Don Imus has me on again this morning.I just want ot publicly say THANK YOU to him for his increidble support of my book. What a fascinating, unique figure he is in American culture.Many of my friends on the left despait at the mainstream media because,at times, it seems so monolithic in it's support of the a very narrow agneda. But I continiue to find that up close, there are various cracks and crevices in which contrarian ideas can make thier way.Last night I moderated a panel about civil liberties in conjunction with the papaerback release of "It's A Free Country" an anthology I edited along with Robert Greenwald and Victor Goldberg. The panel consisted of ACLU Excecutive Director Anthony Romero, Janeane Garafalo, Cornel West and Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff. Isikoff was very hard on Clinton. In fact he was the conduit through which Linda Tripp et al got the Monica Lewinsky story into the media. On the other hand, he's been unrelenting in going after the Bush administration on matters of secrecy.

And of course there's the world of books where,as I have previously noted, numerous progressives have been onthe best seller list recently including Al Franken and Michael Moore both at #1.