Why? Why can Olbermann do it (almost said “get away with it”) and not anybody else? I’m just not buying it. As far as I can tell, Olbermann’s career is fine.

It could also be that he is more a commentator than a reporter. It seems reporters, especially for print, spend too much cultivating ‘sources’ and are loathe to upset them and possibly be denied ‘access’. and the beltway reporters actually think they are party to decisions, privy to great secrets etc.. stockholm syndrome?

But yeah, the quick dismissal of Dodd, Kucinich and Gavel just drives me nuts. And it’s NOT limited to the media. The GOP base looks at Guliani, a fascist’s wet dream (complete with stockings), and says “NOT ENOUGH”. The Democratic base meanwhile ignores the genuine progressives out of hand as “unelectable”, then proceed to whine that there’s no good progressive Democratic nominees.

Thus spake Silber-thrustra

Oh wait, he’d just melt, and we wouldn’t get any good information. Drat.

I found something else that will really disturb you. To verify many of the facts that are asserted in the book that I am reading I have to look up the source in the endnotes. What is worse, many of those sources have sources.

Why do economists have such an obvious liberal bias? I’ll bet George Soros is responsible somehow.

Nothing like having all of your information filtered for you.

What did Exalted Leader Soros and Field Marshal Kos filter out exactly? Actually, never mind, what my masters don’t want me to know, I don’t want to know.

NOBODY thinks Cheney should be impeached, not Bush.

Kucinich has submitted articles of impeachment against Cheney so that the Kool Kids in the Democratic Party and the “left” punditocracy cannot argue that we shouldn’t impeach because “if we impeach Bush, we’ll just get Cheney as President.” Kucinich’s plan is to impeach Cheney, then impeach Bush.

Of course, Kucinich is being too clever by half here. “Serious” Democrats don’t need to base their “case” against impeachment on quasi-rational arguments like the Cheney-as-President scenario. The Democratic leadership and their supporters by and large simply ignore Kucinich or just make fun of the way he looks. To take one, very minor example, check out Garance Franke-Ruta’s empty dismissal of Kucinich’s articles of impeachment.

Nothing like having all of your information filtered for you.

So, 21% of those surveyed are fully aware that Bush has committed impeachable offenses but don’t think he should be impeached. That fits with my conception that the core of his support are actually turned on by the idea of an absolute ruler. They know he breaks laws with impunity and they love him for that, not despite it.

Mikey, I’d love to hear those four scenarios. I can only see one and it looks a lot like Japan or Germany in the early ’30s.

The “B” is for “bargain!!!”

Hasn’t the Iraq War been a bargain?

HASN’T IT???

Oh, right.

The loss of moral rectitude, national solvency and world opinion plus US$2trillion vanished without a trace is a drop in the bucket compared to the imminent threat of Saddam’s ruthless Sand Pounding Battalions and Buried Air Force.

It’s like picking up a ’74 Pinto for $US 20 million.

You’ve still got a car, right?

My own theory of Olbermann FWIW is that the network didn’t expect much from a former ESPN anchor, kind of like the New York Times probably didn’t expect much from a buttoned-down Princeton econ professor.

The people in these polls do not get this intricacy. In their mind fucking up the whole world, wasting thousands of lives and quadrajilionz of $ is waaay worse than wiggling about a blowjob. Unfortunately, that does not quite take into account impeachment technology.

Same thing in business: you can destroy a company and waste everyone’s money, if it is done “in good faith” it’s OK. While on the other hand, if you hire your cousin to clean up the toilets without disclosing it to shareholders, you can get in trouble for conflict of interest.

Most MBAs I know (and Bush is an MBA, lets not forget) know this very well and are very careful to keep an appearence of legality at all times, while at the same time lining up their pockets and fucking up everything…

Clarke’s Law + Hanlon’s Razor =

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

Let’s get real here. NOBODY is in the same league with the Bush administration, except maybe Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin. Oh and I forgot Torquemada.