Letters to the Editor
Jayman
Published Letters: 41
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Daily Blogs
[Read the article: Goodbye to Audiofile]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are obviously too busy to write a daily column. (Jab)
I could care less about audiofile, really. What I do care about is the Constitution. Please run articles that explain the uses the framers of that document meant for impeachment.
You are the new media. You are now in the unenviable position of having to balance the MSM's deraliction of duty. When the Executive Branch and the Congress fail to address the misuse of power and the breaking of laws by our leaders, you, the honest journalists have to pick up the mantle.
The men who created our government expected the press to expose this kind of lawlessness. Impeachment is not a dirty word and cannot legally be left off the table by the Congress. It is in the Constitution six times. It is the ONLY way we can reclaim our democracy from these monarchical ideologes.
We, the people, demand to know why these men, even when everyone knows they have broken our laws, continue to get away with it.
As John From Cincinnati would say, "I got my eye on you, Joan!"
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"Their wrongdoing is extreme, and only equally extreme corrective measures will suffice."
[Read the article: Bush's magical shield from criminal prosecution]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can say it, you must say it: Impeachment
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Democracy NOT
[Read the article: The New York Times misses the CNN/YouTube debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Though I like totally agree, the NYT's has it's collective head in the sand or up it's collective corporate colon--the YouTube Debate was the same kind of fraud that YouTube itself is. (I have an account on YouTube) Neither is democratic, both are corporate controlled, both use predominantly sex to amass viewers and both pretend they allow the "people" decide what is seen.
It was CNN that decided which of the 3000+ questions were used and how they were used (incredibly poorly for something scripted as John Stewart easily satirized).
These are not debates. They are question and answer shows that seldom give us anything substantive. These are the parties’ and the media corporations’ creations and do us very little good.
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Camille
[Read the article: Art movies: R.I.P.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First, I couldn't read anything but the title, I do so Not enjoy her writing and for the life of me cannot figure out why she is here.
Second, the medium of moving pictures is changing much faster than she can recognize, her Professordome seems only to insulate her from those changes. Art movies are not the least bit dead, in fact they are growing asymptotically.
If Camille is here because she is edgy, is that really something this venue needs? Wars, healthcare, Corporationism, etc. are all the edge I need, thank you.
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Dead Soldiers' Bodies
[Read the article: Hey, senators, condemn this]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The bodies should be stacked in front of Congress so they would have to see what they pay our money for.
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The Future
[Read the article: Our rosy future, according to Freeman Dyson]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We don't know what we don't know. The future's not ours to see, que Sera Sera, no matter how smart we think we are or how smart someone else seems to be. Since we will all soon die, nothing is really all that dangerous. Since I know I am wrong about everything, it makes it much easier to not believe anyone else.
The future is a waste of now. Rosy that.
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Watch For Parking Meters
[Read the article: Reid and company target the true enemy: "Dodd and his allies"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In a Representative Democracy we elect "Representatives" not leaders. They are supposed to represent their constituents’ desires and not "lead" them to their own.
Most of us are now aware of who congress actually represents.
Like John Edwards says, to really change things will take a war (actually just the continuation of our country's long history of battling those who would pervert the Constitution and take the power it guarantees American citizens..
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John King
[Read the article: CNN's John King responds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My opinion of John King was solidified when he appeared on The Daily Show. He will never be fired for saying anything his trainers object to. He will never, ever have an Imus moment—because he will never be hired as a journalist by anyone but a media conglomerate corporation.
King is to journalism what margarine is to dairy products; it looks similar and appears when the real thing should appear, but it just is not made from the real stuff.
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Bill
[Read the article: Update: Michelle Obama disagrees with me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Depression has filled our home. I am having a hard time watching John Edwards be ignored when we really need his vision and clarity about corporations and their lobbyists. Believe me, I am with John Lennon when he pointed out that women are the nigers of the world, but I cannot listen to Hillary. My animal male brain just recoils from her voice.
But my wife is so disappointed with Bill. She is depressed by his willingness to do or say anything to get back in power.
I am not sure anything or anyone can stop this country from disintegrating, but we should give it a try and Bill and Hillary evidently will do and say anything to keep the game theirs.
Bill Clinton's ability to twist anything anyone says is amazing and terrible. Hopefully it will not work.
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Cal E For KNEE YA
[Read the article: Obama and race in California]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'--Bob Dylan
That now includes journalists.
I am 59 and still young enough to feel the wind
Californians watch national TV, they are not immune
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How She Won
[Read the article: Should Florida and Michigan vote again? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Soft sell: SNL and The Daily Show media blitz
Hard sell: The Canada NAFTA story, still unfolding, was lied about. That was a BIG deal in Ohio.
Why she will lose it: She had been running for Prez since she started running for the Senate. She voted against the interests of her party and positioned herself as a hawk for the general election.
I believe many Democrats feel the way I do; we felt sorry for her before last Tuesday--having run into a much better candidate with a real message of change and hope. But after the last two weeks of Rovian politics we are no longer sorry for her, we are disgusted with her. She has divided us to win. If she wins we lose.