Letters to the Editor
Kitt
Published Letters: 2729
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Poor Pathetic Shooter
[Read the article: A glimpse at Versailles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If one thinks that moveon.org pushing to get the United States of America and our military personal out of a deadly occupation half way across the world in Iraq is the same thing as the Christian Coalition pushing politicians to, lets say, for example, keep Terry Shiavo living on tubes...well, I don't think that person has a working brain.
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A Good Word About Bush?
[Read the article: Brit Hume is a "journalist"; Keith Olbermann is "partisan"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unless you can find something nice and respectful to say about the alligator who's chewing off your leg, you must be a vicious partisan.
-- SomeNYGuy
Shooter, back awhile, put the same insipid question to us about saying something positive about Bush showing bias of non-bias. I had the same reply as you did, SomeNYGuy. Except I left out the alligator bit. That about sums it up, though. Hard to have a good word to say about things or people who are the equivalent disleasure as violent vomiting is.
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Come on now, charles.
[Read the article: Brit Hume is a "journalist"; Keith Olbermann is "partisan"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dishonest, Glenn. When Hume said those words about Murtha, it was on Fox News Sunday and he was in the role of commentator. On Special Report, he puts on the anchor hat. Olbermann's show is an hour-long opinion piece.
-- Charles Bird
You've never heard Hume express a negative opinion about Democrats or even, specifically, Murtha while not hiding behind his "commentator" role? Come on Charles.
By the way, Olberman's one hour show is about half just silly stuff. Not a "one-hour long opinion piece" by a long shot.
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"pundit roundtable"
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, that's a hoot, Charles. The pundit roundtable on Fox just can't be questioned as biased because...it's the "pundit roundtable". Do you actually have a point, Charles? I mean, besides trying to call Glenn Greenwald a liar?
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Short of a full Loaf
[Read the article: Brit Hume is a "journalist"; Keith Olbermann is "partisan"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I do not know if Olbermann did this on purpose or if it was just an oversight? But whatever it was a misleading statement.
Well, we don't know either since you don't provide a transcript or a video or a link or anything other than 'your word'. Are we expected to take 'your word' and then comment on Olberman's behaviour based only on your word?
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Chuck
[Read the article: Brit Hume is a "journalist"; Keith Olbermann is "partisan"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn also conveniently omits that Hume was a longtime journalist with ABC News before his stint at Fox. Olbermann's time before MSNBC was reading sport highlights.
-- Charles Bird
So I take it that, in your opinion, since Glenn didn't post Hume's entire biography Glenn "conveniently omits" pertinent information about the bold and the beautiful Brit Hume?
Also, The Dixie Chicks are musicians, but that didn't limit their ability to understand that Bush is an embarrassment. So, with that in mind, I think Olberman's sports background is irrelevant to whether or not he is qualified to express an opinion.
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Smart Fellah
[Read the article: Brit Hume is a "journalist"; Keith Olbermann is "partisan"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dave Frishberg's take on the journalistic integrity of sports journalism, in his song, "The Sports Page," which is, he sings, "The one place to turn, when a fellah wants to know the score."
-- Paul Rosenberg
And who could argue?
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Somebodyoranother73
[Read the article: Brit Hume is a "journalist"; Keith Olbermann is "partisan"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Iraqis would have fought it out and we would have a winner by now and somebody we could deal with.
Hey, I guess you should have thought of that back in March of '03.
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Topicical Turns
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don’t think it’s helpful to turn the thread into sidebar issues such as...
When a thread gets into the 2 or 3 hundreds of comments that's what's going to happen. We'll all be back for more on topic stuff when Glenn posts another one for us to get onto. It's all good. :o)
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SomeNYGuy - Strange Fruit
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Also sung by billie Holiday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs
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SomeNYguy and bebopo- "Fruit" and "House"
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]More on that.
This was news to me. I just learned this through a search. But since we're touching on Strange Fruit and The House I Live In I think this note is worthy of a post here.
The story of composer Abel Meeropol doesn't end with "Strange Fruit." Working in Hollywood six years later, Meeropol penned his other well-known composition, the patriotic, Oscar-winning paean to tolerance "The House I Live In," which was performed by Frank Sinatra in a film short in 1945 and has experienced a revival since September 11, 2001. The film explores how two such seemingly different political and still-resonant songs came to be written by the same man.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/film.html
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"Show Trials"?
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GG:
And finally we have the case of the AIPAC spies. The Wall St. Journal's Dorothy Rabinowitz actually claimed -- in an Op-Ed entitled "First they came for the Jews" -- that the prosecution itself was dangerous and even insinuated that it was anti-Semitic, claiming (about the Bush DOJ) of "the government's singular focus on nailing the AIPAC lobbyists." She compared the case to Libby's prosecution, both of which are "show trials" persecuting people who have done nothing wrong.
I have nothing to add to that, except to say, Holy wingnuttery! That's astoundingly whacked out.
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Valenzuela Chavez
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And for the life of me, I have no idea how you can say Chavez was bad for Valenzuela.
Yeah. Valenzuela pitched in Chavez Ravine for nearly his entire major league career.
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Out of your league
[Read the article: Neocons' rejection of the rule of law extends to the personal level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, this thread isn't about chavez. Some brat is trying to play out of his or her league and won't get a clue what a fool it is making of itself.
RealName: Piece of advice:
I'm learning to play the banjo. I'm getting fairly good at it. But you won't find me going on stage just yet with a guitar player and a fiddle player because I'm not at the level yet where I could pull that off very well. I'd be 'out of my league' with more accomplished musicians. They would know it. The audience would know it. I'd know it.
Bloggs are aplenty on the internet for you to go to practice your subject changes and straw man, nonsense. Really, You're getting your ass handed to you here. Plus, you're unpleasant.