Pot Pourri

Arianna Huffington was on CNN and made a good point about the necessity (and the lack) of media accountability not just for images but for words too (e.g. calling Ned Lamont the al-qaeda candidate). Crooks & Liars has the video.

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Sen. George Allen (R-VA) has apparently referred to a volunteer for his opponent’s campaign as a "macaca" (a kind of monkey) ." Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia” he said to S.R. Sidarth who was born and raised in Virginia. YouTube has the video.

From FDL comments:

If you don’t know it, macaca is a derogatory and very prejudiced term used in Tunisia in reference to blacks and dark-skinned people.

Guess what? George Allen’s mother is Tunisian so I can bet you, he knew exactly what he meant when he called the guy “macaca”.

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Digby says nice things about Joe Klein! Probably because Klein wrote "the essential felony of the Bush White House—that it has tried to run a war without bipartisan support. Indeed, it has often attempted to use the war for partisan gain".

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Many people have commented on U.N. ambassador John Bolton's decision to be interviewed on the eve of the U.N. ceasefire resolution by.... well here's the always worthwhile Glenn Greenwald's assessment:

But all of that pales in comparison to the fact that U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, on Saturday, in the middle of the most pressing crisis the U.N. has faced since he was appointed to that position, decided to sit for an hour-long, one-on-one "interview and chose as his journalistic interrogator . . . LGF commenter Pamela "Atlas" Oshry of the blog AtlasShrugs, whose views are so far outside of what is mainstream, in equal parts inane and despicable, that it would be impossible to describe fully. I could never do the interview justice -- you really must listen to it to believe it