Issue:CNN.com - DeLay angered by 'Law & Order' mention - May 27, 2005

Specific: "This manipulation of my name and trivialization of the sensitive issue of judicial security represents a reckless disregard for the suffering initiated by recent tragedies and a great disservice to public discourse," DeLay wrote in a letter to NBC President Jeff Zucker.

Comment: It is this kind of short thinking that is the problem for public discourse. There are problems in today's world that require volumes of thought to find a solution. In that volume of thought there needs to be different presentations of the ideas. This provides perspective.

For a good idea, or a good solution to a problem is by definition one that can stand the scrutiny of different perspectives. The source is irrelevant.
John Stewart is popular not because he entertains us by one-liners. He makes relvant points wrapped in humor. His humor as that of the piano playing Mark Russell, highlights the truth of an issue.

Star Trek's first interacial kiss gave Norman Lear cultural cover for Sammy Davis Jr. to kiss Archie Bunker. No one thought either these were a mainpulation of a sensitive issue or the trivialization of something important. These provided a service to public discourse because it initiated discussion of the issues with different perspectives.

Tom Delay is not the problem. For me it is the unknown of how many more neo-Republicans (Republicans not of my father's generation) that do not want to have discusssions with different perspectives involved. How many of these neo-Republicans equate John Bolton type behaviors as appropriate diplomacy to "get things done"? What's the rush for these neo-Republicans - is time running out? There is always time to think things through. Work smarter, not harder - I think the neo-Republicans think the other way.