Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 101 Editor's Choice: 35
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It is what it is...
[Read the article: Was Stephen Hadley Woodward's source?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It is what it is" is a phrase John Fox, coach of the Carolina Panthers uses a ton. And it's not about bad stuff, it's a way for him to acknowledge something (a statement, a good play, a bad play, etc.) without commenting on it. I'm with you on the sentiment. Stephen Hadley is playing coy. But it's more intellectually honest to say "WTF" than to suggest he's a dick because you associate the comment "it is what it is" with "some horrific or embarrassing thing that is so self-evident it needs no belaboring".
Just my $0.02.
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Gimmie a break.
[Read the article: Yes, Gwen; or, Grrl Power, 2005 version]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In other news hundreds of rock bands around the US demand the ladies show them their tits and everybody still goes home happy.
Yes, Guys; or, Guys Rule, 2005 version (same as 2004 version)
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I'm reminded of a Bill Hicks quote...
[Read the article: Maureen Dowd takes on the networks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill Hicks once did a bit about women priests. I tend to agree with him and think about the Nightly News anchor position the same way.
"People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing, you know. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to. Ha, fuck, I don't care. Have a hermaphrodite one. I don't fucking care. Have one with three dicks and eight titties, I don't , I don't... You know, have one with gills and a trunk. That would be cool. I might go see that, you know, but... You know, I appreciate your quaint traditions and superstitions. I on the other hand am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of life, which exists in all of our hearts."
The pertinent question that nobody asks is "Who will do a better job of finding and reporting the news?". If the question is who reads a teleprompter better - count me out. That's no more important that deciding which puppet is going to make the crank call on Crank Yankers. Isn't the real position to get concerned about the one where the job is to choose what to report on?
If this were for any other vanity position women would be up in arms that men want somebody pretty to read them their weather (or whatever). But the legacy of an antiquated news delivery system seems to inspire lots of needless celebrityitis.
It does nothing to change the fact that all the nightly news programs serve the much more real purpose of providing an audience for the pharma companies to sell drugs to than they do to inform the public. The quality of news in these programs has gone through the floor. But that's not the topic of discussion. The topic is, who's going to read the teleprompter.
Don't file this under news, file this under celebrity gossip.
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More info:
[Read the article: As Washington quakes, a pundit yawns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Direct link: http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_01_01_corner-archive.asp#085951
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Lots of email from readers, friendly and hostile, over-reading my/our "silence" on the story. To be honest, I don't have a good reason for my own silence save to say I'm not that interested in it. By which I mean the day to day developments don't change how I see it or give me any desire to comment. I do think it is a real and important story -- the wishful thinking of liberals and the media notwithstanding -- and I won't shed a tear for him or anybody else who deserves to go down the tubes (of course "deserving" is in the details). There are lots of important stories that I can't get worked up about. This is one of them. Perhaps that will change. If it turns out that Kosites and Tapped crowd are right and this has major political legs or if some important politicians go down because of what Abramoff tells the prosecution, then, by all means I'll be more interested. But do keep in mind, these are the same voices who swore that gay escort guy was a huge story. This is obviously a bigger story than that, but I think there are lots of people eager for a feeding frenzy that serves purposes well beyond the Abramoff story.
As it stands now, it's your basic K-Street corruption story. I was never that interested in these kinds of stories under Clinton -- when they were more plentiful -- and I'm not now. Until then, my attitude is shame on the guilty parties and get back to me when there's something interesting to discuss.
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About that sex tape.
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For what it's worth, it's available for free on the torrent site www.empornium.us.