Letters to the Editor
maureenodonnell
Published Letters: 492 Editor's Choice: 5
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MacK, I'm not surprised you disagree with me. Sure, don't you know more about Ireland than I do
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]and everything else as well. I'm not a Dubliner, don't live in Dublin but perhaps I know more about your golden girl than you do. That snide little "resent" didn't escape me either. I've no idea why I'm supposed to resent someone who's made a complete "eejit" of herself in public. What's more, she's no Martin Luther who had the courage not to recant when he refused to recant at Wittenberg: "Here I stand, I can do no other". She was back-tracking like mad last evening and I, in my quaint way, would have more respect for her if she'd not been quite so gushing about the virtues of Hillary Clinton. I admire moral courage and that's why I admire Jeremy Paxman. You seem to have a "thing" about Samantha Power so that if I write anything that reflects adversely on the Obama campaign you're out taking pot-shots at me, attempting to categorise me from within the confines of your own acquaintances and curling your lip in derision.
I must admit that I didn't know that Samantha had such a huge influence on bringing the blood-bath in Rwanda to an end, that this former French colony was so amenable to the persuasiveness of a Harvard professor that the Hutus and the Tutsis offered each other the olive branch at her behest. I'm wondering now if she could pour oil on troubled waters in Kenya instead of coming over here to increase the sale of her book. Ireland is a very small country and I was told two weeks ago that Samantha's mother was called Delaney and her grandfather was a senior police officer. This came up in casual conversation but it seems to me that you and Samantha, and your like, would fit into the Dublin 4 set far better than I would. In your last futile attempt to quell me, you mentioned "latte liberals", apropos nothing at all, but you are easily identified as a member of "the chattering class".
Incidentally, Carol Coleman, the Irishwoman shown on Youtube quizzing President Bush, is more my type of person.
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MacK, you're pathetic. Where I live is none of your business but I'd hate to meet a loudmouth like you.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Post-prandial pillow talk"! Do you eat first, because "post-prandial" means "after eating". Throwing in a few Latinisms may go down well in Doheny & Nesbits pub and in all those ritzy Washington places but you don't fool me. I'm very much afraid that you're a pillock who thinks that a smattering of Latin combined with some Anglo-Saxon profanity (for street cred,naturally) makes you a force to be reckoned with but my geiger-counter for someone who excels in Taurean turds, as you do, is clicking furiously. Get lost!
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MAcK, I hope you're not in Harvard because, if you are, the standard must have reached its nadir.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Ex-patriots"? You must mean those who no longer feel any love of country. For all your condscension, you are a master of malapropism, if nothing else. The word is "expatriates" and btw that pub of male strutting, Doheny and Nesbits, is so yesterday!
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I don't understand what's going on and hope somebody can explain.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I Had never heard the name of Tucker Carlson until today and had to check him out in Wikipedia. His background is undilutedly conservative and he is part of the Establishment. Why would someone with those credentials badger Gerri Peev who wrote the article on Samantha Power in "The Scotsman"? Samantha Power is/was working for Obama, a non-American journalist "spilled the beans" on her lack of tact while speaking to the foreign press, Ms. Power resigns and the conservative Carlson takes "The Scotsman" journalist to task. If he's a Republican supporter, which seems to be a given, why isn't Carlson dancing with joy at this resignation rather than berating the journalist who, indirectly, caused it? It doesn't make any sense to me but maybe it does to Americans.
Jeremy Paxman is the jewel in the British broadcasting crown, a man who demands straight answers who doesn't toady to anyone. I hope the rot hasn't eaten so far into the fabric of American life that honesty is a lost virtue. That is not how the world once viewed the United States but I've been amazed how manipulative your media has become. Unless, as an outsider, you've paid close attention you'd imagine that there had only ever been two candidates for the Democratic nomination - Clinton and Obama. The others were dismissed by the media and I don't think that would be tolerated in any country which claims to be a democracy. The Internet has given the world a window to look into America and the view isn't that great.
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Thanks, Retired Military Patriot. It's all about money, I see.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Before I log off, I'd like to ask Proximity Warning which of Paxman's recent interviews evolved into absurd theatricality. This is an easy way of attempting to undermine the man's credibility but such vague detraction is unconvincing. Jeremy Paxman annoys a lot of politicians (usually British) but I don't suppose any of them have wandered on to this site. They have enough problems at the moment with arguments about the upcoming Treaty of Lisbon and the antagonism towards the idea of a President of the European Union (unelected, if you'd believe it). It's not only Americans who have to worry about the erosion of democracy. Before I forget it, the name of the Irish reporter qestioning President Bush about Iraq is Carol Coleman, a relatively junior reporter with the national broadcaster, RTE. I think she's on leave of absence as I haven't seen her in ages. She got some flak for being so probing in her questions to such a powerful man as the President of the USA but, in every society, there are those who grovel to power.