Thanks for your e-mail, but i have no idea who Rick Steve is and not interested to know.

McLaughlin has definitely taken a step down in the caliber of their panelists.

“We should blast Islamic murderous lunatics with Beatles music. While we are at it, let’s carpet bomb Russia, Iran, Syria, North Korea and Chicago, Illinois, with Beatles compilation CD albums. This should bring about peace; the Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ.” Choctaw Nation, leave Chicago out of your lunatic rants.

Okpulot, keep it sleek!

So my views are naive? Naive because I called talk radio host narcissists or perhaps because I said John Lennon was for peace and wouldn’t have backed the war in Iraq? Because those seem like pretty realistic views to me. As for Russia I would say that The Beatles music has been played Back In The USSR for quite some time. I am sure the Beatles have been bootlegged into Iran and Syria at some point. I believe many Iranians were educated right here in the states or Europe. Hmmm, I also think that many of the Iranian public are computer literate. That said however those comments pertain to their people not their government. As for North Korea, it would not surprise me that they wouldn’t know the Beatles since I believe the first joint Symphony performance occurred fairly recently with the New York Symphony I believe. If it wasn’t the New York Symphony someone please correct me because I heard the story several months ago and that it was the first of its kind in N. Korea. Just because one did not back the war in Iraq does not make one naive to the threat of the militant Islamic belief system. It just means some people believe that there was a better way forward then the path that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld chose for this country. We still have not captured Bin Laden, Afghanistan is a mess. Many warned this would become like Vietnam, looking back was that a naive position, I think not. As a christian I prefer to look back to Genesis where God lays out to Abraham the fact that Isaac and Ishmael will always be warring with each other and Ishmael would also war against himself, did we as arrogant naive Americans think we could change that. that is naive. As far as deceitful, I live in the midwest and I never heard that term used by anyone let alone the media and certainly not by millions of Americans. I think comparing Obama to the Pope very odd, was that meant as an insult to the person or to the institution they represent. I am not a Catholic and do not always agree with them but I find that a curious remark or perhaps I am just to naive to understand your meaning. It took me a long time to make up my mind I was for Hillary and it seems to me you are accusing many of us of just blindly following Barack Obama, to some of us he may not have been our first choice, most of us reevaluated and then chose a candidate who we felt most comfortable with for some that was McCain/Palin for others it was Obama. Strawberry Fields Forever

O T––I find all your comments disturbing. There’s an undertone of rage. And why are you sporting that Groucho Marx paraphernalia? Maybe you, as you said, just like to “shake it up”, but your shaking is scary.

Okpulot: When our news media turns on Obama, first three rows will be empty seats and all those reporters will be crowded into the last three rows of seats. LOL. And Monica Crowley will be strapped to the right wing.