Letters to the Editor
Elephantman
Published Letters: 1312 Editor's Choice: 15
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So many wrong notions, so little time.
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn Greenwald has packed so many falsehoods and wrongheadedness into this article, it is hard to know where to begin.
First, Conrad Black. "Neoconservative"? I guess that makes Congressman Jefferson part of the "Democratic leadership."
Look, Glenn; I can think of lots of conservatives and/or Republicans whose wrongdoing I would not defend and would have no part of:
Abramoff, Ney, Cunningham. They should all be in jail. (Would the Congressional Black Caucus say the same about Congressman Jefferson?)
Tom Foley? Who cares?
Trent Lott? No business being in the Senate Leadership.
Tom Delay? I am looking forward to that trial. I actually think that Delay is being railroaded, but let's have the trial and find out. But you didn't see Repbulicans gathering around Delay on the Capital steps, a la Gore and the Congressional Democrats gathering around Bill Clinton and Monic- er, Hillary, on the White House lawn.
Wolfowitz is, beyond any doubt, being railroaded. Wolfowitz should not resign. If Glenn Greenwald had an ounce of journalistc integrity, he'd deal squarely with the fabulous, textbook reporting done by the WSJ editorial writers on the Wolfowitz story.
Scooter Libby's case was another one in which a policy dispute was criminalized. That kind of criminalization is a very, very big deal.
So the left is finding out that some of these fights are being played out in a new paradigm. Wherein the NYT and the major networks and Europe will be challenged by the right and the new media world.
15 years ago, Paul Wolfowitz would have been wrongly hounded out of office by now. It is a new world.
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The difference between Olbermann and Brit Hume...
[Read the article: A hit job on Keith Olbermann]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...is that Brit Hume has years of straight news reporting experience that Olbermann doesn't have.
Olbermann never needs to argue with any of his guests, because all the people he invotes onto his show are people who (a) are do a regular gig for Olbermann and MSNBC (part of the regular cast) or are leftist sympathizers with Olbermann.
I don't know if, in his private life, when he isn't raging at one of his coworkers or trading flame-mail with angry listeners, Olbermann is personally more moderate than his anti-Repblican raving character on television.
But under no circumstances does he have any business holding himself up as superior to anyone at Fox.
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I'll be reading it!
[Read the article: The legend of Rahm]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Know your enemy...
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You can all complain about Fox News all you want...
[Read the article: Brit Hume is a "journalist"; Keith Olbermann is "partisan"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But you can turn it off, and you are not paying for it.
Not so with NPR, and with PBS.
Bill Moyers is more of a partisan than Brit Hume is.
Tavis Smiley is a mouthpiece for the Congressional Black Caucus.
Terry Gross doesn't know how to ask any hard questions of anyone on the left.
Garrison Keillor writes for Salon!
NPR's "Senior News Analysts" are Democrats Juan Williams (D-VA), Daniel Schorr (D-NY) and Cokie Roberts (D-LA).
NPR has left-leaning shows on the media (Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield), on the environment (Living on Earth), on race and society (News and Notes, Tavis Smiley), and the arts (Fresh Air). There isn't a single conservative program host or show on NPR.
The fact that Fox has Brit Hume asking questions that no other network anchor asks, and has ratings with O'Reilly that blow away Olbermann, and is making all of you so crazy with rage, tells me that they are onto something very important.
I say to Fox, keep it up. And I say to public broadcasting, your days as a left-wing ivory tower are numbered.
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Thanks Glenn!!!
[Read the article: Democrats bear responsibility for restoring habeas corpus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is my fervent hope that this story gets a lot more press, and that if the Military Commissions Act is repealed or radically altered, that the responsibility is squarely laid at the feet of the Democratic leadership on what could only be a virtual party-line vote.
I suspect that President Bush will veto it; I know I would.
But these are the kinds of stories I want to see much more of in the run-up to 2008.
By the way, did Nancy Pelosi get around to hiring process servers to sreve subpoenas on all of the trial witnesses in the Hindu Kush?
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Funny that John Conyers would be anyone's spokesperson.
[Read the article: Why it matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The guy is a moonbat. Running for a term as Mayor of Detroit, Conyers was once gently rounded up by the local constabulary and escorted to a quiet place after they found him half-clothed on a median strip talking to the traffic.
He was also missing without explanation for a period of days in the 1980's, leading to widepsread speculation that his behavior was, say, chemically-influenced.
Talk about nasty, bomb-throwing partisan hacks. Conyers might actually have beaten Dennis Kucinich to the "impeachment" stage when Conyers held a series of kangaroo court hearings on the subject of an impeachment. Before he was again gently, quietly rounded up, this time by Nancy Pelosi and her lieutenants instead of local police officers.
Here's what Conyers said that actually makes some sense:
"I am sure we agree -- you and I -- that any hint or indication that the department may not be acting fairly and impartially in enforcing the nation's laws, or in choosing the nation's law enforcers, has ramifications far beyond the department itself, and casts doubt upon every action or inaction your office and your employees take."
And of course in this manufactured "scandal", what is lacking is "any hint" that any law was broken, any proscution was foiled, any unlawful prosecution was undertaken, or that any unqualified person undertook any law enforcement responsibility. So much for "scandal."
There is a reason that savvy senior Democrats look upon any John Conyers-led initiative with the utmost fear; it is because their memories of Conyers-as-Marion Barry are all too real.
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Impeachment might not be such a bad idea after all...
[Read the article: Poor, poor Gonzales]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...if it would preoccupy Joe Conason and John Conyers for the next year and a half.
Impeachment (and an inevitably failed trial in the Senate) could be a very good thing indeed if it prevented Democrats from "legislating" on taxes, or health care, or the environment.
The way I see it, every new subpoena and every new hearing is that much less in terms of time and resources for the Democrats to legislate their way through American life.