Dozing Through the Gonzales Story

Cross-Promotion

Her face peers out from Metrobuses around town, the young star of a promotional campaign for Washington Post Radio.

Now it can be told: She's the 12-year-old daughter of a New York Times reporter.

"It's very cool," says Timeswoman Sheryl Gay Stolberg, though she did stop to wonder about aiding the competition. Her husband, Scott Robinson, is a photographer who was hired by Post Radio's ad agency. Asked to submit images of ordinary people, he included a shot of their daughter, Olivia, in her karate class. "She and her sister are very happy they didn't select a photo of them in the bath," Stolberg says.

In other news . . . more disgusting chatter from the political fringe, this time on the right.

I was appalled when some crazies posting comments at the Huffington Post expressed disappointment that the suicide bombing in Afghanistan missed Dick Cheney. Now some wackos posting at the conservative site Little Green Footballs are bummed that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed didn't succeed in killing Jimmy Carter (a plot that was included in his laundry list of confessions).

To wit:

"Can we furlough him--just so he can realize the Carter plot? Please?"

"Even this schmuck had some good ideas."

"Can we trade Carter to get the WTC and its occupants back?"

I don't hold either Web site responsible for this garbage, and it's not representative of anything other than the politics of hatred as practiced by a tiny minority. But how despicable: Whatever his shortcomings as president, Carter is 82 years old. Have some irrational people hated him so intensely for three decades that they still want him assassinated? Pathetic.

Salon's Glenn Greenwald reprints some of the posts and beats up on Little Green Football's founder:

"Let us first recall that LGF's Charles Johnson was one of the leaders of the Outrage Brigade driving the big 'story' -- that made it into virtually every national media outlet -- of how anonymous HuffPost commenters expressed sorrow that the bombing in Afghanistan did not result in Dick Cheney's death."