Letters to the Editor
Kitt
Published Letters: 2950
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Shooter
[Read the article: Still more White House secrecy -- this time in the Tillman investigation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Again, so what? Amazingly the solution offered is the Republican view of how to deal with Islamists, offered here as a strategy for dealing with Republicans....
--shooter242
From Firedoglake:
This is how you deal with bullies and thugs - you break them. There is no other way - you can’t “reason” with them. They are not 9 year olds who need a “time out” or whom you can sit down with and say “that’s not nice”. They are adults who respond only to force and to fear - who obey only when broken.
So you don't see any difference between killing every male in Iraq over the age of 15 just in case they might be our enemy at some future date, to dealing with a Republican caucus that knows no bounds of lies and secrets? So you're saying that the firedoglake writer was suggesting that Democrats storm the Capitol and the Senate with machine guns blazing?
That is exactly the comparison you have attempted to make, shooter. So assholeness on your part continues unabated. Just like the Republican caucus. Who'd-a-thunk?
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Tibby
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt defends the administration's mild, restrained secrecy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the American people vote someone in who doesn't agree with your views you're up a creek I guess.
-- tiberius
I can't speak for you, Tibby, so I don't have an answer to your "guess". Myself, I don't live and then die every two years for Election Tuesday. I live before that day, and I go on living to fight another day after Election Tuesday has become history.
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Reading Problems, spooter?
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt defends the administration's mild, restrained secrecy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The real problem with all this, is that you folks really don't care about secrecy per se, you are just impatient to take over the reins of government and are fishing for leverage. As always, IOKIYAD.
-- shooter242
It's bad enough that you think none of us have bothered to read the overwhelming evidence that this administration has been far, far more secretive than any other in history by a mile and half, but to admit everyone who has or will read your comment that you either haven't bothered to read any of the evidence, or that you are too stupid to understand what you've read...well, that makes your comment even worse, now doesn't it, spooter?
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Michmo on McCain's popularity
[Read the article: The GOP is the party of the Iraq war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The dems/progressives liked him [McCain]...
-- Michmo
I never liked him, and I never understood why any "dems or progressives" were fooled by him. He hasn't changed politically in any real significant sense over these past seven years except that he has gotten clumsier at pretending to be someone he is not. I honestly think age caught up with him. By that I mean, his concentration level has plummeted and his stubborn old foolish geezer level has skyrocketed.
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Casual O
[Read the article: The GOP is the party of the Iraq war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment, but that is not what Greg Sargent was saying in his post. Yes, that was the title of it but that was factual and specific about forcing an all nighter rather than shrugging shoulders and letting the 'in name only' filibuster carry the day without the pain of the actual staying up all night to the bitter end . In the body he wrote the following. Which is what is actually happening:
Harry Reid just announced on the Senate floor that if the GOP continues their obstruction of the Reed-Levin amendment mandating withdrawal, he'll hold the Senate in session through the night on Tuesday.
That would force Republicans to filibuster the Iraq measure in person, right on the Senate floor.
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scoober
[Read the article: The Politico sewer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Once again I ask, "Why is it that Salon is not called out for the ridiculous 'Hillary is from Mars, Obama is from Venus' article? I still say that if Salon can publish an article like that, where do you come off scolding the MSM for their articles?
I have brought this subject up numerous times without any reply from Glenn (If he did reply and I missed it, I'm sorry).
-- scoober620
Do you expect every writer at the NYTimes, and every writer at the WaPo to post an article in rebuttal every time one of the writers at their paper has an article published that they find to be wanting?
Why do you expect Glenn Greenwald to play your scold for your pleasure? Is Glenn Greenwald supposed to be at your beckon call? Is he supposed to write whatever you feel is the most important subject of the day, without consideration for time and space for other subjects? Isn't it enough that he is doing great work without you whining about him not writing about exactly what you think he should be writing about on any given day?
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Scoober
[Read the article: The Politico sewer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure that he could care less if I feel that his actions appear hypocritical to me, which explains why he has not tried to defend himself.
I don't know how much he cares or doesn't care about how much his actions appear hypocritical to you, and neither do you.
Maybe he has "not tried to defend himself" because he sees no need to defend himself in regards to the complaint you are making. Maybe he sees no reason to defend himself partly because he is under no obligation to Salon beyond writing his posts. For you to accuse him of hypocrisy because he doesn't write about something you think he should write about seems absurd and self absorbed to me.
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Your Standards Rule?
[Read the article: The Politico sewer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry but in the same circumstances I would feel obligated to explain why I am treating one publication one way, but not the other.
-- scoober620
Well then, you'd be one busy SOB if you were writing on Salon and had to take on every Camille Paglia article, among others, aside from writing about other things of interest to you. I guess you'd be the Salon Watchdog?
Fortunately for most of us readers, Glenn Greenwald chooses what he wants to write about instead of writing out of some bogus obligation in accordance with the demands of some who call 'hypocrisy' on him when he doesn't meet their 'high standards' and expectations.