[BenLurkin]

Algore and his henchmen ARE the threat to democracy. Remember how his allies in the Florida Supreme Court tried to change Florida election law on the fly in order to steal the 2000 election.

[Enchante]

Anyone who can still, apparently with the usual 'Rat earnestness, quote DAN BLATHER favorably in the context of complaining about "scandals, fabricated sources, fictional events and the tabloidization of mainstream news" is far too deranged to contribute usefully to "deliberative democracy" and the "rule of reason." Algore truly is a space alien from another world:

"Among the other factors damaging our public discourse in the media, the imposition by management of entertainment values on the journalism profession has resulted in scandals, fabricated sources, fictional events and the tabloidization of mainstream news. As recently stated by Dan Rather - who was, of course, forced out of his anchor job after angering the White House - television news has been "dumbed down and tarted up." "