Letters to the Editor
Frank Smith, Bluff City, KS
Published Letters: 131 Editor's Choice: 15
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Mark Penn living in Wonderland with Alice
[Read the article: Clinton more electable than Obama, Mark Penn claims]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It’s hard to believe that professional reporters accepted Clinton spinmeister Mark Penn’s foolish statement that Obama has never withstood a serious Republican challenge. Indeed, what serious Republican challenge has Hillary ever withstood? Despite an enormous advantage in funding, she won her initial race for the Senate by only 12% against a substitute nonentity for Giuliani, Rick Lazio, in one of the bluest of the blue states. In 2006, running against still another substitute nonentity, John Spencer, barely known outside his home town of Yonkers, she spent $36 million to win that lopsided race. That was more than was spent on any Federal race that year.
The presidential nomination is the first tough race either candidate has ever experienced. If Barak’s so easy, why is Hillary panicking and is he so calm?
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Surely Salon can do better than hosting Paglia's narcissistic ravings
[Read the article: Blood-and-guts politics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A right wing friend sends me Paglia's latest. Like her, he chooses to be a global warming denialist. Like her, he chooses to pass along quirky shots at Hillary, not my favorite politician but one who should at least be judged on her actual behavior, rather than Paglia's random neurological explosions.
Camille's contention that bizarre shouters such as Limbaugh have some grasp on ultimate reality is wholly unjustifiable. To state that they adhere to conservative principles when they unequivocally support their fellow moron in the White House is engaging in illegal invasions and wars which slaughter hundreds of thousands while destroying the economy it too far fetched for belief.
I'd always thought that Paglia was a bit nuts. That was until I saw her doing a live interview on TV. She's obviously bat-shit crazy and it's amazing to me that she hasn't spent much of her life in involuntary commitments.
I realize that Salon isn't chopping down trees to disseminate these neurotic blatherings, but surely it could find better use of its electrons.
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More contradictions
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I listened to The Daily Show Tonight, and the Colbert Report. Both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert riffed on the hearings and acted as though it was an awful thing that anyone would use steroids and Human Growth Hormone. However during their shows, the Comedy Channel ran ads for pro-wrestling. So the Channel is making jokes about steroid users and moralizing about it at the same time it's selling commercials for entertainment which is largely dependent on both men and women flooding their bodies with steroids and HGH. What's wrong with this picture?
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Much ado about nothing
[Read the article: A new front in Berkeley vs. the Marine Corps ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Orange County Congressman John Campbell has lept into the breach to save the Marines from (eek!) the City of Berkeley and Code Pink. http://list.nrcc.org/t/1795673/9679139/1306/0/
He might find it a bit more useful to ask why the M.C. brass were unwilling and unable to provide the grunts in the field with vehicles that could withstand IEDs. Their dereliction of duty has probably caused the preventable deaths of over a hundred marines.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021608C.shtml
But of course, if you're a right wing grandstander, attacking anyone from Berkeley in the grand old Reagan tradition is much more fun than actually doing something to protect marines.
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Hey Bill: What about the "M-Fer" at Sylvia's?
[Read the article: Jane Fonda drops the C-word, O'Reilly freaks out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The "C" word? It was the 10-letter "C" word that got Lenny Bruce convicted in Chicago. As far as Bill O'Reilly's predictable faux-shocked, shrill response to Fonda's 4-letter "C" word, he has apparently forgotten his recent comments about Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem where he ventured, on-air, "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea."
The "MF" word, apparently, is not nearly as bad as Fonda's to Bill, who is commonly and might best be described as the personification of the 5-letter "P" word.
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Is it too late to move to Cleveland?
[Read the article: Cleveland to Dennis Kucinich: Phone home]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have been an ardent supporter of Dennis for more than a decade. I never have had to worry how he was going to vote on an issue. Much more so, he has bravely and consistently carried a message of peace and the need for universal health care despite the corporate interests that have fought against each.
Were Dennis living in Berkeley (in the absence of Barbara Lee) Dennis would be "congressman for life," because his principled positions are shared by such an overwhelming majority of that constituency.
During his presidential campaign, when he was our representative in the bully pulpit, I was particularly appreciative when he was asked by a talking airhead about his wife's tongue piercing. He refused to go along with the interviewer, as is the unfortunate case with most candidates, asking his questioner if indeed there weren't more important questions to be posed that would better serve the public interest.
I've sent Dennis a few bucks, as much as I could afford, but wish I could be casting a ballot for this career long friend of peace and social justice.
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"Offended?" Haw!
[Read the article: Are you offended by a tampon ad with a beaver?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What were the top ten?