Howard Dean came back at Katie perfectly.  Calm, rational, but very, very, very firm.

Tonight's episode isn't up yet in the archives, but should be soon.

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

Katie is a Tool...she must practice in front of the mirror everyday for hours, sliding her glasses down on her nose, to look intellectual, and whipping them off, when she tries to "get serious".  What a sorry excuse for a "journalist"

"War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving" ~ Scott Nearing My Blog

I'd be inclined to find out what that means.  Does it mean his clients woh are his victims?  Or perhaps the other members of his lobbying firm?

Tough to tell, and I'm sure Katie hasn't a clue to what the answer is.

The Albany Project. The best damned blog about New York State politics.

I'm firmly convinced that if the so called media/news people were really doing their jobs bush would not be in office period. What we have is a sort of 'soft propaganda' machine going which tries to pass itself off as our illustrious(not) press.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

Must be viewed via IE from that site.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy.... --ML King, "Beyond Vietnam"

I've officially started my boycott of CNN today after 20+ years because the odious William Bennett debuted on Blitzer's show this afternoon in his new role as CNN contributor. Virtually all the accurate info I get comes from my time on the internet, and of course much ofthat raw data originates with the corporate media, but on the net it gets fact checked virtually immediately so the chances of me being misinformed are greatly reduced. This is how I like it. Matthews, Russert, et. al. can all go shit in their hats. They are nothing to me now.

Denial is our most dangerous adversary.

Q: Mr. President, is Mideast peacemaking dead with Hamas' big election victory? And do you rule out dealing with the Palestinians if Hamas is the majority party?

THE PRESIDENT: Peace is never dead, because people want peace. [I articulated] a two-state solution early in my administration, [as] a vision for people to work toward, a solution that recognized that democracy yields peace. And the best hope for peace in the Middle East is two democracies living side-by-side.

So the Palestinians had an election yesterday, and the results of which remind me about the power of democracy. You see, when you give people the vote, you give people a chance to express themselves at the polls -- and if they're unhappy with the status quo, they'll let you know. That's the great thing about democracy, it provides a look into society.

And yesterday the turnout was significant, as I understand it. And there was a peaceful process as people went to the polls, and that's positive. But what was also positive is, is that it's a wake-up call to the leadership. Obviously, people were not happy with the status quo. The people are demanding honest government. The people want services. They want to be able to raise their children in an environment in which they can get a decent education and they can find health care.

And so the elections should open the eyes of the old guard there in the Palestinian territories. I like the competition of ideas. I like people who have to go out and say, vote for me, and here's what I'm going to do. There's something healthy about a system that does that. And so the elections yesterday were very interesting.

On the other hand, I don't see how you can be a partner in peace if you advocate the destruction of a country as part of your platform. And I know you can't be a partner in peace [if] your party has got an armed wing. The elections just took place. We will watch very carefully about the formation of the government. But I will continue to remind people [that] if your platform is the destruction of Israel, it means you're not a partner in peace. And we're interested in peace.

I talked to Condi twice this morning. She called President Abbas. She also is going to have a conference call today [with] the Quartet about how to keep the process on the road to peace.