Tut, tut, zenpiper. Let’s not get pedantic. I am the very personification of altiloquence, and I can assure you that dictionaries are descriptive, not normative.

First, there is no such word as “alot.” It is two words: a lot. School is free.

I do not trust 60 Minutes for one second to do a fair piece on Ron Paul. They have a long history of being nice to the person’s face and then destroying them via the edits. If I were Dr. Paul I would back away from this piece, even if Leslie Stahl does the interview.

As to embarrassing, only O’Reilly should be embarassed, for himself and the network that would let such an idiot spew his ignorance. Ron showed himself to be cool under fire-not a bad accomplishment.

He did just fine, imo, though the one thing I wish he would have expounded upon was the notion of ‘fearing Iran’ that Bill was trying so hard to get a response out of him about. Ron said he didn’t fear Iran and I agree with him as neither do I. They fear us and that is why they are doing what they do. Iran also knows darn well that if they screw up, they’ll wish they had never crossed us. I get the impression Paul’s a ‘big stick’ kind of guy and doesn’t feel the need to go running around saying “nothing is off the table”. Besides, that tactic isn’t working very well anyway, is it?

Ron is a smart cookie. Let’s pray more peeps come to see what he has to offer. :)

Embarrassing? For whom? I would say O’Reilly was his loud, obnoxious, “all-knowing” self — situation normal.

What was embarrassing was the part where O’Reilly said we don’t need a history lesson. Clearly, the neocons don’t believe in causality and can’t be forced to use reason. Everything is blamed on “radical Islam” and not interventionist foreign policy which is always falsely interpreted as “isolationism”. How convenient.

O’Reilly just invited him on the show to yell at him and cut him off mid-sentence. Partisan media is killing this country. O’Reilly, Hannity, and Olberman are the worst offenders.