Letters to the Editor
TexasLiberal
Published Letters: 15 Editor's Choice: 2
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Joe you hit this one out of the park
[Read the article: A portrait of the blogger as a young plagiarist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Course Ben has been a gift to the left. Confirming what a number of folks on the left have said about how so much of the mainstream media effort to balance the truth with right wing lies.
I am glad your article mentions that journalist have to take courses on ethics. My question is are there refresher courses? Some good candidates
Debra Howell, Jim Brady, all conservative on WP staff.
Miller at the Times etc...
National Review... everyone
Fox News ... don't really know they seem to rely on fiction
Anyway thanks for doing what you do. Its great
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At this point I am in it just for the entertainment value
[Read the article: The right's response to Ben Domenech]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Post never had any credibility with the right and in their attempt to cater to the right wing they have alieneted the moderates and the left. Their credibility is a joke and the VRWC is exploding.
Why not sit back and enjoy? At this point only thing I need is a tub of popcorn.
Kudos to Joe Conason for todays article. Course having Joe write an article to investigate Ben is like using a bazooka to shoot a mouse.
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What the Hell is wrong with the media
[Read the article: "Saddam chose to deny inspectors"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why are they so afraid. Joe is completely right where the hell is the media. The big non - news event now is the news blackout on the Hadley memo. It is the elephant in the room. Why isn't everyone screaming about it
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Well I think Joe is worth responding to
[Read the article: The Justice Department vs. Joe Conason]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have been a fan for years. Joe's investigative work has been something I always look forward to reading. Joe keep shaking them trees cause I think alot more stuff is going to fall out.
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Conservatism is a failed ideology. Please reexamine premise
[Read the article: How Bush wrecked conservatism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush is the culmination of Conservative policies and ideology. The problem was not that Bush wrecked conservatism its that conservatism has too many flawed ideas. Please expand your view from just an Bush/USA centric viewpoint and look around the world or history. Examples Thatcherism, Pinochet in Argentina, Iraq "free market reforms", Reagan trickle down economics, the Great Republican Depression etc... It demonstrates failures in this ideology. Your article suggest Bush "broke" conservatism but Bush is just using "broken or flawed" principles the outcome was preordained.
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These guys would make Joseph Goebbels proud
[Read the article: FEMA's phony reporters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Still any "news" organization that put this out without identifying it for the propaganda it is would be just as complicit. Your can't be innocent if you are enabling these jokers
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Is anyone asking the why question
[Read the article: Feinstein, Schumer to vote for Mukasey]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dianne Feinstein is a political animal what did she get for this vote ?
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Oh Glenn you are so naive FISA is completely debatable if you don't plan on following the law
[Read the article: The Chicago Tribune vs. Time magazine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just read Peter Hoekstra's article in the NRO. See Republicans believe laws only apply when its convenient and so Everyone else must believe that too.
My favorite part excerpted below
Second, Klein was correct in his original contention that the bill recently passed by the House of Representatives “would require the surveillance of every foreign-terrorist target’s call to be approved by the FISA Court.” It is true that one section of the bill states the “clarification” that such an order is not required, but that’s not the end of the story.
Anyone who understands how FISA works in practice or how the bill is intended to work as a whole understands that a court order is necessary to compel the cooperation of third parties to actually conduct the surveillance and provide clear liability protection for assisting the government. Without such protection, third parties are unlikely to cooperate, especially after being subjected recently to baseless and unfair attacks. Such court orders are expressly provided for later in the bill.
See you don't have to follow the law you just have to understand how FISA works in practice. How convenient is that!
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Kurtz double standards are well documented
[Read the article: Time magazine refused to publish responses to Klein's false smears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Today he finally commented on the National Reviews controversy concerning the false reporting done by war Blogger W. Thomas Smith Jr., a former Marine. He then immediately took the opportunity to equivicate it to a 5 month old controversy concerning the New Republic. Even though this was covered extensively by Kurtz previously. Yet he managed to ignore the much more timely National Review's scandal.
Whenever challenged at his constant need to balance the rights malfeasance with a negative slam on the left its always justified. Yet he does not feel that standard is necessarilly appropriate in the reverse case. In fact he spends an inordinate amount of his columns acknowledging liberal bias and rationalizing right wing bias. The examples are too numerous to recount
a simple google search of kurtz right wing bias retrieved 167000 hits !
While the other side may claim liberal bias its pretty obvious Kurtz Republican operative wife certainly influences his bias's
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Its the double standard stupid
[Read the article: The "Rezko" game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Once again the reporters would rather chase a Democrats nebulous guilt by association rather than the years of accumalated Republicans scandals. Just to name a few Abramoff, illegal wire tapping, Downing Street Memos, false Iraq Intelligence reports, torture, failure to meet any Iraq war benchmarks, US AG firings, Outing CIA agents and WH administrations being held in contempt for failing to appear before congress. All these scandals have a huge list of unanswered questions but the media feels that focusing on Rezko is more important. What a disgrace !
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How many times do these guys have to be wrong?
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Years of being wrong and yet they are the experts. The MSM kills its credibility and when they get called on it just whine that progressives are shrill and intolerant. Guess what I AM ALWAYS shrill and intolerant for advocates of policies that cause death and destruction. So I wear my badge with honor
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What a crock! A logical system would use the popular vote to reflect will of the people
[Read the article: Why Hillary Clinton should be winning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This nonsensicle delegate system is a carryover from a bygone era. Just like the electoral college it should be abandoned. The problen is very well illustrated when you have small minority in tiny states effectively making candidates viable or nonviable for the whole nation. Its silly and adopting the Republican model is even worse. It feeds the notion that only swing states matter and hurts the democratic process
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Headline is brilliant
[Read the article: Larry Craig has David Vitter's back]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Give yourselves a hand
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Unfortunately Gibson capital gains tax lie will now become a fact
[Read the article: Wrong on the substance and the style]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because they heard it in a debate and people trust Gibson. Most people watching now "Know" that capital gains tax cuts results in less revenues. Its the power of the media to make an untruth a truth. Example Al Gore invented the internet