Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 6
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Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
[Read the article: To Damascus with Nancy Pelosi]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"provoked an outburst of flaming hysteria from the Bush administration, as well as from the neoconservatives...".
While Joe did mention CNN and WaPo (although not labeling either neocon institutions), he should also have named such out-of-touch, main-stream "journalists", such as Malveaux, Russert, Lauer, Henry, Koppel, et al.
Perhaps they might then be shamed into tuning out Drudge for at least one news cycle.
We have the absolute worst main-stream news media that money can buy.
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A bit short of an "outburst"
[Read the article: Little outbursts of journalism -- what causes them?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Critics Assert" is awfully mealy-mouthed (but politically correct this days when there is a whiff of error on the part of any Republican) when it is evidence which shows Bush is distorting the Qaeda linkage.
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Team up
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt defends the administration's mild, restrained secrecy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn and Bob Somersby (dailyhowler.com) should team up. They both fight the good (and very important) fight against the corrupt form of journalism heretofore described as "The Liberal Media".
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PC
[Read the article: Jamie Kirchick's fantasies of the grave Muslim threat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, with characters like Donohue, Beck, et al around, why is "PC" still only considered liberal?
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Hadball
[Read the article: McClellan's meaning, Oprah's impact and other mysteries]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You also forgot to include (when Matthews said that states without an ocean, or not on the Great Lakes) don't elect women to statewide offices.
Kansas (a state without an ocean or Great Lakes coast) re-elected its Democratic female governor last year, and had previously elected and re-elected a Republican (Nancy Kassebaum) senator.
Finally, while you agree that Hillary should not have commented as she did on Obama's childhood residence overseas, I was surprised that you let Brownstein's comment that she was "shrill" in making that comment stand.
Her voice was not shrill, although her tone was somewhat snarky.
Never (ever!) let the "shrill" word go unchallenged on Hardball.
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Which Democrat can beat McCain?
[Read the article: Which Democrat can beat McCain?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the end, this will be a National Security election: In October, Bush will generate some sort of terrorist scare, and bin Laden will issue his pre-election video (which will be proclaimed by MSN as designed to help the Democratic president) during the 30 October-1 November period.
Remember that last, pre-election weekend in 2004 after the bin Laden tape was proclaimed as his endorsement of Kerry?
You can be sure that the American electorate will unfavorably compare either Clinton or Obama with Military-Hero/Straight-Talking/Not-A-Panderer/Saint John McCain on the issue of national security.
That comparision will hit Obama harder than it will a somewhat hawkish (at least in comparision to Obama) Clinton.
In what will be a relatively tight race up to that point, Obama would probably lose more support among Independents (already pre-disposed toward both Obama and McCain) than Hillary would; likely enough lost support to preclude him from winning the election.
Hillary has the better chance of surviving that which we know will happen in the closing act of the 2008 campaign.