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I heard Ingraham yesterday. I think she needs to try the decaf next time.

Here is the complete exchange from the official transcript, as also shown in the article:

Walters: “The Tea Party movement was important to your victory. How influential do you think the Tea Party movement is going to be?”

Brown: “Well, you’re making an assumption that the Tea Party movement was influential, and I have to respectfully disagree. It was everybody. I had a plurality”

Walters interrupts at this point: “But it was part of it.”

Brown: “Of course, it was.”

The “Of course it was” is the key part that Ingraham left out in her tirade. Clearly Brown was trying to avoid Walters’ implication that he was strictly a Tea Party candidate. He also resists being called any label, which is why he resorts to the “Scott Brown Republican” label. He is saying here that the Tea Party was one element in the support base that put him over, which also included registered Republicans, independents, the Dems who crossed over to vote for him, and basically self-defining conservatives of all stripes. Brown is trying not to be pigeon-holed by anyone, most of all the media, right now. They are clearly trying to “Palinize” him. And he seems more sure-footed than Palin initially was at dodging the bullet.

If I am reading the article correctly, these remarks were part of Garofalo’s stand-up routine at a club in DC. Earlier this summer she literally ran off the stage during a comedy festival in the UK because she was bombing so badly; this piece sheds light on why. How is it that the audience in DC apparently were dumb enough to sit through her entire rant and didn’t demand their money back — that’s the pathetic comedy in this story.

You are thinking of A Prairie Home Companion.

With the departure of Sanjaya, our long national nightmare is over.

OK, so which Idol contestant is Alessandra voting for, and how often? The only way this nutjob analysis makes any sense is that she has cooked up some desperate rationalization for why she is speed-dialing the Idol number for two hours every Tuesday. “It’s because I got disenfranchised in 2000! Yeah, that makes sense!”

Weaks says that when Fonda was in her Hanoi Jane phase the country was "soul-deep" in the Vietnam War -- as though Fonda and the collected malcontents and under-employed celebrities mentioned here were ever either soulful or deep. To join Fonda in conflating this rally with America just shows you these people are deep in something, and it isn't soul. Best wear your hipboots.

Weaks also intones that the country -- and our collective conscience Fonda -- has since gone through many changes, but he doesn't say what they are, aside maybe from Fonda's changing hairstyles. (Fonda was once asked how she developed each of her movie characters -- she said she did it by figuring out how each one wore her hair. Can't get deeper than that.)

I find it very odd (make that self-serving) that Fonda is claiming that unlike her last period of antiwar advocacy, this time the military and their families are on her side. She seems to overlook that she spent lots of time in the early 70s going around to communities with military bases trying to politicize soldiers. That claim has always been part of her schtick.