Letters to the Editor
Mickey Kovars
Published Letters: 76 Editor's Choice: 3
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Bring back the Goebbels awards
[Read the article: The expression "stuck pig" comes to mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's time not only to revive the Fairness Doctrine, but to bring back the Goebbels award. That award goes to the rightwing fascist media personality who most effectively spews out paranoia, anger, hatred and contempt to his audience. Limbaugh wins hands down.
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Hillary is more religious anyway
[Read the article: James Dobson's Rudy problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chances are that some evangelicals will split off for Hillary anyway. Her religious credentials are better than most of the Republican candidates, especially Giuliani, and this fact will become better known as the campaign moves on.
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How Does Attacking Iran Fit In?
[Read the article: The collapse of Bush's foreign policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The one thing I find impossible to understand -- unless the administration has just gone completely bonkers -- is how anyone can think that an attack on Iran will do anything except make the Middle East utterly chaotic, with horrible worldwide political and economic consequences.
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Truth Is the First Casualty
[Read the article: We are the Thought Police]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The writer's points are well taken, but isn't it always this way in wars? It has taken the Germans several generations to come to terms with their actions in WW II, and the process is hardly complete. And even there there is the fiction that the atrocities were the sole province of the professional murderers in the SS, not ordinary soldiers. We now know this was far from the truth -- there were countless atrocities by regular army troops. Then there are the French in Algeria, the Italians in Ethiopia, the Russians in Afghanistan -- it is universal. Hopefully our US troops are better than most, but no way are they blameless.
The real atrocity is the blind craziness of pursuing war as a policy, as in Iraq,and setting these forces in motion. It's not as if it couldn't have been predicted by Bush and his friends, since it was predicted by lots of other people. But Bush and friends aren't the ones who pay the price, are they?
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Two Things
[Read the article: Bush's old world disorder]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Two things are true, as always:
The hardest thing in the world is to admit you're wrong. Weaklings like Bush absolutely can't do it. We pay the price.
The press isn't doing its job.
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As Howard Goes . . .
[Read the article: Good riddance to John Howard ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Too bad we don't have a parliamentary system in the US -- we could get rid of Bush and his friends a lot sooner . . .
Anyway, high marks to our Aussie friends -- Good job!
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Note to Joe Klein's Conscience
[Read the article: Good riddance to John Howard ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good point about the possibility of a Reid or Pelosi assuming the top job in a parliamentary system. The only thing one might hope is that we'd give a lot more thought to who the party leaders were. But I'm not too hopeful -- look who we chose as president.
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Hillary Is the Only Democrat Who Can Win
[Read the article: Clinton lead narrowing in New Hampshire?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Iowa and NH Dems can put it away for Hillary -- or not. They should just remember this: the Republican hate machine is out there to savage any Democrat running in the general election, and it is naive to think it would be used only against her. She is the only one who can throw it right back at them and win.
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Eisenberg Is a Modern Republican
[Read the article: Alleged hostage taker filed molestation suit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Eisenberg listens to rightwing hate radio, reads Michelle Malkin, then goes into a Clinton campaign office and makes a bomb threat and takes hostages. Sounds like a Republican for our age! Not like those old fuddy-duddies like Ford, Eisenhower, Dole -- you know, rational Republicans!
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Only Hillary Can Win! Obama Is a Luxury We Can't Afford!
[Read the article: Did the Clinton campaign light up Obama drug-use story?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Democrats! LISTEN! I know and you know Obama can't win. He carries a lot of liberal baggage that hasn't been vetted and probably won't be unless the republicans go after him as nominee in the general election. Blacks may or may not vote for him; even if they do, other minorities (Hispanics, Asians) won't since they are more distrustful of blacks than they are of whites. Many whites won't vote for him on racial grounds even though they would never admit to such a tendency. He has very unformed ideas on foreign policy, what to do about the war, immigration, etc. Any reasonably strong Republican candidate will defeat him. This is not pretty, but it is the reality! We cannot invite 4 more years of republican misrule by nominating this man. There may come a time for him, but this is not it.
Oh yes -- don't forget -- why would the republican attack machine be focusing on Hillary if they wanted her to be nominated? They absolutely do not want her to be nominated -- they know Obama would be much easier to beat!
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Another Lib for Sealing the Borders!
[Read the article: Will the real Minuteman please endorse? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kudos to jglammi for making the point that it's not only rednecks who want our borders tightened up. If democrats don't understand this and position themselves accordingly, they will lose.
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Obama Wins Debate, Wins Nomination, Loses Election
[Read the article: The last Iowa debate (Thank God!)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK Democrats, crunch time! You may be inspired by Obama -- I am, too -- but he can't win the general election, period. Even if "stuff" doesn't come out on him - a big "if" -- his overall lack of experience will cause large numbers of voters not to trust him sufficiently to vote for him. Even if black voters do vote for him, many white voters won't, regardless of what they'll say to pollsters. Other minority voters -- hispanics, asians, etc. -- will also be suspicious of him. The Dems will throw away a historic opportunity.
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Limbaugh's Hate-Filled Ahab-Like Quest to Destroy the Clintons
[Read the article: Campaigning while female]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Limbaugh's 15+ year old campaign to destroy the Clintons continues unabated. By comparison, Ahab's quest to kill Moby Dick was an expression of mild interest. This illustrates the fallacy of the talk radio format, where people like Limbaugh, Savage, Hannity and the like can mouth off day after day saying things that would get them spread out on the barroom floor in most situations. Hatred as entertainment. I wish we could put this media nightmare behind us. Bring back the Fairness Doctrine!