Brady was on Newshour last night and used his time to frame the debate by comparing us to cowboys in the wild, wild west hanging out over in Deadwood, waiting to visit Mr Wu's and his stable of pigs because we dared to complain on his online operation.

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They have yet to show us any proof that the vast majority of comments were over the top, (today he didn't make that any clearer) but even if a small percentage followed that trail, they could easily be controlled. Brady obviously was ill prepared to deal with what his job entails as was Howell's column and would rather throw out a straw man argument than address the issue at hand. It's so much easier to attack the critics (as he did to Jane during the online chat) than just to correct the problem. Here's a little message to Jim. Wait till your pal Hugh Hewitt objects to something.

Here's a Kos Diary about the whole online chat-cutting out some of the filler you'll find interesting.