Echoing Buddy, Tom, and Civitas above, thank you so much for the spadework you’ve been doing on the train wreck at Turtle Bay, Claudia. What may be as disturbing an aspect as any with respect to these issues is that we’ve needed to rely on you for the scoop because so few columnists and reporters working within the legacy media are tackling these subjects, or, if they are, they’re being spiked by their editors.

I’ve yet to hear or see any categorical condemnation within MSM for either Chavez’ or Ahmadinejad’s remarks, or for Sec.-Gen. Annan’s gratuitous suck-ups to both. Of course, all three are consistantly on-message with MSM’s editorial policies, which generally, I hardly need reiterate, are reflective of a deeper hatred of Bush (“Satan”) than of any wish for a strong and soverign U.S.

‘Berg