Letters to the Editor
jlaforest
Published Letters: 5 Editor's Choice: 1
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apologist
[Read the article: How Iran played the hostage "crisis"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is nothing more than propaganda from an apologist. Whatever crimes the leaders of the West have committed, and there are many, it doesn't excuse the behavior of the Iranians in this. But my fear is that the behavior is symptomatic of megalomania on the part of one or more Iranian leaders. Ahmadinjad comes off looking like Kim Jong-il. (And the similarities didn't start with this parading of captives, anyone remember the great festivities surrounding the vile or uranium?) I just don't buy this idea that they are trying impress 'the street.'
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Nearly 2 years
[Read the article: Al Gore, anyone?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This election is not for another year and eight months. Can we just give it a rest. Please?
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Partisans
[Read the article: The American media's fringe ideological view of Pelosi's trip]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most of the media have proven themselves to be Bush partisans, well placed to create and disseminate the neo-conservative propaganda that characterizes the Bush/Cheney administration. This is surely oligarchical collectivism at work. What we are seeing is a degenerated democracy, defined by extreme capitalism, run through a form of bureaucratic collectivism. The weapons are fear, lies, and the creation of a demonic other. Oddly, I think this is essentially the same thing that is happening in the Islamic world, but in the guise of a (degenerated) theocracy.
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Change of Culture
[Read the article: No more whining excuses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is a hint, just a hint, in this case (unlike the Michael Richards and Mel Gibson cases) that there might be a change happening in the larger culture. Are people tiring, finally, of shock jocks? Is the angry, hate-filled garbage that fills our airwaves and has made our culture a much uglier, more dangerous place to live, waning in influence? Let us hope.
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another article says...
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This article could just as easily, with a few words changed, be about racism. Maybe in fact, the reason so many youngish, white, affluent, well-educated women are for Hillary is, I don't know, maybe, RACISM? Maybe the women Traister writes of are just, racist.