Letters to the Editor
saintzak
Published Letters: 1459 Editor's Choice: 147
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Maybe she's just the scab
[Read the article: Sinking anchor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the real infection is underneath.
"First in a lineup filled with superficial features..."
Bitch and complain all you want about Dan Rather (and the like), but he fronted a news program. Couric was a deliberate choice to present fluff. Matt Lauer and Anderson Cooper both get their share of dismissive remarks, so I don't think this is sexism. News programming is either conservative slanted preaching and shrieking or companion pieces to Entertainment Tonight.
And we wonder why a large percentage of American still believe Sadaam was involved with 9/11?! We're being spoon fed this pablum masquerading as news.
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"Did you tell her I intend to kick his sorry mother fucking ass all over the Mideast?"
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh yeah, he's a true Christian. Anyone who blieves he's such a religious and pious man is in serious denial.
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trained monkey
[Read the article: Couric to Bush: "I'm really grateful. Thank you. Thank you"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She was brought in as a lightweight, nothing more. Dan Rather wasn't just another shill for the Republican Party.
And yes, most people do get their "news" from sources like that...and that is why the Republicans will keep their majority in both the House and Senate come November and everyone will wonder "why, oh why, is the country falling apart?" The majority of stupid, ill-informed, gullible Americans should look in the mirror when they answer that question.
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At least they don't suggest that Nancy Reagan is a bitch...
[Read the article: The Sept. 11 that never was]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...if they had, it would have been yanked off the schedule.
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Golden Boy
[Read the article: Mocking Bush is my patriotic duty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Let's see if you have the courage to criticize Islam, in public"
Watch his show. He does quite often.
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Just wait...
[Read the article: This just in: No evidence of Saddam-al-Qaida ties]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for the mini-series. That will set all of this straight!
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where the buck REALLY stops
[Read the article: The path to Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm to the point where I can't even look at Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, etc. without getting ill. You can only blame them for so much, though. the truth, the information, is out there in plain sight. Its in the newspapers, in the magazines, editorial columns, news reports. The American people seem to be gleefully accepting the lies coming from the administration with the full knowledge that they are, indeed, lies. We will "stay the course" untill the American people demand better. As of now, they are gladly and willfully accepting the lies.
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speeking the unvarnished truth
[Read the article: Bush on 9/11: Come together -- behind me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope people saw Keith Oberman's 9/11 commentary leading into the President's speech last night. It should be reprinted on every editorial page across the country. I suspect Mr. Oberman would have no problem challenging the President, vice President, Rumsfeld or Rice face to face. Too bad he'd never get the chance.
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the most frightening thing
[Read the article: Keith Olbermann on what Bush has wrought]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course Keith Olbermann spoke the truth. Everyone knows that. Everyone knows Dick Cheney is well aware of the lies he tells. I have several arch-conservative friends and what is the most frightening thing of all is their almost glee in welcoming and accepting all the lies and distortions. Its beyond my comprehension. Truth is meaningless to them at this point. Now its just a matter of "we're in charge, and what we say goes." Lies and fabrications are a means to an end: stay in control and bully their distorted and deranged beliefs and points-of-view on everyone else. Repeat the lie relentlessly and you keep your opposition of the constant defensive. They don't actually believe the lies. The moment they admit they were wrong the whole deal comes crashing down.
I've said it before, you can only blame Bush and the Republicans to a point. They're succeeding only because a huge percentage of the American public allow them to. There needs to be a big shift in the thinking and morals of the American people before anything will change...and listening to too many people like Joe makes me sadly say that day is far off.
Olbermann's commentary should be everywhere, on editorial pages, being discussed...but how many people are really aware of it? Bush reached the willing masses with more of his lies and distortions.
David Bowie imagined a world where people would beg for Big Brother. Ok, he imagined a world gripped by glam nazis, but he was pretty prophetic..."Any day now, the year of the Dimaond Dogs." I'm afraid that day is here.
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"somewhat over-the-top"
[Read the article: Olbermann: "Impeachable offense"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where was it "somewhat over-the-top"? Compared to what we're subjected to on a daily basis, relentlessly, from the rightwing media, the administration and the Republicans I think the responce and opposition needs to be as strong, forcefull and evocative as possible. Olbermann hit exactly the right chord...too bad he's the only only one doing it, and too bad he's being called "somewhat over-the-top" by people who should be embracing every truthfull word of it.
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iraq's prime minister made his first official visit to Iran on Tuesday
[Read the article: Bring 'em home or send a whole lot more?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Stay the course, send 450,000 troups, central front in the war on terror...
If your son came home in a box or came home with his arms and legs blown off how would you feel seeing those two (Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)smiling and shaking hands? This is what our people are being killed for and this is what our hundreds of billions of dollars are going for? So Iran and Iraq can be best buddies and shape their new Middle East? I've got news for our President: we were safer before.
Bring the troops home now and give the damn country back to Sadaam.
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then what exactly are our boys over there dying for? Victory? Over who and for whom?
[Read the article: Can Iran "help" Iraq?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Follow the money. You'll know what our boys are dying for over there. Just consider the mammoth embassy compound that is being built and sucking up billions of dollars. It will be a fortress city, not an embassy. Why no one is talking about that is beyond me.
This has been about oil and profiteering from the start and don't ever forget it. Mission Accomplished.