Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 1824
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Timeframe is too short
[Read the article: What "truly motivates" George W. Bush?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][Glenn, from the post]: In virtually every speech and interview he has given, George Bush has made the same argument -- that we are in an epic battle in defense of Good against Evil and therefore must take every step possible to triumph. In large part, that is the mentality that has led to the excesses and abuses of the last six years.
Oh, this is the mentality that has led to many of the sanguinary excesses and abuses of the last six millennia.
Cheers,
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... but kudos to Glenn ...
[Read the article: What "truly motivates" George W. Bush?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... for saying what should be reasonably obvious but which is lost (ironically for the very reasons he describes) on many.
Three cheers for Glenn!
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Re: Karl Rove
[Read the article: What "truly motivates" George W. Bush?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]FWIW:
Simplistic moralistic and conspiratorial explanations cast the illusion that it can be easily understood and navigated ("Karl Rove controls all the voting machines so everything is hopeless").
While such an explanation for the behaviour of others is facile and simplistic, I don't think it's going too far to say that, on the face of it, Karl Rove is a deeply amoral character, and that his biggest motivations seem to be "winning" ... and power. I don't know what went wrong with him, but he's a very disturbed person ... a sociopath, actually. See Moore and Slater's book "Bush's Brain". U.S. soldiers are nothing more than those little coloured pieces of wood on a "Risk" board that Rove undoubtedly played as a kid.
Cheers,
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@ bucky1
[Read the article: Richard Cohen's brilliant (and unintentional) exposé of our media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But Arne my fellow, I did not bring it up again. You joined in the attack crew...
Stop being an eedjit (and a liar). You claimed the regulars here wouldn't know who they liked until Glenn brought the tablets down from the mount. Prior to that, I had said nothing to you (which seems perhaps to have been the wisest choice, and I should have continued following my first instincts). I stepped in to inform you that your broad brush sans any actual supporting evidence was just completely off-the-wall. And I will simply state here that such type behaviour on your part is why people here think you're a pest (and an eedjit), and why you get the hostility you get. Take a clue from Mona; we don't hate libertarians or even people with different opinions. We hate "Libertarian" foamers (and RNC Wurlitzer fonts like "shooter").
Now please get a clue. And "go and do the right thing", as MFCC Laura would say. That's my final word on the matter with you.
Cheers,
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@ Tiberius
[Read the article: What "truly motivates" George W. Bush?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mean if there isn't really good and evil, just a point of view, who's to say any point of view is right or wrong?...
We've been through this before. Suggesting that there's only two choices, the Manichean one of "everything must be only good or evil" and the alternative that "there is no good and evil, everything is morally relative, if it feels good, do it", is a fallacy of bifurcation; matter of fact rather Manichean in itself.
Cheers,
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@ nerdnam
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem is that if liberal bloggers are only AGAINST things, then they are wide open to the charge that they could be FOR those same things, if the 'right' president had done them....
You're assuming your initial assertion ("liberal bloggers are only against things"). Prove it instead. You won't and you can't. It's simply not true. BTW, project mouch?
... Would the 'left' blogosphere be against the invasion of Iraq and torture of detainees if Al Gore had done these things instead of George Bush?...
I can't speak for eveyone, but as for myself, yes. I was opposed to Clinton's boming of Iraq in 1998, for instance. If he'd gone and gotten us into a useless war that got 3500 soldiers killed, threw the region into turmoil, and squandered half a trillion $ in the process, I would have been screaming bloody murder. Why aren't you, may I ask?
... It's not at all clear to me that they would be....
That's because you're not them, and you're a deluded but presumptuous eedjit. Clear now?
... The reason it is not clear is because most liberal bloggers (including Greenwald) pretty much refuse to discuss fundamental beliefs and instead indulge mostly in attacking who isn't one of them.
You're just showing with even more clarity that you're full'o'shite. Glenn is quite clear about what his beliefs are and what he's "for" (you ought to read his books, as well as his archives), and I'm not reluctatnt to say what I think as well.
I'd note that in all this ranting of yours, you haven't said a single word about what you are "for". Fancy that.....
Now isn't there some other blog you can infest, like Freeperville, Deuce of Spades, or Little Green Snotballs? I susect they'd find your rants more 'coherent'.
Cheers,
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@ RealName
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I thought for a moment ....
Best you left it at that.
Cheers,
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@ Desert Son
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][to Glenn]: Which reminds me, Glenn, I e-mailed you the contents of my refrigerator, ....
No wonder the tubes of the Internets are clogged today....
;-)
Cheers,
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@ healthyskeptic
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have much to say. No one here seems to be listening, sadly, to your sterling, irrefutable, and eloquent points. Why don't you start your own blog where those that truly appreciate your wisdom and experience can bask in the totality of it all? You'd even get to set the groundwork and the topic. Seriously, I think it would be a good idea.
Cheers,
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@ Karen M
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][Arne, to healthyskeptic]: Why don't you start your own blog where those that truly appreciate your wisdom and experience can bask in the totality of it all?
You should try it.
Google's blogger software makes it all very, very easy, but if you run into problems setting it up, we'll help you out.
No, we won't. But he's soooooo smart, he can figger it out.
Cheers,
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@ Karen M
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then I will, Arne...
and you guys can send the trolls there.
No need to bother. Here's what I'd do:
cat "healtyskeptic" "bucky1" > /dev/null
Cheers,
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Bob?!?
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bob?!? Bob Schrum?!?!? Is that you?
Or are we getting the poltergeist of Cohen's rotting corpse "whoooooooo"-ing in our ears, trying to tell us "lib'ruls" what to do?
Cheers,