Letters to the Editor
anonxmous
Published Letters: 55
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Glenn ...
[Read the article: Response from ABC News re: the Saddam-anthrax reports]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... is a litigator, and a very good one, as this series shows. If ABC intends to continue tangling with him, they should assign one of their best litigators to the project. A PR flack isn't gonna cut it.
You go, Glenn!
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Wake me when it's over
[Read the article: Alberto Gonzales testifies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Between this and the sickening Gonzales v. Carhart, I've had my fill of lawyers and justice for the week. Except for you, Glenn, and yes, I know we need to pay attention. But I'm sitting this out. Ugh.
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Heckuva job, Bertie
[Read the article: Gonzales' Fan Club of One]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm looking forward to the confirmation hearings for the next USAG.
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Unhinged
[Read the article: Charles Krauthammer takes rank hypocrisy to new lows]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is completely off-topic. Has anyone noticed the recurrence of "unhinged" in today's letters and on Michelle Malkin's blog)? (Ah, Malkin! Shaskespeare ... well, never mind.) Does anyone else, on encountering the word "unhinged," immediately fixate on Morticia Addams's use of the word?
"Gomez, last night — you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me. [pause] Do it again!"
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Ah yes ...
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt and the "Triumphant Top Gun"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... who can forget Commander Codpiece, Chickenhawk-in-Chief? Good times, good times.
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Bashing
[Read the article: A beautiful mosaic of anti-blogger hatred]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"... now there is the whole blogosphere bashing us as well.
"Look, at this point, we're pretty well battered. We're losing advertising revenue."
The poor wee darlin's, especially re: advertising revenue. Let them join their voices to those that decried Gutenberg's invention. Rupert Murdoch is a pig and has to be stopped somehow, but at least he knows what's going on (e.g., his purchase of the foul MySpace). By way of enlightening the MSM, let me point out that the bashing is not limited solely to the blogosphere. Remember what the truthy Colbert said last year to the assembled Washington press corps? "I have nothing but contempt for you." I second that.
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Meantime ...
[Read the article: Comey's testimony raises new and vital questions about the NSA scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... Condi is out of the country, scoring many foreign relations coups and adding luster to a resume that, over the past couple of years, has become distressingly tarnished.
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Peace is at hand
[Read the article: Improvement in Iraq: Trust Joe Klein and his secret sources]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A couple of years ago, when it began to seep into the media consciousness that we've ignited a civil war, one of the conservative online publications--TNR, I think--ran a story based on one or two days' events and headlined something like, "Civil War in Iraq Averted." Whew, that was a close one. Now it seems that a lull of one or two days means peace is about to break out.
Magic words don't work, people.
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Completely off topic
[Read the article: The Republican Party is the party of Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is an intriguing line in an article about Saudi Prince Bandar in today's FINANCIAL TIMES. It says that that Bandar may have failed to communicate the extent of King Abdullah's anger at Washington for its failure in Iraq.
Excuse me? What, precisely, gives a Saudi king the right to be "angry" at our military failure? Anyone care to speculate? (Disclosure: I've been speculating about precisely this all along, as I have long believed that our military is essentially functioning as mercenaries for the Saudis in Iraq. The other oil producers in the region were scared witless of Saddam, and for good reason.)
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Worse than Nixon
[Read the article: The al-Marri decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Worse by many degrees of magnitude. Nixon held that "La loi, c'est moi," but I don't recall that he got as far as imprisoning people based on that foul notion.
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How true
[Read the article: More warnings about a U.S.-Iran war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]" ... most of us realize it would be even more dangerous if a country like Iran that is so irresponsible was sitting there with nuclear weapons."
How very true, Mr. Giuliani. I am horrified at the danger posed by an irresponsible government armed with nuclear weapons.
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Is nothing scared?
[Read the article: Sen. David Vitter, a leading Christian social conservative]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Instead, they only defend these Very Scared Values by banning the same-sex marriages that they don't want for themselves."
Typo? I think not ...
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I hereby request ...
[Read the article: Still more White House secrecy -- this time in the Tillman investigation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... a civics lesson, or a refresher in contemporary history, or both.
What happens if Bush is impeached and then refuses to leave office? As I recall, Clinton was impeached and served his term in some fashion.
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Reminds me ...
[Read the article: David Brooks' field trip to the White House]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... of a cartoon published awhile back. In it, you can see into two rooms in the White House. One is the Oval Office, where Dubya sits leaning forward onto his desk, listening eagerly to a disembodied voice. In an adjoining room, Darth Cheney is speaking into an intercom: "George, this is God again."
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@ CarolynC
[Read the article: The mainstream, sane, serious Joe Lieberman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"We are at a time in history of profound social and political change, and it is comforting to decry "moral relativism" and accept Absolute Truth as set forth by folksy, charismatic religious leaders. Fundamentalism provides emotional security and responds to our human need for meaning in our lives."
This is precisely why religious and social fundamentalism are on the rise internationally.
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Note to Dubya: Nuts
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Keep ratcheting up the heat, Glenn. These frogs know they're boiling.
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WHEN and not if ...
[Read the article: Attention Democrats: GOP fear-mongering does not work]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... this latest law is repealed, I want language written into the repeal specifying that the telecoms, Rove, Cheney and everyone else who's just been or is about to be let off the hook, is officially back on the hook and in fact never was off. Otherwise, this legal monstrosity is just the beginning of an orgy of pardons/commutations/whoops-he-didn't-really-mean-its that will go on for the next 532 days.
You listening, Wyden?
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Ick
[Read the article: The foreign policy community]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Linking to an Obama talking points paper? And honestly, can't someone from Harvard do better than to repeat herself again and again? Obama was right, conventional (HRC) thinking was wrong. [Therefore, Obama is always right and conventional (HRC) thinking is always wrong.] We Americans may be stupid and naive, but most of us aren't so deaf that we have to have the same ten words repeated at us 7 or 8 times per thousand.
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@UsedtobeKristin
[Read the article: The foreign policy community]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Maybe we're working with such lowered expectations that Power's piece looks like something much better than what it really is."
Nah, it's perfect. We're so dumb and deaf that all we really need is someone repeatedly shouting, "Obama new! Good! Hilary old! Bad!"
But really, apart from the metacommentary, the idea itself--that of invading Pakistan or surgically striking al Qaeda-leaning Pakistani tribes or whatever the hell Obama was advocating--is remarkably stupid. Have we learned nothing, indeed.
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@ MrEdCT
[Read the article: Warrantless surveillance and the new Coretta Scott King disclosures]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I am wondering if the unfortunate and expendable Mr. Craig is an object lesson in what can happen to ... oh, anyone, really ... what with terrorism so terrifying and FISA laws maybe up for renewal and all.