Letters to the Editor
Kitt
Published Letters: 2940
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Phony Soldiers in History
[Read the article: The Susan Estrich Complex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know, General Lee didn't believe in the cause of the Confederacy. He very reluctantly joined because he was a Virginian.
"With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have therefore resigned my commission in the Army, and save in defense of my native State, with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be needed, I hope I may never be called on to draw my sword....." Lee in a letter to his sister, April 20, 1861
Was Lee a "phony soldier", Mr. Limbaugh?
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Sugarman
[Read the article: The Susan Estrich Complex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]then you kept on with various non sequiturs, always ending by voicing your incomprehension. was your brain shot off or were you just born that way? either you're being willfully stupid or pretending to be so, in either case, i have no more use for you.
-- david sugarman
In regards to your entire post, and mostly in regards to the words I put in bold in your quote...I don't think so.
Read back, and despise yourself for another day. Don't try to plant your self-hate on me. It doesn't fit.
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Lupercus
[Read the article: The Susan Estrich Complex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not bitching, just curious. UT comments always seemed so much more high-minded to me than all the other blogs out there, but I only started visiting Glenn's blog regularly just before the move to Salon...
-- lupercus
I don't know. I don't recall ever reading a two word, in bold, post on UT, like the one a few posts above.
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Mona and the funny Cherry pits
[Read the article: The U.S. military's role in preventing the bombing of Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you laughed to stitches about that you might get quite a laugh out of this tall dog gettin' the run around from the short dog.
Move it on Over--Hank Williams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFkEyvhkqpc
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And the Beat Goes On...
[Read the article: Fox News' attack on the honor and integrity of our war generals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who'd a thunk, right, that these clowns would have painted themselves into a corner with their dopey 'dump on MoveOn' rhetoric? Duh! This episode reminds me of when Larry Flynt exposed Republican hypocrits back in the Clinton impeachment era. Was there ever any doubt that the closets were full of skeletons?
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Garry Owen
[Read the article: Fox News' attack on the honor and integrity of our war generals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fox better find a different military expert. This one went di cau dau a long time ago.
-- Garry Owen
You think maybe he was a..."phony soldier"?
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Link leads to a splendid story!!
[Read the article: Fox News' attack on the honor and integrity of our war generals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A desert vet responds to Rush Limbaugh.
From: http://tinyurl.com/26pbmv
Army of Dude
Reporting On Truth, Justice And The American Way Of War
Friday, September 28, 2007
The Real Deal
--Anonymous
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Sugarman
[Read the article: The Susan Estrich Complex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]yes, cynicalp, they DO accumulate on a GG thread!
you just have to come in when you do. one time i started at the beginning, adding my comments to any post that caught my eye. when i finally got to the end, what do i see? a half dozen of my own posts! (last time i do that!)
-- david sugarman
Sugarman, I laughed when I read that. So I figured, what the heck, I'll extend an olive branch by telling you so.
There are some posters on here who are notoriously unforgivable. Sh**ter, for example. Others are just people who I have disagreements with. Sometimes hot disagreements but, so what, you know?
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@kB4Hire
[Read the article: Fox News' attack on the honor and integrity of our war generals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]KB,
I chopped up your post a little for the sake of brevity. Hopefully I can address it well enough without having quoted your entire post.
Unlike you, I think the definition you quoted from wiki for concern troll fits perfectly well for some of the posts and comment people over the past couple of days. Like you, I don't include Mona in that definition. I don't see how you extrapolate that out to fit with some of the others though. That seems to be a disconnect in your post. Mona has a lot of background for us to work with. Some of the other posters do not. And some of their posts, in my opinion, were precisely what I would consider to fit into the concern troll category.
I don't see anything wrong with the use of the 'knife/gun' phrase. Overused, no doubt, but I think it fits perfectly well as a descriptive phrase in a lot of cases in regards to actions and reactions of 'progressives' versus 'neocons'.
From your post:
Concern troll
A concern troll is a pseudonym created by a user whose point of view is opposed to the one his/her sockpuppet claims to hold. The concern troll posts in web forums devoted to its declared point of view (for example, Democrats or fans of the Prius), and attempts to sway the group's actions or opinions while claiming to share their goals but with some "concerns". The goal is to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt within the group.
Democratic/Progressive response using metaphors like "bringing a knife to a gun fight ..." etc does nothing to further the dialog.
There's no fake postings involved, no sockpuppets. NO concern troll behavior is going on!
-- KB4Hire
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Sugarman
[Read the article: Fox News' attack on the honor and integrity of our war generals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're welcome. No problem. If I haven't figured out by now that I can be a bit over bearing at times, I never will. Just ask Holly McClatchlan ;o). That's sort of an inside joke. Or at I least I think it is. She might not.
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William on Skills
[Read the article: Fox News' attack on the honor and integrity of our war generals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And to you out there who're more skilled at editing-as-you-go: what discipline do you use to remember that when you change the front half of a clause, you have to change the back half as well?)
-- William Timberman
I just give my post a long blank stare until something jumps out at me that looks weird. Doesn't always work. Eventually I hit 'publish' because I need to go to the bathroom or get a sandwich.
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Kevin's "Issues"
[Read the article: Charlie Savage at FDL Book Salon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Stick to gay and lesbian issues.
--Kevin
I think maybe it is Kevin who has gay and lesbian "issues". I have issues with lesbians too, but it's mostly just that some of them make me really h****.
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Lost in the Ozone...Again
[Read the article: Charlie Savage at FDL Book Salon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, Glenn, I stand despised.