Letters to the Editor
Matty D.
Published Letters: 132 Editor's Choice: 3
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Glenn, please don't.
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt and the "Triumphant Top Gun"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Part of me thinks that's a good reason to use their pictures, but part of me thinks it's a little bit of a cheap rhetorical device -- like mocking their appearance as an argument, even if that's not the intent. I'll have to re-think that.
It is cheap. It would diminish the impact of this column and your writing, which I read on the value of facts and ideas, and not of appearances. Which is one of the major things being fought against here overall, is it not.
I understand why you're thinking about doing it, but please continue to take the high road here. Thanks.
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Congratulations!
[Read the article: Salon wins Webby award]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And stuff. Jeez, am I the first poster?
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Bow down before the one you serve
[Read the article: Ann Coulter gets what she deserves]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can we get Video Dog to host a higher quality version of this?
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A couple of questions for Glenn
[Read the article: Interview with Helen Thomas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't usually post here but wanted to ask a couple of things:
First, did she say that truth was the first causality of war or the first casualty of war? Because it sounds like she meant the second but you wrote the first, and much as I love ya, buddy, sometimes some stuff seems to get through your proofing. The first one's a pretty cool quote, actually.
Also, I was a little uncomfortable with the statement that this was verbatim but edited for length, as those two would seem to be two different things. I assumed that the parenthesized part was the thing that was edited for length and the rest was verbatim, but it would have been cool to do a part 1/part 2 type of deal or a link to the full unadulterated transcript hosted elsewhere on or off Salon, so that we could get the full effect of what went on.
And thank you. That was freaking fabulous. I lurk here, but enjoy your stuff immensely. Keep up the good work.
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This thread delivers.
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And now I feel guilty for laughing so hard. Thanks, Garry.
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Hardware: Not it.
[Read the article: Playstation 3: Do you care it's $100 cheaper?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Love the comparative mathematics of hardware feature sets here. I notice not one person has mentioned a single compelling game title exclusively for the PS3 that would even justify its taking up space on my A/V rack. Sony could drop the price so low that they're paying me to take one and I still wouldn't be interested.
On the other hand, MS could have doubled the price of the Xbox, announced that it would have no wireless or hard drive whatsoever and would only play one game, then renamed it the Halo 360, and I'd still have gotten in line to buy one, as would at least a million other gamers.
Sony didn't miss the boat on hardware. They missed the boat on games, and there's still no ship on the horizon there to date.
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Grubert:
[Read the article: The political fringe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have to cut off the heads of zombies, remember. Stake through the heart only works on vampires.
Which to use in this particular situation is, I would agree, a tough call. :)
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I dislike it too.
[Read the article: The National Review mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it relies upon isolated, selected anecdotes to indict a broad political faction, a practice I generally dislike, given that it is the province of the Bill O'Reillys and Michelle Malkins of the world.
This instinct was correct and the one you should have followed, sir.
This column isn't up to your usual standards. Leave this kind of snarky guilt-by-association crap to the posters; they've generally got it covered to the 9th degree of precision. It shouldn't be the main content, as this was.
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@benjmain
[Read the article: The National Review mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How have the both of you managed to miss the point of Glenn's post entirely?
You tell me. Go back and read what he wrote and just clip out everything that refers to the morons on that cruise, then re-read the result. The same point is made without relying on what, yes indeedy, is pretty much the same tactic that Glenn himself has decried in the past--applying the comments of obvious extremists to a larger group--and he noted his distaste for doing so in the part of the column I originally quoted. Glenn shows just about daily that he doesn't have to go anywhere near there to make the point, but he did today, and that was my point.
Yeah, I got the part about how the cruise idiots have the same mentality as the NR people. But he then goes on to conclude before the update that
These truly are the people who have been running our country for the last six years. No matter how many times one thinks about it, it never gets any less difficult to believe. And it really does explain virtually everything of any political significance in this country.
If it at all matters, I personally agree entirely--that probably is the mentality of the people running the country. I don't see that it follows that I should applaud this method of presentation of that idea, however.
Furthermore, my name being mentioned in the same post as Elephantman has pretty much ruined my day. Thanks.
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Ninja say:
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Ask a Ninja"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I LOOK FORWARD TO VOTING FOR YOU SOON!
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w/Mona
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yep, not narcissistic, realistic. In fact if you go and read Klein's post, it's Gonzales-level obvious that he's responding to Glenn--and if he didn't, he certainly has by now given the number of references to it in the comments thread there.
The spanking that's delivered in that responses thread is extraordinary. Unless the editors are actually DELETING responses that AGREE with Klein...there don't seem to be any.