Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 45
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Bring Back Competence
[Read the article: War Room contest: Pick the Democrats' bumper sticker]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some other ideas for the sticker:
Bring Back Competence
I'll drink beer with my friends, thanks
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The true problem with Vietnam
[Read the article: Bush on the lesson of Vietnam: Stay longer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Although the President's argument that we left Vietnam too early may seem to identify one of the problems with that war, one of the real problems is the lack of leadership we had in the Vietnam arena in the first place. Had we just had real men like George W., Cheney, and all the other true leaders and tough guys in the war theatre in the first place, we would have kicked the Viet Cong all the way back to China. Imagine if after his dentist appointment while ducking service from the war, the President would have taken his winning smile to the Mekong Delta, instead of having men like Kerry over there screwing things up? Imagine the nicknames of the men in company with W at the helm! It would have been over much sooner.
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Why CNN is changing
[Read the article: How our seedy, corrupt Washington establishment operates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is hard to believe that one of the basic tenets of journalism - follow the money, who is being paid by whom, etc. - being followed by CNN - FINALLY - is news. It has to do with this column. The earlier comment is right - Mr. Greenwald, your work is amazing and major media outlets are starting to catch on to the basics again. Keep dragging them along. This is nothing less than fighting disinformation at its most profound level in our democracy. I hope your work keeps inspiring a new level of journalism that is only a return to the basics since we've lost our way so badly.
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Craig could have blown the election
[Read the article: Larry Craig's bathroom behavior and the right wing -- then and now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The impeachment of Bill Clinton will be seen, in retrospect, as purely hypocritical politics from the likes of Craig, Gingrich, Foley, Vitter, Hyde, et. al. using a non-constitutional mechanism, an independent prosecutor, for political reasons. The dustbin of history awaits the "new Republicans" who will have had the Presidency for 20 of the last 28 years by election 2008. It's a long list that will go with them, and using sexual politics to fight the rights of gays or infer their party is the one with "family values" will be near the top. Most gays want rights to get health coverage and the other legal ramifications of a publicly-recognized, legal contract called a marriage or a union or ball and chain or whatever. That these hypocrites get exposed like this is a great day for the Republic.
I would also like some formal follow-up on the question of who Jeff Gannon, the gay escort cum reporter who visited the White House several times. Insert bush or a-roving joke here.
Glenn, I would buy a GG or G-squared t-shirt if you sold them.
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Tiberius and debates during wartime
[Read the article: Larry Craig's bathroom behavior and the right wing -- then and now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As they would say in the Roman Senate, if they dared speak up to the Emperor Tiberius: Dudici! Dude! You are proof that GG's supposition that debate during wartime is made suspect because we must all support the Leader, not question authority, "watch what we say" and in your case, write about what is more pressing - the SERIOUS WAR WE ARE IN. The right made family values the issue. The dustbin of history awaits you.
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The liberal media fails yet again, thanks Salon
[Read the article: Why bathroom sex is hot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This column is a grotesque example of how the liberal media defeats itself and hurts the advancement of true causes for the Democratic Party. Judith Miller takes disinformation from Cheney underlings, regurgitates it as Glenn Greenwald would say, and then Cheney cites the disinformation that even the opposition in the New York Times, not exactly a friendly paper, etc...
Here instead we have this cute winking story of a supposed "lifestyle" - it's HOT! the writer squeals - when the issue is serious misconduct and hypocrisy by a Republican senator whose party has denied rights to millions across the country who want to get married and have sex in their own houses with the person they love while both are covered by health insurance and have all the other benefits of marriage.
It's also another opportunity for the media to point out that the political aspirations of the Christian right are no different than the clerics in Iran wanting more power over the moderates there. There were 150 appointees to the Dept of Justice from Regent University, Pat Robertson's fourth-tier school whose alums go to Ivy League lawyers when they get in trouble. Think the DOJ underlings are going to seek out gay rights' cases as their priority? Think the Bible-thumping, family-values BS artist Larry Craig will be used by the liberal media and Democrats to say enough of the government in the bedroom? NOPE, we have to have this breezy bullshit article about what the vast majority of Americans would say is rightly illegal and sick.
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Who were they listening to?
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The average American will not care about this story until it is shown that the administration eavesdropped on political opponents and journalists. Otherwise most think that if you're listening for Osama bin Laden on the line, then go ahead...I have little doubt that the administration hacks were listening to campaign plans, etc. Why not? They tried to use US Attorneys to help with the elections and it's the only plausible reason why Congress cannot find out who was listened to and why. When that story breaks then most people will get it. Until then the knee-jerk reaction is we need to do this to listen for terrorists.
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My average American data
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GG - I have no claims on what the average American believes. I retract. I just want to know if they listened to political opponents, judges, reporters. I am willing to bet they have. It takes a lot to outrage people it seems to me, like there's a belief that if you're doing nothing wrong, why get worried about wiretaps...no need to ask who's defining what's wrong.
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book titles PICK ME!
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GG - can't wait for the book. Loved Tragic Legacy. Here's some ideas...went crazy on the subtitle.
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