We don't know about the circumstances of Oppenheim's departure from the NBC morning show, where he was a lone and provocative conservative. But the abrasive young producer was pushed out of Chris Matthews' Hardball on MSNBC after claiming in an article for The Weekly Standard that supposedly fearless reporters rarely left the well-protected Green Zone in Baghdad. (NBC's then anchor, Tom Brokaw, was particularly put out.)

And at Harvard, Oppenheim clashed with campus feminists, particularly when they wouldn't sleep with him. In a final column for the Harvard Crimson, Oppenheim wrote: "Apparently, it is easy to blame the patriarchy for all of your woes, and to silence your opponents with accusations of misogyny, but it is more difficult to actually deny oneself the pleasures of cavorting with said patriarchy's handsome sons."

Those articles remain on the web notwithstanding their abuse of bad-mouthed snobbish college girls and cowardly anti-war journalists. But a 2005 article by TV Newser's Brian Stelter (now a ferociously hard-working media reporter at the New York Times) about Oppenheim—Noah Oppenheim, Part Of America's First Family (What Do Capus & Brokaw Think?)— has mysteriously disappeared from the website.

Chris Ariens, Stelter's successor, knows Oppenheim vaguely from their time together at MSNBC. On the phone, he said he removed the item neither out of friendship or in response to a legal notice. But NBC flack Megan Kopf had told him the blog post showed up high in a search for Oppenheim's name, and linked to an article that was "potentially slanderous." (Anyone have a copy?)

TV Newser's Ariens is a wimp for accomodating NBC's pressure, but forget about him. Oppenheim ought to have a higher tolerance for "potential slander", having himself doled out so much of it.

And now I'm off.

Matt Sanchez: I did not write the words "gay" and "hard" in the same sentence, that would be cruel for the overwhelming majority of Gawker readers who still have their mouths open.

Guanabee: Okay, hardy har, we guess. We're not really sure what the hell that meant, actually. But, really, why did you write to Gawker in the first place?

Matt Sanchez: They e-mailed me first.

Guanabee: Really? Out of the blue?

Matt Sanchez: I wrote a piece and cited Gawker for calling anyone who was offended by the ad a xenophobe. They queried me and asked me to comment.

We wrote to him after he had sent us an unsolicited email inquiring whether all Gawker contributors were gay.

Matt Sanchez: My only concern is that so many "gay" people don't seem terribly happy. They're always shaking their fist at everyone, as if they are waiting for Crisco or have broken a fingernail.

Guanabee: Wow. That's some aggression you have. Some people are saying that your hostile comments belie another story. That you are, in fact, self-loathing when you say disparaging things about homosexuals. What do you say to that?

Matt Sanchez: The last time I was called self-loathing was when a separatist Puerto Rican got mad at me, because I prefer Mexican Taquerias over Boricua buffets. There really are times when you can't be diplomatic and just have to tell the truth. Do you know what cuchifrito is actually made of!!!!????

Matt Sanchez: a man who frequently answers a question that appears only in his own mind.

Matt Sanchez: Most people in the military don't care how you clean your weapon, just keep that to yourself and do your job like everyone else.

Guanabee: Yes, but you cleaned your weapon for all the world to see. From 1992 to 2000. Anyway, despite our shameless liberal bias, we do support the men and women who risk their lives for our spoiled-ass country. We just don't want them to have to do it anymore! (You're not the only dichotomous one.) Did you get a chance to see our Guide to Latino Cultural Survival in Iraq? Anything you could add to help the morale of Latinos still serving over there?

Matt Sanchez: Liberals have shame? [Ed. Note: No, we said 'shameless.' Is this thing on?] I do have culinary caution for anyone who has eaten Mexican food. Back AWAY from the "Quesadillas" in the chowhall. You have been warned.

[Guanabee]

When the Davids' divorce was made public on June 27th, commenter and "Camp David" neighbor Jackie Mendez-Diez (who also recently opened up about her views on Laurie's carbon footprint to the Boston Globe) had this to say:

Actually, Laurie David has been creating one HUGE carbon footprint here on Martha's Vineyard for the last 6 years. Her disgusting and ostentatious trophy building has been virtually ceaseless for about 6 years now. The trucks and pollution stop only when Mrs. Carbon Sasquatch is here for her summer vacation, making herself the center of everyone's attention.

And I'd say the fact that I saw Laurie and her hottie but dumb building contractor, Bart Thorpe, holding hands while walking on a secluded dock to a boat yesterday, has a lot more to do with her marriage breaking up than the scratchy toilet paper she's forced on her family. I've also seen Bart bicycling in front of my house with a little girl he kept calling, Romy [Laurie's daughter is named Romy]. Bart, coincidentally, left his wife recently, too.

I met Laurie David 6 years ago. I didn't like her then. I don't like her now. She is the prime example of a spoiled, selfish, rich girl who says, "do what I say, not what I do". She is a narcissist and a hypocrite to the nth degree.