OK, so here we are, the liberal media is out of bankruptcy with a new president, Mark Green, and decisions have to be made.

My complaint:
Losing Marc Maron was a mistake of the last management, but not paying him what he was owed was the choice of Mark Green so he's gone. That being said, moving Sam Sedar from a five day three hour slot to a three hour weekend show to critique the "Meet the Establishment" Sunday shows from the bloggers perspective could also be a huge mistake. It's only compounded by filling Sam Sedar's space with a highly rated New York "liberal" with a single name and no national recognition. As Green excused his decision, to paraphrase: In the 9-12 slot, we don't want anything too intellectual taxing or thoughtful going on!
Thankfully, DK starts it's day at 6am Eastern, so there'll still be a liberal area to think in from 9-12 that Lionel and Springer before him wont need to think about.

However, David Bender (Politically Direct) interviewed Mark Green last night about the changes, below the fold is a more or less accurate schedule and line up I gleaned from the fireside chat.

Once upon a time there were three little Pugs and the time came for them to leave the establishment trough and go outside the beltway to seek some voters.
Before they left, Mother Rove told them "Whatever you do, lie continually and be the dirtiest low down scum that you can because that's the way to get ahead in the new world order we've created."

The first little Pug built his house out of War because it was the easiest thing to do.
The second little Pug built his house out of religious Hicks because his faith was supposed to be stronger than the house of War.
The third little Pug built his house out of Pricks, because authoritarians and vulture capitalists always crave more power and money.

I'm quite an avid hidden comments reader, as many are. Some days there's a good five minutes of entertainment. Watching the abusers and the abused, the righteous and the freeper. Seeing what's been bad to say today, what's allowed and what word or thought is now on the proscribed list, but that's as far as it goes ... usually

Perhaps there are sub-groups yet to be discovered but I think today I've identified the bulk of the species ...

Something I read here several times recently: That it was obvious that the WH spin of 20,000 combat troops was disingenuous as the support staff needed for the "surge" far exceeded the combat troops ..... It seems now that the WH realizes too and have gone public with it.

After he'd left for Montevideo, Bush released a rejigged request for funds to Nancy Pelosi with an accompanying note:

"This revised request would better align resources based on the assessment of military commanders to achieve the goal of establishing Iraq and Afghanistan as democratic and secure nations that are free of terrorism,"

Reuters
http://www.alertnet.org/...

Modern Republicanism had over a decade to prove it was something greater than empty rhetoric, message management and stealing.
Having finally reached a magic credibility rating of zero, added a mile high hill of body bags to their name and fed the entire treasury to backers and cronies. There was really nothing more than obfuscation and lip service to reward the people's needs.
But we all know that ...
Being a partisan Republican is easy, nothing is required of you except to repeat the latest distraction. It's the ideology of noise: Mouth open, brain disengaged, who to hate and who's to blame.
We know that too ...
We spend hours researching and googling press clippings and statements to ridicule politicians and pundits but it's their job to bamboozle, to support the ever the changing rationales and create the new realities .... However, everything Republican Americans have ever said is on record too - They just don't realize it ....

Q: "There are reports on the internets that your boss is a total fraud, and has never been elected."
MR. McCLELLAN: "Rumors? What rumors? You can't expect me to respond to rumors."
Q: "Don't bother with any of your dimwitted fatuous evasions. We're talking about Bu$h being a fraud"
MR. McCLELLAN:"Internets fraud? I can't comment about ongoing investigations"
Q "Look Scotty, we've got columns to fill and every day we come here and you talk shit to us, and we're supposed to report news, we're not fiction writers."
MR. McCLELLAN: "Can't we talk about Libby? I've got my 'Libby who?' talking points all lined up"

PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, again, I really don't view our relationship as one of, you know, we both make decisions and try to earn credit with each other on a personal basis. Tony Blair made decisions on what he thought was best for keeping the peace and winning the war on terror, as did I.

My early morning impressions are below the fold, sort of focussing more on the questions than the responses ...

In no particular the framing continues below the fold :)