Naivete has been known to lead to that, among other things.

I don't recall even in the hysterical post-9/11 and pre-Iraq era him ever once suggesting that someone he considered be incorrect ought to be silenced by any means whatsoever.

How could anyone distrust a woman who accepted more corporate funding than any politician in the history of our species ?

I rather thought I did.

There's a distinction between fleeing and being harassed by special interest groups until the cost of dealing with them makes sponsoring the program untenable.

Given that Assange all but confirmed that Rich was the source then backed away out of respect for family - traumatized at the very least, under duress at worst - it's more plausible than that.

One can only find truth through indoctrination then?

You know what else makes you "look foolish"?

How is anything Hannity has said defamation toward Rich or his family?

I guess maybe Jimmy Carter was Cicero? One last moment of idealism.

Being born in 1979 the presidential cycles i've lived through have been something akin to witnessing the Julio-Claudian dynasty, history repeating itself. That cycle would appear to be drawing to an end and i'm evaluating it with the morbid glee of Suetonius.

MSNBC's ratings bonanza kills your thesis.

Wrote a long essay awhile back about how the last several presidents have been a reenactment of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to an astonishing degree.

The war was gonna happen sooner or later, it was just a question of who would take the lead.

They were discussing him on their Sirius channel today and I could only imagine him tuning in and being all "The fuck?!?!?!?!"

Of course she wasn't fired on record, discreetly asking for resignations is how these things are usually done.

GRRM mentioned more than once that the Iron Throne he had in mind looked a lot more like the one she's on there - I guess they gave him his wish, belatedly.

By that logic everyone including Ned doomed most everyone early on.

After all this time they forgot why Hadrian built that wall…

They were very bad people.