give me a break, Jake.... every day ABC becomes more and more like Faux News

Scott Simon hit the issue spot on. We the American voter really need to look at our all our politicians under a magnifying glass… We should never let them off the hook whether they are running for office or in office. Sen. Barack Obama should return David Geffen’s money back and ask Geffen to clean house at Geffen Record. This is the right thing to do.

Following that logic, shouldn't NPR then return any contributions it received from purveyors of foul language and racist and sexist sentiments (there must be a few). Should we ask Hillary to give Timbaland his money back? The point is that we all have a collective responsibility to push back on this. I for one think that foul language is not the problem (some use it well to make a point), it's irresponsible language--casual flippant disparagement of entire groups, religions, sports teams--and bad faith.

But you do make an excellent point when it comes to political campaigns--they should be publically funded. The idea that money = speech is a canard; yes, yes, I know the S.Ct. disagrees, but imagine if none of the candidates had to kowtow--they could appeal to issues and win on ideas. Obama is the only Dem so far as I know who has expressed a willingness to not take money for the general election. He's also taken a relatively low profile on the Imus thing--a response to a question in an interview about Iraq--there is a good piece on this over at MSNBC.

Amazing-
Let's see if I understand this. Sen, Obama raised more than $25 million in donations and only $50,000 came from lobbyists. Somebody is lying!