Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 2940
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barrister
[Read the article: Brit Hume and the Bush administration take propaganda to a new level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whatever
Since when is letting someone talk without interrupting them every ten seconds with questions necessarily exercise in "propaganda?" We all know who Patreaus is and the point of view he represents. I suppose it is propaganda if you believe, as Greenwald apparently does, that a U.S. military commander is a propagandist by definition.
If you don't like Hume's interview style, you can always re-watch Larry King's 40-minute fawning interview with Bill Clinton.
-- barrister89
What is there to argue about there with you? You've compared Brit Hume with the entertainer, Larry King. That says all that you did not mean say, which undermined the point you were trying to make. This is what you said: 'Brit Hume is not a journalist, he's an entertainer and a propagandist'. So you left me with nothing else to say but, "Better trolls, please". You had already made my point. Except you didn't mean to. Can't help you with that.
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Betryus Origin?
[Read the article: One-sided rules of political debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Someone asked at around page four if I could provide a link about the Betrayus/Petraeus origin. I don't recall where or when I first read that troops or other military personal first coined the term, rather than MoveOn, but I see others have posted links that lead to that conclusion. Perhaps not in the way I thought it did, but still...it appears that the nickname has been out there for some time, and it appears that it originated with military personal - for whatever reason.
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Limp shooter
[Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Teaching Islam that free speech is allowed even in unpleasant instances, (like the ACLU defending the KKK) isn't going to go too far if you issue a fatwa against the speech of certain individuals. You know like the one levied against Rushdie. Islam already knows how to do that all to well, and apparently it's rubbing off here.
-- shooter242
Death threats were aimed at Natalie Maines by some right wing deflated psychopath. How did that one sit with you, shooter? Why don't you quit pretending that your definition of Islam, and your made up straw man liberals, have the market cornered on death threats. Death threats from the right wing are what one could call common place. What a limp tool a guy would have to have in order to need to threaten a lady who sings in order to pump himself up.
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Oh, oh
[Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well shucks. You all who are complaining about MoveOn calling Partraeus Betrayus. Get a load of the Admiral's description of the General:
U.S.-IRAQ: Fallon Derided Petraeus, Opposed the Surge
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - In sharp contrast to the lionisation of Gen. David Petraeus by members of the U.S. Congress during his testimony this week, Petraeus's superior, Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March, according to Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting.
Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be "an ass-kissing little chickenshit" and added, "I hate people like that", the sources say. That remark reportedly came after Petraeus began the meeting by making remarks that Fallon interpreted as trying to ingratiate himself with a superior.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39235
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ondelette
[Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If exchanges seemed heated from my end yesterday with you, I apologize. These is heated times, donchya know. Sometimes it's hard to settle down.
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Squeaky
[Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And Kathy Griffin's "verbal assault on 85 percent of the U.S. population"? Huh? Did it offend muslims? Jews? Hindus?
-- Squeaky McCrinkle
I doubt that she offended all that many Christians either. Being 'Christian' isn't the equivalent of being thin skinned or having no sense of humor or humility. Christians, like most every other group/denomination or whatever are, of course, not all of one mind.
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Rosen
[Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Meanwhile, it doesn't look any better on liberals to get all offended at any instance of racism, sexism, homophobia, or any other form of bigotry,
So then, you are saying that racism, sexism, homophobia or any other form of bigotry are not offensive? Or at least not to conservative Christians?
and then freakishly revel at the crudest jabs at Christianity.
-- Rosenkavalier
"Freakishly revel"? Come now. I guess you think that is some sort of 'clever turn of a phrase' or something. A phrase has to be based in reality to be considered clever.
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Golden Diarrhea
[Read the article: Jamie Kirchick's fantasies of the grave Muslim threat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now that's reality.
-- Golden Boy
Golden Boy, why don't you go shit your pants somewhere else. You're stinkin' up the joint.
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Golden Diarrhea
[Read the article: Jamie Kirchick's fantasies of the grave Muslim threat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's talk about Ward Churchill, then. Everyone here on this thread is distancing themselves from him, although he still has plenty of support in the larger world. He has become, for many people, the face of leftist anti-Americanism.
Look at yourself. You keep saying the same droll over and over again. No one here gives a flip or tells you what you want to hear. But you just pretend that we are Churchill fans anyway. You go on to say that "In the larger world...blah, blah, blah". You're obsessed with hearing your own petrified, pants fouling voice. Could you be more of a bore?
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No
[Read the article: Jamie Kirchick's fantasies of the grave Muslim threat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is that an Egyptians rap group?
-- pantanal
They're Trapeze Artists.
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Susan Mc
[Read the article: The endless, meaningless blather from the Washington establishment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My most vivid memory of the reportage of the Oklahoma City bombing was the front page photo of the firefighter carrying an injured? dead? baby out of the rubble. Nothing illustrated the horror of what had happened more clearly than that photo.
-- SusanMc
The baby was dead. The firefighter who was carrying the baby knew that, but his eyes said, and his actions in the way he so gently cradled the baby in his arms said, that he couldn't allow himself to believe it.
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Cry Speak!
[Read the article: The endless, meaningless blather from the Washington establishment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Goldy boy was the narrator on this add crying about MoveOn. The narrator whines and quivers with fear the way that Goldy boy does whenever it posts here.
http://tinyurl.com/2lwohu