Arianna Huffington is shilling her new book on TPM Cafe, and it's just an exercise in "telling them what they want to hear" for her target demographic.

"The American genius is about bringing out the extraordinary in ordinary people."

This is flatter-the-mob populism at its worst, and the real story is more like tremendously extraordinary people somehow contriving to allow ordinary people to live ordinary human lives.

Support the troops.  It's something we hear every single day.  It's on bumper stickers and yellow ribbons.  We even have to put up with people saying that if we don't support the surge then we don't support the troops.  But are we really doing all we can to support the troops and, just as importantly, the families of loved ones of those who go to fight and die abroad for our sake?  I can honestly say we're not.  Join me after the jump to think outside the box about something you can do to support the troops in a real and meaningful way.

Gotta love America, where anyone can become anything. No such thing as class, or if there is, it doesn’t hold people down. If you want to get ahead, all you’ve got to do is work hard, play by the rules, and stay off the sauce.