Letters to the Editor
MCE007
Published Letters: 190 Editor's Choice: 8
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Brava, Nancy!
[Read the article: To Damascus with Nancy Pelosi]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Repubs may whine and may bitch, but what she has done is right. Who cares what they think?
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Southern Baptist traditions???
[Read the article: Matthew Dowd's not-so-miraculous conversion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]bodacious wrote:
Mr. Dowd is employing a time honored Southern tradition that gives everyone, even vapid liars, a second chance. As I was raised in a Southern Baptist tradition, and many of Salon's readers haven't a clue what that means, let me fill you in.
We haven't a clue, nor ever want to have one. Excuses in the name of religious traditions that are narrow minded and hateful don't pass muster. Nice try. I know many who have been brought up in intolerant religious traditions. They run from it at the speed of light. Apologizing for it is noxious.
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sorry, not 1st amendment right
[Read the article: No more whining excuses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's called the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
-- Rob Anderson
Nope, sorry...the airwaves are not meant as repositories for verbal smut, which racist, sexist and homophobic comments are...you aren't allowed to cuss on radio. Spreading hateful comments should be a no-go. This is just the start of well deserved purge of hate mongers on radio. The broadcast spectrum is a valuable commodity, and its use is a privilege, not a right. Hate mongers like Rush, Michael Savage, O'Reilly, Bob Grant, Glenn Beck, (M)an(n) Culter, and Boorst deserve a boot in the ass...
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Manhattanite has it right...
[Read the article: Real inconvenient truths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Paglia is a Con Woman
When will you please realize that Paglia is a con job? Her writing is self-inflating, and it is actually painful to read because of her bad syntax and grammar and poorly researched subjects.
In this day and age, she would never get tenure at a prestigious university such as Princeton.
She is a fraud, and a bad one at that. Moreover, her writings are excruciatingly boring...
-- Manhattanite
Perfect analysis...why is this woman taken seriously? She is a BIG fraud.
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Hmmmm
[Read the article: Wolfowitz's girlfriend problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's see...fire gay Arab translators in State Dept. because they pose a security risk...and just how does Wolfie's crumpet not pose the same problem???
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The forgotten people
[Read the article: A tale of two horrors]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The body count goes on, day in day out, of Americans and Iraqis killed, yet the media is immune to the bloodshed. Young people, of the same age as these kids in Virginia, are slaughtered in Iraq daily, yet their loss doesn't register in the American conscience. It's the same with how we deal with Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Many newspapers mention Israeli death tolls, but play down Palestinian toll...Until the media realizes that the loss of any life, in Virginia, in Baghdad, in Ramallah, in Darfur, is the same, they will be showing their biases.
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Gravel attacking Obama
[Read the article: Democrats strike up the show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought it was wonderful the way Gravel managed to take Obama off message and show that he is a nothing candidate...Obama really stunk at the debate.
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Gravel kicks some well-deserved butt
[Read the article: When Mike Gravel attacks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gravel, though he may not win, has opened up the Achilles' heel of the front runners, and called them out on important matters...he was refreshing...the mainstream media, even Salon, may find his statements off the wall, but they were the only moments of genuine originality in the whole snorefest.
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No time for media to decide viable candidates
[Read the article: When Mike Gravel attacks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Salon, Huffpo, all the major blogs, along with mainstream media outlets keep giving us this crap about electable candidates...it is time to put this nonsense behind us. The American people will have a say in who is electable, not the Beltway punditry, not Hollywood-loving media hounds. We also have to steer clear of the "flavor of the month", i.e., Obama, who is showing his inexperience and lack of finesse as time wears on. I would not want him in charge of the war until it is wound down. I don't think he has the ability to carry out the right decisions.
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Oh, Camille
[Read the article: A cause they've long ago forgotten]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ever the cipher, it is hard to fathom where Madame Camille is coming from with her often twisted, rarely eloquent blatherings. Although she is surprisingly clear on the war's diastrous consequences, she seems adrift on two points: Karl Rove's culpability in all the political entanglements that have plagued the Bushies and the comparison between the Repub and Dem debates. Ms. Paglia is missing how so many times whenever something tawdry happens in the scandale du jour involving the White House, Karl Rove is somehow involved. Cheney running the Presidency is, true, a major issue. But Karl Rove's doings warrant scrutiny too...ample scrutiny. Subpoena scrutiny. On the debates, it seems Ms. P. was watching some different programs than I was. The Republicans may have been convincing to her on security (and the 28% who still believe in Bush), but to most of us they just spouted fringe notions of safety that had no basis in reality. Especially laughable was how 3 candidates deny the theory of evolution, yet in the next breath discuss the issue of FOSSIL fuels (helloooo!) No, the Dems had their feet firmly planted on Earth in comparison to the kooky lunacy we saw with the Repubs.
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Non mea culpa
[Read the article: George Tenet, spook for all seasons]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tenet, in his infantile defense of his shameful desire to make nice with Bush and Cheney, sold his soul. As Sidney so brilliantly points out here, he has only dug himself deeper into a hole of culpability for not preventing 9/11 and for bringing about the Iraq war. He may be appalled when people say he has blood on his hands, but the facts speak for themselves. His outrageous opportunism he wears as a badge of honor, and for this he should be roundly condemned.
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What acting is all about
[Read the article: "Georgia Rule"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ms. Zacharek makes the cardinally stupid mistake of assuming Jane Fonda's real life persona is the same as her character in the movie...ah, Stephanie, it's called acting...ever heard of it? I think Ms. Fonda has quite a bit of experience at adopting roles...why do people make the fundamental mistake of assuming a character is the same as the real person?