Letters to the Editor
DrEyeBall
Published Letters: 143 Editor's Choice: 2
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Follow the money
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is it really so surprising that the news industry has hit this nadir? Once the public was sold on this "free market" idea that nothing had value unless it was directly making money for someone the jig was up. Broadcast news used to run at a loss as a public service, and in one sense part of the obligation in exchange for being in charge of the public airwaves. Newspapers did have to make a profit, but at least there are cases when public interest and breaking a big story coincide. However, at this point only an idiot could fail to see what is going to happen to the news section of the WSJ. Anyone want to start a pool as to when the first reporter quits in disgust?
Anyway, the profit trail runs straight to Carlson, Limbaugh, Hannity, and the rest of the stupid crew. (Not that stupid; they make more money than I do.)
Glenn, I hope you gave a nod to Bob Somerby in this new book -- he and his people deserve it.
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OK, I'm in.
[Read the article: Targeting bad Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, it looks like you have just about established a new PAC around yourself and this Salon column. Although I like what you write on these issues at hand, is that what you intended?
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Some might say the job is the job of a liar
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the reason that the Hillaryites and the Obamamaniacs are acting this way is because they have seen it work so successfully for the other side. Just talk to any Republican about Reagan and you will see adulation that will make your brain melt. It was transferred to GWB and even after trillions of dollars wasted and a string of unmitigated disasters some of them still get teary-eyed and hearts all a pitter-patter at the mere mention of their dear leader.
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Hagee and friends
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I was in Berkeley back in the 70s it was pretty common to see "Jesus Freaks" up and down Telegraph and Sproul plaza. Often they would preach "gospel" that would be familiar to the likes of Hagee and friends. As I recall they were always white.
This sort of reminds me of that. Do those guys still hang out there?
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This is probably pointless, but
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is a fiction that this type of food causes obesity and heart disease, as eloquently implied by the cartoon.
If you ate NOTHING but this kind of food you would be deficient in some nutrients, but you would not gain weight and your blood lipid profiles would normalize. You would also not kill your kidneys. Just ask anyone who has been successful on a low-carbohydrate diet like Atkins.
However in most of the western world it can be hard to find meats that are raised with natural food, no hormones and antibiotics, and raised and killed humanely. That's your health problem there.
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Hey
[Read the article: The worst, sleaziest press corps possible]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just checked Huffington Post, and they have taken this article off the front page. I wonder, did they just get prodded into a sense of decency? They are pretty anti-Clinton there, but I guess there are bounds after all.
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How can there be any doubt?
[Read the article: Lessons not learned]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is no question in my mind that many, if not most, of the senate and congress voted for AUMF in Iraq was that to do otherwise would brand them as "weak," "soft on terror," "against the military," and usually "a traitor."
That vote might have not been principled, but essentially correct in strict political survival terms. You won't get any of them to admit it, though.
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Hard to process -- truths about diet
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]KitchenGirl:
> They're probably not dropping dead, but I'd be
> curious to know about the increase in kidney
> stones and other kidney ailments that an all-meat,
> all-the-time diet will cause.
Kidney stones are usually caused by dehydration, not macronutrient mix.
I didn't bring up Atkins but I'm afraid Atkins is right. As much as people will try to convince you otherwise, his diet book fits right in with the calorie theory and had nothing to do with over-consuming animal fats.
That said, there are cultural diets which are all animal fat and those humans do very well, without cancer and diabetes and other diseases we spend billions on. There are also low-fat cultural diets about which the same may be said.
If you really are interested in understanding the very real problems associated with a western diet, and not just reinforcing whatever preconceptions you might have, read Micahel Pollen's book "In Defense of Food." It is a very easy read and not a diet book.
All that said, I love K.K.'s stuff.
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With them it is always about the niggers
[Read the article: One of Instapundit's favorite blogs speaks on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't be fooled into thinking that this applies only to African-Americans. The sense of threatened tribalism is at the root of movement conservatism, and always has been.
This is why it was so easy to sell most of white America on the Iraq war. Polls showed that 2/3s thought that Saddam had something to do with 9/11, or at least close ties to AlQ.
You could confront one of these people with the facts, but you would get push-back that when you parsed to down, almost always boiled down to this: "well one sand-nigger is pretty much the same as another sand-nigger, so why not start with that one?"
Take almost any one of their "thoughtful" screeds about Islam and do a global search/replace from "Islam" to "niggers" and the text becomes instantly recognizable. This racist energy had for a long time been at least partly directed towards "the Communists" but now that it isn't it is pretty much clear that Islam is now the designated nigger.
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The protest marches
[Read the article: The ongoing exclusion of war opponents from the Iraq debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does anyone besides me remember the huge protest marches before the invasion began, and how all the newsprint pictures of it were carefully cropped to depict much smaller crowds than there actually were? (With "reporting" to match.)
I would appreciate it if someone could post some links to those pictures.
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Just asking
[Read the article: Michael Mukasey's tearful lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is it legally possible for Congress to recall an AG?
I'm not saying the Dems would actually do it -- after all that would be considered just too partisan by Dean Broder. I just want to tell our representatives that they are also culpable for this atrocity in an ongoing sense.