much is a guarantee they'll do whatever the corporate masters want them to do. Murrow and Cronkite wouldn't recognize so called "journalism" today. A few benefit greatly while the republic suffers monumentally. Capitalism at its worst.