Letters to the Editor
thelastnamechosen
Published Letters: 162
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The number you have reached...
[Read the article: Michael Mukasey's tearful lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"We knew that there has been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went."
This sounds to me like they did intercept the call. I think they are bringing this up now because they finally got it translated.
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Pull a string and the sweater unravels
[Read the article: Michael Mukasey's tearful lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of the reasons congress and the media have been so slow to address Iraq, the surveillance state, torture, rendition and all of the other fun we have been having is that all roads lead back to 9/11 and nobody wants to touch it with a ten foot pole.
If we are afraid to get involved with 9/11 because of fear that it will bring out the the demolitionists, sincere or provocateurs, or we will be branded conspiracy buffs and marginalized, or simply because we are afraid what we might find then we will never make any real traction on any of the other issues.
It is easy to call congress and the media cowards when we look at these issues in isolation but we are scared shitless of 9/11 and our legislators and journalists are just following our lead.
I know the Bush administration isn't afraid of 9/11 and it is their trump card on every other issue.
I am scared shitless. I use FISA as my isolation tank. I can feel like I am doing something without really messing up my hair. One of these days I will grow tired of the smell of my own urine. One of these days.
Off to do more laundry.
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Ad - When parody and reality become one is it still funny?
[Read the article: Michael Mukasey's tearful lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I will concur that the ad copy is WAY too long. The best political hit ads use a very small amount of words to force the victim to use a very large amount of words to explain their position. You want to communicate as much of your message as possible using symbolism. Make it 15 seconds long and pound the hell out of it.
[Father at the kitchen table with his son. Positioning suggest a teacher/student moment. Generations are seen in background photos. We see that the father is talking to his son. We cannot yet hear the conversation.]
[Voiceover]
Doing the right might not always be easy, but it isn't complicated.[Father]
Lying, cheating and stealing are wrong son. My father taught me these values and I am going to pass them on to you.[Unflattering picture of the $VICTIM]
[Voiceover]
The big phone companies got caught cheating Americans and $VICTIM wants to take money from the taxpayers so the phone companies won't have to pay the bill for spying on Americans.[Fade to black background with the same slogan knocked out in white with a font that suggests continuity and some nice tight kerning.]
[Voiceover]By teaching our politicians the values we teach our children, we will always teach American values.
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Seriously
[Read the article: Why doesn't the 9/11 Commission know about Mukasey's 9/11 story?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Serious people don't talk about 9/11.