Letters to the Editor
Aycharaych
Published Letters: 2087 Editor's Choice: 3
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Jebbie
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is one of the things that is certainly missing in the coverage of politics. Reporters, true reporters, would follow up until they got either an answer to their question or were told no answer would be forthcoming....and they would report that fact also.
But that is bullying, as I have been informed here when I attempted to get my questions answered.
I realize that I'm not a reporter and that the posters here are not candidates, but it is impossible to have a debate based on facts and reason if those you are debating with refuse to answer your questions.
Any reporter who did as you suggest in your post would immediately be ostracized by both their fellow "reporters" and by the candidates and their campaigns in the current media climate.
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We will be able to think real hard and make the bad man's head explode.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or maybe we could just play Slim Whitman ;-)
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Holly McL
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why do they fail us? Perhaps because they haven't found a reliable way to define us as a market segment or because we are refractory to advertising efforts -- I don't know.
Almost all advertising is designed to work on an emotional rather than a rational level.
People who "think too much" are indeed refractory to advertising efforts and I suspect that the advertisers are fully cognizant of that fact.
If people weren't susceptible to emotional appeals, ninety percent plus of the products in the marketplace would never have appeared in the first place.
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pointblank
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I never thought it would happen, even in a blog, that the media would finally get called on their lack of accuracy, integrity and substance.
I've been doing just that for nigh on twenty years with respect to the drug war.
Once I found out the MSM was feeding me crap about that aspect of society I started examining everything else they said with a jaundiced eye.
And found them wanting.
Desperately.
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Republicans are accomplished liars
[Read the article: Poll: Republicans have sex more often]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Accomplished liars are good at what they do.
Republican lies are as transparent as the ionsphere.
Ergo Republicans are simply compulsive liars.
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Jebbie
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Folks on message boards don't and it does no good to whine about not getting an answer back to what may appear as a loaded question. No?
You mistake stating a fact for whining.
A loaded question is a question with a false, disputed, or question-begging presupposition.
Perhaps you can give me some examples of the "loaded questions" I have asked?
From the candidates point of view any question they do not wish to answer is a loaded one.
You read my post and know I already stated that posters are not candidates. Even when I repeatedly asked Kitt to tell me what he thought I was wrong about besides the percentage of Americans who would hear of the NIE, he flatly refused to do so. Since he used his statement that I was wrong about other things to disparage and insult me I felt it was a perfectly legitimate question. Do you disagree?
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The uncertaintly principle actually simplifies things.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good point..
The fact of the matter is that there is no such thing as accurate information, only varying degrees of inaccuracy.
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Kitt..
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Even when I repeatedly asked Kitt to tell me what he thought I was wrong about besides the percentage of Americans who would hear of the NIE, he flatly refused to do so."--Aych
Bull shit. I didn't "flatly refuse to do so". I didn't answer to the badgering of harping, obsessed poster. Then, against my better judgment, after being chased around by stupid shit like, "Here kitty, kitty, kitty. I'm going to keep asking until you answer or go away"<.i>, I answered your question. You, as I said you probably would in my reply, disagreed with my answer. Which was irrelevant to having answered it.
Then you went on to incorrectly call me a liar. Then you never apologized for having called me a liar.
That's how that went.
You never apologized to me for lying about me.
If I'm a liar then so are you.
And yes, not answering a legitimate question asked multiple times is indeed a flat refusal.
I was "harping" because you used your statement that I was wrong about other things to ridicule and belittle me and then would not elaborate as to anything specific.
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I wonder..
[Read the article: Chris Matthews is right ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is Mrs Bill now going to be accused of "Orc like insensitivity" on Broadsheet?
Somehow I think not.
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Kitt
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's because I never lied.
You said I was wrong about other things and never detailed what those things might be, even after all this time.
A lie.
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Shooter..
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you going to deny that the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner?
Are you going to deny that the USS Iowa gun turret explosion was caused by seriously out of date propellant and an attempt was made by the Navy to pin the blame on one of the crew?
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Anonymous..
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That said, the tone of both the article and most of the subsequent comments truly saddened me.
What should sadden you is that the US military has a reputation for untruthfulness which makes it very difficult to take anything they say at face value.
And I say this as a vet and the father in law of another vet.
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A little more about the Iowa incident..
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just remembered that the captain of the Iowa had the evidence thrown overboard.
Just like Pat Tillman's uniform and personal effects were burned shortly after his death.
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Frankly my dear..
[Read the article: A new democratic spirit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you *aren't* cynical you haven't been paying attention for the last fifty years.
Wasn't it Bismarck who said something about sausage, politics and weak stomachs?
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LWM
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who's doing that, and where? Be specific.
Every comment on every thread on every blog I've seen all sounds the same. And if you can get all defensive about a comment, imagine how a kid on a ship in the Straits of Hormuz feels.
What part of "be specific" do you fail to understand?
That's what is so frustrating about dealing with you, you simply will not answer a straightforward question, even from the very owner of the blog.
And no, every comment here does not "sound the same", there is a wide diversity of opinion as far as I can tell.