You’re very right about the “balance”…….I was being a bit too forceful earlier.

Agree with everything you’ve said @ 5:10.

solai @ 208

Morning all. I just read Teddy’s previous thread about Imus. FWIW, I love Imus. The racial comments were disgusting. But, there’s no bettere interviewer on TV. He’s the only one who asked Andrea Mitchell what she meant by that ‘everyone knew’ comment during Plamegate, he badgered Mary Matlin till she hung up on him, he hammered everyone over the issue of the immunization/autism issue, he criticized Joe Barton daily over his hold on that bill (and let his listeners know that Barton had called his boss to shut him up).

Honest, he was a true ally on many, many issues. And, his wife, equally so. One more thing, I don’t ever remember him lying. He supported Lieberman and dissed Ned Lamont (I never said he was perfect). But, he didn’t do it with lies. And many months after the election he ran into Lamont at an airport. He told his viewers what a gentleman Lamont was. Told us that Lamont approached them, introduced himself, and remarked on the election. Imus let us know that he was impressed.
And, FWIW, I think S-CHIP would have passed if Imus was still on the air.

So, while I love Teddy (truly and deeply) I’m looking forward to Imus’s return.

Ditto!

Sing it!
And you know he’d be raggin’ like anything this morning if he were stuck in that cheesy, noisy, crappy new set.

Ray -

Thanks for the expansion of what I knew about VD……and what in the name of Dog was C-Span doing allowing that POS a venue? The concept of “balance” is garbage.

Waccamaw,

The concept of “balance” is good. The execution of balance in the MSM is nothing short of fraud.

Al Gore did a great job of pointing this out in “An Inconvenient Truth”. There is currently about a 99% agreement among climate scientists that the rise in global temperature is human caused. And yet the MSM still offers skeptics and paid whores for oozy oil companies like Exxon to get about half of the media coverage. The public is being cheated by corporate media. Big time. And there simply isn’t anyone inside the Beltway to stand up for the People. Where is our Teddy Roosevelt railing against the “malefactors of great wealth”? Where are our trust-busters? We live in an age where the little guy no longer has a single effective friend in Washington.

Now I come from a construction background, and although it might upset Al Gore, I think that what we really need to do is to hire the Corps of Engineers to begin pushing Washington, D.C. out into the Atlantic where it might be made to do something useful such as creating artificial reefs to act as fish nurseries. In it’s present location, Washington is totally useless to this nation.

Morning all. I just read Teddy’s previous thread about Imus. FWIW, I love Imus. The racial comments were disgusting. But, there’s no bettere interviewer on TV. He’s the only one who asked Andrea Mitchell what she meant by that ‘everyone knew’ comment during Plamegate, he badgered Mary Matlin till she hung up on him, he hammered everyone over the issue of the immunization/autism issue, he criticized Joe Barton daily over his hold on that bill (and let his listeners know that Barton had called his boss to shut him up).

Honest, he was a true ally on many, many issues. And, his wife, equally so. One more thing, I don’t ever remember him lying. He supported Lieberman and dissed Ned Lamont (I never said he was perfect). But, he didn’t do it with lies. And many months after the election he ran into Lamont at an airport. He told his viewers what a gentleman Lamont was. Told us that Lamont approached them, introduced himself, and remarked on the election. Imus let us know that he was impressed.
And, FWIW, I think S-CHIP would have passed if Imus was still on the air.

So, while I love Teddy (truly and deeply) I’m looking forward to Imus’s return.

Ditto!

tis a good guestion for her – i doubt i’ll be awake when she is here but am hoping that someone will ask – and that she will be able to answer

That is to say, Halliburton simply doesn’t pay U.S. tax any longer on any work it does outside the U.S. And Bush and Cheney (ex-Halliburton CEO) continue to force-feed government contracts to these sleaze!

And in other news, it is being reported that the $9.013 Trillion dollar debt of the U.S. Treasury Dept. will increase at a 50% greater rate in FY 2008 than in the previous year due to shortfalls in income tax collection by the IRS.

People, we are being betrayed. What are we going to do about it? We are being betrayed by Nancy Pelosi by her failure to start impeachment proceedings

immediately!

A change in Iran’s top nuclear negotiator indicates President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and those who oppose any compromise in an atomic standoff with the West are winning the policy argument in the Islamic Republic.

Saeed Jalili, a close ally of Ahmadinejad, has replaced Ali Larijani, who had been backing a more pragmatic line in talks aimed at allaying the West’s suspicions that Iran is seeking to build atomic bombs, a charge Tehran denies.