Letters to the Editor
lupercus
Published Letters: 170
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@Orson
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]If not all uses of tu quoque are fallacious, then our only difference is whether Glenn's use in this instance was or was not a logical fallacy. You say it was, I say it wasn't. And that, in my mind, is perfectly reasonable difference of opinion.
I am still utterly in the dark about the purpose of your bandying-about of Latin phrases in defense of your argument, but I can live with that.
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@Titus
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]George W. Bush bought Prairie Chapel Ranch in 1999.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_Chapel_Ranch#History
Just so ya know dog...
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@Titus
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you have some real information about "Operation Winter Soldier", as you call it, it might be good to post a source. It's not like you have a lot of credibility at this point.
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Günter Lewy
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lewy said he does not recall if he saw a copy of the naval investigative report or was briefed on its contents. "I'm quite confident the information is authentic," he said.
Paul O'Donnell, a spokesman for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, said officials were searching for a copy of the report.
By Tom Bowman
Baltimore Sun
February 14, 2004
You will forgive me if I am not bowled over by this "evidence"...?
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@titus
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. "Tom Bowman is NPR's pentagon reporter and has been an investigative reporter for the Baltimore Sun for 19 years." The story is no longer on the Baltimore Sun's website, but fortunately the left-wing hate site FreeRepublic.com reproduced it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1078667/posts
2. The Chicago Tribune also covered the story:
Lewy wrote that he had examined a Naval Investigative Service file that seriously discredited several of the Detroit veterans. Some were revealed by Navy investigators to have falsified their identities and weren't even in Vietnam, Lewy wrote.
Government officials today cannot verify that Naval Investigative Service report's existence.
"We have not been able to confirm the existence of this report, but it's also possible that such records could have been destroyed or misplaced," said Naval Criminal Investigative Service public affairs specialist Paul O'Donnell.
This one is still online:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/chi-0402220494feb22,1,4297735.story?page=3
What else ya got?
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@titus
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Conveniently left out is this line:
Oakton [College] professor [Richard] Stacewicz said it
is possible that several imposters did testify among the 150 or so
veterans in Detroit: "Could a couple of people have slipped
through? Possibly.
And conveniently left out of your post is the very next sentence:
Oakton professor Stacewicz said it is possible that several imposters did testify among the 150 or so veterans in Detroit: "Could a couple of people have slipped through? Possibly. But does that impugn everybody else? Not in my view."
Come now. Let's not be ridiculous.
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Sillius Soddus
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Biggus Dickus just keeps coming back for
more humiliation.
It's an Ancient Roman grudge match...
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I, for one, expect LESS of you, Glenn
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a bunch of scolds we have this Friday morning!
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the egregious error of thinking we have only "soldiers" in Iraq
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]So how many soldiers would we be pulling out each year, then?
...what about the poor Marines?
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"The value of calling name callers names seems marginal"
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]UpNorth: from one lowbrow and uncouth individual to another, a suggestion you look up the meaning of the term "straw man argument."
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"It is cheating when you are jerking off to a voice over the telephone?"
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes.
It is.
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@Golden Boy
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you really saying that you don't think bin Laden believed the U.S. would come after him after 9/11? Not being bin Laden, or a mind-reader, I don't know what was in his head, and I strongly suspect you don't either. But I can't see it as radically more unlikely that the nut-bag wanted to provoke a war between American and Islam to draw adherents to his cause is it would be that the ass-clown really thought Bush would turn his back on Israel after a suicide attack on his home soil.
Cast as many aspersions as you would like, but I think we're all guessing here.
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love it when shooter starts talking to himself
[Read the article: A one-day guide to war supporters and their enablers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How about something different for a change? Like "maybe I'm wrong?". LOL, like that could ever happen.
Heh.
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concern trollery at its finest
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am against the Iraq war ... I'd like to see someone anti-war for once lay out what they think the right thing to do is... It's easy to criticize every single thing that your opposition does, safely cradled in the indignant agreement of your supporters.
If you are "against the Iraq war" as you say, anonymous, surely you have some ideas of your own. After all, "why stop at complaining?"
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signed it
[Read the article: Documenting Gen. Petraeus' record of statements about the war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Also, a friendly early-poster proofing note: find-and-replace "Petraeus" for "Petreaus."
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juvenile aka immature
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's redundant aka saying the same thing twice.
The difference between Oprah and Brit Hume is that Oprah doesn't pretend to be a journalist. Also, Hillary was interviewed on FOX, which would kind of be like Petraeus going on Democracy Now...
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Hmmm?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138948,00.html
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Kitt
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was just going to title a post with that "Better trolls," but decided against it. You can only say the same thing over and over again so many times before you start feeling like shooter.
On the other hand, they both correctly identified Brit Hume's journalistic skills as being on a par with Oprah Winfrey and Larry King, so there's at least a glimmer of awareness there....
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he's not a "spoiled child..."
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's a "50 pound snot:"
http://186kps.com/2007/09/10/50-pound-snot-glen-grenwald-on-petraeus/#comment-4
With so many highly intellectual, substantive critiques of Glenn to choose from, though, I am sure you guys have a hard time keeping track.
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'an Englishman keeps quiet when an Irishman speaks'
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm a quarter Irish myself, and I think Hitchens is an ass, but if I'd been there I'd have helped the drink-soaked popinjay bash Donahue about the head and shoulders.
What an unspeakably obnoxious thing to say.
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@Scientician, a quibble
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Griffin expresses hatred of a man
I certainly wouldn't call it hatred. Given the sentiments in the rest of your post, I wouldn't have thought you would, either, so I wanted to object to your seeming acceptance of the Donahuian frame of "Suck it, Jesus!" as hate speech.
In my mind, she was skewering not the man (mythincal or not), nor the religion, but the sort of mindless invocation of Divine intervention in the winning of an industry award. Like how that guy from Three 6 Mafia thanked Jesus for winning the Oscar for "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp."