I would appreciate it very much if you back off with your mocking attitude. Please, go out somewhere and have a couple of beers.
There are some folks here around whom we will, I assure you, "circle the wagons," in a way that makes it looks like Shep doesn't really like journalists. SoldiersGirl is one of them; Jackie-O is in there, too.
Lighten up, Dood...
The nice thing about the written word is if you see noise you can slide right by it without too much cognitive dissonance if you git ma drift. If the signal to noise ratio becomes unbearable you can slip away to places where the ratio is more felicitous. Verstahenze?
The nice thing about free republic is you can add your own noise without getting a bloody nose except psychically.