Letters to the Editor
lupercus
Published Letters: 170
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"of course anti-Semitism still exists, it just doesn't really exist."
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So no matter what anyone says to you, you are going to just keep repeating that we are saying anti-Semitism doesn't exist?
A whole day of arguing with people online, and all you have are increasingly wordy, colorful arguments wrapped around that one, poor, shriveled wreck of a straw man?
Do you have anything else in your bag of tricks, or are you just Sugarman without the alcohol?
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"Boehner is now whining about how Cole is trying to do the job they gave him"
[Read the article: The remaining GOP base -- the 30%'ers and the Broder/Ignatius pundit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kinda sounds more like he is complaining that Cole is doing the job they gave Kevin Bacon in Animal House: "Remain calm! All is well!"
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"critical analysis"
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh please. Point me to a shred of critical analysis in anything you wrote on the subject. All you have done is assert that people are denying the existence of anti-semitism.
Assertion is not analysis.
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This is not the right room for an argument
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I make a comment pointing out that you're only asserting, not analysing, and you respond with: another assertion.
Glenn does the exact same thing I do.
When you just make statements without backing them up with anything (other than florid insults like "You're like a gerbil running around a wheel convinced you're in a field of grass"), that's not analytical in any sense of the word I'm familiar with.
M: I came here for a good argument.
A: No you didn't; no, you came here for an argument.
M: An argument isn't just contradiction.
A: It can be.
M: No it can't. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
A: No it isn't.
M: Yes it is! It's not just contradiction.
A: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
M: Yes, but that's not just saying 'No it isn't.'
A: Yes it is!
M: No it isn't.
A: Yes it is!
M: Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.(short pause)
A: No it isn't.
M: It is.
A: Not at all.
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"anyone else have any ideas"
[Read the article: The remaining GOP base -- the 30%'ers and the Broder/Ignatius pundit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm fresh out, sorry. But there's always the old:
"Our Freedom is supported by five boxes: soap, ballot, jury, witness and if all else fails, ammo."
Maybe Howdershelt himself could tell you which one he thinks we're on.
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rinse wash repeat
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]we, as legitimate liberals who want to criticize those groups on the merits of their flaws, must be careful not to fall into typical hidden conspiracy money paranoia
This is, certainly, a legitimate point. You seem to feel that people here are doing that, but when asked repeatedly to explain why you come to that conclusion, all you offer is the assertion that they are doing so. When challenged on the weakness of your argument, you insult your challenger in some picturesque, usually drawn from the animal kingdom (do gnats have short attention spans? who knew).
And you did this over and over again. Your weekend must have sucked.
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translation
[Read the article: The ADL purports to respond again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have no idea what your point is.
As far as I can tell - other than being argumentative for argument's sake - Mr. Pagano aims to assert that there is no difference between regime change and genocide.
Which means he thinks George W. Bush is a war criminal.
I respect the right of the Francophile, blame-America-first, Deeply Unserious Mr. Pagano to hold whatever belief he wishes, even in a time of War...
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"Anti-semitism is nothing but a whip"
[Read the article: The ADL purports to respond again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bullshit.
WTF is it with all these trolls saying either "there is no anti-semitism" and "everybody's an anti-semite?" Seems to me, if you have an IQ higher than that of warm yogurt, you have to work pretty hard at maintaining either delusion.
These people must live on Clif bars and Red Bull.
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RE: They read these
[Read the article: The ADL purports to respond again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, they were responding to sysprog's comment:
http://tinyurl.com/2ten2r
which Glenn linked on the main post.
The image of ADL staffers wading through pages of WinSmith, shooter242 and the FUDGE-PACHYDERM guy may be amusing, but it's probably fantasy...
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@ Pagano
[Read the article: The ADL purports to respond again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes that's what he said -- "wiped off the map" -- reflected in the speech transcript on his own web site
http://tinyurl.com/k7ztn
You can read that, can you? Then I'm sure you can translate this for me:
"Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad."
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@notorbitboy
[Read the article: What FISA capitulations are Democrats planning next?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Doing it simultaneously with 4 different aircraft takes a lot of planning. It was a sophisticated attack.
They got nineteen airline tickets, took some classes, and bought box-cutters.
The 9/11 attack was many things: insane, horrifying, savage, daring. It was not sophisticated.
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"Why should I have to?"
[Read the article: The ADL purports to respond again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know. An interest in the truth? Intellectual honesty?
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@JPP
[Read the article: The ADL purports to respond again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So your position is that Ahmadinejad's staff in government and the government-run media are lying about what he said
No, my position is you have no interest in hearing anything that challenges your comfortable assumptions.
Nobody can remove a country from the map. This is a misunderstanding in Europe of what our president mentioned,” [Iranian Foreign Minister] Manouchehr Mottaki told a news conference, speaking in English, after addressing the European Parliament. “How is it possible to remove a country from the map? He is talking about the regime. We do not recognise legally this regime,” he said.
http://tinyurl.com/36clvo
So now you have the choice of believing the Iranian government when it suits you, and ignoring it when it doesn't.
Of course, you could just read the actual quote, but that might expose your delicate sensibilities to intellectual challenge, which is clearly not your forte:
"The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time".
Word by word translation:
Imam (Khomeini) ghoft (said) een (this) rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods (Jerusalem) bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad (vanish from).
I mean, if you want to believe so badly that Ahmedinejad is a committed ethnic cleanser, you have to ask yourself why he doesn't start with Jews actually in Iran, rather than start a nuclear war with Israel, which can have no other outcome than to leave every city in Iran a smoking, radioactive ruin.
But again, that would be an intellectual exercise. How much more satisfying the cozy confines of belief.