Letters to the Editor
Daniel_28
Published Letters: 224 Editor's Choice: 8
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RealName
[Read the article: Injured troops shipped back into battle]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You sure are giving me some good practice on my irony/hypocrisy confusion.
You spent an entire thread explaining why wlaking wounded soldiers should be sent back to work, then when asked why you haven't served, you play the sick/injured card.
That is priceless. You guys are frickin hilarious.
Are you still going to refuse to answer the questions posed by Anonymous and fall into that "control freak" category you labeled upon others like you?
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Hey RealName
[Read the article: Iraq: Why the media failed]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does it piss you off that people who have criticisms to make against Israel no longer give a shit about being called an anti-semite, but rather simply continue to engage?
The gall of these people! You respond to their comments against the Israeli lobby by calling them racists and it doesn't shut them up. It's almost like they expect people to engage them in honest debate or something.
I mean it's not like they're questioning the arab, buddhist, or christian nation lobbying efforts. It's almost like they think it is legal to criticize Israel.
I'm with you. What a bunch of clueless morons.
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It's Only Silly if Taken the Wrong Way
[Read the article: Maybe his wives always did the shopping]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Asking the question to prominent politicians/candidates is a good way to shed light on the problem a previous letter writer detailed; price of consumer goods outpacing inflationary (deflationary) wages. It doesn't say much about a candidates ability though.
A smart candidate would answer as such as well and say, "I certainly cannot quote the exact price of those very specific items, but I am familiar with the economic anomaly regarding the price of consumer goods...wages...oil prices...blah blah blah"
Remember that dialogue from the movie Rain Man where they kept asking Ray how much things cost? "About a hundred dollars" was always his response (candy bar, new car, etc).
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RealName...I Disagree Again
[Read the article: Iraq: Why the media failed]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You stated, "Even here at Self Anointed Central - it's 95% yelling and agitprop to an audience that already decided that they will identify and agree strenuously with whatever a given author has to say, before they hear it. And woe to him or her who dares not slavishly toe the line."
Perhaps it is YOU who is rigid in your thinking and creating self-fulfilling prophecies. What percentage of the letters agree straenuously with the author? Honestly? I'm not going to count, but I didn't float a flawed hypothesis.
Take the first paragraph in the 4th letter of this 27 page thread. It says, "While I agree wholeheartedly with Kamiya's essential restating of the arguments in Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" I must point out one weakness in the logic of the article." Does this reader "agree strenuously" with the author? Even this minor objection stating flawed logic to an agreed theory doesn't fly in right wing world. And what did he get for his failure to toe the complete line? An editors choice notation.
Other subject lines from editor's choice letters:
"No Gary, the media has not improved"
"Good Article, but misses some issues"
"Stop blaming the media"
Objectors of ANY kind do not even get a voice in right wing world, let alone props from the editors.
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If that spending bill was signed today....
[Read the article: "Some very thoughtless person"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it would have been done much sooner than it was under the past two Republican lead Congressional sessions.
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NOT standing by the current spending bill is political suicide
[Read the article: Is cutting off war funding political suicide?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]if Bush vetos it, he gets nothing. End of story. It's the right thing to do in regard to the war, and it ends Bush's presidency and Republicans will not see anyone in the White House for a long time.
To cave-in is the political answer. To stand by their principle is pragmatic.
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Poor John
[Read the article: John McCain: Bush's echo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He has become that pathetic nerd in junior high following around the guy who was most popular two years ago, but that guy's schtick is soooooo last year.
In other words, he is so enamored with how Bush whipped his pathetic ass, that he's doing everything he can to emmulate the guy, not even realizing how the entire country now hates Bush.
The guy is beyond pahetic. It's sad. Really.
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I ask this everytime I see one of these stories....
[Read the article: Yeah, that's the ticket]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is THIS what they meant when the said they were going to bring honesty and integrity back to the White House?
If we had real people instead of presstitutes as White House correspondents, they'd ask the same thing.
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One thing is for sure
[Read the article: Dana Perino has very large hands]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you can bet your sweet ass that she wasn't lying when she said they have a "forensic" team on the case.
As far as finding the actual e-mails, I bet they get as far as O.J. has in looking for the real killers of Ron and Nicole.
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"To my knowledge, I did not make decisions about who should or should not be asked to resign."
[Read the article: It wasn't me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That sentence alone should be cause for dismissing or impeaching him. There are only two reasons he will not explicitly say he was not the one who made the decisions:
First, he- like everyone else in the amdinistration- is unwilling to accept accountability.
And secondly, he thinks he is somehow protecting the White House knowing full well the firings were based on their direct orders.
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HOW DARE YOU, TIM !!!!!!
[Read the article: From Blacksburg to Baghdad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How dare you compare the importance of an American life versus that of the life of an Iraqi citizen. Anyone with a brain (or a heart) knows that an American life is 1000 times more valuable!
The only time we care about Iraqis is when we are trying to justify a war our beloved George W. Bush has started. But even then it is obvious we don't mean it; "Of course we had to overthrow Saddam. He was massacring his own people. The Iraqi people whose lives mean so much to us." That kind of thing...blah blah blah
Sincerely,
Republicans
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Does anyone still wonder?
[Read the article: The U.S. attorneys scandal gets dirty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does anybody still wonder why 19 idiots with box cutters were allowed to kill nearly 3,000 of our citizens despite the amount of evidence pointing to their plot?
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Deadhead is dead-on
[Read the article: Bubble or bunker?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There should be headlines that say, "Republican Senators call for Bush's Resignation"
Multiple Republican members of Congress have called for Gonzales to resign for what has taken place. Bush clearly states that he 100% approves of what took place as well as the Attorney General's response and testimony. Therefore, by extension, those same members of Congress should be asking Bush to resign.