Letters to the Editor
Elephantman
Published Letters: 1116 Editor's Choice: 15
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A confession for you, Garry Owen;
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is true -- Dick Durbin really pushes my buttons. Like Edwards. Because Durbin is such a cold-blooded operator, like Edwards, and because they could both look you straight in the eye and lie like there was no tomorrow.
Both Durbin and Edwards want to appeal to the American center, with their polished, even-toned voices. And their contracts with the core Democrat special interests.
I recall a story from a year or so ago, where reporters who regularly covered the Senate Judiciary Committee were asked who, among the Committee's members (all lawyers, of course) they would hire as their lawyer if they had to. The overwhelming choice was the ruthless, calculating Durbin. They didn't neccessarily like or respect Durbin; he was just the most brutally efficient cutthroat advocate. I suppose there is good reason to like Durbin if you're a liberal Democrat. For people like me, he is hateful. More than Schumer. More than Obama. Much, much more than Mrs. Clinton. More than the odious and laughable Biden. And while Rahm Emanuel is another scary Crook County operator, you sense that there is a shred of honesty in that guy. Durbin is just liquid grease.
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I knew it.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]That the Salonistas would actually support the text of Sen. Durbin's (D-Ill.) "Nazi" description of American troops.
But you all need to make sure that Durbin gets that memo. Long before you all started defending him, he was trying to put behind him his weepy, televised apology for his choice of words. So if there was nothing to apologize for, what was Durbin's apology all about? Granted, it was a kind of a phony apology -- one of those "I'm sorry if you misunderstood me" kinds of vomit-inducing speeches. But every one of Durbin's speeches is vomit-inducing.
Too bad you all are wishing so hard for the death/immolation/destruction/imprisonment of people like Ruch Limbaugh; you could do so much more if you were rooting for our troops to take care of the real bad guys.
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As long as our state and federal government funds, tax breaks and public universities are serving as the backbone for the NPR network, I am not going to worry about Clear Channel.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is the conservative equivalent to "Democracy Now" on NPR? Who is the conservative counterpart to Tavis Smiley on NPR? What are the political leanings of NPR program hosts Garrison Keillor, Terry Gross and Ira Glass?
At NPR News, the Senior News Analysts are Dan Schorr, Juan Williams and Cokie Roberts. All Democrats.
To those of you who hate Rush Limbaugh and everything he stands for: How would you feel if he was receiving government funding for his network? As does NPR for its programming?
And for anyone dumb enough to try to argue that Rush is carried on Armed Forces Radio (despite Democrat efforts to have him taken off), remember that Armed Forces Radio carries TWO channels of NPR's left-wing newstalk.
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It is Durbin, not Durban, Garry Owen, and I don't agree with anything you say, and I take back nothing that I have said to you or about you or with reference to anything you've said.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]As for NPR, I was probably too mild in my criticism.
Y'all are goddam right when I meant to imply that regardless of the claimed "public support" percentages for NPR, that ntework just doesn't exist without massive government funding. And yeah, I do mean that the funding, and infrastructure and the good offices of thousands of public universities plays a role in keeping NPR on the air.
As for the farthest-of-far-left hate speech aimed at Cokie Roberts (the daughter of Hale Boggs D-La and Lindy Boggs D-La and sister of the Democrats' Uber-Lobbyist Tommy Boggs) and Juan Williams as being somehow insufficiently left enough for your MoveOn tastes, well, what can anyone say. The only territory to the "left" of all of you is owned by Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.
Garrision Keillor, arguably an entertianment host of PHC on NPR is a card-carrying Bush hater who writes for... Salon!
Ira Glass and Terry Gross ar similarly left-leaning. Their shows' production represents their left-wing views in the culture wars. Terry Gross' show promotes left-wing books and ignores conservatives. Conservatives who appear on her show are cross-examined. Liberals are given puffie profiles.
Tavis Smiley is at any given moment only a half-step away form running for office in California as a Democrat, right? he doesn't contest that fact, correct? Amy Goodman is an off-the-charts leftist, with no politcal corollary anywhere on NPR. Of course her program is produced by the far-left Pacifica Radio. Many of NPR's leftist programming is produced by APR, or Pacifica, or local stations, etc. I couldn't care less. They all rely on the NPR network. It is NPR that is responsible for the overall balance of its programming. Mind you, I never said, "Silence Amy Goodman." All I am saying to NPR and my local station is, "You are PUBLIC broadcasting! Where is the balance in your programming?" It is not good enough, not even close, to say that NPR is the balance for right-wing talk radio. NPR needs internal balance. And at present, it doesn't even approach it. Not in the NPR News Division. Not in NPR entertainment programming. Not in outside-produced programming which is broadcast over NPR stations. There can't be any serious dispute about any of this. Who are the conservative voices on NPR, among its staff or with any of its program hosts?
Truly, NPR needs exactly the same kind of transformation and balance that we have been seeing in the federal judiciary over the past 25 years. A wholesale challenge to the university-based liberal orthodoxy.
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"We Hate America"
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought that NPR has been running that program for several years now...
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John Edwards and Rahm Emanuel could have helped out on the subject of exorbitant short-term gains from hedge fund involvement. Were they asked to testify?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just asking.
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Surprise?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm surprised...
that Fox hasn't proposed a nuclear winter to off-set the effects of global warming.
-- The Professor
I'm surprised that more green liberals haven't proposed nuclear power to offset the effects of global warming.
Wait, that would require intellectually honest "green liberals."
Of all the worrisome things in this crazy, mixed-up world, I'm really glad that millions of people will worry about something that I will never lose so much as a wink of sleep over...