Letters to the Editor
Worst. President. Ever.
Published Letters: 27
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Another corporation held hostage!!!!
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt's concern over "costly litigation" for AT&T and Verizon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/10/23/libertarians-are-the-true-social-parasites/
Libertarian CEO Matt Ridley is a free-market fundamentalist who is well-known all over the UK for his vitriolic anti-government newspaper columns and books.
Suddenly Matt's corporation, Northern Rock, is down 16 billion pounds.
So guess what happens next?
If your guess included the keywords "huge government bailout", go to the head of the class!
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Hey, Hiatt! If them corporations can't pay the lawyer's time, then don't do the crime!
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt's concern over "costly litigation" for AT&T and Verizon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder what Hiatt's reaction would be if I got caught sticking up the gas station.. then I told the cops not to press charges, because it would cost me too much for legal fees?
He'd be doubled over in laughter... which is exactly how I am with his idiotic suggestion.
This reminds me of the neocons here in Canada whenever there is an election (which according to our Parliamentary system here doesn't follow a regular 4-year timetable) they always start complaining about how expensive elections are.
And at any other time of year, you'll hear 'em complaining about how many politicians there are and how much they get paid.
Hey assholes, why don't we just find another Hitler or Stalin and we could eliminate all those unneccessary democracy costs altogether?
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Personally...
[Read the article: A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... I agree with previous posters who suggest that this letter may well be a hoax.
Glenn, is there any way of verifying more fully that it is really from Col. Boylan?
While I am well aware that the military has a definite 'slant to starboard', this letter is so unprofessional in its nastiness that I can't imagine any self-respecting PR hack actually staining his reputation by sending it.
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It would be better if neocons actually read about Churchill...
[Read the article: Hitlers, Hitlers and more Hitlers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pick up any actual history book about Churchill. I happen to have an excellent one here by William Manchester, "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill ALONE 1932-1940".
Good. Now, please turn to the page where Churchill ever proposed making a pre-emptive strike against Nazi Germany.
You can't find that page?
Well, my wingnut friends, that's because there IS no such page.
Churchill NEVER proposed making a pre-emptive strike on Nazi Germany. This would have been an idiotically suicidal idea.
What Churchill DID advocate was that England and France should make a DEFENSIVE alliance with a well-armed Eastern nation, either Czechoslovakia or the USSR or both. This way, if Germany started a war, it would have to fight on two fronts as it did in 1914.
In other words, what Churchill proposed was NOT unilateral action, but quite the opposite.
Sadly, Churchill's proposals were ignored, and in 1938 Germany marched into Czechoslovakia unopposed, thus getting the Czechs' considerable arsenal cost-free.
Since Britain's Conservative government refused to entertain the idea of an alliance with the USSR, the USSR made its own non-aggression pact with Germany.
This guaranteed that Germany could go ahead and fight a single-front war against France and England as soon as it had finished off weakly-defended Poland.
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NYT article: notice Boylan's "spitting on the troops" meme?
[Read the article: Col. Boylan's implosion accelerates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is an old wingnut myth that has been thoroughly debunked by Dr. Jerry Lembke, a Vietnam veteran and Holy Cross sociology prof in his book"The Spitting Image".
Notice how Boylan creatively modified the myth so that now it is ungrateful Koreans who are the ones supposedly spitting on US soldiers.
OK, I was one of many commenters who initially cautioned Glenn that the real Col. Boylan wouldn't be so unprofessional as to write the first letter.
But the more we learn about him, the more he seems to exactly match the initial impression made by that first letter: a boorish righting moron who slings his horseshit quite readily until challenged on his facts... then mysteriously begins blowing smoke.
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The truth is....
[Read the article: Time magazine's FISA fiasco shows how Beltway reporters mislead the country]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... guys like Klein ain't hired to tell the truth, because their corporate bosses don't care about the truth.
What they care about is profits ie, selling advertising.
If anybody accidentally tells the truth in the process of selling the advertising, that is a completely accidental bonus.
As Jeb Bush said in 1986:
"The truth is useless. You have to understand this right now. You can't deposit the truth in a bank. You can't buy groceries with the truth. You can't pay rent with the truth. The truth is a useless commodity that will hang around your neck like an albatross -- all the way to the homeless shelter. And if you think that the million or so people in this country that are really interested in the truth about their government can support people who would tell them the truth, you got another think coming. Because the million or so people in this country that are truly interested in the truth don't have any money."
"Bushwhacked: Inside Stories of True Conspiracy" by Uri Dowbenko
New Improved Media Corporation
ISBN: 0971004218
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What does Joe have time for?
[Read the article: Joe Klein digs Time's hole deeper still]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joe only has enough time to accuse the Democrats of being foolish, and no more.
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What is the difference...
[Read the article: The fun and excitement of civilization wars (fought from afar)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... between the keyboard warriors who see "Islamofascism" as the greatest threat to our civilization, and the keyboard warriors who see BushCo, the MIC and rising domestic fascism as the greatest threat to our civilization?
Good question.
One group has a mania about Boogeymen.
The other group believes in the Fourth Amendment and wants to protect it from the Boogeyman-maniacs.
This group is aware that threats to the Constitution have traditionally come all wrapped up in Boogeyman-mania.
Case in point: the well-known boogeyman-maniac J. Edgar Hoover and his fascistic plan to junk habeas corpus and the fourth amendment to replace them with massive illegal detentions and kangaroo courts:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/washington/23habeas.html?ei=5090&en=51115b422df80200&ex=1356066000&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1203373411-ZkTSMxPHdCRWQ8cWN2VYgQ
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What a fucking liar.
[Read the article: McConnell/Mukasey: Eavesdropping outside of FISA is "illegal"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]President Bush on tape in 2004 election:
"Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires — a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists, we’re talking about getting a court order before we do so."
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/20/bush-caught-on-tape/