“Your ardent dissembling and defense makes you complicit. Deal with it.” Did I say a word about how Soros made his money? Did I champion that? I only spoke about how he used a lot of it. I’m not saying he’s a saint and without blemish, but I guess such distinctions are beyond you. None [...]

“why give the lie to those utterances by simultaneously purchasing billions of discounted Eurotrash-bonds when MF Global goes down?” A reference for this? Or do we just take your word for it.

I wanted to write about Soros because his philosophy seems to chime so well with much of what Occupy seems to be about. I don’t disagree with you about MoveOn being a Dem party operation I don’t think you can just write your own bio on Wikipedia and load it with misinformation. Wikipedia is pretty [...]

Question #2 is all important, because committing violence affects the committer. I think it tends to dehumanize. And if we dehumanize the other, we really dehumanize ourselves in the long run.

BMcGarth Why not research your assertions before spouting them? Your idea of Soros could not be more wrong. See below at 3:42 pm. He’s rich – he must be a creep, is that it? No. His Open Society Foundations have been donating billions for decades all over the world toward democracy and open society promotion. [...]

To be clear, I replied as above not to dispute your suspicions about MoveOn – which I share – but to get the word out about George Soros, a truly remarkable human being.

You say“George Soros used his millions to create MoveOn as a progressive arm of the Democratic Party, and as such is antithetical to massive change, revolutionary change in America, which is exactly what OWS stands for., and acts as a foil against the necessary participation that is key to an effective uprising and sweeping civil [...]

To metamars at 9:27am You would do well in the Republican primary debates. So much misinformation, misdirection, obfuscation. So many red herrings. So dense a smokescreen of undefined scientific sounding double talk. Red herring: “Of course, the idea that scientists who dissent from the IPCC’s preferred alarmist predictions, deny climate change, per se, is ridiculous. [...]

“this bullshit about how we all are from different places and different cultures and can’t judge and can’t say anything because we can’t know what it’s like to be anyone else is just that. It’s bullshit. We empathize and we walk in other people’s shoes, and that’s what being human is all about.” Exactly. A [...]

I think Glen Ford’s accusation of a pro-Obama bias in Democracy Now’s coverage of the Harlem demonstration goes too far. The report was just a brief statement (though maybe that in itself is cause for suspicion). The sole problem Ford finds with it is that the report said there were 100 protesters while he believes [...]

Dr. Paul’s freedom message? Women are free to make reproductive health choices – except abortion. We are free to continue to spew greenhouse gases into the atmosphere because human-induced climate change is a hoax. States are free to enact laws that discriminate against blacks because the Civil Rights Act should be abolished as an infringement [...]

When the center is sufficiently mushy it’s everywhere and there is no edge.

Great post. Right on the money. It IS gallows humor, even though very funny. “poisonous, numbing sedative” – Marx’s opiate.

Earlier he acted as a safety valve during the Bush years by doing the court jester bit.

The Daily Show is a comedy show, but as you note it took on (not sure about “was forced”) covering real news. Supposedly. Whether or not it strayed from its comedic origins in any significant way, lots of viewers believed it had. Because Stewart has been loudly lauded for sharply questioning the Bush admin as [...]

The human microphone does cry out for lampooning. At the same time, it can be very moving to witness.

Stewart is very funny. Somehow though I’m not really surprised to find him taking this route. For one thing, it may be that like many in MSM he finds it tough to get a handle on OWS – it doesn’t fit very well in any of the cultural or political niches they are used to. [...]