Letters to the Editor
Cocktailhag
Published Letters: 483
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Tongue in Cheek, While Gagging...
[Read the article: The harmony between the Right and the media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Walter. of course I was only kidding about not mentioning Lieberman's microscopic pink unmentionables. Especially when he makes his triumphant appearance at the Republican Convention, I personally plan to write graphically and revoltingly about them, although it mightn't be necessary, given his probable words.
Rules are made to be broken, as the Republicians have taught us for so long.
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Running out the clock
[Read the article: Mukasey dishonesty update]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ever since Cheney's energy policy meetings, the administration has had one area, anyway, in which its success is undeniable. That is, creating an imperious and imperial presidency that thumbs its nose at all oversight, and does whatever it wants without any annoying scrutiny from the people who (sort of) elected it.
One can imagine the overflowing wastebaskets in the White House filled with balled up subpoenas, stern letters, and even criminal convictions, tossed there by the contemptuous authoritarians in charge. Expect any queries about Mukasey's egregious dissembling to be flying across the room right now, heading for the pile.
If insanity means doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result, the Bushies may have their flaws, but insanity is not among them.
Trotting out "nonpartisan" faux saints like McConnell, Petraeus, Mukasey, Powell, and on and on has always worked for them, so why stop now? Far be it for the media to ever look askance at any of these worthies after one lie or so, when they still dutifully write down and publish the words of Bush, Rice, Rove, and Cheney after hundreds of proven lies.
Similarly, when every agency from the DOJ to the EPA is run by a cabal of hacks, each insisting that its inner workings are nobody's business, don't expect any response from Mukasey's risible excuse for a "Justice" Department.
Mukasey was hired to run out the clock on administration criminality, and he's doing so beautifully. He oughtn't have the kind of trouble finding a job that Gonzales has.
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That's What We All Agreed On
[Read the article: Ken Pollack: Al Qaeda is a great "catch-all" term]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wasn't it Wolfowitz who said that the reasons for the war they decided to use, terrorism and WMD, were chosen "because that's what we all agreed upon?" Several heads are apparently better than one when thinking up lies.
Using Al Queda as a catchall is nothing new; for years Bill O'Reilly has called Gitmo prisoners, torture victims, and everybody without an "R" after their name "Al Quedas." It seems to be another thing they all have agreed upon.
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That New York Times?
[Read the article: Major revelation: U.S. media deceitfully disseminates government propaganda]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That same New York Times also publishes William Kristol's lame, one-note neocon propaganda, David Brooks' slimy, faux-bemused observations of liberal misguidedness, Maureen Dowd's unhinged obsession with all things Clinton and most things Democratic, Tom Friedman's "Suck. On. This.," and Adam Nagourney and Elizabeth Bumiller's high schoolish, content-free, political reporting.
That New York Times, Mr. Elephant?
Given the record of the right in recent years, for honesty, success, and adherence to the founding principles of democracy, not to mention the shrinking minority of Americans who believe anything they say, the fact that any media outlet gives them more than token, passing attention defies logic, not to mention market principles.
But since your ilk consider it long overdue "balance" for a liberal school like Berkeley to have a torture advocate and enabler teach Constitutional Law, clearly you have a little difficulty with the concept that, as Stephen Colbert put it, "reality has a well-known liberal bias."
There are many outlets for all right-wing propaganda, all the time, all of which bill themselves as "News," made just for people like you who want all inconvenient facts carefully excised.
Unfortunately, such an information diet leaves you a little ill-prepared for the real world, as you've probably noticed.
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Trivial Pursuits, and Profitable, Too
[Read the article: Major revelation: U.S. media deceitfully disseminates government propaganda]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is hardly trivial that for the thousandth time, Republicans not only collude to deceive Americans, but stuff their pockets in the process, and yet their deluded apologists lamely and loudly demand "proof."
Of course, this government is so protective of its right to deny the public information that the NYT actually had to sue to get what information they have published, so having their mouthpieces demand "proof" is plainly part of the coverup strategy. See, the old "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear," so useful when demanding that citizens give up their privacy, is unfortunately equally useful in determining why the Bushies are so loath to reveal what they are doing. Like any criminal enterprise, they must operate in the dark.
Is it mere conspiracy theory that everyone and their college roommate surrounding the Bushies has joined, started, or consulted with some newly rich recipient of lush government contracts?
Just a happy coincidence? For crying out loud.
The flagrant conflicts of interest amount to nothing more than obvious organized larceny, and no amount of "evidence" is going to convince anyone too stupid, or willfully blind, to see this.
Bush's father said "we must avoid even the appearance of any conflicts of interest," which really meant not the conflicts, just the appearances.
The son and his crew wave the conflicts in our faces, and their followers still demand "proof."
Don't confuse me with the facts, please.