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I was surpried that Brian gave credance to Rush Limbaugh, and repeated a question that had no basis in reality. If Rush limbaugh sat in the front row, everybody would know who he is and that might influence the news conference. I never saw Sam Stein before. .Why repeat a question like that... there's no equivalency......Comparing Limbaugh's lies to the facts as reported by the Huffington Post is a disservice to straight reporting, and plays the right's game of discussing nonissues, instead of discussing the important issues

on the subject of Truth and Reconciliation commission: LOOK HERE where I suggested it TWO years ago (ON THIS VERY PROGRAM!
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2007/09/12/segments/85397#comment8094

and HERE, where my current top ten list of things we need to do to get OUT of this DEPRESSION.
http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com/2009/02/top-ten-list-what-i-believe-and-want.html

AND I also say we also only have experienced 25% of the crash so far...stand strong for another 75% pain (in the gasoline induced fire caused by our economic dependency on securitized debt obligations..
http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com/2009/01/prediction-admission-second-depression.html

SEE HERE where I say we need to BAN these instruments of mass deduction.
http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com/2009/02/no-more-cdos-start-now-stop-now.html

(We MUST ban CDO's and these thing AS SOON AS possible!!!)

(I agree with guest here...)

We also need a TRUTH and Reconciliation commission that is empowered to offer PARDONS to people if they disclose a crime that they performed, and come CLEAN.

This commission should be able to range from
POLITICAL (campaign reform) to Politics, and to ECONOMIC things that have destroyed our country..

I'm sorry. I do consider Ed Schultz the equivelent of Rush Limbaugh. He has a smaller audience to be sure but he uses a lot of the same techniques and has a lot of the same biases. I'm sure many people are happy to see one of the "good guys" sitting in the front row. To me it's more of the same, just a blue rather than a red. Disgusting.

You cannot throw in the towel after 3 weeks Jay, you can't just give up on change. It is going to take more than 3 weeks to reverse the damage previous administration has done.

jay
yes it might be a long 8 years but it's going to be better on top then having to live under bush-types.

Is anyone tired of the title "liberal agenda"? The earth still rotates whether the HuffPo or the WSJ reports it.

Hugh: Funny, right? Opposition to torture is a fringe position, therefore the "mainstream" perspective must be that torture is OK. It hurts your head sometimes, watching Mr. Lehrer et al move the goalposts (or agree to the moving of the goalposts) like that.

Why are you not acknowledging the fact that Obama not only pre-chose the reporters, he PRE-SCREENED their questions? If Bush did this, that would all you could talk about.

Why is asking a question about finding out the truth about Pres, Bush's admin. progressive?

So much for change... It's still Us v. Them. Shame.

Why are you not acknowledging the fact that Obama not only pre-chose the reporters, he PRE-SCREENED the questions? If Bush did this, that would be all you would talk about.

How the hell is Ed Schulzt the eqivalent of Rush Limbaugh? Come on!

Enough with the false equivalancies. Limbaugh, OReilly have a long documnted history of lying on the air. Please site one lie attributed to Sam Stein. Because we're liberal we don't get a seat at the table because, according to the msm, we're a center right country? Rachel Maddow's done some of the best JOURNALISM on record regarding the current political scene.

Sour grapes for the WSJ without a doubt. I'm not crying for them.

While I would love to see a prosecution for misdeeds by members of the Bush administration, people lets get real. The Obama administration cannot go after the Bush administration for torture of other misdeeds for the same reason that Hillary Clinton was not available to him as a vice presidential pick. He is the first black president of the US, that would be too much change at once. Were Obama to go after the former administration it would bog down his administration in an extremely partisan fight and he would accomplish none of his campaign promises that the people elected him for i.e. health care, improvement of infrastructure, energy policy etc. Ultimately this is what his administration will be judged on.

First, Rush Limbaugh is _not_ a journalist of any kind. Second, Bush -- with little objection from other journalists -- exiled Helen Thomas.

More important: WHY is it a "left" question to ask about prosecuting American war criminals?

Is it so hard for Mr. Lehrer to conceive of the possibility of an American in power committing a war crime?

This article of American Dogma is part of the reason that the rest of the world sees the US as a pack of hypocritical coddlers of 'friendly' war criminals.

I see parallels between drug use in sports and wall street excesses

I guess the ms Stanley is complaining that BHO speaks in full sentences, unlike the last worst president ever we had before.

Mr Stein, the same way President Obama bowed down to Republicans and voted with them on the issue of phone wire tapping, that no crime was commited, he will not rock the boat, and form a witch hunt like Republicans did during President Bill Clinton's Administration. What Presiden Obama fails to see, that was proved during the stimulus voting, is that Republicans will always be partisan in politics and have this attitude (Your either with us or against us) and screw the American public and let them keep suffering.

He speaks so slowly? Things that make you go hmmm...

Pres. Obama was not the first to call on a reporter from a web-based news service.

Have you so soon forgotten Jeff Gannon of Talon News?

Leon Panetta last Thursday said that the administration would continue to use extroadinary rendition to third countries. The new national security chief (who?) said that he would not say if waterboarding was torture or not. Further, the administration will still use techniques beyond the Army Field Manual, though short of however they define torture, even though they admit that it is of no practical intelligence use. Perhaps it is merely for punitive reasons.

So the Obama administration still leaves open the question about whether

The president should be respected, ask the ridiculous sports questions on fox news please.

What about the comment made by Ari Fleischer that Obama wasn't serious by choosing a reporter from non-traditional media.

Truth and reconciliation is a wimpy way out of this. Why has not Congressman Kucinich's proposal and Russ Feingold's proposal which are more meaty and significant because they involve prosecutions due to breaking laws and going against the Constitution been mentioned and pursued. This is the weakest group of Democrats I've ever seen in my entire life. They back off, settle, give in, remain silent....

Bravo to KC for pointing out the hypocrisy of the Obama administration. The text of some of President Obama's policy directives on rendition, etc., also point to a concealed effort to continue some of the same crimes of the Bush era.

The people should decide. In order to do that, the facts must be known. There should be a process that airs all of what happened for open public viewing, and then the American people can decide how important it is to have prosecutions if warranted.

For starters, release all of the media (photos, videos, etc.) detailed in the Tacuba report.

http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/iraq/tagubarpt.html

Stein did a good job there, but I'm genuinely sad to say our President is looking pretty hypocritical here; as he said those words, his DOJ lawyers were defending a continuation of Bush's "state secrets" policies in the Boeing lawsuit. Bad stuff.

President Obama offered a non-response response to Sam Stein.

Tell the families of the million Iraqi dead, the thousands of Afghans, the thousands wronged in the United States that they will see no justice because "we are moving forward".

There can be no move forward without justice. Justice is part of moving forward. It was and is in South Africa. It was and is in post-war Europe. It was and is elsewhere in the world.

It must be in the US.

When will journalist stop asking questions about sports and problems in sports when President has too much of SERIOUS stuff to think of. Question posed by Washington Post journalist was laughable.