Letters to the Editor
L.W.M.
Published Letters: 5810 Editor's Choice: 5
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Uhm...yeah. I am a "free thinker." This threatens you in some way?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It has nothing to do with your idea of being a "free thinker".
I stopped my involvement with the "music biz" ("indie" or otherwise) long before you got involved in that nightmare, and the list of names I could drop would put yours to shame. Wanna give it a go? As far as being a prosecutor... well. Talk to me when you leave the DA's office and set up your own shop as a high priced defense attorney, unless you think you are going to get to the point in your career where you can go after some real criminals, (right now that would be Republican politicians), then I might cut you some more slack. From my vantage point, I don't really "think" you are much of a "free thinker" if your idea of being a "free thinker" is finding petty little things to criticize about the latest Glenn Greenwald post. Yes, it might seem "free" and "thoughful" to stand out from the crowd that "carelessly and mindlessly" approves of every little thing Glenn writes. We all take notice of the contrarian view, or in your case, someone who desperately wants to establish his "free thinker" street cred by finding the most inane and insipid things to criticize. Actually, you sound like a DA who just had his case ripped out from under him by a better lawyer, and now you are just picking at nits to make yourself feel better. BTW, Most of the real "free thinkers" I know these days are homeless people but maybe I'm just trying to hard to be a "free thinker".
Shooter,
I'd respond to you but your comment is incoherent and lacks anything substantial to respond to. At least Jestaplero's criticisms were somewhat coherent, if completely inane.
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Perhaps this is news
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I first saw this three years ago in 2004 I got the distinct impression that most of the "dumb crackas" in Virginia thought a vote for Bush was a vote for national healthcare. That might be news to some.
http://www.redstateroadtrip.com/trlrselect.htm
http://win20ca.audiovideoweb.com/ca20win15004/REDSTATETRLR1030512K.wmv
So... blow me, Shooter, you insipid little twit. You get no slack from me.
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Now I'm a jack ass?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am a jack ass but I have been reading federalist 9 and 10 and 51 and few others where Madison explains how our Constitutional democratic republic and system of government is supposed to work to prevent a tyranny of the majority over a minority. I don't really think they intended to permit the tyranny of a minority over a majority and the fact that a majority of Americans want health care reform, and a system like they have in the rest of the industrialized democracies on the planet, leads me to conclude that a small minority is trying to prevent the majority from getting what it wants. I include our failed media in that small but far too powerful minority. It's a special interest group of corporate robber barons and privateers. The same crowd that has been trying to undermine the will of the majoriity for the last 100 years, at least. So until that changes, I'm not really interested in picking at nits with "free thinkers" like Jestaplero.
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I've read the gallies of Altemeyer's next book...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Left wing trolls are as rare as hen's teeth.
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WT...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like to think of myself as more of a sockmonkey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sock_monkey
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Apparently the Left Wing equivalent of the Christian Coalition is ....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]A secular progressive public policy organization.
How easy it is to be an authoritarian.
Apparently no conservatives are secularists or against continuing the failed Iraq occupation intended to create a secualr and progressive democracy in Iraq.
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Really...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is just getting more meta meta and sillier and sillier and we have one troll and few regular commenters who got suckered in by him to thank for it.
Actually, Selleck describes himself politically as "a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings". Which is another way of saying he doesn't have a clue and votes Republican most of the time. So much for the "liberal Hollywood" myth. It does serve it's purpose if enough people buy into it.
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"Tom Selleck buying a bottle of wine afterward is immaterial."
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]At the time, Jane Fonda's trip to Hanoi was considered unimportant by the MSM. The New York Times ran only a brief UPI story and no photograph. The groups most outraged at the time were neo-Nazis which should tell you something. Jane Fonda was a "free thinker". And she was right about the war, even though that trip wasn't the best way to go about it.
Glenn wrote... I also think it's excellent that Akers -- who calls herself "The Sleuth" at the top of her column -- dug all of this up and then used her space in The Washington Post to report it. All of the names of the stars are bolded just like Page Six does it. And it's particularly enjoyable how she skimmed right over the story of why a Reagan official is in charge of The Politico and what that means, and instead focused like a laser beam on the type of wine Selleck sent to the table ("a nice bottle of Meritage for Matthews's table").
Are any of you old enough (or were you sober enough) to remember the 60s? Do you have any idea of the womanizing (with big name stars, no less) the Kennedys engaged in? Compared to them Clinton was a choir boy. The point is the media of the day didn't think it was newsworthy. It was "immaterial".
Glenn isn't reporting that Selleck sent them a bottle of wine. Akers is. Most of you are just victims of the infotainment age and just don't know it. The MTV generation. If your name is Barbra Streisand and you send an expsensive bottle of wine to some reporter's table at an exclusive restauarant, Drudge will "report" it. And as we all know, Drudge is this generation's Walter Cronkite.