Letters to the Editor
Kitt
Published Letters: 2940
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Stevemaher12
[Read the article: The Politico: Exhibit A for our broken political press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your smartaleckyness was getting on my nerves.
This bit of a bio about Michael Isikoff - the guy who actually broke the story about Lewinski wide open - might help you remember not only how the story got so big, but also how the MSM salivated about it. Isikoff was lionized for floating that gossip rag fodder to the top of the MSM headline heap.
Isikoff’s exclusive reporting on the Monica Lewinsky scandal gained him national attention in 1998, including profiles in The New York Times and The Washington Post and a guest appearance on “Late Show with David Letterman.” His coverage of the events that lead to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment earned Newsweek the prestigious National Magazine Award in the Reporting category in 1999. Isikoff’s reporting also won the National Headliner Award, the Edgar A. Poe Award presented by the White House Correspondents Association and the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Reporting on the Presidency. In 2001, Isikoff was named on a list of “most influential journalists” in the nation’s capital by Washingtonian magazine.
Isikoff is the author of “Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story,” a book that chronicled his own reporting of the Lewinsky story and was hailed by a critic for The Washington Post-Los Angeles Times news service as “the absolutely essential narrative of the scandal with revelations that no one would have thought possible.” The book, also a New York Times bestseller, was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999 by the Book of the Month Club.
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Understanable.
[Read the article: The Politico: Exhibit A for our broken political press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...when people respond by my posts by telling me that I can't grasp the obvious/ ask what I'm 'smoking', it tends to bring out my sarcastic side."
Nonetheless, I disagree with your take on the subject at hand. Clinton was pounded throughout his entire presidency. Check out Dailyhowler sometime. I'm sure they have an astoundingly deep archive showing just how invested the MSM was in all of that. There was no excuse for their ignoble so called reporting on many matters 'Clinton'.
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"Here we go."
[Read the article: Who funds and runs the Politico?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This rousing finish to their "mission statement" reminds me of some of what was in Glenn's post earlier about cheerleaders...it's so damned corny.
Two years from now, the 44th president will be inaugurated. We'll follow the drama between now and then -- and beyond -- every step of the way. We'll be learning a lot and having fun, and we invite you to join us for the journey. Here we go.
John F. Harris, editor in chief
Jim VandeHei, executive editor
Jan. 23, 2007
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Walter Cronkite
[Read the article: Who funds and runs the Politico?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"But I stand by my statement that it is naive for anyone to think that anyone or any news source is unbiased."
I guess when Walter Cronkite said, "To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion ... the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could." He was just being biased?
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Scary Mean New York Times
[Read the article: Who funds and runs the Politico?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If the New York Times is really the best example the Bush cult has to prove a liberal bias in the media, we're much worse off than any of us may have realized."
-- e_five
Yeah, I was going to call that nonsense out, too. lazy trollnut's still trying to use the New York Times as their Booga Booga scare monster of the left. How face-in-the-mud stupid can it get than that after what all has come down?
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biggest?
[Read the article: Who funds and runs the Politico?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This clear, ongoing my-daddy-can-beat-up-your-daddy pathology Chris Matthews has is equal parts ludicrous, scary, and sad. Really, what's his deal?
-- DCLaw1
Back at nearly the very beginning of the deciderers first term I posted on a site I at that time had been frequenting a story/description about his phony way of walking. You know? The whole hands cocked thing as if he's posed to draw out one of his two six-shooters?
Think about that and tell me if you don't think this biggest-dick this side of the Pecos thing wasn't planned out from the get-go with this fake warrior.
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h/t
[Read the article: Who funds and runs the Politico?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It means hat tip. Acknowledging and giving credit to the person that brought the information to the attention of whomever is posting the comment or post.
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The Irony Hurts
[Read the article: A glimpse at Versailles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Classic. One of the longest going talking points of the right wing, and ways of trying to sideline an argument or discussion, has been that old standby complaint that it's "The Liberal Media" speaking.
That nonsense has been screamed (without exaggeration) a million times by the right wingers.
Yet, here we are today on this blog talking about who is behind and involved with this or that media outlet, and the only thing the trolls have to add to the conversation (if you can call pissing in ones pants in public adding to the conversation) is that we should get over it and stop whining. We shouldn't even be bothering to discuss who is behind this and that media outlet, because it is of no importance or consequence.
Indeed...stupid is as stupid does.
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"They won't Go Away Till..."
[Read the article: A glimpse at Versailles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To pretend that Roger Simon's writing about haircuts on Politico is anything but harmful to the the real business of America is on a par with pretending that George Bush is a man of courage. Blinders!
Daily Howler sums up what the problem is and how it needs to be addressed, and addressed, and addressed.
Is Roger Simon really that stupid? This is the question each reader must ask. His work is destroying American customs; in the political realm, it ends the American way of life. Before we say good-bye to all that, surely it’s time we found the way to say good-bye to the Roger Simons. But we’ll have to scream and yell and claw. They won’t go away till we fight.
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Mr. Timberman
[Read the article: A glimpse at Versailles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What William said! Big time!