Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 1824
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@ Che Pasa
[Read the article: Congressional oversight is a linchpin of how our democracy works]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You watch. The minute a Democrat is sworn into the Presidency, even before that, the very MINUTE an election victory is declared for a Democratic presidential candiate, the calls for investigations and oversight will issue forth, from the very same voices who are presently declaring a moratorium on such things.
We don't have to guess. Hell, there were RW fomamers working on "theories" of impeachment for Clinton before he ever took the oath of office in 1993.
Cheers,
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Glenn [from the update]
[Read the article: Congressional oversight is a linchpin of how our democracy works]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What they [the media] really mean, of course, is that they don't want investigations -- at least not of the Bush administration and accusations of serious misconduct.
Of course not. It would show them to be the lazy, toadying suckups and incompetents they've been for the last six years.
Chris Matthews is just the most disgusting (and overt) example of this. But the rest were in there right along with him....
Cheers,
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Think "Big Picture"
[Read the article: Drudge and the Politico -- poisonously joined at the hip]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not just Drudge and Politico. They're all co-ordinated efforts of the Mighty Wurlitzer of the RW, and include the likes of the Swift Boat Vets, the Arkansas Project, the RNC itself, and the foaming cadres of RW talk shows. Loosely and unofficially co-ordinated, but the "talking points" travel from one to the other with the speed of light (or, more accurately, usually half the speed of light).
Cheers,
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Is Brooks confoozed?
[Read the article: Neoconservative radicalism has reshaped our political spectrum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][Brooks, from his article]:
The "liberty vs. power" paradigm is less germane. It's been replaced in the public consciousness with a "security leads to freedom" paradigm.....
Huh? Missed the "security leads to freedom" memo; guess I'm not on the "talking points" distribution list. When did we get the replacement for "Arbeit macht Frei!"?
Cheers,
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@ shooter242
[Read the article: Neoconservative radicalism has reshaped our political spectrum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Liberals are as authoritarian as neocons, they just want a different kind of security.....
Ooooooohhh. You figgered us out. Now what's your ISP login? You can save me the trouble of digging it up so I can provision the intercept and find out how flowery your prose is in your IM chats on myREALpetgoat.com... Just wondering if you're the next TSE, yaknow....
Cheers,
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@ shooter242
[Read the article: Neoconservative radicalism has reshaped our political spectrum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the end though, it remains true that one cannot be free if one thinks his life is in danger, or for that matter, dead.
Nonsense, of course.
But also the ultimate "straw man"/bifurcation/ circulus in demonstrando/"red herring" all tossed into one.
There's no chain-link fence around the bed, Shooter. You can come out from under there whenever you feel you're ready. Really. Then we can talk sensibly about what it means to be free in all its respects. And to be dead (which, at least in one respect, really is the ultimate "freedom", no?)
Cheers,
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@ jonathan
[Read the article: Neoconservative radicalism has reshaped our political spectrum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][to "shooter242"]:
6. Suffocation
Deaths per year: 3,300
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As you can see, more people die of suffocation *each* year than died as a result of the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.
Do you fear suffocation?
With where his head is at, it's a valid concern. ;-)
Cheers,
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@ Glenn
[Read the article: Observations about John Harris' replies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dana Priest is a very valued reporter at the Washington Post. Jim Risen and Eric Lichtblau won Pulitzer Prizes, and sure enhanced their standing at the NYT, as a result of uncovering and exposing illegal eavesdropping. There are anti-administration leaks and anti-administration stories all the time in major newspapers.
But they're just the reporters whose name appear (sometimes) on top of news reports. The Beltway Boys are the ones paid to impart their "wisdom" in Op/Eds and on the TV news reports ... in part because the things that folks like Priest, Risen, and Lichtblau (and such as Van Natta) write don't fit into a neat "sound bite" which is all you need to know in the 30 seconds TV will allocate to such, but also because the Beltway Boys are the ones who enjoy the perqs and emoluments of high status in the "media", and because their egos insist that they maintain that status through fawning obsequiousness, because otherwise, they have nothing to show for their supposed talents.....
Cheers,
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High authoritarians
[Read the article: Still more extraordinary anti-democracy comments from Giuliani]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn:
If you haven't noticed that Giuliai's been a prime example of the archetypical "high authoritarian" for decades, you weren't paying attention.
Cheers,
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Speaking of "high authoritarians" and the quest for a "powerful" leader....
[Read the article: Still more extraordinary anti-democracy comments from Giuliani]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We now have Grover Norquists's take on it:
"The base isn’t interested in Iraq. The base is for Bush. If Bush said tomorrow, we’re leaving in two months, there would be no revolt."
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/03/grover-norquist/
Cheers,
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@ Mona
[Read the article: Still more extraordinary anti-democracy comments from Giuliani]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rudy mulled the prohibition of effing street vendors, the hot dog and roasted nuts guys -- illegal, possibly in Manhattan. I'm not kidding.
Yeah, I was in the neighbourhood during those halcyon days as well (CT), and would read the N.Y. Post, N.Y. Daily News, and the CT Post paper pretty much every day I was in CT (albeit I was on the road a lot); those were the papers lying aroung for free (I wouldn't pay money for those rags). I was well up on all of Rudy's shenanigans, and aware of his dismal record on First Amendment cases (1 for 18 or so at one time, including a stern and caustic rebuke from one judge).
I understand that Glenn was also in the neighbourhood as well. But I don't know to what extent he knew back then about the panoply of Giuliani's authoritarian impulses, but you're right; I should have given him some credit and benefit of the doubt. Giuliani's nature is no secret to anyone that paid attention (and as a First Am lawyer, that would be Glenn, no doubt).
Cheers.