Letters to the Editor
EMStoveken
Published Letters: 339 Editor's Choice: 42
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What a bizarre and specious argument
[Read the article: Is Rush Limbaugh next?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So let me see if I have this straight: because community activtists got bent out of shape about a lame yet incendiary comment and set in motion the free market machinery that led a large right-leaning corporation to fire a controversial windbag, leftists in government are planning on reviving a primitive form of the Equal Time rule?
This makes no sense. It's not as if people were requiring Imus to call the Yale crew team a bunch of "Koppel-coiffed crackers". They were protesting the perceived inflamatory language. The Fairness Doctrine primarily requires a balance in the views presented; a mandated point-counterpoint format.
Besides, Imus is not a conservative pundit. He's a shock jock with an ersatz Libertarian streak.
Furthermore those who are identified as being on "the left" should be flattered by these lunatics' faith in the vast conspiratorial powers of Democrats and activists, and right-wingers should be embarrassed that these theories are coming out of some of their most prominent "think" tanks
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Beautiful!
[Read the article: The U.S. attorneys scandal gets dirty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love it when the facts of a situation directly contradict the attempted spin placed on them. The one US Attorney who was actually protecting the community with re: to the oh so horrid life-destroying blight of consensual adult pornography is one of the attorneys fired.
The spam case (assuming that what is meant here is the unsolicited distribution of actual porn via indiscriminate mass email) is the only so-called obscenity case that addresses the possible infliction of sexual images on an unsuspecting and non-consenting public. Every other case is trying to determine if the legally created images that a person enjoys in the privacy of their own home would offend the community at large.
These types of obscenity cases leave a wide open door for additional censorship efforts on similar grounds. If a vocal contingent of evangelicals can get the Harry Potter books banned for allegedly promoting witchcraft, what would be the fate of actual Pagans who have books on their actual religion? I've lived in areas where Fahrenheit 451 was forcibly removed from school libraries (without a trace of irony, at that). What would think of my library of books on anarchist theory?
But I digress. Considering the track record of Arizona US Attorney's office, if Gonzalez tries to use the porn issue as a building block of his "no improper reason" defense, he will have some difficult explaining to do.
Does anyone remember a time when being a Conservative meant that you thought the role of government in fiddling with the lives of citizens should be kept to a bare minimum? More and more the movement has been hijacked by these Social Conservatives file all the wrongs in the world under the same umbrella of "Immorality" with no distinction made between admiring the naked human form and sexually preying on children.
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Absurdist Theatre on Capital Hill
[Read the article: The attorney general takes cover]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I really wish we could hear the questions that the Great Gazoo is whispering in Al's ear, because he sure as heck doesn't appear to be answering the ones that the Senators are asking.
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Astounding
[Read the article: GOP senator calls for Gonzales' resignation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We wonder why people testifying before congress time and again fall back on nonsensical obfuscation? Because it works.
Here Gonzales is being asked a clear question. Why should we not hold you to the same apparent standards to which you held your attorneys?
Gonzales replies with platitudes that he made mistakes and acknowledges them, even going with the classic chestnut that "everyone makes mistakes." He never comes out and says, "I should not be held to those standards because . . . "
Meanwhile, the esteemed Senator refuses to pin him down or ask the obvious follow up: "Were the dismissed US Attorneys made aware of their mistakes, and given opportunity to acknowlegde them?" It is clear from what has come out that this was a complete blindside to the fired Attorneys, and so they were never given the chance that Gonzales has been given at almost every turn of this hearing.
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This man gives me a headache
[Read the article: "Make sure the rug says 'optimistic person comes to work'"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So the leader of a secular nation puts his "faith" (well documented as an armageddon loving form of fundamentalism) two full notches above his country.
It's amazing to be "a husband and then a dad as president of the United States" Did Laura give birth while he was in office? Considering when his presidency began, there is no sequence here, so he must be talking about prioritizing. So when we look at the Faith, Family, Country priotity list, we have to see that he considers himself to be:
1st - A Christian
2nd - A Husband
3rd - A Father
4th - Leader of the Free World
When asked the color rug he would like, he frets about that he lacks knowledge of "rug design"? Ah but he does want it to say "optimistic person comes to work" That statement doesn't scan and has got to be the most awkward possible way to convey the half-assed sentiment he's going for.
Incidentaly, I want a government program that gives me a dollar for every time the idiot child-emperor utters the phrase "In other words..." Just pick the right words the first time, you hack!
Well, he told us what victory does not mean "no suiciders[sic]" so . . . what does victory mean?
It is apparently a far finer thing to make your decisions on a consistent set of principles rather than on a consistent respect for pertinent facts and information.
How did this guy survive long enough to become president? Surely he should have stuck his tongue in a light socket by now.