It's not just Bush and Cheney that continue to spread, well something, in the public discourse. There is a real legacy of lame.

CNN's ratings hit the toilet.

ABC's This Week just couldn't stand the thought that fair and balanced Fox News was being picked on by the White House. So it invited "Foxy" (is she Ms. April, or July?) Laura Ingraham to balance out a center-right panel that still allows George Will to appear without a truth squad.

The latest Village meme on health care and the public option is an expression of surprise that it's still alive. Clearly they all believed - reporters, operatives and politicians alike - that they could punch the hippies in the teeth without consequences and congratulate each other for doing so in the name of "winning the health care battle". This under-estimation of the intensity of the progressive coalition on this issue is a permanent condition.

Fox has been shoveling shit on the White House since day one of the Obama Presidency, so why has this administration waited till October to call a spade a spade?

How scary is it that A) Mike Allen and I have the same wet dream, and B) It's about Roger Ailes?

Going Base, Sarah Palin cheers for the further restriction of the GOP.

I believe that the theatrics are the message. By going all cloak-and-dagger for this unrevealing waste of time, Beck is reinforcing the paranoid fantasy that he shares with his viewers: The Obama administration is so vindictive and all-powerful that any decent ordinary patriotic American who would dare speak out against it must be disguised so the black UN helicopters don't spirit their family away to the FEMA camps in the middle of the night.