via Huffington Post:

With less than four months to the midterm elections, the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that Americans by an almost 3-to-1 margin hold the GOP-controlled Congress in low regard and profess a desire to see Democrats wrest control after a dozen years of Republican rule....read on

There's still a long way to go.

There's a great new front page article that reviews Jerome and Markos' new book, "Crashing the Gate," and profiles Daily Kos and the community that Markos has built. It's a piece that finally gets things right about the blogosphere that so many have failed to do.

Author Bill McKibben, also mentions FireDogLake, Talking Points Memo, Eschaton, Crooksandliars, Juan Cole, and The Huffington Post, saying:

"Each of these sites, and the hundreds of others they link to, has its own personality; if there are qualities that unite them, they would include skepticism about government claims and a tone of cynical humor about the pretensions of the Bush administration."

Monica joined "Scarborough Country," last night and left no doubt in the the minds of the viewers that Iran probably already has nukes and will use them against us. Nobody on the panel corrected her ill-informed, warmongering statements. Is this supposed to be political debate or a War propaganda segment?
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Joe: ...Monica, is there any possibility that the Iranian leaders that are in charge right now would ever be so irrational as to launch a nuclear attack on cities like Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., if they got this nuclear device?

Monica: Unequivocally, yes, Joe. And in fact, the hypothetical scenario that you just laid out, that hypothetic ground zero is just a few blocks from where I am sitting here tonight. So, it is an incredibly frightening scenario and absolutely within the realm of possibility given the nature of the regime we‘re talking about. This Tehran regime covers the terrorist Trifecta. They do have weapons of mass destruction, possibly even nuclear at this point. They export terror and they do support al Qaeda.---read the transcript

The segment featured graphics showing what a nuclear blast would do to New York. That's a great way to influence the American people if the U.S. bombs Iran. What will happen when all the young Iranian kids that are said to love America are hit with bombs? Will they still want regime change in Iran?

Here's my latest on the Huffington Post about "Joe Klein and Nukes."

Open Thread: David Gerstein

Gerstein is the guy who ran to the Huffington Post and turned into a James Brady crybaby about Howie Klein's post on Lieberman.

Daily Kos: "Gerstein made his mark on Capitol Hill in several ways. He collaborated with Lieberman on his renowned floor statement chastising President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky matter. He's bragging about this. He's proud of it. This is beyond "wanker". Lieberman and Gerstein give cover to Bush while stabbing a Democratic president in the back over absolutely nothing important....read on"

Alec Baldwin to Sean Hannity: "You're a no-talent, ignorant fool"
Baldwin was on with WABC Radio's "Brian Whitman" when Hannity and Mark Levin called in. It got hot from the get-go. Baldwin got a chance to tell Hannity what he really thought and Levin became known as " the cabin boy."
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(I received many emails about this with the mp3. "Expose the Left" has it posted on his site too so I'm linking him up.)

Newshounds has more.

Newsmax has some of the transcript up...(shortening the post)

BALDWIN: I wouldn't dream of coming on your program, Sean Hannity. I'm here with Brian. I'm here with a really talented broadcaster.

HANNITY: --that you are, you don't tell the truth.

Alec: We were having a good time until "no talent" and "cabin boy" came breaking through the window...

Update: Alec Baldwin just wrote a piece for the Huffington Post about his Hannity experience. He praised O'Reilly a little too much, but that's expected because he doesn't follow "The Factor" like we do and falafel Bill is good at what he does.

Huffington Post:

"Congressional sources said Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove has threatened to blacklist any Republican who votes against the president. The sources said the blacklist would mean a halt in any White House political or financial support of senators running for re-election in November...read on"

Here's my latest on the Huffington Post.

Jeralyn has a simple plan for anyone who has a personal connection to a story.

FireDogLake and Talk Left have posts up about the article I wrote about this morning.

I posted a piece on the Huffington Post about Novakula.

For those of you who haven't been keeping up with the orgy of self-congratulation that is OSM™, let me quickly highlight this section from their pressrelease yesterday :

Open Source Media currently features content from more than 70 bloggers worldwide, primarily focused on political and current events. However, the goal is to expand its scope to eventually include all forms of coverage, from local news to pop culture to sports, fashion, food, hobbies and more.

Along with this bit from the National Review's puff piece earlier this week :

Bloggers don't work nine-to-five; they post around-the-clock. They don't file one story a day; they might update dozens of times throughout a 24-hour period. And they are everywhere. The New York Times has 53 bureaus worldwide (16 of them in the New York area). Pajamas Media plans to easily top that number, and at a fraction of the cost.

Wow. With $3.5 million in funding, more than 70 contributors, and a 24/7 posting schedule, I'm sure the guys in pajamas are blogging up a storm, right? Well, only if you consider five posts a storm. By comparison, The Huffington Post had 65 posts in its first day.
I guess it must be hard to pat yourself on the back and type at the same time.

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Ann Coulter: Stupid is as Stupid Does

Coulter was on Lou Dobbs yesterday doing what she does best. Promoting idiocy.

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Coulter: So why do they keep saying it's not going well, bring the troops home, Americans have turned against it? I mean, you're down to the only rationale being that they want to demoralize our side and encourage the enemy.

She then says the Woodward's admission has helped Scooter Libby out.

Coulter: ...Well, now we at least know it's true one major reporter in Washington knew at the "Washington Post," and he was telling other reporters at the "Washington Post." That supports Libby to that extent.

Woodward says that that he told Walter Pincus about his knowledge. Pincus has denied ever hearing it from Bob.

WaPo: "Pincus said he does not recall Woodward telling him that. In an interview, Pincus said he cannot imagine he would have forgotten such a conversation around the same time he was writing about Wilson. "Are you kidding?" Pincus said. "I certainly would have remembered that."

That hardly backs up her claim that Woodward told other "reporters" or helps Libby's claim because his notes indicate that Dick Cheney told him. There's plenty else to talk about.

(Update): I posted a piece on the Huffington Post: Who are the real traitor's.