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You need some serious help there Mr. Carroll.

Good catch Mark.

This self loathing worm is very well known up here in MA.  My group of people (that I will keep secret for fear of their houses being burned down, or shot to death by the radical left) know him for what he is.  A snivelling little troll that is so rediculoulsy borded that he has to contemplate his very existence.  It's a shame, really.  I wonder if it's the huge salary, secure job, or lack of debt that does it? 

What the MSSM doesn't report can kill you.

I'd advise this guy to get of his house and enjoy the country he has the priviledge of living in.  If he is so ashamed of being an American, perhaps he should move somewhere else and let one of the millions of other people on this planet who so desperately want to be apart of this country and all it stands for take his place.

Someone should inform Mr. Carroll that he is no Henry David Thoreau.  Please stop trying to impersonate him. But Karl Marx called and said thank you.

This self-loathing horse's patoot's comments dovetail nicely with another self-loathing jackass, Terry Moran, who detailed the birth of a terrorist is modernity.  I wouldn't be surprised if Carroll read Moran's suicide note to the world and decided to hop on board the Lib train to nowhere as well.  Their brand of teenage-tinged middle aged man angst should be relegated to coffee shops of yore with the beatniks and the bongos where they would get plenty of finger snaps no doubt.

There is not enough soap nor psychotherapy in all the world to wash their hides or souls of all their wallowing in the mud and self-pity.

We're talking major self-esteem issues here people.

Killing them with kindness isn't working.  Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.

I'm wondering if Mark is so completely bubble-wrapped as to not have noticed that the majority of Americans appear to be of the same sentiment as Carroll's so eloquently worded essay? Yes, the MAJORITY. 

Conversely, the Bush/GOP's War appeasers in America who struggle with logic and reality fit snugly somewhere between 26-29% . That would be a MINORITY of Americans who ascribe to the happy gas Bush is currently selling regarding our middle east misadventures. 

Too bad that the deadly folly Bush and his GOP handmaidens have wrought (with the 28%-ers sociopathically cheerleading them on) continues to take lives, destroying a country and diverting attention away from the real culprits of 9/11 and the dangers that face our country. 

And let's not forget that the ungodly amount of money and resources being fed into this war shows at home, with our infrastructure is falling in around us. 

The deadly collapse of a bridge in Minnesota shows our GOP's tax cuts at work, and the misdirection of our tax payer dollars to this war (and we won't even go into the debt that is mounting).

And BTW, the title of this site would give one the impression that it's main reason for existing is "exposing" liberal bias in the media. How does this include opinion and op ed, as in the case of Carroll's piece? After all, Carroll's only writing his opinion - as do David Brooks and Thomas Sowell - but with considerable more plausibility in his work than the rightwing counterparts. (My opinion of course, but I AM part of the MAJORITY these days) 

Sadly, James Carroll has joined Bill Maher and Rosie in the growing group of self-loathing sickos in the MSM. They need more help than is offered by pop psychologists. And those who hire them for their own profit while ignoring the sicknesses are despicable. Even more digraceful is that so many of these types are teachers in America's classrooms. The same bilious nonsense as Carroll is writing is being pushed on our kids every day, most of the time leaving no room for dissent. 

NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal

"While Carroll's story is clearly a troubled personal one, I'd suggest that in many ways he epitomizes the liberal condition. He looks at the world, sees all its wrongs, feels helpless, anguished and disconnected, and concludes that America is to blame. What a way to go through life."

Mark, you stole my thunder. As I read your article some of the same thoughts crossed my mind.

Sigmund Freud would have a field day, or year, with Carroll.

If all you have to do is sit around and philosophize all day - at government expense (the guy is a professor, right?), you can come up with all kinds of flowery tripe - it doesn't do anyone any good.

While the libs are worrying themselves over the sad condition of the human race, which they refuse to admit as evidence of the sinfulness of man, the people they ridicule are actually doing something to stop the evil.

Libs will never figure it out unless and until they face the reality that evil exists and needs to be resisted.  The cause of good never started a war, but whenever the right side wins a war, humanity benefits.

If you really care about people, and want peace, then you should fight against those who would use force to gain dominance over civilization.  If you stand around with a "Build Bridges, Not Bombs" sign...you're actually helping the people who want you dead.  Wake up!

A little gushy I know but I can't help it. Great memory or reasearch also in coming up with that book he wrote that so discredits him.

He is like most liberals, who often pretend to be something they are not because they don't know how else to make their theory sound more plausible. Like the liberals who come on here pretending to be soldiers to try and make their war stance seem more credible or others who claim to be in a profession or religion that they aren't to gain respect on their financial or religious beliefs. He tries to claim a carefree happy life so that the only explanation for his disconnectedness is the government. The sad thing is, other liberals actually believe these people when they imbelish or make things up.