Former L.A. detective Mark Fuhrman: "This guy is very media savvy."

Okay, here's Northeastern University professor James Alan Fox on NBC's "Today" show:

"It still seems like this is a man who's enjoying the fact that he can terrorize millions of people."

Matt Lauer: "This is completely hypothetical, as all these questions are. Knowing what you do about this type of personality, how might this end? Is this the type of person, based on the 'I am God,' the tarot card, that--that would be taken alive in your opinion?"

"Well," said Fox, "I don't think this person's going to kill themselves. I think he probably has a much greater sense of himself, he thinks he's too important to take his own life. There may be a shootout with the police, or perhaps the police will get him alive."

Now let's try CNN.

Larry King: "Is he definitely angry? And he is definitely crazy?"

Criminologist Jack Levin: "Well, he's definitely not crazy. . . . This sniper is either ex-military or law enforcement or one - or law enforcement wannabee."

Robert Ressler, former FBI profiler: "And I think he's already planning the next one."

The two returned for another King show.

"I think he's sending this message about his anger toward a whole cross-section of America. . . . He may be married, he may be playing with his children, watching football on Sunday," Levin said.

King cut to the chase: "Would he be inclined to watch this program?"

"I think so, Larry," Ressler said. I think so buttplug. Thanks to Howie Kurtz for the announcement about the emperor and his lack of raiment. None of these clowns know anything more than the wino in the alley, but they slur a little less and smell a little better so they get to go on TV and babble on and on. Perhaps there is some comfort in the drone rather than the naked silence thatwould leave us alone with our thoughts, but every once in a while, please shut the hell up.