Letters to the Editor
shooter242
Published Letters: 1590
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re: Stuff and nonsense.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn did so. You choose to ignore: "Johannes [...] served as ....
His working for someone you and Glenn don't like makes him a "propagandist"? So Russert, Matthews, and Stephanopolous are propagandists because they worked for liberals? This is a classic example of "guilt by association".
then he gently pointed out that the fellow effectively lied about him in pushing a strawman argument about his Joe Klein/Anbar post.
You mean this..."Johannes' response to my denial that Sunnis are fighting against Al Qaeda in Anbar is brilliant, except for the small fact that I never denied any such thing." The problem here of course, is that Johannes didn't say such a thing.
"What I really learned today is the lengths many will go to deny the facts on the ground--when they have no knowledge of those facts--and the fear they have of success in Iraq. To them the Anbar Awakening cannot be true, because if it is, the surge will be extended, the Petraeus plan will be implemented fully accross the country and the enterprise could prove successful.
And if the enterprise is successful, they were wrong. Their identities being so wrapped up in their opinions and belief that Iraq is and will be a failure, that their egos will not allow them to be wrong. Admission that they were wrong is tantamount to self-identity suicide. Therefore, the Awakening does not exist, what I saw in late May and previously in April does not exist. It is not happening. Everyone is being duped and lied to. Those Iraqi tribesmen? Actors. It is all astroturfed. After all Glenn Greenwald wrote a best selling book and I'm only a guy who spent two months in Al Anbar this Spring.
Looks to me like Johannes says Glenn is denying progress, and he does....
"Many, many times over the last four years -- in numerous places in Iraq -- violence has ebbed temporarily. Yet Iraq, contrary to the ongoing claims from the Bush administration and its followers, has inexorably descended into total chaos and violence. Pointing to three-day lapses in violence in a single place as proof that things are improving is so transparently irrational that, particularly at this point, it merits as much response as the desperate claim that anyone who opposes the war "wants the U.S. to lose."
Looks like a denial of progress even being possible to me. But Glenn is practiced in making nasty insinuations without stating something concrete. Like i said, it's not an admirable quality.
There is little reason for administration personnel to demand anonymity when they're towing(sic) the line and pushing the administration's talking point.
I'm sorry, you know who all Klein's sources are how, exactly? This is just another opinion asserted as fact, when it isn't. It's something I see a lot of around here. Stuff and nonsense.
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I'm sorry, let me fill in the blanks for the less fortunate.....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]McClellanville, South Carolina is roughly 600 miles from Pensacola, Florida. The course of the storm took it north, along the Carolina coast, where it finally dissipated after heading inland, tracking over the Great Lakes and into Canada, by which time, of course, it was no longer a hurricane.No kings, Robert
-- Desert Son
My family lives in Pensacola, I did't say I did. They got Ivan among others. I lived in Charleston, SC for 30 years, including Hugo. I thought stalker types like LWM knew that.
Meanwhile the point remains, after two years most people would have figured out what to do with their lives besides wait for charity. But not in New Orleans.
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@ Holly
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why are you attempting to defend these frivolous social butterflies of the media pseudo-intelligentsia?? -- Holly McLachlan
I certainly have no fondness for the liberal members of the MSM, but this blog has wandered off into the fever swamp of ideology without reality. Like it or not, everyone in DC relies on anonymous sources. Saying that anyone citing pro-administration views should be named is demonstrating a serious lack of knowledge about how the information trade works. Today's pro administration source, is tomorrow's anti-administration source if sentiment, or parties in power, change.
Purveyors of glitter generalities are most kindly called spinmeisters....and more properly called propagandists.
Then certainly, Glenn fits the description. Arguments by anecdote, Ad Hominems, guilt by association, assumptions asserted as fact. That's what this blog has descended to in pursuit of the administration. Mitigating truths to the torrent of antagonism are blandly offered in the fine print toward the end of posts if offered at all. In short this blog has become just another screaming accusation with nothing to offer as real information, just emotion.
It's time to start calling opinion for what it is, speculation. Opinion is not fact. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but as the saying goes, not their own facts.
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Re: Vitter
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sen. Jim DeMint, who is close friends with Sen. Vitter, made a curious perhaps cryptic statement about this matter when asked by reporters about it recently: “All of us have to look at it and say that we could be next.” -- sysprog
Hopefully Republicans and Sen Vitter will look upon this as Democrats would... resume enhancement.