What exactly the Palestinians are fighting for is less clear. The right of return? The return of all land lost in the wars of 1948 and 1967? The end of Israel as a Jewish state? The ethnic cleansing of all Jews from Palestine? The Palestinian leadership is not in agreement at all in its objectives, with the militant Hamas calling for the destruction of Israel in its charter, which some people believe means also the destruction of Israelis (or at least stripping them of most of their property). Violence, especially chilling acts of terror like the suicide bombing at a child's birthday party at Sbarro's, has been an important element of Palestinian resistance, and the martyrs most actively mourned have been suicide bombers.

So while there has always been a pro-Israel bias in the US media, there are important differences between the Palestinian strategy and the Iranian one (so far). If the Palestinians were to unite around a leader calling for massive non-violent protests, Israel would quickly lose US support. However, the Palestinians don't seem to have that kind of leadership.

"The conventional wisdom holds that the junk mortgages exploded because lenders simply sold off their loans as soon as they made them, and the Wall Street securitizers immediately resold them as securities. But American Home flamed out -- second biggest bankruptcy of 2007 -- for the opposite reason: its founder decided its riskiest mortgages were so lucrative that he wanted to hold them."

So American Home had a lunatic founder. That doesn't alter the big picture, which Andrews' term "conventional wisdom" suggests is somehow incorrect.

"Likewise, we all know the rating agencies screwed up massively in assigning Triple A ratings to securities backed by subprime securities. ......In fact, a number of experts had warned about the flaws long before the roof fell in."

But hey, he's got some EXAMPLES!

"Lastly, Busted has a chapter on the way that lenders systematically targeted hispanics, blacks and other borrowers who had been avoided by mainstream banks. We've all heard those accusations, but I was stunned at the stories I ran into just outside of Washington, DC in Manassas, VA"

Yes, who could have imagined that corrupt lenders would take advantage of poorly-educated minorities? And of course, we haven't seen any stories like these.....on FOX news, perhaps.

Andrews is small potatoes compared to criminals like Henry Paulson, so I don't bear him the ill will that Bullsh*t seems to.

I just chuckle at the folks that will pay 26 bucks for a bunch of rehashed "analysis" + the Times Magazine piece, which was all the Schadenfreude we're going to get. Maybe he'll sell them a mortgage, while he's at it?

Really? That would have been a good thing to do as an reporter for the New York Times while it was happening. I'll bet you would have won some sort of award for that!

It seems to me now the goal is really to peddle your book, which will add little to our understanding of the crisis, by now "exposed" pretty thoroughly. No one is reading this for your economic insight (if you had any, you would have..um...) Instead, it gives a schadenfreude thrill for all of us who behaved like grownups and bought houses we could afford. I know I enjoyed the Times Magazine excerpt-- and all the McArdle pillorying. Of course, I'm not going to spend a dime for the book. Perhaps I'll get it from the public library.

But I've got to hand it to you, you're willing to go on the TPM and be heckled and abused. So perhaps you deserve a few coins for all the joy you've brought to those who restrained their sense of self-entitlement.

Or advice on running a car company from Rick Wagoner.

Or investment advice from Bernie Madoff.

I doubt they even watched the video to see the content. "They" just looked at the number of people who flagged it as offensive and pulled it. For all they know, Blumenthal is another Aryan memorabilia collector who likes to post his rants about the ZOG.

My guess is you'll see it reposted if enough people complain to YouTube. There's no conspiracy here. Sorry to disappoint you folks.

Deathwatch begins for the WaPo. I give them 4-7 years.

Ahmadi Nejad is the friend of all American peoples. The Holocaust never happened. It is a lie of the Jews!

Real Iranians would only use Farsi because they don't want anyone in the outside world to be able to read their signs. And all their cellphones made in China and Finland have Farsi keyboards.

Allah Ahkbar!

I can understand the White House laying low, but the MSM coverage is simply terrible. This is huge, massively important news, and anyone with a brain seems to have gone to the Hamptons for the weekend.

The young people of Iran who are fighting the corrupt theocracy deserve our support.

Is the assumption that the Arabs would simply massacre all the Jews? Or would the Arabs end up confiscating all their land anyway?

Since the Israelis are going to have an Arab minority no matter what, what's wrong with the Palestinians having a Jewish minority?

Also, the argument that S. Korea and China want to prop up the existing N. Korean government in order to avoid refugees or the costs of unification is also a short-term one. What will happen if, a decade from now, a similar government is in place, with a population stunted physically and intellectually from malnutrion, and brainwashed with Orwellian propaganda for 70 years? How is that going to be any better than dealing with it now?

Obama should ignore the Krauthammers and think about 5-10 years down the road.