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Yesterday's taping of "Fresh Air" focused on the life's work of conservative political strategist and direct mail specialist, Richard Viguerie. In order to balance out the hatchet job she performed on that pioneering architect of a brilliant new device in American politics, Ms. Gross invited David Brock-prevaricator, turncoat and all around tool-onto her program tonight, to defend his own noxious actions and to tear down people whose shoes he's not fit to lick.

Here now is the text, in its entirety, of MoveOn.org’s new television ad, featuring the voice of former White House counterterrorism-official-turned-Bush-antagonist Richard Clarke: NARRATOR: George Bush shamelessly exploited 9-11 in his campaign commercials. Now, Richard Clarke, his former counterterrorism chief, said: CLARKE: I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he’s done such great things about terrorism. He ignored terrorism for months when maybe we could have done something to stop 9-11. NARRATOR: George Bush. A failure of leadership. MoveOn PAC is responsible for the content of this advertisement. Surely Clarke is outraged...

Even after a month, Democrats still moan, bitch and whine about the outright humiliation they suffered at the polls during the midterm election. It’s everybody else’s fault, they say, and to keep from blaming the real culprit – themselves – they now have resurrected an old fantasy: the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (otherwise known as the VRWC). Al Gore says The Washington Times and Rush Limbaugh conspire to hurt Democrats. Tom Daschle blames a broader media base, which he claims is controlled by a right-win bias. We’re heard this before. Hillary Clinton claimed her husband couldn’t possible be getting the...