Letters to the Editor
L.W.M.
Published Letters: 5810 Editor's Choice: 5
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Laughable
[Read the article: The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]-- kdwmson... "I voted for Steve Forbes in the primary."
This one statement by itself indicates you would benefit from medication. It should be enough to put you in a strait jacket.
I think that, on balance, the abuses perpetrated in the name of security have been less intrusive than those perpetrated in the name of revenue, stability, or policing drug use. If Homeland Security made us file the same sort of invasive paperwork the IRS does, there'd be a whole Wagner opera of angst and wailing. As I wrote earlier, our desire to fight real evils such as segregation lured us into empowered the government to regulate, in effect, everything, everywhere, on the flimsiest excuse. I'm mistrustful of any philosophy that empowers any branch of government to make it up as they go. I think the judiciary has been the most destructive on that count, but of course that doesn't mean we should let the executive overstep its bounds, either. It bears keeping in mind that the fellow who brought you the New Deal also operated concentration camps.
Completely and utterly idiotic wingnut drivel. Especially the part about FDR and "concentration camps". If only FDR had worked and starved the internees to death, and gassed and incinerated those too weak to work...
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Late night wingnut wacko world on TV...
[Read the article: The Politico: Exhibit A for our broken political press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was in radio back in the 70's and 80's when The Fairness Doctrine was still in effect. The main result of it was to keep stridently partisan bloviating (of both parties) off the air. The equal time provision was more to ensure a variety of viewpoints get an airing in response to an opinion piece or commentary.
Yes, they had talk radio before the fairness doctrine was abolished, but it was issue-oriented and not devoted to the talking points, platforms, and cynical strategies of any one political party like it is now.
I think it started with Joe Pyne in NYC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pyne
Then there was Allen or Alan Burke in NYC, later it was Morton Downey, Jr. and Wally George in LA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_George
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Correction, Joe Pyne was syndicated in NYC, not from there
[Read the article: The Politico: Exhibit A for our broken political press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But he was the father of "Combat TV," although they all claim they were. They were all conservatives... Tom Snyder was an actual late night TV talk show host. He wasn't a total idiot and phony, so I guess they'd say he was "too liberal".
Alan Burke was a conservative talk show host who was on the air primarily in New York from 1966 to 1969. He was a pioneer of the confrontational style where he would attack or insult his guest and plant ringers in the audience who would attack the guest. Burke had programs on various Miami, Florida radio stations during much of the 1970's and '80's, where he continued to employ his confrontational style.
The only "liberal" who ever tried this style of talk radio, Alan Berg, was gunned down by right wing wackos in his own driveway in 1984.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Berg
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Journalism, not truth, is the first casualty in war...
[Read the article: The Politico: Exhibit A for our broken political press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was that Halberstam or John Pilger... I forget but it doesn't really matter or change the verity of the observation.
Paul... But my point is that something rather unusual is going on here--that truth has been turned into a political negative.
Paul gets what I have sensed for some time. And what Glenn and many other people might not prefer to confront. That side, whatever and whoever it is, and by whatever name you wish to give it,(let's call it "the right"), has been at war with the rest of us for some time, and that includes centrists and independents. It's been a covert war, even a cold war, but it's a war, nonetheless. The Iraq war and the GWOT have just morphed into weapons, tools or props in the larger war, for political control of the country. If I'm partisan it's because I have no illusions about which agenda I fear the most, and it's not the agenda "our internal enemy" condescendingly or derisively calls "the left" or the "Democrat party". They call us much worse in the fever swamps of the right.
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Then again...
[Read the article: The Politico: Exhibit A for our broken political press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Funniest Thing About This Obsession
What's most intriguing is that here in Iowa, I have heard nothing regarding Edwards' hair, outside what's been reported. In the land where democracy is weaned, this particular flavor gets no suckle.
Perhaps the guys at Politico are very shrewd businessmen. They know writing about Edwards hair will get them lots of traffic from Glenn. They don't want to end up like Hot Soup. Cold.
http://tinyurl.com/2tybgy
HEADLINE: Online Venture Seeks To Elevate the Debate;
Civility Is In, Rancor Out on Web Site Begun by Democratic, GOP Strategists
BYLINE: Howard Kurtz, Washington Post Staff Writer
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A group of political strategists who have spent years firing heavy artillery at each other came together at the Hay-Adams Hotel yesterday, put aside their weapons, decried the polarized state of debate in America and vowed a new approach to peaceful coexistence.
Toward that end, they are launching a Web site that they hope will eventually reach 30 million opinion leaders, elevate public discussion on matters from politics to sports to culture and, in the process, make them some money.
Mark McKinnon and Matthew Dowd, who were senior advisers in President Bush's last two campaigns, are joining forces with Joe Lockhart, who served as a spokesman for President Bill Clinton, and Carter Eskew, a top strategist in Al Gore's presidential campaign, in creating what they have dubbed HotSoup.com.
"There is nobody who knows how broken the system is more than us. . . . Everyone in the room could say they contributed to the polarization," Lockhart said.
So, in case you had any doubts about it, you can forget about that "Rodney King" moment. We ain't just all going to get along and ride off into the sunset in bipartisan bliss any time soon.