Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 778 Editor's Choice: 9
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OT - Kucinich barred from Iowa debate
[Read the article: New poll reveals how unrepresentative neocon Jewish groups are]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn,
FYI,
"The Des Moines Register has arbitrarily barred Democratic Congressman and Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich (OH) from participating in their Democratic Presidential Debate.
Please register your displeasure, politely, with the Des Moines Register here:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/NEWS09/71212029/0/NEWS09
Also, you can, and should, email or call them and register your displeasure. Public debate, regardless of being sponsored by corporate media, should be beholden to equal time rules -- barring Kucinich may not be illegal, but it is surely immoral and unfair.
Call the Des Moines Register at 1-800-247-5346 and protest their private decision to censor a public election. The Iowa Caucus has National Implications and the Des Moines Register is excluding Dennis Kucinich from the Debate based on local politics. If that infuriates you, step up and call the Des Moines Register at 1-800-247-5346.
Better yet, call their Editorial Board too:
Carol Hunter - 515-284-8502
Laura Hollingsworth - 515-284-8041
Those of you calling The Des Moines Register to prtest their censorship of Kucinich, should also email their editors at the following...
Carol Hunter - 515-284-8502
chunter@dmreg.com
Laura Hollingsworth - 515-284-8041
Lhollingsworth@dmreg.com"
(The text is a portmanteau of my opinion - top, and the contact information was posted earlier today by Elizabeth Kucinich on MySpace - bottom)
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In whose pockets are the Des Moines Register editorial staff?
[Read the article: The GOP's field of dreams]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, this is not at all surprising considering that Carolyn and Company have decided to arbitrarily bar Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich from the Dem debate coming up.
Democrazy inaction? What is a portmanteau of Media democracy? Oh, yes, I recall.. its Mediocracy.
Shame on the Des Moines Register!
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I see..
[Read the article: Flirting with disaster]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]..that salon.com hasn't learned any lessons from Kurdt Cobain.
I say leave the poor girl alone, hopefully she'll sort it out. She may be no Cobain, or Elliott Smith, but if the floodlights of media attention don't let up, I see the inevitable story-arc ending tragically.
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All six candidates?
[Read the article: The last Iowa debate (Thank God!)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where were Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich?
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OT -- Iowa Debate
[Read the article: Harry Reid's FISA games]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn,
I'm curious to hear your take on the exclusion of Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich from the last Dem debate.
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@bernbart
[Read the article: The last Iowa debate (Thank God!)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is so nutty about embracing energy reform, peace and progress?
Why is it considered a good leadership quality the willingness to kill and maim with impunity? The American Empire is collapsing, game over. We need to switch gears right away and move away from the "policing the globe" hegemony that has overwhelmingly informed our statecraft and foreign policy aims for over 100 years.
It could be said that pursuing these imperial aims will bankrupt the country eventually; that is incorrect, the truth is it already has -- morally, financially.
Therefore, it is against the self interest of any American, unless they be an arms manufacturer or big oil tycoon, to vote for any candidate willing to play ball with the current FP/imperial aims zeitgeist. The two candidates who most vocally oppose our ill-conceived and poorly executed foreign policy and militarization are Gravel and Kucinich.
War is over, if you want it.
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@hunthorse
[Read the article: Inside the CIA's notorious "black sites"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You.. idiot!
Stephen Decatur 1816 " My country right or wrong"
You seem to be saying, in so many words, "if you don't love it, leave it." This is the rallying cry for American Fascists like yourself who pine for the good old days (which never existed). Love it or leave it.. right, so America can be full of pigs like yourself, white-bread, WASP, Republican grease balls. I don't think so. I ain't leaving without a fight.
My country, love it or change it.
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wow..
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Heather..
"The Maria Bamford Show.."
I'm watching all of them right now, rocking back and forth, terrified.
I love it!
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@Nulla Sallus
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I cannot vouch for all of the Adult Swim products, but I can assure you that Seth MacFarlane is no scab:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGqRN1t2ZQc
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Careful, Glenn
[Read the article: The Lawless Surveillance State]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You wouldn't want to be labeled a "blame America first" type, would you, citizen?
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I just snarfed all over my screen
[Read the article: The Lawless Surveillance State]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As I've said elsewhere, it's very easy to point fingers when all the facts are in. -Shooter242
*slowly clapping* bra-vo, the slow horse finally crosses the finishing line (my apologies to stewie griffin).
Thanks for the laugh. Now go play in traffic,
feliz homo-sapiens-sapiens!
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Imperfect Candidates
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe if the lot of you weren't a bunch of spineless diaper wearing equivalent cowards and actually stood up for what you believed, or, better yet, actually believed something (it helps to read, and turn off CNN once in a while) then maybe we wouldn't be faced with choosing from the three most milquetoast Demo crapdidates the beltway Pol machine can throw at us.
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Electioneering
[Read the article: Harry Reid -- compare and contrast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Two things:
First, Dodd actually suspending his campaigning in Iowa to stop this abomination of a bill from passage today in the Senate probably did more for his campaign than being in Iowa all month;
and Second: Senator Obama's tepid non-response condemning telecom amnesty while not lifting a finger to do anything about it has taken him down many notches in my mind, and Senator Clinton's refusal to say anything meaningful at all about this and so many other issues solidifies her place at the bottom of the field (or neat the top of the Republican field).
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@chris sinnard
[Read the article: Harry Reid -- compare and contrast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]sounds like someone hasn't had their V-8 today, and has been drinking their Hatorade instead.
screw the MSM, meet the internets. if the fringes are deciding elections nowadays, then i'm riding by the seat o' my pants! huzzah!
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Unitasker
[Read the article: Kitchen gadgets: The "Egg McMuffin" machine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is what Alton Brown, undisputed king of kitchen gadgets, would label as a "unitasker." Its a toaster, that fries eggs. As other people have pointed out, I have a toaster oven, and it does a hell of a lot more than make Egg McMuffins (two words = "pita pizza"). I think I'll pass on this gadget.
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why..
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is this claptrap still the lead article.. FISA, anyone?