Letters to the Editor
Squeaky McCrinkle
Published Letters: 19
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Fox "News"
[Read the article: Brit Hume and the Bush administration take propaganda to a new level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't watch Fox, so thanks for alerting me to this disgusting but unsurprising "interview". You say, "Fox News is free to say whatever it wants", and I guess that's true, but the use of the word "News" is an abuse.
I just wonder what this achieves. Fox has a relatively small audience, so Hume, Petraeus and Crocker were probably preaching to the converted. Is it a "shore up the base" exercise, or something more sinister? I was struck by the similarity of one of Hume's questions, (about the need for operations into Iran), to one posed by Lieberman in the hearings.
Who's to say that covert operations inside Iran have not taken place? As I recall, the USAF and USN were running "Steel Tiger" missions inside Laos as early as 1967, long before it became public knowledge.
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Authoritarians For Jesus
[Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill Donohue is certainly anxious to assume the spittle-stained mantle of "complete militant catholic".
For my part, I find any overt religious expression offensive and not in the spirit of Christianity as I understood it. I don't think I'm an atheist, I just don't get "religion". When a golfer named Aaron Baddeley thanked Jesus or Christ for a tournament victory I thought he was a wanker. And Kathy Griffin's "verbal assault on 85 percent of the U.S. population"? Huh? Did it offend muslims? Jews? Hindus?
This overweight bully has been getting away with this for too long.
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The Kagans and their ilk . . .
[Read the article: American war culture in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]During and before World War II they used to be called "patrioteers", which the dumber ones at sites like Hannity.com are still happy to answer to.
Webster's defined it as "An ostentatiously and volubly patriotic person who makes a career of patriotism for his own benefit".
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War Is Hell, Tim . . .
[Read the article: American war culture in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What really pisses me off is the way that Republican politicians and the rest of the war-supporters preface their remarks with "Well, Tim, I've been to Iraq eight times, and this time . . . ".
They say it as if they've just come back from flying 25 missions in the Memphis Belle.
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The Tilde Man's Hypocrisy Is Showing
[Read the article: American war culture in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And only poor people could speak for the poor . . .
Isn't that the rule you clowns used against John Edwards in the fairly recent past?
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Sean Hannity would be my first pick . . .
[Read the article: Limitless wrongness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Journalist and fantasist Dana Milbank said: "It looked like he was the Roman general returning to the republic in his gold and purple toga, and they were celebrating him and slaying white bulls".
I worry that this kind of imagery might get Chris Matthews thinking of gladiator movies, Victor Mature and body oil, but that's beside the point.
Frankly, I think we should be thinking about slaying white bullshitters, and I'll leave it to you to guess who's on my list.
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David Brooks is not alone . . .
[Read the article: David Brooks and the deceitful tactics of the Beltway pundit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These wankers are shouting not just from the ramparts of The New York Times, they're also shouting from the Altar to the Gutter.
Not long ago, foaming-at-the-mouth bull-Catholic Bill Donohue was claiming to speak for 85% of Americans when he attacked Kathy Griffin.
Now Media Matters is reporting on a Bill O'Reilly rant, (the September 25 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly), where he too claims to speak for the vast majority.
O'REILLY: The kooks, the loons have a louder voice in this country right now than the 80 percent of Americans who know what's going on, and the reason is the Internet -- the mainstream media sympathizing and using the far-left loons, OK, to crash and burn any opposition.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200709250009
I'm sure Meredith Wilson and Franklin Lacey could write a wonderful musical with this material . . .
"Ya got trouble, folks, right here in Factor City
With a capital 'T' and that rhymes with 'C'
And that stands for 'Crock'".
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Glenn, Supporting the Troops
[Read the article: Charlie Savage at FDL Book Salon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seems to be a one-way street patrolled by meat-eaters like the marine you quote.
There's miles of this stuff at sites like "Black Five", where a poster calling himself "Cincinatti Bob" wrote:
The entire Democrat leadership, including all the Democrat Presidential candidates, showed their true colors when they voted NAY. The Democrat Party is controlled by Moveon.org and the Daily Kos Krowd.
I certainly hope Democrat-voters realize this and realize whom they are supporting when they vote Democrat. And to those here who are registered Democrats, I certainly hope you will exercise good judgement in the upcoming primaries and try to get a reasonable Democrat (if one exists) nominated for the 2008 Presidential ticket. At this point, I don't see one. Hillary is beholden to Moveon and Daily Kos, Obama couldn't even be bothered to take a stand on this issue (great leadership there) and we all know what an empty suit is John Edwards. It really is too bad that the Moveon.ogres and the Kossacks drove Joe Lieberman out of the Party, because he would be a good man to run for President on the Democrat ticket, whom I could respect.
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/09/the-assault-on-.html
You can't reason with them. They are smugly proud of their chauvinism and don't seem to understand that they are betraying the causes they profess to love so dearly.
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Colonel David Hunt
[Read the article: Fox News' attack on the honor and integrity of our war generals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]displays all the bitterness and resentment of a man who has been passed over for promotion as the pole gets more and more slippery nearing the top.
The fact that he comes across like a borderline psychopath was probably a factor too.
I guess he's just trying to say that to get a star or four you sometimes have to play politics, and that's just like, you know, betrayal. Thank God General Petraeus was able to avoid this pitfall!