You don’t often get a piece of cable TV this good, so it’s worth transcribing and posting in its entirety. In a rare and contentious eight minute cable news segment, Glenn Greenwald decided to set the record straight with Eliot Spitzer on MSNBC regarding the Gaza flotilla.

WSJ gets Pataki’s drop-out and this race completely wrong. Gillibrand was never vulnerable – and that’s why nobody wanted to challenge her. People like George Pataki don’t drop out of winnable Senate races to run some quixotic repeal organization. They decline to run because they know that their first day in the race would represent the high-water mark of their candidacy.

Today was a busy day in the New York Senate race even if you didn’t talk about Kirsten Gillibrand and Harold Ford. Left-wing Democratic candidate Jonathan Tasini launched a campaign to end the filibuster, and both of the top Republican recruits for the race – Rep. Peter King and former Rep. Susan Molinari – dropped out of consideration for the race.

With Gillibrand and Ford included, the day was, in a word, hectic. It started early, with Harold Ford dropping a bombshell – he now supports same-sex marriage.

In case you haven’t noticed, it looks like there are three women lining up to run for New York’s senate seat. Oh yeah, and some guy might be thinking about it.

Harold Ford really does look like he’s going to take a run at New York’s US Senate seat currently held by Kirsten Gillibrand. He’s staffed up with a spokesman and a pollster, as well as Rod Blagojevich’s old campaign manager (!). And the spokesman is already running with an angry statement:

Harold is not going to be bullied or intimidated. It’s good for New York to have a dialogue. It’s good to have credible candidates exploring this race. So what are they so afraid of?

Amidst all those retirements yesterday, the New York Times floated that a Democrat would get into a race – former Tennessee Rep. and chair of the DLC Harold Ford, being tapped by a bunch of Wall Streeters to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand in New York.

Here’s who is named as supporting Ford, according to the article:

• Uber-rich financier Steven Rattner;
• Merryl H. Tisch, the wife of Loews Corporation CEO James Tisch;
• Richard Plepler, the co-President of HBO;
• Michael Bloomberg, the independent mayor of New York.

Really sounds like the heart of the liberal grassroots, doesn’t it?

Sunday, Newsday reported that Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) keeps two rifles under her bed in her upstate New York home. Monday, Newsday reported the guns had been moved. Why did Gillibrand feel the need to disclose this information in the first place?