I just want to know how is it possible to believe that the American government, which is elected by the American people is essentially a bunch of murderers and yet still maintain that one is not anti-American. If it was me, I would hate a government of killers and the people that put them in power. But then, I guess I'm just one of those conservative types who sees things in black and white.

In 2000 you sent me several e-mails flat out calling the Clintons murderers. I believe in addition to Vince Foster and some journalist's son, you cited an "unusually high" number of Secret Serviceman deaths.

So, were you anti-American then or posturing for your readers now?

You're a doofus. It was a conversation about what people believe. I never said I believed that, something I've clarified a million times.

Really? I don't recall the subject matter being re: anti-american nutjobs or anything like that though. Yeah, don't recall any condemnation of the content in any way. So, either you believed it or your disgust at people who would accuse an american president of murder is newly discovered.

Either way: Shenanigans.

You're totally wrong. Not only was I never a Clinton hater, most of my friends thought I was a liberal back then (I wasn't but I also wasn't into politics as much as I am now so the subject never came up and they just assumed).

Journalists are seeing their life go down the drain because Americans are rejecting their left-wing propaganda by not buying their products.

Journalists are now lashing back at Americans with insane hatred and rage. Unemployment is staring them in the face and they are panicking.

I miss the gold old days when the government used to buy off journalists with nice cushy European jobs (which also led to some of the best literature in American history-I'm currently reading William Dean Howells'-a journalist paid off by Dishonest Abe and the much underappreciated Rutherford Hayes with jobs in Italia-Indian Summer). Stupid Chester A. Arthur for signing the Pendleton Act !

Actually, Karol, they don't hate all Americans, just the ones who keep putting the bastards in office.

That's why liberalism has moved from a working class to an ivory tower phenomenon. The people who supposedly believe in social justice want nothing to do with Joe Sixpack. The attack on Wal*Mart is a great example; ostensibly it's about Wal*Mart being non-union, or driving local retailers out of business, but you just know it's really about the aesthetic. (I don't think Starbucks, for instance, is union, and I doubt that Starbucks is good for local competition, but you don't see documentaries attacking that Evil Empire....)

Yeppers. Saying the Bush Administration murders journalists is pretty wacky.

And so is calling Murtha a coward.

It's both sides of the aisle now.

And it's all so effing boring. Thank God you only feel obligated to cover 1/2 of it, Karol.