Letters to the Editor
Susan Wood
Published Letters: 379 Editor's Choice: 27
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I love Rudy's plan for improving America's image in the world
[Read the article: Tom Friedman and Rudy Giuliani on 9/11]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]by threatening diplomats with "consequences" if they don't deliver the love he thinks we deserve from other countries.
Does this man understand that "daily floggings will continue until morale improves" is supposed to be a joke? Or is he planning to inscribe it on the Great Seal of the United States, in place of "E Pluribus Unum?"
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Maybe he was thinking of the Royal Family's marital track record.
[Read the article: Brian Williams: "Marriage is under attack"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As I recall, marriage was "under attack" from none other than Elizabeth herself, early on in her reign, when she prevented her own sister from marrying the man she loved because he was divorced, and the Church of England didn't recognize divorce. Talk about what goes around coming around; not only did she live to see three of her own children get divorced, but she finally had to hold her nose and consent while the heir to the crown married a divorced slut, after committing adultery with her for years. The most exquisite irony is that the one Windsor who may actually manage to stay "married" is her gay son Edward, whose marriage is about as authentic as the power of the monarchy.
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If Congress had any balls,
[Read the article: McClellan implicates Bush, Cheney in Plame lie]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]they would subpoena this guy's ass and start impeachment proceedings. If this isn't a smoking gun, what is?
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We all know how conservatives believe in personal responsibility in health care.
[Read the article: Just one more reason to be thankful]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obviously, they want to give soldiers a motivation not to get wounded. See? It all makes perfect sense.
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TheKiddy, have you READ some of those articles about Clinton in the Times?
[Read the article: Clinton: I will be the nominee]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Maureen Dowd's column accounts for most of them, and they usually read something like this: "Meow, meow, HISSSS!" That is, when they don't read "Arf arf arf arf, growl, growl, whiiiiine, arf arf arf."
As for the exchange with Couric, yes of course it was Kabuki drama, a disingenuous answer to a disingenuous question, both of which were totally ritualistic and predictable. Clinton knows what can be done with a quote out of context. (Hillary: "Surge is working!" N.Y. Post) She's not going to do any hatchet-job-artist's job for her.
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Brunswick, you beat me to it.
[Read the article: "The mother of all photo ops"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is an unworthy thought, but I really wish that someone would re-enact a key scene from The Big Lebowski that involves that rug. Couldn't happen to a nicer phoney.
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Timbuktom
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My God, did Rove really say that? (That Congress "forced" Bush into the Iraq war?) If so, it's worse than a ridiculous lie, it's a recycled lie that didn't work the first time, when George H.W. Bush whined that Congress "forced" him to raise taxes. Truth is, he was practically on his knees begging them to suggest the idea, so that he wouldn't have to take the blame for it. And the Democrats, trusting as always, did suggest it, and he then blamed them. But having promised to stand up heroically to them no matter how hard they pushed, President Read My Lips didn't look very heroic no matter how hard he tried to pass the buck. It won't work for Little George either.
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Over at the Blog Report,
[Read the article: The surge is working! The surge is working!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you'll see that Michelle Malkin is all over this too. And no "clarifications" for her. Murtha has done a 180, seen the light, repented, and given his heart to Jesus Walker Bush. Since her blog allows comments only from paying subscribers, no one is challenging the official line; the echo chamber is reverberating louder and louder. Like the claim that "Gore said he invented the Internet," this one will be an article of faith with many people until their dying days, which unfortunately may come sooner than necessary if this administration keeps running amok.
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Virtue 001
[Read the article: National Review reporter caught fabricating; where is the "liberal media"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What baffles me about those of you who keep hammering on Beauchamp and Rathergate is that you have completely failed in both cases to prove that the information was fraudulent. You have found one documented inaccuracy in Beauchamp's accounts -- namely, the time and place of an incident he described about mocking a disfigured woman -- but on the other hand, TNR has found independent verification for the other anecdotes. In the meantime, the army cracked down on Beauchamp and demanded that he issue a "retraction," which I find about as factually convincing as a confession at a Stalin show trial. Meanwhile, Dan Rather is suing CBS for its treatment of him. The memos that he showed in the course of his story may or may not have been fakes, although you still haven't proved that they were, but the fact that Bush did not fulfill his National Guard duties is abundantly documented, as is the obviously preferential treatment he received before, during and after his "service."
Basically, you guys have settled on a predictable formula. Any story that in any way embarrasses the pro-war, pro-Bush crowd is immediately attacked as fraudulent, and then you demand that the other side prove a negative, which as we all know is impossible. Meanwhile, as Greenwald points out, National Review prints brazen lies, knowing that the liberal press is too busy answering all of their baseless accusations of "forgeries" to confront the right's big-lie tactics.
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It isn't that kids don't know how to use condoms.
[Read the article: Teen pregnancy: It's baaaack]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's that the abstinence-only crowd has repeatedly told them that condoms are hopelessly ineffective. The people pushing this message think it will scare kids out of having sex. What it accomplishes instead is to convince them that they might as well not bother with condoms.
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@Robert Franklin
[Read the article: "Oh, Dana"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They are NOT peasants! They're Hapsburg idiots, produced by generations of imprudent aristocratic inbreeding to have enormous jaws and microscopic brains. If peasants were that dumb, in the words of Bernard Shaw's "St. Joan," "there would soon be no wheat to make bread for you."
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Why?
[Read the article: Feel the love]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because he'd be too busy rolling on the floor in hysterics for a few minutes before he could discuss the possibility?
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Where is Michael Rennie when we really need him?
[Read the article: Desperate times, desperate scientists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If some wise, reasonable alien just popped by with a menacing robot, long enough to shut off all our man-made power sources for a half hour or so, that might get everyone's attention long enough to stop the political squabbling over this and get people to realize that they actually have to do something. Klaatu barada nikto. Cue the theremin.