Kucinich's historic Articles of Impeachment were the top story on Tuesday's Countdown with Keith Olbermann - which is now the #1 cable news show, beating out The O'Reilly Factor for the first time.

Olbermann and his guests treated Kucinich with tremendous respect - which formed a sharp contrast to the nasty coverage Kucinich received last November (led by the ineffable Countdown regular Dana Milbank) when he introduced 3 Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Cheney.

But there was still a fundamental problem with the analysis by Olbermann, Georgetown Law Professor Jonathan Turley, and Newsweek reporter Howard Fineman: they missed three of the five major reasons for impeaching a President:

      Did anyone out there happen to see the program on freespeech t.v. on or about Dec. 20, a very enthusiastic gentleman talking about the many reasons for impeaching g.w. bush? If you happen to have watched that show, and know the name of that man who gave the presentation, I would like his e-mail to thank him for doing so much research, his message was right on, geedubya gotta go! hope to hear from you soon, my e-mail is luckytrdr@yahoo.com, later     !

For entirely crazy reasons, the biggest news story of last week was Moveon.org's ad in the NY Times.

Was it the biggest news story because Moveon questioned a sacred General? Hardly. American generals have been questioned throughout American history, starting with Gen. George Washington's defeat at Brandywine Creek.

The only reason is because FOX News created a Shitstorm (TM) over the ad.

What is a Shitstorm (TM)? It's when FOX News takes a bullshit topic and turns it into a tornado by pumping it full of bullshit for a major chunk of each news cycle for day after day.

There have been innumerable Shitstorms since FOX went on the air. FOX actually has two going right now - the Moveon ad and the visit of Ahmedinejad to Columbia. If you tune in for any given hour you'll get at least 10 minutes of both.

"The Iraq Veterans Memorial is an online war memorial that honors the members of the U.S. armed forces who have lost their lives serving in the Iraq War. The Memorial is a collection of video memories from family, friends, military colleagues, and co-workers of those that have fallen."

Over 2.3 million folks have viewed it on YouTube, now you can too...

Funny what grabs people's attention...

In the wake of Ann Coulter's meltdown, Steven Crockett, co-host of Democratic Talk Radio wrote about other typical forms of harassment against Democratic activists from his own experience in "Democratic Activists Harassed by Republican Lunatics."

Populist Democratic activists are routinely being harassed by the lunatic fringe of the Republican Right and fanatics from the anti-Democratic Left. Lately, it seems increasingly likely that some of those on the Internet harassing Populist Democratic activists are actually supporters of the Republican Right pretending to be from the anti-Democratic Left.

Ann Coulter, that contemptuous example of "compassionate conservatism," infamous for bashing the 911 widows who "marinate in their exquisite personal agony...I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much" while promoting her misinformed and skewed diatribe "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" struck out twice at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

First, she simultaneously smeared gays and John Edwards with this despicable comment:

"COULTER: Oh, and I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards. But it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word "faggot," so I'm -- so I'm kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards. So I think I'll just conclude here and take your questions."

First they tried to con everybody into thinking that nobody would listen to progressive talk radio. Then when it became apparent that there was in fact an robust audience they tried to con us into thinking that nobody would support it. Of course we later found out they were working behind the scenes at the same time to get advertisers to blacklist our favorite shows. And now that progressive talk is having real political impact they are desperately looking for a way to slow it down, corrupt it, chip away at it, anything.

ACTION PAGE:
http://www.peaceteam.net/goharrison.php (Los Angeles area residents only)

All over the country they are making deliberately bad business decisions by using ownership prerogatives to shut down outlets entirely, as in Madison, WI, where people rose up in revolt enough to beat them back, or in Boston where they got away with it. But they are not just attacking entire stations, they are working to replace individual personalities where they can with weaker voices.

Another Long Walk By William Rivers Pitt
The moment is as iconic as any within the pages of American history. Three prominent Republican senators - Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, John Rhodes of Arizona and conservative icon Barry Goldwater - embarked upon the "Long Walk" to the White House in the summer of 1974. The purpose of their journey was straightforward. The sound and fury of Watergate had reached a brittle crisis point, and those three men were delivering a message to Richard Nixon: it was time to give up the fight.

Skewering the Faux Spew once again...