Is Neal Pollack right about our leadership?

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"The second night of the Republican National Convention, I turned on Fox News. I enjoy watching Fox about as much as I enjoy eating my own turds for brunch. But if you want to understand why this country is rotting from within, you need to stare into the oozing mouth of the monster.

Bill O'Reilly was interviewing Terry McAuliffe, head of the Democratic National Committee. McAuliffe was saying, sanely, that the War on Terror was something that Democrats could fight as well as Republicans. In fact, he said, the Democrats could probably fight it better. This was right after President Bush had made contradictory statements, first saying that we could never win the War, then saying we could.

I don't have a transcript of that interview, but I don't need one. Just like the Republicans, I'll make a statement, and you can sort out whether or not it's true. O'Reilly said 'Oh, you think you can win, do you?' McAuliffe responded 'I do.'

'I'm gonna hold you to that,' O'Reilly says. 'And if your guy wins--which he won't--and then we don't win the War on Terror, I know where you live. I'm gonna send some people over to your house.'

McAuliffe looked at him and said, 'Fair enough.'

I thought, fair enough? The man just threatened your life! On television! What's fair about that, you dumbass? Here's what the 'fair' response would have been: "Oh, yeah, you cut-rate Father Coughlin knockoff sleazeball? Well, I'm sending people over to your house right now. Screw you and your whore of a mother!" But no. 'Fair enough,' is what Terry McAuliffe said, and then he disappeared into the ether.

That was the moment when I knew that we were going to lose."

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