Letters to the Editor
L.W.M.
Published Letters: 5810 Editor's Choice: 5
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Gee whiz, Scott
[Read the article: A beautiful mosaic of anti-blogger hatred]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't it just a wee bit parasitic?
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not convinced that the claims of online columnists being parasitic on mainstream news organizations and on each other are completely off base. As just one example, look at the post from digby that Glenn Greenwald describes as "indispensible" In his first paragraph, he's commenting on Glenn Greenwald commenting on someone else commenting on David Broder being the "voice of the people" Then he follows up with Joe Klein's commentary on Glenn Greenwald's commentary and then with Glenn Greenwald's commentary on all of THAT. Often it seems that there isn't a whole heck of a lot of actual news at the center of all these layers of commentary.
Scott Stoeffler
Where were you when we needed you to point this out over 30 years ago when Reed Irvine started AIM?
During the Clinton administration, in 1998 at the Conservative Political Action Conference, [Reed Irvine] claimed there was a conspiracy within the Republican Party to "suppress investigations of Clinton administration scandals." He noted, "Conspiracy is a word that has been given a very bad connotation -- it's become synonymous with 'kooky,' " he told a Post reporter. "But really it has a very good connotation." In other words, he elaborated, some conspiracy theories are valid. But not Hillary Clinton's notion of a vast right-wing conspiracy. "She's kooky," he said.".
If the news is broke, who's gonna report it, Reed Irvine?
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Yes, RealLame
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You didn't leave the Democratic party, the Democratic party left you. Just like Ronald Reagan said it. We drove both of you out to the desert, Death Valley, and left you there. Unfortunately, that moron switched parties and became president, and you found your way back here. In either case, we wish you both had stayed lost.
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Let's not feed Jake
[Read the article: PBS's "Frontline: Spying on the Home Front"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jake is the young idiot troll from Think Progress who thinks he was "marine in Korea"
Give Shoots his mouth off what he's asking for...
Even PBS, which has been screwed up like everything else Bushco has touched, couldn't in good conscience put that drivel from Frank "Batman" Gaffney and his little boy wonder, Alex Alexiev, on the air...
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/newspapers/pbs_cans_documentary_56758.asp
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1183
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His brain didn't go along for the ride
[Read the article: PBS's "Frontline: Spying on the Home Front"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"As I said, I lived through it AND have read everything about it since."
How many languages can he speak and/or read?
Let's just concentrate on the one troll who always shoots his mouth off, not the one who thinks he's James Bond.
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where the ordinary neocons go to get their crazy vitamins.
[Read the article: PBS's "Frontline: Spying on the Home Front"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hahaha..
excerpt of Aussie interview pre-Iraq invasion with Goofney:
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/20030310_american_dreamers/int_gaffney.htm
JONATHAN HOLMES: So what do you say to the six to ten million people worldwide who were demonstrating last weekend essentially against war, against the possibility that a hundred thousand, who knows how many innocent Iraqi civilians would be killed in this process, but also were demonstrating against what they perceive as the unilateral arrogance of the United States arrogating to itself the right to decide about war and peace rather than leaving it to the Security Council?
FRANK GAFFNEY: I would say with due respect to those of them that are well meaning and genuinely peaceable not to be confused with a small minority that I believe are very illicitly anti American and have no more interest in world peace than they have in you know promoting American national interests, I would say to them I respectfully believe you're wrong and I believe that when you find, as you will I hope shortly, that the Iraqi people welcome the end of this horrible regime, even if it comes at some further expense to themselves, knowing as they do that the alternative is more of the horror that they've lived under for the past two or three decades. Ah you'll see I think an outpouring of appreciation for their liberation that will make what we saw in Afghanistan recently pale by comparison. You'll see, moreover, evidence in the files and the bunkers that become available to our military, evidence not only of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs and his future ambitions for their use perhaps and for aggression against his neighbours, but also I would be willing to bet evidence of his past complicity with acts of terror against the west, perhaps more generally but certainly against the United States which in turn I think will further vindicate the course of action that this president is courageously embarked upon.
"although I speak several languages and have my doctorate in Russian history"
That explains the nom de plume, Jake007. I can only imagine where that mail order sheepskin came from...
http://www.patriotuniversity.com/PriceOfTruth.htm
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Tiny URL for the Goofney interview
[Read the article: PBS's "Frontline: Spying on the Home Front"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://tinyurl.com/35xc9v
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Veteran Novice
[Read the article: PBS's "Frontline: Spying on the Home Front"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a student of COINTELPRO and someone who actually "lived through it" I don't think you are over-reacting...
Everyone is under-reacting...
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Just for the visual
[Read the article: PBS's "Frontline: Spying on the Home Front"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Slate's interactive GOP scandal map
http://slate.com/features/2007/scandal_guide/scandalmap.html
Elephantman's alma mater
http://www.patriotuniversity.com/PriceOfTruth.htm