Letters to the Editor
Elephantman
Published Letters: 1312 Editor's Choice: 15
-
And after all of the name-calling...
[Read the article: The grilling of von Spakovsky]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...the worst thing that anyone can say with any objective credibility about this nominee is that he favored a law requiring photo i.d. to vote. So that is what counts as "wanting the roll the clock back 50 years on voting rights."
I'm still trying to figure out why this issue, so mild and inconsequential, seems to have drawn out some of th more rabidly-consumed Bush-haters. Are all the psychotherapists on summer break?
Stevio - It was P.T. Barnum, not Abraham Lincoln, who said "You can fool some of the people..." Now, back under your rock, please.
-
This one's for you, Stevio...
[Read the article: The grilling of von Spakovsky]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.washtimes.com/national/20031201-123735-6539r.htm
-
Take this link and shove it. jhllr64.
[Read the article: The grilling of von Spakovsky]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Deceit/index.html
-
What JNagarya wrote is a lie. Every word of it.
[Read the article: The grilling of von Spakovsky]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]- You linked von Spakovsky to the KKK. That is a bogus, unfounded, insulting lie.
- You indentified a bunch of garbage unrelated to von Spakovsky, as if it had anything to do with his nomination to the FEC. It was all lies.
- You talked aboout 'Vote Caging.' If you knew the facts in that regard, you'd know that no one -- NO ONE -- was wrongly "taken off voter rolls" as a result of anything known as "vote caging."
This is how left-wing activist organizations operate their smear campaigns against good nominees, isn't it? Campaigns like this one, filtering through Salon?
-
"JNagarya." Y'all gotta see this...
[Read the article: The grilling of von Spakovsky]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From the Amazon.com webpage for the book entitled "America's Christian Heritage." A writer responding to "J Nagarya" noted this:
Pardon my chuckle.
Mr. Joseph J. Nagarya, in writing a derogatory review of this fine book, has styled himself as "Legal Professional, Constitutional Scholar, Ethicist" in Boston, Mass.
The fact is that he is neither a "legal professional" nor a "constitutional scholar" nor an "ethicist".
Neither the Massachusetts Bar Association nor the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers have any record of him and he is not now, and never has been, licensed to practice law there.
A quick Google search will tell you all you need to know about his radical left-wing politics.
This is an fine book. For greater detail and research, also be sure to read the very best book on the subject, David Barton's Original Intent.
-
Oh come on people. Let's settle this once and for all.
[Read the article: The grilling of von Spakovsky]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The "You can fool some of the people" quote is indeed widely attributed to Lincoln. The people who have looked into that attribution most closely think that it is a misattribution. The newspaper accounts of Lincoln's speeches make no reference to that quotation, and the earliest confirmation is from two people who, in 1910, think that they remembered Lincoln having said it some 50 years ealrier.
The quote is just as widely, and probably more accurately, attributed to P.T. Barnum, who at least uttered the words. Perhaps (probably) not originally. But at least he said the words in question. Hell, I think there are attributions going back to Ben Franklin! But most serious Lincoln scholars believe that the "You can fool some of the people" quote was not something Lincoln said.
But you can berate me all that you want. I am quite used to foul-mouted and baseless insults being hurled at me by Salon's esteemed readership.
I'm not sure I care. As far as I know, P.T. Barnum and Abe Lincoln were both good Republicans.
-
"Bush hatred" is what I mentioned. That's all.
[Read the article: The grilling of von Spakovsky]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I never said, "I hate..." What I spoke of was "Bush hatred." Look through this Comments thread. Or any others. You'll lose count of the epithets hurled at Bush and anyone who supports him or is associated with him.
-
Ain't it funny how all of the tolerant, diversity-promoting intelligentsia at Salon...
[Read the article: The continuing saga of Hans von Spakovsky]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...are willing to make fun of an FEC nominee based on his name, but would cry foul over joking at the expense of "Barack Muhammad Obama."
Excuse me now, while I begin some oppo research on the signers of the latest hatchet job on von Spakovsky.
-
"The power of ideas"
[Read the article: Edwards vs. Coulter, Clinton vs. Edwards]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All of this priase for the hardworking, hard-scrabble John Edwards? And his power of ideas? What ideas?
The guy made millions by acting as an ambulance-chasing shyster, pimping whored-up expert testimony for jury verdicts against obstetricians, and capitalizing on the fear, pain and ignorance of the parents of children born with cerebral palsy.
And what part of that did Ann Coulter get wrong? None of it.
I remember (like, uh, last week) when the Salonistas were griping about the legal pedigree of certain Bush ppointtes in the Justice Department. Well, Ann Coulter went to Michigan's top-10 law school. Where did Elizabeth Edwards go to law school?
This story proves nothing so much as that Ann Coulter was exactly, precisely correct when she said that the Edwards campaign had used Ann Coulter for its fundraising before and would do so again.
And, with respect to Ann Coulter's hard-edged brand of humor, and whether she has been 'out of bounds,' I urge all of the Salonistas to check out FireDogLake, where one can be treated to an almost limitless supply of Coulter-related foul-mouthed invective, four-letter words, scatalogical/reproductive references...basically, more offensive language than what any self-respecting longshoreman might use, with a kind of ivy-league sheen to it. (My apologies to the longshoremen.)
Ann Coulter was right, all along. I think Elizabeth Edwards is a bit unhinged, and it causes me to wonder what sort of medications she might be on. Normally, a cancer patient might be worthy of a good bit of sympathy and respect. But most cancer patients don't call into cable news programs to wade into a political mud-fight, either.