Greenwald on Paul

Glenn Greenwald discussess the Ron Paul phenomenon.

I agree with many, but not all, of Paul's positions (we're diametrically opposed on Roe v. Wade, and I don't see how he squares his anti-abortion stance with the non-intrusive nature of many of his other ones), but I do agree with Greenwald's assessment that Paul's appeal stems from his "you political flacks are a bag of assholes who wouldn't know the Constitution if it fucked you with a '73 Buick" attitude.

Olbermann on Waterboarding

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21644133/

"All of it is now, after one revelation last week, transparently clear for what it is: the pathetic and desperate manipulation of the government, the refocusing of our entire nation, toward keeping this mock president and this unstable vice president and this departed wildly self-overrating attorney general, and the others, from potential prosecution for having approved or ordered the illegal torture of prisoners being held in the name of this country....

Charged, as you heard in the story from ABC News last Friday, with assessing the relative legality of the various nightmares in the Pandora's box that is the Orwell-worthy euphemism "Enhanced Interrogation," Mr. Levin decided that the simplest, and the most honest, way to evaluate them ... was to have them enacted upon himself.

Daniel Levin took himself to a military base and let himself be waterboarded.

Mr. Bush, ever done anything that personally courageous?"


Here is David Levin's video of the experience. Looks like the sort of thing a bunch of Administration officials ought to enjoy.... Or am I using my outside voice again....?