The whole news thing, plus 2 margheritas at lunch, got me thinking (thinking in the loosest of definitions):

Who is your favorite liveral?

My vote:

Jack Germond, Boston Globe.

Big sarcastic fat man, who calls bullshit when he sees it.

Least fravorite would be a tie with Katie Currick (sp?) abd perhaps the Ja Ja Gabor wanna be - jeez, what the hell is her name? Used to be on poilitically incorrect as the "right wing"?

James Carville

Charles Kennedy? (no sniggering at the back)
Ming the Merciless (alright Menzies the Merciless)?
Lembit Opik (who I think will do well in the long term)?

All these and similar incomprehensible questions will be answered shortly...

I like Carville as well. Also, like his counterpart Mary M. too.

One of those "God has a sense of humor" match ups.

Peter (of ?off)

He's nutty.

I'm not a fan of liberals or conservatives. Both too narrow minded.

+>"I'm not a fan of liberals or conservatives. Both too narrow minded."

...as demonstrated by Mike Reed's Flame Warriors. Actually, labels don't serve us very well in describing social/political attitudes.

How about using adjectives instead? Dogmatic vs. pragmatic works better than conservative vs. liberal, for example.

Sssh. Don't let the hardcore ideologues know that they're actually two sides of the same coin.

Oops, here's the link for Flame Warriors:

http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/ideologue.htm

Pseudo-intellectualism is boring!

It's all just entertainment.

In today's "no publicity is bad publicity", politicos do well to divide and inflame.

So anyway, who's your favorite? You know you have one, you just won't admit it.

Chomsky, baby.

Bill Moyers. He demonstrates a much greater depth than most of the other "progressives" in the media--and he has been quite fearless in stating his mind on the great issues before us today.

...in stark contrast with the pundits who wimped out at the runup and beginnings of the Iraq fiasco.

kurt vonnegut

It seems unlikely that Kennedy will last the week, time was being an alchoholic was just something that made a politician a character, now you can't have anything that's going to 'impair' your performance. That it was the drink that allowed him to perform as well as he did does seem to expose a little hypocrisy within the Lib Dem Parliamentary Party.

George Soros? Dunno.

My def of "liberal" is what a CEO of a large corp generally thinks, like Bill Gates; fairly progressive stances on gay rights, etc. Otherwise like a corporate conservative.

Charley's resigned after proving he wasn't the Liberal's favourite Liberal even if he was everyone else's. Ming the Merciless takes over for the mo' and will be standing on the steely-eyed-scary-bastard platform, and I wouldn't be suprised to see Lembit standing as Mark Anthony...if he actually uses the phrase "honourable men" I'll piss myself laughing.

Surprisingly Simon Hughes came across more as Mark Anthony than the Welsh Polish man. Politicians that are occasionally drunk and incapable seem more worthy of trust than those too anal to trust themselves with a drink at all.

I wonder which the Russians would rather have a Yeltsin or a Putin?

Putin reminds me of the Patrician of Anhk-Morpork...

Ted Rall.