I'd love to see Norm interviewed! Something tells me he would be a little more risqué than Kos.

He's on the button about why politicians hate him. Glad he stuck one in the Democrats too.

Markos has spent some time with a TV consultant, and he's learned how to present himself beautifully. Modest, upbeat, self-aware, relentlessly on-message.

Didn't give Maher much to work with, but that's not a bad thing.

Why does Maher let that idiot Christopher Hitchens get away with his obtuse, arrogant comments? He let him get away with saying Zarquawi had a base in Iraq and Saddam sanctioned it. What a fucking liar.

Moulitsas answered Maher's first question--why he's at the top of the blog-pile--when he discussed the problems with the GOP in the next election. He was able to discribe the situation in a straigh-forward manner, which people like.

However, is he right, when he says the GOP won't win in the next election? When you consider the AP story that stated 50 percent of Americans still believe Iraq has WMD, you understand how Bush has an easy grip on at least half a the population.

Bla bla bla, this Markos Moulitisas runs for himself like all the others, using the actual political problems. The question is not if we want Republicans or Democrats, the question is why did American Democracy disappear since the 40's: 'cause corporations run it...

Seems to me that SunTimes story about the 50% is misleading. They mention that the number has gone up, possibly due to an actual report about chemical weapons found in Iraq which they neither attempt to discredit or deny.

The thing is, the question is more complex than that. It isn't "did Iraq have WMD" (which they probably did). It's "did Iraq have enough WMD and pose enough of a threat to us or any of our allies to justify the invasion of the country". Conflating the two weakens your position because one can be true while the other is false.

"cause corporations run it" is certainly the most important reason though not the only one.

Hanley's AP story explained what decroded-piece-of-crap state the munitions were. It's points to the two senators report, which was propagated through the radio circut, and conveniently left out the state of the weapons, as to be the cause of poll's results. And that underlies my earlier statement on how things can change. The republicans are very good at getting elected.