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Ann Coulter was as horrible as always on your show today. She's not a very good guest, not a very interesting guest, and has really lost her "controversial" status. I suspect that if you took a poll of your audience on whether people wanted Ann Coulter to be back on ever again, you'd find that somewhere in the 80% range would say no. That would be from liberals that hate her slanderous lifestyle, independents that dislike her poisoning of the conversation, and conservatives who feel she gives their political label an appearance of moronic bigots. Not much controversial in a guest that 80% dislikes.

Can't you respect your measly audience that tunes in your show? Why not poll your audience before you sic her on the public again? You'll be doing your audience - and yourself - a big favor.

I'm starting to think that he is an expert on the subject. Madness, that is.

Anyone else out there watch Avatar: The Last Airbender? My kids and I love to watch it. But I sure hope this IMDB entry for an episode for the program this December is somebody's idea of a joke...

Full Cast and Crew for
"Avatar: The Last Airbender"
The Last Koufus (2006)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
J.J. Abrams co-writer
Eric Coleman head writer
Carlton Cuse co-writer
Michael Dimartino
Aaron Ehasz
Bryan Konietzko
Damon Lindelof co-writer
Will Smith guest writer
Britney Spears guest writer
Kiefer Sutherland

Episode Cast (in credits order) Julianna Rose .... Little Fire Nation Girl
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dante Basco .... Prince Zuko (voice)
Lucille Bliss .... Yugada (voice)
Johanna E. Braddy .... Princess Yue
Victor Brandt .... Master Pakku (voice)
Melendy Britt .... Gran Gran
Jeb Bush .... Afiko

Ummm.... that's weird.

Is anyone else appalled by the apparent obsessive delight with which CNN and MSNBC has expended their resources to cover their attacks wall to wall? They seem to be nothing more than War PR Machines anymore.

Dawn of the Dreadful. Pajambies on the attack. Brains.... brains....

Weird. Wonder why The New York Times feels the need to buy Google Advertising for the term "Ralph Reed"

Ralph Reed
NYTimes.com has news and updates on Ralph Reed
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who frankly, isn't nearly as newsworthy as Hillary Clinton or Al Gore, which The New York Times does not buy Google Advertising for...

Never heard of this guy before, but he's working on perfecting the art of superficial argument. He complains that DailyKos has nothing to say with logic that would earn a failing grade in any high school debate class. Too bad Forbes spends so much of their money on trying to telemarket their horrible magazine and can't spend enough money to hire quality scribes.

Seriously - if there's a less valuable magazine than Forbes in the publishing industry, I haven't seen it.

From an AP article entitled "Poll: Americans want Democrats in power":

But a Democratic takeover of either the House or Senate would be disastrous for the president, leaving both his agenda for the last two years in office and the chairmanship of investigative committees in the hands of the opposition party. To seize control of Congress, the Democrats must displace 15 Republicans from House seats and six Republicans from the Senate.

Dear media: this "disastrous for the president" part of the narrative has to go. Frankly, it plays to perhap's Bush's biggest psychological ploy: Bush as victim. Iraq isn't his fault. 9/11 wasn't his fault. The economy after that wasn't his fault. The budget deficits aren't his fault. The Middle East mess isn't his fault. North Korea isn't his fault. Katrina wasn't his fault. New Orleans today isn't his fault. Nothing's his fault, unless, of course, people like it. Will Bush be doing anything in the next two years that people like? Nah. But he'll claim it's not his fault.

Bush's problem is that America doesn't buy those arguments when Bush has Republicans running the Congress. But put Democrats there? Now he has a foil! No, Democrats running the Congress isn't disastrous to Bush. He lives to be the victim. It is disastrous to the Republican Congress, but so what? We should be discussing what's good for America.

When Donny Deutsch treats her as a disgrace, her career is in freefall. How long until the rabid right neoconversationalists abandon her as well? Dr. Phil's "Very Special Episode with Ann Coulter" awaits...

A - why is this news.
B - if it is news, why is it treated this way.
C - why is this news.

If CBS really wants people to dislike Katie Couric, keep doing this.

Anderson Cooper's show often doesn't even match up to the ratings that his predecessor - yes, Aaron Brown - received.

David Pogue's broadcast piece today on blogging was just like watching a video version of several blogs. Scattered, referencing other blogs and attempting to be snarky. Except, it was pretty much like watching a lot of television news, too. No depth, cliche-constructed and a waste of resources and opportunity to do something better.

Less of this, please.

Others who watched: Sacred Cow Tipping, The Glittering Eye

Anyone else think that Harvard should be hiring for this position somebody less prone to boneheaded generalist swipes at large swaths of people?

"The blogosphere has always been mainly about scrutinizing everybody else and expressing violent opinions about them," said Alex S. Jones , director of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. "Kos is a very powerful blog, so in that sense it's taken on the vulnerability of one of the [political] leaders."

I guess Mr. Jones continues to miss the evergrowing self-scrutiny of blogs - right scrutinizing the left, left scrutinizing the right. If only the Ivy League's various Press and Policy Centers would have such scrutiny of themselves...

*Irony, for those directing Harvard's Shorenstein Center that may be confused that this is a violent opinion.