Letters to the Editor
Retired Military Patriot
Published Letters: 2704 Editor's Choice: 11
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@WT and DCLaw1
[Read the article: Former Clinton officials lobby for amnesty for FISA lawbreaking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The impact of the Daily Show and Colbert Report should not be underestimated and conducting a poll that WT spoke of is wise. These two shows have done more credibility damage to the Bushdipocracy than any other media source and I don’t need a poll to know that.
As far as I know, young people have not voted in the numbers that have made a significant difference in a presidential election. If the polls are accurate and the shows are indeed turning young viewers off to politics, I don’t think that is irreversible. What is irreversible is the contempt that these same viewers have for the entire Bushdipocracy and war supporters.
I believe that when the general election is much closer, these young people will be motivated to vote because it is mostly young people that are dying and being maimed. The one Dem candidate that would motivate them the most would be Obama. Hillary would have some impact due to her gender. The Democratic Party should be making a special effort to get these young voters to realize the difference they could make and get them to the ballot boxes. If that happens, these two TV shows will be a major factor.
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@casual observer
[Read the article: Former Clinton officials lobby for amnesty for FISA lawbreaking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]“The real tragedy is not that these shows exist and have a major impact, but rather that they are trying to provide humorous counterpoint to a "serious" media that doesn't exist.”
Very valid point. However, the comments that John Stewart makes often contain more news information than a normal satire like Saturday Night Live. His interviews of book authors can be quite illuminating. He and the show writers are very skillful at presenting factual, sound arguments as part of the spoof. Many of the young adult viewers hold the same scorn for the M$M as commenters on GG’s threads and get their news from the Internet and political comment from these two shows. I have shared my views about this with some young adults, including my sons, and they agree with me. Of course it is a very small, unscientific sample.
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Glenn a gem that dulls my shine, not my spine
[Read the article: Dianne Feinstein, symbol of the worthless Beltway Democrat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since I started reading your piercing, thought provoking articles Glenn, I am far better informed and far less hopeful. I like the former and eat more mellow foods to quell the latter.
The North Dakota farm (small entrepreneurs not large capitalists) culture that raised me was one of optimistic pessimism. No small farmer remains a farmer without that perspective. You would quit and find a city job. No surviving farmers do so through wishful thinking. When confronting obstacles, they don’t whine or blame, they find the real problem and deal with it.
That is also how true warriors, not “yes sir” sycophants survive on the battlefield. That is the only choice, Rolo Tomasi. Depression gets you, not the enemy.
Yes, Prof. Andmaryann, we are outnumbered by self-interested cretins.
Yes, Iokannan in the Well, there is no other near term choice than to fill the void left by Feinstein and the others who have succumbed to insidious, corruptive lure of money and Beltway cronyism.
Yes Joel Grant, reform must come from the bottom up.
Those who yearn for the reform know that the answer lies with elections based on representing beliefs not power and money. You can’t be surprised or disappointed in senators like Feinstein who are the victims of a system more than a husband or corrupt friends. Blaming and fixing a system gets lasting results. Blaming and trying to cure people living in a closed garage with a engines running and expecting them to listen in the deadly atmosphere, is a fatal exercise.
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@El Cid
[Read the article: Dianne Feinstein, symbol of the worthless Beltway Democrat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]“Another less direct approach is to keep strengthening and building an alternative media (now it's primarily web-based) to combat the daily bombardment of misinformation and the views favorable to a hawkish establishment elite.”
Thanks for talking about some practical solutions for a vexing challenge. Your suggestion that we build our own participant in the M$M is intriguing. The so far limited success of Air America radio shows it to be quite a challenge especially considering that the other side has a large TV network.
Are you suggesting that our participant not be based on opposing RWAs and neocons, but something that represents what Glenn does and that would strive to represent people of all politics who want to change our system?
Maybe a cheaper alternative to broadcast media would be a wire service or even a syndicated Greenwald column. Somehow we need to reach “middle” America who know in their gut, something is wrong, but don’t know how to find a doc who can diagnose the illness.
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@DanJoaquinOz
[Read the article: Dianne Feinstein, symbol of the worthless Beltway Democrat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes Bebop-o is an absolute wonder. You've done an insightful job of describing what he does for all of us. What comes through to me more than anything else is how he always reminds us that humanity and beauty must triumph in the face of war's horrors and the monsters who perpetuate it.
He gives us the fuel that fire our innards to take action, not talk and whine.
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@walter_map
[Read the article: Dianne Feinstein, symbol of the worthless Beltway Democrat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Must have been a bunch of liberals who wrote all those damn definitions.
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@sourman
[Read the article: Dianne Feinstein, symbol of the worthless Beltway Democrat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]“but if your ancestors didn't kill and rob, you wouldn't have a place to stand right now.”
Is this another test? If it isn’t, then your thoughts that what we did to Native Americans is something I should be grateful for is absurd or worse. So if this wasn’t a test I will add you to my troll list and have nothing further to do with you.
As for your ignorance of facts on Bebop-o and his war views, I will leave it to him to educate you in his inimitable way.
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L.W.M.
[Read the article: Dianne Feinstein, symbol of the worthless Beltway Democrat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Welcome back. I suspect you have tired of the anonymous bit. I prefer L.W.M.