Letters to the Editor
JKP1000
Published Letters: 155 Editor's Choice: 2
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Amen, Glenn!
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm glad you and Digby caught on to what I think is a much bigger question than the titilating bullshit the press is interested in (who will be the first one to "get" the interview with Spitzer's prostitute as well as digging deeper into his 'troubled' marriage), the question that should arise in everyone's mind when you have a thoroughly discredited and politiczed Justice Department with lawless wiretapping of Americans so widespread that thee top level of the Justice Dept (hardcore rightwingers) threatened to resign because of how heinous the Bush administration's abuses have been: Who is behind this bust and how did the information develop?
It's no secret that Spitzer busted a lot of corrupt Wall Street filth - the sort of people the Bush administration considers their "base" - and it's no secret that the Bush administration misuses the Justice Department, AND illegally wiretaps, for purely partisan reasons. While I know it's laughable to imagine the Bush administration to be using law enforcement to fight Al Qaeda, for a Democratic governor with a history of busting corrupt Republican scum certainly raises a lot of questions. Since it would be too "shrill" for the media to even question the motives of the Bush Administration and the Justice Department in this case, in a time of The Global War of Civilizations, I hope that more than a few people outside the media who've watched the systemic destruction of the Justice Department over the past 8 years will start asking some obvious questions about this case, other than what kind of kinky sex was Spitzer into.
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Thanks, Glenn!
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, thanks so much for seeing through the media shit-film that covers this story!
First, the last people who have ANY right to condemn Spitzer’s actions on “moral” grounds are people in the mainstream media who, in essence, propagated and celebrated the decision to burn, mutilate, and dismember men, women, children, and babies all for ad revenue, the arms industry, the oil industry, and the jollies of a couple of emotionally & mentally deficient, degenerate, deviant twits. While Larry Craig still goes to work every day (and solicits strangers to suck their c*ck by night) and George W Bush & Dick Cheney go to work every day and continue a program of mass-murder-for-profit, we listen to Republicans on TV “aghast” at Spitzer’s actions. Did Spitzer hook electrodes to the women he was sleeping with? Are we living in such a mind-fuck time that Spitzer’s actions are “outrageous”, but Bush and Cheney haven’t cross the pale of abominable behavior?
Second, ALL THAT obvious hypocrisy aside, the #1 issue here, when dealing with an administration that wiretaps its political opponents (and “undesirable” Americans), and makes no pretense that it doesn’t give a shit about the law, and a Justice Department already exposed as being corrupted to it’s core by pursuing partisan politics instead of criminals: WHO was behind this unusual hunt and WHAT initiated it?
I don’t expect our nation’s journalists to do its job and in investigate this story. Nixon lost his job for spying on his opponents, while today’s journalists need to be explained why that’s a crime!
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Blowing Smoke
[Read the article: The Politico claims the Iraq war will help McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"To give every Iraqi citizen a stake in the country’s economy, Iraq will pass legislation to share oil revenues among all Iraqis."
-Pres. George W Bush, Jan. 10, 2008
Last night I heard Lou Dobbs say that it's undeniable that the surge has been successful.
Really? How's the revenue sharing going? And the provincial elections? Have the militias been disarmed? How about those independent Iraqi Security Forces? Are they standing up while US troops stand down, or whatever the hell 1940's John-Wayne language our Junior Space Cadet used last year?
There were benchmarks that weren't met (as predicted), only a lessening of violence in areas where extra troops were deployed (as predicted).
Screaming "success!" doesn't change reality. And no one's fooled but the people who see the Iraq fiasco as a football game that cheerleading will fix. All the matters to the O'Hanlon and Kristol-types is their reputations. The loss of life and the weakening of American security mean less than nothing to the war cheerleaders.