Uhh, NO, YOU CANNOT.

And I highly doubt you could effectively carry yourself if you were interviewed by liberal cable network commentators, and I am 100% certain that you would not be a good editor of a news outlet.

Don't think you can go up against Joan Walsh, because you wouldn't have a prayer.

A plant to get us to continuously write letters to prove that he/she is a nut job?

Could be?

I have to admit one of the perks of Salon is watching you rip holes in nutjobs' rhetoric.

"And I highly doubt you could effectively carry yourself if you were interviewed by liberal cable network commentators."

Is that the test Joan needs to pass? To effectively carry herself when interviewed by liberal cable network commentators?

My God, that's hopscotch. But yes, she does it ad nauseum on the low-rated Chis Matthews "Softball" segment. Strictly minor league material, my friewnd.

Dip shit,

No, I said I highly doubt "YOU" could carry yourself against liberal cable network commentators.

Joan Walsh has already taken on Bill O., and cleaned the floor with his ass.

ReaderReadersaid-"However, Coulter wrote an effective article..." Effective? Lol. Now that is funny. Coulter doesn't write effective anything. Her articles are the equivalent of eating a hot dog. Filled with shit, devoid of nutritiounal content, and hard to digest.

ReaderReader said-"I'll close with another reference to Nathan Bedford Forrest." As it's been pointed out to you by other posters, Forrest was the first grand wizard of the KKK. Do you really want to use him as a point of reference for why you think Palin is oh so wonderful. Seriously, why would you quote a notorious racist in support of your viewpoint? Unreal.

The only thing harder to understand than Sarah Palin's inscrutable resignation speech Friday was the statement her lawyer released Saturday,

No, the only thing harder to understand is why there is such a media uproar over this.

First you tell us she is so insignificant that it is ridiculous she enter the race as a vice-Presidential candidate. Now she decides to leave office early, and every Tom, Dick, and Mary in the news media is going apeshit trying to figure out "why" and "what does it all mean" and getting together like a bunch of vacuous 9th-graders who found out the fat, smelly girl had lunch with the captain of the football team. Yer pathetic! All of you!

So tell me, this coming Friday nite, are Joan Walsh, Maureen Dowd, and Shannyn Moore going to have a slumber party, where they prank-call Todd Palin, and then dance to old Spice Girls tunes in their pajamas while giggling and texting Keith Olbermann and David Gregory?

Of all the shit going on in the world today, of all the pressing issues upon our nation, and this. You focus on this. You know what Palin should do? Hold a press conference and say three words: "Get a life." (á la William Shatner to the Trekkies.)

Seriously, this is the most pathetic press gang-bang I have ever seen, and I remember the O.J. trial.

Seriously pathetic.

Seriously.

Serial.

Oh, by the way, did you know that a foreign nation has kidnapped and detained a former United States Congresswoman against her will? She was part of a group of aid workers delivering food and medicine to an impoverished, oppressed people living under a systematic genocide. Guess which nation kidnapped and detained her...the first 191 don't count.

How can I go to bed when you guys keep dragging me back in?

First, I explained in a prior post that my great-grandfather x3 fought against N.B. Forrest as a member of the 47th Indiana Regiment. I had never heard of him until the Ken Burns Civil War series back in the 90's, and still didn't think much of him until I started studying this history in the last year and came to realize what a genius he was, even though he was on the opposite side. I like to make historical references on discrete points, and lament that people often look outside the line of thought rather than internally follow what I am saying.

Incidentally, Forrest was both worse and better than commonly imagined. Before the war, he was an internal slave trader in Memphis, and thus properly regarded as one of the most morally reprehensible people in America. After the war, he was ultimately brought before Congress and exonerated of all charges of being involved in vigilante activity. He also gave at least one speech promoting racial reconciliation.

On Nixon, I will confess to being fascinated by his career. My only recollection of him in action was a c. 1988 appearance on Meet the Press. He said unusual things, like predicting that Israel would win its "next war" against the Arabs, but ultimately make peace. The MSM was consumed at the time with frets over whether Reagan/Bush would recognize the PLO for peace, so the idea of blithely assuming another pan Arab war . . . was a little odd.

I liked that, and studying Nixon, you see how unconventional he was by today's standards. He gave speeches without notes and without teleprompters; he had a number of melodramatic comebacks; he made his biggest announcements with no forewarning of content to his staff or the press; he wrote his own books and major speeches, revealing both shortfalls and an interesting, authentic voice.

So no, I'm not trying to play any games by citing unconventional figures. They're all part of our history. Remember what Gen. Johnston of the C.S.A. said, after standing in the rain at Sherman's funeral without a hat, then dying from a sickness which resulted. He told an acquaintance -- if this had been my funeral, Sherman would have done the same.

Sarah Palin fits nicely into the more interesting aspects of the American political story. I make no apologies for weaving it together, and giving her a rightful place in the narrative.

That's always a really cool way to win people over.

As for Joan's "cleaning the floor" with O'Reilly, you must be living on the planet Bizzaro. He cleaned her clock. She looked like a slapped ass, at best. Which makes me wonder why she had no sympathy for what she called the called Sarah Palin "meltdown" just a week after her own stunningly amateur performance on the national stage.