This is one example of what some in the media do and call themselves "professionals." He thinks he is being clever but ends up giving and leaving the most improper impression about a situation or person. It is important to listen carefully to what is and what isn't said and who said it; it is important to read and reread what is written and what isn't written about someone or a situation. This is wonderful example of how information becomes twisted, used and misused for or against someone.  Barbara Walters ask the most important question of Glenn Beck in this clip. I know Glenn Beck is as much a reporter as I am player in Major League baseball but he does a large mega-phone from which he spews disinformation

I can't believe it! While we are currently consumed (rightly so) by the scandal of torture during the Bush Administration, the British Speaker of the House steps down. Every now and then I was peeking in on the news about the scandal that has rocked the British Parliament. I am a huge fan of Prime Minister's Question Time. Those British have a very spirited tongue. They lash each other and the backbenches often go wild. The (now former) Speaker of House always had to shout, Order! Order! Order! let the gentlemen or gentle woman from this place or that place speak.

On this day in 1835, my great great grandparents were married in Belmont County, Ohio. It is remarkable in many ways:

1. It is remarkable that I found the record to begin with around 2003; first in Salt Lake City and then again in Belmont County.
2. It is remarkable because their U.S. citizenship was in a state of limbo
3. It is remarkable because Virginia ordered all free black and free people to vacate the state
4. It is remarkable because Ohio required a $500 (that's 1830 dollars) surety bond for any black or free person of color entering the state
5. It is remarkable because the marriage was mentioned in my great great grandfather's 1886 obituary

As James Baldwin once wrote, "American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. "