StephPo's This Week was quickly becoming my favorite show on Sunday Mornings.  Somehow, despite all the pressures of working in the modern corporate media, they managed to have pretty high-level & serious discussions about serious topics.  The wingnuts were laughed at and discarded.  Even David Brooks ("[Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party") and Peggy Noonan ("[Sarah Palin is] Horrifying") acted like responsible adults on the set of This Week. 

Granted, George F. Will was unable to stop acting like a pretentious mega-weenie, but I can't expect miracles.  (It was enough that he didn't hold his breath and turn blue each time Paul Krugman humiliated him with facts & knowledge.)

Anyway, Stephanopoulos really screwed the pooch today. 

Michelle Malkin -- who's famous for her scholarly cheerleading routine -- was invited on the show because she has a "book" out.  And, I suppose, it's important to listen to "all sides of the argument."  Nevermind that she's not engaged in the actual public debate on these serious issues.  Nevermind that she spreads vitriol on a daily basis and "hopes the President fails."  Was Orly Taitz -- the attorney/dentist/real-estate-agent/conspiracy-theorist unavailable?  (I doubt it, because Colbert had her on last week...  [No Link...  :(  ]) 

Krugman was polite about this whole situation on his blog today, so let me say what I imagine he wishes he could say: "George, you may have just ruined your show.  You caved to Hannity yet again with this sort of "equal-time to wingnuts" garbage.  Think about it - why would anyone with half-a-brain -- let alone a Nobel Prize -- want to go on your show again in the future? ...

Michelle Malkin represents a fatal cancer to This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

Seriously folks:  We have to start calling b#llshit on this kind of legitimization of radical fringe-dwellers.  As Bill Maher pointed out Friday July 31 [No Link...  :(  ], ignoring the birthers and the Michelle Malkins won't make them go away.  Vocal and immediate opposition to the fringe liars on whats left of our legitimate forums is the only way to stop their lies. 

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