Bill O'Reilly is an Idiot

Getting ready for work here and have Bill's show on from last night.

He had Howard Wolfson in for an interview and popped off about how Howard Dean must be locked in a basement and that he's been completely unheard of since the election, being that he's kind of a nut.

Yeah, Bill, he's been under wraps except for a speech he gave at the National Press Club yesterday that was shown live on CSPAN.

Idiot.

You Can't Reason with Hurricane Season

Well, Hurricane Dean is bearing down on Texas.  I was just chatting with a co-worker down in the Lone Star State and she's ready for some fun.

My only question is how long it's going to be before some wise ass DJ pulls out the famous tape of another Dean who was talking about states he wanted to storm in on....

Freedom From The Press

In keeping true to her blog's name, the Sensible Mom picks at Howard Dean's suggestion that the best way to get to know candidates is from barring the press from events.

Speaking to a Mortgage Banker's trade group meeting, Dean suggested closed-door meetings, like the one he was attending, as a way to get candidates to speak more candidly.

I'll side with her on this one, hands down. While I appreciate that candidates would like to have full control over their message, and not have unseemly things they utter get out, suggesting that we remove the press is quite ridiculous on its face.

Let's put it this way. Assuming that you are not Senator George Allen, would you want to know how easily "makaka" flows off your Senator's lips, or do you think that that's irrelevant? Would the DNC chair rather that that kind of thing not gotten out in last year's hotly-contested Virginia race?