I appreciate not only the ground-breaking live blogging, but also the commentaries like yours here, and the hundreds of comments on each commentary. True, we’ve got puppies just jumping around and yipping, but we’ve also got a goodly share of bloodhounds and bird dogs on this Lake, patiently sniffing around for tell-tale tracks and signs. I wish that I had the time to read all the live blogs as they come out, but I DO need to honor my employer. So for that reason I appreciate the commentaries that you and others are writing, trying to make sense of it all (including the mini-commentaries of Marcy and other bloggers who help us out with bold print and parenthetical asides.) I need those commentaries as well as the comments by the bird dogs and blood hounds to help me make sense of all the detail.

I’ve been very impatient with Fitz– its taken him 3 years to get here, whereas it took Cox and Jaworski only 16 months. But at last We’re Here! And thanks to the FDL team, the whole country is watching. The heavy traffic on FDL has helped persuade the MSM that there is a market for this kind of news, so because of you, we’re hearing more from THEM!

Thanks so much,
Bob in HI

Biodun @ 108

We’ll organize to get Norm Coleman out in 2008.

Way OT,
I saw in today’s Albuquerque (J)urinal [sic] that Franken has announced for the Democratic Farm-Labor party Senate nomination. The Journal also had a quote from the MN GOoP Party Chaircritter that he was confident that sensible Minnesotans would reject Franken’s politics of scorched earth and division.

BC

Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Ron Carey today issued the following statement after the Star Tribune reported that Al Franken has told associates he will run for the U.S. Senate.

“With his anger and slash and burn partisanship, Al Franken fundamentally lacks the leadership qualities Minnesotans are looking for in a U.S. senator. Given Senator Coleman’s proven ability to get things done for our state and nation in a bipartisan way, I am confident Minnesotans will reject Franken’s divisive, scorched earth attacks.”

Ron Carey is a pathetic little dweeb who will never rise above the level of state politics stable hand; particularly since he tied his pony to Tim Pawlenty’s wagon. Take a look at the MN-Goop link. You’ll see, in a single glance, everything that is WRONG with Minnesota politics.

From Wiki:

The name, Chekhov’s gun, comes from Chekhov himself, who stated that any object introduced in a story must be used later on, else it ought not to feature in the first place:

“One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.” Anton Chekhov, letter to Aleksandr Semenovich Lazarev (pseudonym of A. S. Gruzinsky), 1 November 1889. [verification needed]

“If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there.” From Gurlyand’s Reminiscences of A. P. Chekhov, in Teatr i iskusstvo 1904, No 28, 11 July, p. 521.’

“If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.” From S. Shchukin, Memoirs (1911)

Bargain Countertenor @ 159

Patsy Stone @ 76

Yep, because we all know it makes no sense to introduce a gun in the first act if you don’t plan to use it by the third act.

Can’t wait to see where this is going. Send the popcorn boy over, wouldja?

Actually, the saying is that if you use a gun in the third act, you’d better introduce it in the first act … foreshadowing and that highfalutin’ litrary stuff.

BC

We’ll organize to get Norm Coleman out in 2008.

Way OT,
I saw in today’s Albuquerque (J)urinal [sic] that Franken has announced for the Democratic Farm-Labor party Senate nomination. The Journal also had a quote from the MN GOoP Party Chaircritter that he was confident that sensible Minnesotans would reject Franken’s politics of scorched earth and division.

BC

CHS — And Wells’ tour de force of a lengthy, detailed, meandering opening statement? That sure is coming back to bite him in the behind, isn’t it?

Yep, because we all know it makes no sense to introduce a gun in the first act if you don’t plan to use it by the third act.

Can’t wait to see where this is going. Send the popcorn boy over, wouldja?

Actually, the saying is that if you use a gun in the third act, you’d better introduce it in the first act … foreshadowing and that highfalutin’ litrary stuff.

BC

Christy Hardin Smith @ 8
It’s the nightly news broadcasts that have been shortchanging it.
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Mike @ 21
Compare and contrast with the coverage of OJ’s murder trial.

Sad.
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watertiger @ 44
They’re having a hard time covering what they don’t understand.

True Watertiger but sometimes I get the feeling that’s a problem for Judge Walton as well – what’s your take on that Christy?

T- at 7 — Actually, the WaPo, the NYTimes, the NYDailyNews, NPR and MSNBC have been doing some decent coverage. It’s the nightly news broadcasts that have been shortchanging it.

Perhaps it is time for all of us to send a few e-mails at lunch today?

Yupper. Since most folks get their news from evening TV newscasts and drive-time radio, if it didn’t get mentioned on either most Americans will never know about it.

How does that get over the fact that he did lie? Both would tend to provide him a motive to lie so…?