[ken5050]

Did you see TF's column in yesterday's NY Times...he slams the French....has a great line, talking about French FM Domique de Villepaine's visit to Syria...."whatever the French are FOR, I'm AGAINST..."

[Chi-townChief]

WOW! Are the lefties starting to eat their own?

[hang 'em]

You may reach Philip Weiss via email at: pweiss@observer.com.

Yes, but how can I vomit on his head?

[Numbers Guy]

Mr. Russert was expressing an ideology as strong, and self-satisfied, as the anti-communist ideology that was all over the airwaves in the 50’s and 60’s.

Anti-Communism was not only a strong and self-satisfied philosophy, it was politically, intellectually, and morally correct.

[frossca]

Here is the e-mail I sent to the Observer comments section:

I wish to thank Philip Weiss for writing "Media Tom and Tim: Bloviating Pillars Of American Empire." Now when I need an example that liberals are truly guilty of that which they accuse conservatives (prejudice, racism, arrogance, hypocrisy, narrow-mindness) I can just show people this column.

[azjatojarhd1ea]

"The right has always reveled in this sort of arrogance..."

Yeah, right! That this guy can call anyone arrogant is hypocricy of such magnitude as to make even Ouday puke.

[Restorer]

He believes, in essence, in the clash of civilizations—that the anti-Americanism in the Arab world, from which 9/11 flowed, had little to do with American practices and everything to do with the Arab world’s failure to participate in globalization. These are stagnant societies that cannot play in the new arrangements of capital and talent that the computer and the end of the Cold War brought about. They don’t have democracy, which would allow them to participate; they don’t harness the engines of education, free speech and women’s rights, which maximize human capital. They are falling behind. This leaves their embittered, underemployed men to sit around burning with resentments against their own society and ours, and thus to become the playthings for Osama bin Laden.

I would be interested in a logical explantion of why these things are untrue.

Mr. Weiss doesn't provide it. Apparently, he believes that just stating that someone believes such things is enough to invalidate both him and his views.