Susan Jacoby, Matt Lauer , and NBC itself are being ludicrous here, but the fact that this posting comes less than one hour after the “Reuters Wonders If Chavez Can Measure Up to Castro's 'Heroic Status'” posting makes this LOL-ludicrous.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

The fact that they have to start attacking our intelligence, and ignore the fact that our ideas always defeat their ideas is evidence that they will lose if we can shut up their slander.

There needs to be a way of shutting down the slander machine that is the left-wing media and political pundits, and forcing them into debates about ideas.

Leftists always attack the person to steer the spotlight away from their ideas, because as soon as any reasonable minded person looks at them, they'd realize that the socialist/liberal agenda is to enslave us all with them in control. Every policy they tout is a covert enslavement agenda.... Government Healthcare takes away all of our choices.... eventually, it's the pot of water and frog scenario.... yet many choose to turn a blind eye. Social Security is another great example of people becoming slaves.... because this ponzi scheme cannot hope to succeed, they'll be looking for a way to take more and more of what we individuals earn and give it to others.... as they always believe they know best what is fair.

As the enslavement of America progresses forward, we will eventually reach a point where the only available action will be to take revolutionary action. Do we really want to have another bloody civil war??? Well, if enough people don't wake up to what is going on, and soon, many of the programs and government controls will be to big and too strong to stop. They'll be monitoring any attempt at people trying to organize action against them and they'll attack, with full force... and in a way that will make Waco seem like a simple firefight. Not tens of people will perish, but hundreds, maybe even thousands... and when that happens, so will die our freedom.

We're almost there now, and it scares me. It scares me because so many people don't believe it or want to believe that it's just fear mongering or the like. The big Government Dems and Repubs are working together to enslave the population, and soon, we will not have the ability to take back our country the way the second amendment meant for us to do.

As soon as we lose the battle to deport the 20 million democrat voters (read: illegal’s), we will lose our country. I fear that may be closer than most people think.

They attack our intelligence now, so that later, they can cite their stories point them at us as the dumb Americans rise up only to be put down by the wonderful socialists. Remember, in order to kill, most people have to dehumanize their enemy first. This is what they've been doing to us for quite some time. Read their bumper stickers, many are about killing conservatives, or wishing death on Republicans, or the President. I saw one the other day that read: "Let's hope Cheney takes Bush duck hunting" with a caricature of a dead Bush. These people are sick and they're working to dehumanize us so that when it comes time for their leaders to ask them to attack us, they'll have no problems like the Germans had no problems attacking Jews after years of dehumanization by the National Socialists.

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"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities." ~ Thomas Paine

There is no better evidence of the "dumbing down" of American education than the McCain story in the NYT. The essay gets a C- at best. Better still, it should be returned for ten re-writes.Poor research, poor sources, unsubstantiated innuendo-no proof of allegations. Rather than using the story to draw a conclusion, the conclusion is drawn ahead of time. Deductive reasoning at its worst. This is what is coming out of our schools of "journalism". The writers for the "paper of record" in America need to go back to Composition 101. Sad.

NEVER,NEVER trus a "liberal"

the libs are all about public or gov't education which is really responible for the dumbing down of America..

Allow me an anti-rationalist moment here: Jacoby is either a moron or an idiot, I suspect both. This fact, is the extent of my argument.

 I am convinced of the rightness of my position due to the fact that there is no countervailing evidence against it.

By the way Jacoby, I await your incontrovertible evidence proving evolution. I can be reached here at NB.

"In a February 17 Washington Post article, Jacoby contrasted President Bush to Franklin Roosevelt, saying "People accustomed to hearing their president explain complicated policy choices by snapping "I'm the decider" may find it almost impossible to imagine the pains that Franklin D. Roosevelt took, in the grim months after Pearl Harbor, to explain why U.S. armed forces were suffering one defeat after another in the Pacific." "

 What is she talking about here? If American forces suffered any of the defeats similar to what was happening during the early fighting in the South Pacific, or in N. Africa, today's MSM and so called elites like Jacoby would be screaming about how bad Bush is.  I doubt she really knows much about WW2, she is just throwing out Roosevelt comparisons like she thinks she does.  How about the Hurtgen Forest during WW2?  This was one of worst defeats the US Army has ever suffered, and the Allies still ended up being victorious at the end of WW2.  If the US Army suffered a defeat like that today, the MSM and so called elites would demand all troops pull out.  How about the Battle of Bulge?  Good thing Cronkite wasn't reporting on that one.  He'd probably declare the Germans the victors, even though the Allies responded quickly after early German successes. 

Jacoby also stated during the chat that "People who are so convinced of the rightness of a position that they simply ignore countervailing evidence"

Doesn't this sound like an accurate description of the global warming alarmists?