Letters to the Editor
Tone in DC
Published Letters: 135
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G. Greenwald in en fuego
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, great post. Thanks for all you've done to keep these cretins honest.
Speaking of cretins, one wonders why Sh**ter and ER haven't tried to spin this yet. Or maybe Ms. Schrier will show up, to remind us all of our stupefyingly inadequate cognitive processes.
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The Post WAS a quality paper
[Read the article: High standards at the Washington Post Op-Ed page]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Yesterday on The McLaughlin Group, Monica Crowley said that Obama's harsh response to Bush's speech in Israel showed that Obama was thin-skinned, and therefore "a girly man." Gender bending has always been a central line of Republican attack, but their desperation will make it much more explicit this year. Buckle your seatbelt.-
The irony is too much....
Republicans projecting 'gay' and effeminate and weak on the Democrats while their own are arrested weekly in diapers, panties, whorehouses, park washrooms soliciting undercover cops, followed by a press conference where they cry with their wife standing by and say they are sorry.
-- Northwestwoods
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Amen to that, NW Woods.
I used to respect the Washington Post. That was a quite a while ago. My hometown paper now sponsors and promotes this kind of disgusting tripe.
Glenn, great post.
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Rove does what he does
[Read the article: How Karl Rove played politics while people drowned]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Only a life form as disgusting as Rove would try to make death, destruction and tragedy a political issue.
Every so often, someone from Dubya's administration (or its enablers) says or does something so reprehensible that I can only shake my head. I don't call them names at this point. I just understand who (or more accurately, what) I am dealing with.
Bush has acted the same way his entire life. Nothing is ever his fault or his responsibility. Ask S. McClellan. Ask V. Plame-Wilson. Ask D. Iglesias.
Ask the Republicans who have seen their party's election year chances decimated by the loyal Bushies and their utter inability to govern the nation.
Great post.
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Broder is as reprehensible as Krauthammer and Gerson
[Read the article: David Broder: Embodiment of Beltway values]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...not to mention G. Will and F. Hiatt.
The myopic vision and the blatant double standard of the M$M is so obvious that Jeff Healey and Stevie Wonder can see it. That Clinton, and that horrible oral sex! Oh the humanity!
Wars that kill hundreds of thousands? Not so controversial.
Maybe Olbermann, Colbert or J. Stewart could interview Dean Broder, and sarcastically debunk his sound and fury.
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It is the Damndest thing
[Read the article: Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...how these neo-con apologists just KNOW that ALL of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay are guilty. Not only are they experts in jurisprudence, they are clairvoyant!
Enough. Even John Ashcroft knew Bush's policy was bullshit. And he's the most competent AG of the last seven years, hands down.
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Hoyer is a ho
[Read the article: George Bush's latest powers, courtesy of the Democratic Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...just like those prostitutes on 14th Street, NW. The difference is, no one expects the girls in skimpy halters and pink hotpants to run this country.
Blunderdog, I admit I am angry enough to resort to violence if this bill becomes law in its current form. It won't solve the problem, though. And no one needs to get shot.
IANAL, but this immunity law seems blatantly unconstitutional. If Justice Kennedy (of all people) can see that habeas corpus needed to be preserved, then he and the four who voted with him on that case should be able to see this bill as the sordid attempt at whitewashing that it is.
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Re: testing gravity
[Read the article: Time magazine uncritically prints Nancy Pelosi's "justifications" for the FISA "compromise"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People who think Gravity is only a theory are welcome to defenestrate themselves from any tall building to test it.
-- L.W.M.
[Read L.W.M.'s other letters]
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LWM:
Perhaps these skeptical folks could do so in Prague!
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This really getting tired
[Read the article: Slamming Wesley Clark]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am disgusted by this phenomenon. A certain candidate's backers say or do something that some other candidate's fans think is wrong or in poor taste, and then this incident is used to heap scorn upon the first candidate.
WHATEVER. What I understand that Senator Obama cannot control what some of his supporters say. Funny thing, that. According to some people, he apparently should be able to magically rein in thousands of people (if not more), some of whom CNN staff want to wave their microphones in front of.
This is as tired as the critique regarding why didn't Obama criticize the media's sexism more than he did. Here's my opinion: a strong woman like Hillary doesn't need him to take up for her. If some guy has to go on about the media's mistreatment of Hillacious, then let Bill be that guy.
Could the reason Obama didn't rail against the press' treatment of HRC be because he's a candidate, not a pundit?
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Rose colored glasses...
[Read the article: The Obama campaign's past two weeks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I haven't worn mine for a while.
As another comment pointed out, the initial and subsequent repudiations of Reverend Wright by the BarackStar were telling. Obama threw his fire and brimstone pastor under the bus very quickly, and in a very public way. I agree with Jeremiah Wright far more than I disagree with him, and I respect his bluntness. Such a pusillanimous reaction by the nominee-to-be was unwarranted. Let the manufactured scandal of J. Wright's sermons cause many Fox News bloviators to lose their lunch. Billo, Hannity and many of their cronies could stand to drop a few pounds.
Many of us liberals/progressives have been (and a significant number still are) supporting a POLITICIAN. The number of DC politicians who actually have convictions and actually adhere to these convictions total between four and ten, in my humble opinion: Kucinich, Ron Paul, Feingold, Dodd, Darcy Burner, Donna Edwards and Gravel. Maybe a few others.
Is Obama a better candidate than McSame? Definitely. Is he more intelligent than any of the high profile Republicans? Yes. Is he the Second Coming? Uh, no.
Glenn's right to stay on the nominee's case. GG's doggedness helps keep us informed. And keeps me from donning those glasses.
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I never played baseball...
[Read the article: For the sake of the girl with the beautiful swing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In school or afterwards. Still, I can picture a day like the one described here. The Charles moving past in the distance, rolling hills of Essex county in the foreground.