Letters to the Editor
Pedinska
Published Letters: 2004
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ADL's New Rule (apologies to Bill Maher)
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey Glenn
I'm dying to know if the ADL or the Wiesenthal Center ever responded to your post.
-- Politically Lost
I was wondering about that too. Saw this today in the Progress Report:
The Anti-Defamation League is calling on Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to "reconsider and withdraw" his comment over the weekend that the Constitution established America as a "Christian nation."
Original story at: http://www.nysun.com/article/63767
So, to recap, one cannot call someone a "Nazi" or "Hitler" and one cannot refer to the US a "Christian Nation". Got it.
Wonder how the all the evangelical christian zionists - some of the same folks decrying the 'War on Christmas' and the campaign to remove the words "under God" from the PoA - will feel about that last one? That's one scab the ADL might, in retrospect, wish they hadn't picked.
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Marjorajam
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pedinska
Indeed, that sounded a bit like a gratuitous slander.
Oh, no, I didn't take it that way at all. I think it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round (as illustrated here in Glenn's comment section) and things wouldn't be nearly as interesting without all the flier-peddlers and cymbal-ringers. We just sometimes have to take a deep breath and move along.
so we've got no bragging rights on you. Excepting of course the weather...
Well, ok, if you say so. But after reading this,
Tilde boy
You may have to make due with my farting in your general direction for a few heartbeats. Too much red pepper in my tortellini.
you'll have to pardon me for wondering if the 'atmosphere' in your general vicinity is all that you say it is. ;-> (BTW, I think that is one of the most memorable insults in the history filmdom.)
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Glenn
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]They both agree that the examples cited are "trivializing" examples but have a littany of excses/reasons why they're not specifically condemning them (the ADL claims it was on the verge of doing so when I wrote what I wrote, implying - without saying - that somehow what I did stopped them).
More likely, the appearance of doing something because you called them out on their uneven application of their Rule is what stopped them.
Can't wait for round 2. I never tire of you taking down these hypocritical blatherers.
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Kathy
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obviously racist, but also just bizarre, given that intimate relationships between blacks and whites were the worst nightmare terror of Southern whites at the time (and for the two centuries before that).
-- KathyK
Intimate relationships between blacks and whites have existed since the beginning of slavery in the colonies, if not before. As to whose nightmares were worse, I would think it would unquestionably have been those of the black female slaves who were unwilling participants in many such intimate relationships.
I hate the word miscegenation too. Ugly, ugly word. And I don't think you meant anything harmful in your phrasing in the quote above. I just think it read a bit misleadingly. I think we both agree, along with just about everyone else here, Norman Podhoretz is a very, very damaged man.
In a perfect world skin color would not matter not because we are all finally one color, but because we all finally realize we are all one human race.
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Great minds think alike, and sometimes have the same (last) name
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/14641-robert-greenwald-vs-frank-gaffney-on-hardball?utm_source=rgemail
A takedown worthy of our Glenn.
Karen M, if you are reading, this is who we should be submitting our video ideas to.
And what does everyone suppose is up with Matthew's latent gonadal surge?
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Great minds think alike, and sometimes have the same (last) name
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[Read more letters about this article: Here](I accidentally posted this on the other thread...not sure it matters since it's sorta OT for both.)
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/14641-robert-greenwald-vs-frank-gaffney-on-hardball?utm_source=rgemail
A takedown worthy of our Glenn.
Karen M, if you are reading, this is who we should be submitting our video ideas to.
And what does everyone suppose is up with Matthew's latent gonadal surge?
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Karen M
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have supported Greenwald's work by purchasing his videos and making donations. While I haven't spent a lot of time on his website, I seem to recall him being open to suggestions for new films. I believe he would be very receptive to ideas from this group. Lots of 'smarts' hanging about here, fer sure.
Have a safe and enjoyable trip.
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Done deal
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]And worth every penny.
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SusanMc
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jon's "book report" on tonight's Daily Show was about the best thing ever. Matthew's attempted defense of form over substance was pretty well ripped to shreds, I'd say.
Will have to check that out tonight (we Tivo it as I just can't stay awake that late on a work night). Thanks for the heads up.
It is just really strange how Matthews can be all over the map in such a short time. Makes me wonder if he doesn't just channel whatever attitude his guest brings to the program. I don't watch him all that much, so this is just a very casual observation on my part.
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KarenM
[Read the article: Adam Smith and the village's amusement at war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with the multiple posters here who want you to know how valuable your contribution to this forum is. I am hoping that this absence is just due to your trip and not a more permanent departure.
We still have video ideas to discuss!
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Flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Often when I read here I mistake it for the Andy Goldsworth site.
Goldsworthy's art often include brightly-coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. He has been quoted as saying, "I think it's incredibly brave to be working flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole."
I see the resemblance.
Post's @ GG's milkweed chrysalis web.
Future butterflies?