Letters to the Editor
Cocktailhag
Published Letters: 483
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The McArdle Defense
[Read the article: Lee Hamilton denies Michael Mukasey's claim about 9/11]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A less than usually addled troll says, "I don't have the experience" to know whether the telecoms got mixed up in illegal spying prior to 911. This isn't so bad, given that McArdle and Klein wrote lengthy articles about areas in which they were inexperienced, then airily dismissed their egregious errors by claiming lack of knowledge. Unlike trolls, these worthies can, and are ostensibly paid to, find out things they don't know. It's easier than you'd think. If you're computer illiterate, there are books, and the old readers' guide to periodicals. Too lazy? Take the week off, or write about something else.
For trolls, however, they've been taught by their oracles that asserting fear-mongering nonsense unchallenged is just as good, and they can say what they please.
Even better, lumping their paranoid and authoritarian tendencies with those of all Americans, by saying "we" need the help of the telecoms, grants the same vicarious legitimacy the M$M always invokes when they claim "we" are more interested in Britney Spears than torture.
But I draw the line at trolls saying that "they" hate "us."
Us? Are you pregnant?
The terrorists, evildoers, Islamofascists, and whatever, to the extent that they even harbor identical hatreds, do not hate peaceful, honest, sane Americans. They do hate militarists, torturers, imperialists, and racial and religious crusaders.
That's not "us," notorbitboy, that's YOU.
Please make a note of it.
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Sally forth; nothing to see here...
[Read the article: Megan McArdle and Dan Drezner's defense of the media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bystander, as well as many others before, sums it up beyond the quibbling of the concern troll in question. The difference, if it exists, between 1200 and 1600, is pretty much a rounding error when the comparison in question is between 80-something and one of those numbers.
To argue that Glenn had to "lie" to make eighty look smaller than a thousand is, I'd like to say, as retarded as it gets, but in the land of heffalumps, shooters, and prowars, it's annoyingly ordinary, but in the worst possible way.
Sally, my dear, is that all you've got? This ain't the Freepers. The reality-based community demands more.
Please make a note of it.
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A Head for Figures
[Read the article: Megan McArdle and Dan Drezner's defense of the media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Call us what you will, and debate the figures as you must, but the "reality" is that it has been virtually impossible to avoid the stories about Obama's bowling, while it has been equally daunting to find any news source discussing, say, the Mukasey lie.
I'm glad that you can be shielded under your green eyeshade against the baking sunlight of the point here, but the numbers differential remains unassailable.
None are so blind as those who would Nazi.
And nothing is less convincing, except to a newbie like you, that readers here engage in any sort of groupthink. Hell, until you came along, we were happily arguing amongst ourselves about everything. Finding technical flaws in the minutiae, while ignoring the thrust, and obvious truth, of the main thesis, is all rightie automatons like you ever do here, and such drearily familiar tactics naturally draw rivers of deserved derision. And, of course, whiny, predictable, ad hominem, bleating like yours. Sorry about that.
Now, will you let the grownups have a discussion? You're wanted over at Townhall.
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Sins of the Fathers.......
[Read the article: Megan McArdle and Dan Drezner's defense of the media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You've got me in stitches, LWM, when you invoke the vagaries of DNA and its discontents. Poor Sally has failed in her efforts to indoctrinate her ungrateful offspring to The Truth. There are other ways, short of waterboarding, to make the benighted see the light. Perhaps a sort of Clockwork Orange reprogramming is in order.
Although that might not work, it's surely worth a try. Shall I suggest it?
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Then there was Hruska...
[Read the article: Megan McArdle and Dan Drezner's defense of the media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Beejle, During the latter part of Watergate, Roman Hruska said, after pretty much all the Republicans jumped ship, "Don't confuse me with the facts."
His intellectual descendants are still here, on a television near you.
Have you read the WaPo lately?
Sadly, times have changed.
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With Friends Like These...
[Read the article: Have Republicans given up on FISA and telecom amnesty?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Naziblower accidentally tipped his hand again. No one loves, or depends on, the terrorists more than pathetic fearmongers like her/him/it. When all is lost, they get down on their knees, and after removing the Republican appendage du jour, swallow and pray for the next terrorist attack.
They still believe in a place called Hope.
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It's a Gift...
[Read the article: Responsibility for the last seven years]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn,
Your unique ability to get members of the media to obsessively lie, rant, and lash out by simply repeating their own words is an endless source of joyful schadenfruede for us all. When the only pragmatic thing for them to do would be to plug their ears and sing' "Frere Jacques," you are able to drive ninnies like McArdle et al into paroxysms of self-justifying rage, inevitably dressed up with more pseudo-intellectualism, arrogance, and of course, still more whoppers, until all they have left is their well-deserved "hurt" at what you've done to them.
It would be even more hilarious if it weren't so drearily familiar and pathetic.
The one lesson they seem to have learned from the Bush Administration is that there is not, cannot, be any such thing as a self-inflicted wound.
Whether you've choked on your own words, or a pretzel, some liberal meanie must have done it it to you.