[governsleastgovernsbest]

Alterman-the-angry ping to Today show list.

[Brilliant]

We are a country of idiots. Afterall, we did elect the Democrats to run Congress.

[padre35]

Hatred is never pretty to look at, is shows a dementia of the soul and bankruptcy of reason.

Mr. Altermann makes his living (presumebly) from writing, if that is the depth of his ability, well he may need to reconsider his career path.

A junior high poster on Myspace writes more coherently than Mr. Alterman's vapid scribbles.

[popdonnelly]

Sounds like a little smartass to me.

[Izzy Dunne]

For my sins I recently subscribed to the column's email list.

What, pray tell, were your "sins"?

[D.P.Roberts]

Probably had a spat with his boyfriend.

[omniscient]

Terminal BDS. The incoherent babbling is a dead giveaway. Also note the slight frothing of the mouth, and the dead, glazed look in the eyes.

[Billthedrill]

You generally see chronic anger and this "smart people think like I do" obsession as an expression of fear and a desperate insecurity of the writer as to his own intellect. In Alterman's case the insecurity is fully justified.

I gently suggest that what he's really trying to state in all this is that the United States isn't one of those "smart countries" because if it were he'd be more influential than he is. That sort of sentiment speaks far more about speaker than subject. IMHO.

[crazyhorse691]

Living on the Left Coast, I hear similar progressive loathing proclaimed as truths delivered nonstop. At least in a written piece you are not subject to the lunatic eye bulging or the flying spittle.

[technomage]

Eric Alterman is one angry guy

That can be said of all liberals at any time in their lives.

[Anti-Bubba182]

[adam_smith_76]

Someone has to respond to this:

"This notion of a leftist alliance with Islamic radicals is often trumpeted by crazy people like [David] Horowitz."

"Maannews quoted a source in the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority stating the terror group felt it important to meet with members of the Democratic Party since, the Hamas source said, the party will likely win 2008 presidential elections."

"Virtually the entire world -- at least the part that's paying attention [hates Pres. Bush]."

Virtually the entire world is screwed up and run by corrupt dictators. Is this how we measure a president?

The editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal represent "intellectual contamination" that have made them "a sorry joke."

Compared to The Chicago-Sun Times, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and other papers wandering towards bankruptcy, we might say "He who laughs last, laughs best."

"Jeff Greenfield is insane." A Michael Kinsley column "is so bad it could have been written by Charles Krauthammer."

As Machiavelli said, when your enemies are in the process of destroying each other, stand back and let them.

"In smart countries . . . CNN International is not pitched toward idiots, like our CNN is."

I've watched CNN International when I've been on foreign trips, and it's more "smart" and "sophisticated," I'll agree. But it's also liberal and anti-American. A few weeks ago all I could get in English in my Italian hotel was the BBC and CNN International. So, I read a book at night.

[woofie]

He is obviously superior....I wonder if he can bother to speak to the help

[hosepipe]

"a hard rain is going to fall(B.Dylan)" from the cloud that follows Alterman..

[Richard Axtell]

Children act like this, and destroy themselves in the process. But on further thought, the character Golem of the "Lord of the Rings" comes to mind. He, once known as Smigel, is the madman turned loathsome creature by his obsession with the "Ring", talks to himself and raves lunacy that makes us pity a pathetic life gone bad. Alterman is doing the same, talking to himself, conspiring and raving like a child possessed by something vastly stronger than his will ever was. He talks to himself, as anyone with any sense would not bother to waste his or her time reading such drivel as his blog.

[subterfuge]

Alterman sounds as if he's on the brink of suicide. Seriously. Must be the time of year getting to him.