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This exchange among three right-wing Fauxheads -- Ann Coulter, who is adamantly opposed to the TSA's new airport bodyscans (hmmmmmm .... OK, not gonna go there), Peter Johnson, a longtime BushCo apologist who thinks they're just fine, and Sean Hannity, who just wants to be pals with all things RightWing -- really isn't particularly enlightening.

But it sure is entertaining. Especially because Johnson won't let Coulter get away with her vague platitudes -- Coulter, of course, thinks we can just do away with the scans and instead rely on good ol' American racial profiling, -- and so he insists on pointing out that Coulter has no solutions for dealing with the kinds of threats the bodyscans are intended to prevent. (I'm not so sure Johnson is right about the need for the scans, but that doesn't make Coulter anything other than the dead wrong she usually is.) So Coulter shrieks at him to shut up, when in fact he's just engaging in the standard Fox-style talk-show behavior, where interruption is the norm. Indeed, Coulter is a past master of this form.

Coulter has a history of not handling criticism well -- she always wants her critics silenced. I'm surprised she didn't ask Hannity to beat Johnson up.

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Two police officers pleaded guilty Thursday to manslaughter in the shooting death of a 92-year-old woman during a botched drug raid last fall. A third officer still faces charges.[..]

The charges followed a Nov. 21 "no-knock" drug raid on the home of Kathryn Johnston, 92. An informant had described buying drugs from a dealer there, police said. When the officers burst in without warning, Johnston fired at them, and they fired back, killing her.

Fulton County prosecutor Peter Johnson said that the officers involved in Johnston's death fired 39 shots, striking her five or six times, including a fatal blow to the chest.

He said Johnston fired only once through her door and didn't hit any of the officers. That means the officers who were wounded likely were hit by their own colleagues, he said.[..]
Assistant U.S. Attorney Yonette Sam-Buchanan said Thursday that although the officers found no drugs in Johnston's home, Smith planted three bags of marijuana in the home as part of a cover story.
The case raised serious questions about no-knock warrants and whether the officers followed proper procedures.

On Hannity (Malkin subbing ) and Colmes Friday night, Peter Johnson a Fox News analyst looks at the recently released "records of abuse" reports from the Schiavo case.

Michelle: Who's going to be happier about these documents the Schindler family or the Schiavo family?

Johnson meanders around the question, pointing out 89 allegations that Terri suffered abuse during 2000-2004; including the coached nurses testimony.

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Johnson tries to make it seem like he uncovered some deeply buried fact that some nurse charged Michael with injecting Terri with insulin.

You can hear Michelle making all sorts of wheezing noises in the background, while Peter describes the alleged injections.

Johnson reluctanly answers the question one minute and twenty seconds after the question was asked.

Johnson: Mr Schiavo might be happy.

After another two minutes of denial from Johnson, Colmes finally gets back to the point

Colmes: 89 complaints between 2000-2004. All of them unfounded it says.

Johnson: Yes.

Colmes: That's a pretty stark statement.

Of course he then attacks how well they were investigated.