Letters to the Editor
Red Snapper
Published Letters: 66
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Diana W.
[Read the article: On Wright, Bill Kristol's wrong again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why does this man still have a job? He and Chris Matthews desperately need to retire and turn the reins over to people who are younger and smarter.
What? Bill's not stupid. He doesn't spew this nonsense because he doesn't know (or suspect) the truth! He lies because it benefits him to do so. And since the only people who ever call him on his lies and errors and misstatements are dirty hippies, who cares what they think? They're not serious, important, respectable people, so Bill (and the NYT, regrettably ) couldn't care less.
He just says whatever he wants, because he can. Same as Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and all of them really.
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Attention Alex Koppelman
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why? Why would you make this the Quote of the Day? That quote isn't even the most insane thing I've read in the last hour, let alone all day. There are surely *thousands* of insane wingnut rantings on all sorts of topics out there now. Are you going to post all of them?
Gosh, I'm sorry about dumping on you like this, but the War Room has really gone downhill under your tenure. I come here for the news and stay for the comments, or at least I used to...
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Bias
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's long strange journey on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"For every Obama supporter I consider an Obamaton (they're out there), there are many others who decided with integrity that they simply could not support Clinton because of that Iraq vote and her failure to adequately lament it.
So Obama supporters have no integrity? I know this was probably more of an unfortunate phrasing than insult, but it is somewhat revealing.
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I submitted a question to Kurtz
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Although I neglected to copy it to my clipboard before I hit submit. D'oh! I'd love to see him innundated with inquiries into this topic. See if he's shameless enough to ignore it. I've got $10 Can. that says he is!!!1!
I, too, wonder how they justify it to themselves in a way that preserves their dignity. Really I can't imagine.
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Scientician
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, no bet then? Just kidding.
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I LOVED IT!
[Read the article: Hallelujah, it's raining McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It went from great to awful to awesome. I'd love to watch McCain's face as he watched this. Priceless.
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Kurtz responds!
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not to my inquiry, but still:
Acton, Mass.: Mr Kurtz, you have written about McCain's "gaffe of saying Iran was training al-Qaeda operatives, which the senator corrected a moment later." But McCain previously made that statement at least three times on his trip without correction. It is clear that this represents a severe policy misconception on McCain's part, not just a one-time "gaffe." So why are you (and the media in general) playing this as just a slip of the tongue?
Howard Kurtz: I was just recounting what happened. The fact that McCain has made this "mistake" before suggests that either that he believes Iran is actually training al-Qaeda operatives or is not being very careful about sticking to established facts.
Yeah. He's either ignorant or sloppy. No biggie. He's only running for President.
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Kurtz again!
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Minneapolis: If McCain is gaffe-prone or playing loose with the facts on Iran and al-Qaeda, who's calling him on it? Where's the saturation coverage of this that we would see if Clinton or Obama made such a statement? Where's Howard Kurtz leading his columns with it for multiple days?
Howard Kurtz: I have read numerous articles about McCain's mistake (The Post dealt with it again yesterday in a review of his trip abroad) and seen it debated on television as well. One reason it's not getting "saturation" coverage is that so much media attention is focused on the Clinton-Obama race that McCain, with the nomination in his pocket, has receded. This helps him a bit when he screws up, as he did in this case, but probably hurts him more in that he's not much in the news while the Democrats dominate the coverage.
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Portland, Ore.: If John McCain "believes Iran is actually training al-Qaeda operatives or is not being very careful about sticking to established facts," then why does he have a reputation as someone who knows what he's talking about, or as a "straight talker"? What, exactly, is his "bank" of foreign policy experience based on? And is simply having opinions on foreign policy -- even if they're blatantly incorrect -- a reasonable bar for the media to claim that someone has "foreign policy experience"?
Howard Kurtz: You're welcome to criticize McCain's foreign policy views, but I think to say he doesn't have experience in this area is simply not true. He has more than Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush combined when they were presidential candidates. He led a Navy squadron during the Vietnam War. He's been in the forefront of national security debates for two decades. He just completed his eighth visit to Iraq. He was a major proponent of the surge. Now experience isn't everything, as Obama frequently points out, citing the very experienced Cheney and Rumsfeld and how they botched the war. But McCain is not a newcomer to these matters.
Yes, he's been wrong for a long time, he's no newbie (scoff!)
I'm speechless.
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Good Celery
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not that it matters, but I'm a she.
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Maybe she lied.
[Read the article: "It is possible ... that she misspoke"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps she's so desperate to win that she'll say or do anything.
Just a thought.
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Whither Anti War?
[Read the article: The ongoing exclusion of war opponents from the Iraq debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyway, I just heard from Karl Rove that a majority of Americans want to *stay in Iraq forever*!! So, it's settled, then. It's so much easier when Republicans sort out my thoughts for me.
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It's all about "Gratitude"
[Read the article: What can and cannot be spoken on television]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those Iraqis are just as ungrateful as black people, it seems.
Presumably Iraqis and black people (and untold others) should be on their knees thanking GWB and America for their "freedoms". America has given Iraq DEMOCRACY and the least they could do is not complain about the bombs, torture, hardships and filth.
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Doesn't matter till the General
[Read the article: Bush and McCain's shared foreign policy approach]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's good that Glenn is documenting this stuff now, of course, but McCain's positions on anything don't matter until the Dems pick a candidate.
Also: Jonah Goldberg? Isn't he the one the Internet calls the Doughy Pantload? Nice.