Crossposted in Democraticunderground.com:

I kid you not.
Today, the blog of Yahoo News (link) quotes some columnist of the Dallas Morning News, described as a "progressive conservative," as saying that Sotomayor is no Sandra O'Connor (As if anyone is claiming otherwise):

A few questions for William McKenzie, a progressive conservative columnist for The Dallas Morning News...

...I'm sure most Republicans who look at her, would think she's not the best nominee. But what do they expect? Obama won. I would have liked him to pick another O'Connor. I don't see her at all being a Sandra Day O'Connor and going back and forth and helping the court find the center. Kennedy is the only justice who does that, and that's a shame. I'd like to see more justices who could help us find the center in a center-left era. I don't see Sotomayor being that person, but I may be wrong.

I know what you're thinking: 

What the f*@# is a "progressive conservative" and why in the world would we need another centrist in a predominantly conservative court?

And isn't this a blog for Yahoo News? Why are we being told what one of the perhaps thousands of opinion columnists in the nation has to say? What kind of news is that?

This must be among the crappiest pieces written in a while.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090715/pl_ynews/ynews_p...

Chuck Todd, White House correspondent for NBC, has agreed to a debate with Glenn Greenwald, prompted by Todd's opinion that investigating torture is "dangerous" and amounts to no more than "cable catnip" that should be ignored and would get in the way of health care reform and economic efforts.
Listened the confrontation this evening in Greenwald's website:http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/07/15/todd/index.html

UPDATE: The debate has been postponted until tomorrow by 9 a.m.