Letters to the Editor
WeikuBoy
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 62
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Good Morning, Baghdad
[Read the article: The people who claim "the surge is working"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The U.S. won the war in Vietnam every day for ten years, until it, too, was finally lost.
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Endure Your Freedom
[Read the article: The people who claim "the surge is working"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I believe Congressman Pence, R-Jesusland, is correct that a great many Iraqi survivors, with tears in their eyes, will indeed never forget what America has done there.
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With Friends Like That
[Read the article: The real Fox News Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Cokie" Roberts is now a liberal. OMG, thanks for making me laugh two days in a row!
Actually, Glenn Greenwald and his readers have done a good job recently of pointing out the difference between being fair and balanced, on the one hand, and reporting the truth, on the other. When John "Neverland Express" McCain claims that it is safe for "you and I" to stroll through Baghdad, is it the job of serious media to simply report his absurd claim, perhaps dutifully noting that "some Democrats disagree"? Or is it the job of serious media to note that such a claim is ludicrous, as in fact was shown to be the case only days later, when it took 100 armed U.S. soldiers and several helicpoters circling above to make their "stroll" possible? I want (and can handle) the truth, not balance for the sake of balance, as with the U.S. media's insistence on presenting the GOP/corporate "counter-arguments" to evolution and global warming long after international scientific consensus was reached.
The fact is, the U.S. corporate media has backed the Bush-Cheney regime for so long and so hard that whenever it simply reports the truth (and only the truth, without the GOP spin) it indeed now seems like a partisan shift away from the GOP in favor of Dems.
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Saint Reagan & Peggy Noonan's Love Child?
[Read the article: The real Fox News Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me get this straight: you imagine Cokie Roberts to be a liberal, despite her odious conservative views, because (wait for it) . . . . . . her parents were Southern Democrats? (And in the century or so after the Civil War, when no self-respecting white Southerner would dare join the party of Lincoln and Reconstruction, no less. Suh Ahh do declare.) Well, I call bullshit (or . . . elephant dung)! What a dishonest argument. Unless . . .
Unless Elephant Dung is classifying liberals today not by the content of their views but according to a Jim Crow-like measure of their ancestry. In this novel calculation, does even one-sixteenth "Democrat" ancestry today a token liberal make? What nonsense.
On the other hand, you did succeed in hijacking the discussion from what to do about Faux's overt pro-GOP bias to what to do about the problem (if any) of NPR's imagined liberal bias. And that is what this was really all about, isn't it.
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Ed TV
[Read the article: The real Fox News Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Elephant Dung ("Ed"), thanks for clarifying. You did not say Cokie Roberts is a liberal who must be offset by a conservative because her parents were Southen Democrats in an age when no self-respecting white Southerners would join the party of Lincoln. No, what you actually said was that Cokie Roberts is a Democrat (who must be offset by a conservative) because her parents were Southern Democrats in an age when no self-respecting white Southerner would join the party of Lincoln (see: Miller, Zell). I get it. And I call bullshit.
Ed, I'll be sure to hop to your request for research, as you have so respectfully responded to my questions and acknowledged my arguments. In the meantime, it just occurred to me to ask, when you so-called republicans (who hate the republic) are finally able to execute your plan of sending ALL the lib traitors to Gitmo, will we be judged according to your one-sixteenth ancestry test. I.e., citizens who have even one-sixteenth "Democrat" ancestry will be rendered politically mute once and for all, till no one questions the unitary executive.
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With Libs Like Cokie, Who Needs Neocons?
[Read the article: The real Fox News Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been out of action for 24 hours due to technical difficulties. Here at Ed's request are my belated examples of Cokie Roberts parroting GOP talking points. Bad move, by the way, Ed, hitching your argument to Cokie's imaginary "liberal-ness".
1. 08/06/06 "This Week" on ABC: A victory by Ned Lamont in CT over Joe Lieberman would "push the party to the left" and be "a disaster for the Democratic Party" because anti-occupation sentiment "plays to the base." Sam Donaldson pointed out that opposition to the occupation, "at this point, it's playing to the country."
2. 08/14/06 "Morning Edition" on NPR: "al-Qaeda types who want to break the will of the American people is [sic] encouraged by [Ned Lamont's] victory."
3. 10/10/04 "This Week" on ABC: "I think if George Bush could go around the country and meet 290 million Americans, he could win." And ". . . after the debate . . . the people who had asked the questions all gathered around George Bush, and Kerry was kind of by himself over here." [video replay clearly showed otherwise]
Those are just three examples from Media Matters. Their list would was longer. My own list, if I cared to take the time to go through her "This Week" transcripts, would be different. But the point is made, that with "liberals" like her (because, accoording to Ed, her parents were Southern Democrats at a time when ALL white Southerners were Democrats) parroting GOP talking points, who needs conservatives?
I will stipulate that Cokie Roberts is probably not a cool-aid drinking neocon, just a average person of mediocre talent who like so many others in the corporate media got where she is because of who her parents were, and makes a very nice living safely repeating GOP talking points. Which largely sums up the corporate media -- except for Faux, which by its own admission actively seeks ways to help the GOP, promote its idiotic wars and/or make Dems look bad.
As for NPR, your tirade does not interest me, as the subject of this article and thread is what to do about Faux News and its proven, admitted overt pro-GOP bias.