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Saturday, Jul 4, 2009
George Kaplan
Published Letters: 3
Quote:
"Talk about something scary. I glanced at the original article and 3 or 4 of the blogs. If this writer and the bloggers who write blogs by the hundreds represent the left in this country we have much of be afraid of. The far radial left which make up these stories and the bloggers appear they would rather take over and destroy the United States more than anything else. Very, Very Scary."
All the below comments come from a registered Independent, neither Democrat nor Republican:
The far radial left? Maybe, in your haste to post nothing but weirdly vitrolic rants about "The Left" all over Salon's pages (nice history of postings there - no one can say you aren't firm in your beliefs) you've lost sight of clear communication.
In any event, it's only ignorance I fear - and I fear your ignorance. Only someone utterly committed to an ideology without regard for its abuses and inconsistencies would comment this way on what is, to a cool and collected mind, a recounting of actual events sworn to under penalty of perjury. While you may take issue with the writer's tone, facts are facts - and only a zealot ignores cold facts that contradict their own opinion.
Quote:
"Patrick Henry said it best: Give me liberty, or give me Death."
Actually, Patrick Henry didn't say it best, because Patrick Henry arguably didn't say it.
Mr. William Wirt, who published Henry's speech 18 years after the fact, attributed the quote to Henry and his source for it was not Henry, or Henry's writings, but a Judge who orally recounted his memories of the speech to Wirt.
Henry's devotion to the principle of liberty has been questioned by some scholars who note that, despite the stirring words, Henry retained his slaves following the revolution. What they don't acknowledge, or consider (I say, tongue half in cheek) is that Henry/Wirt says "Give ME liberty," which, like most political speech/acts, centers entirely around the self.
QUOTE: "I'm not sure THE DARK KNIGHT is a bad movie, but it certainly feels like a racist movie, doesn't it? African-American characters in this film fall into three categories: Gangsta thugs, buzzard bait, and Morgan Freeman. (I know, I know: Welcome to Hollywood.) Yet in the comics, Harvey Dent is an African-American politician with a distinct if unintentional resemblance to Barack Obama -- both conceal (or at least Obama seems to conceal) barely suppressed rage beneath superficial placidity. (And Obama's most fervent netroots supporters have already hauled out the "Two-Face" label over the FISA bill.) In any case, it's no surprise that Hollywood has run screaming from yet another three-dimensional African-American character, and although Aaron Eckhardt is good in the part (even better, I'd say, than Heath Ledger's Joker), I can think of half a dozen African-American actors who could have handled the part just as well without compromising the character."
Timothyhulsey, you are clearly incorrect on one point, and arguably bizarre on another.
First, 'in the comics' Harvey Dent is decidedly NOT African-American. He is Caucasian, and always has been. He has been portrayed on film as African-American once - in Burton's original Batman - by Billy Dee Williams.
Thus, 80% of your weird diatribe means nothing. More interesting is your implied (wrongful) argument that because Dent is a black man in comics, he should be played by a black man in the film. Since Dent is clearly white in the comics, doesn't that automatically mean, according to your logic, that a white man should play him? And isn't that focus on skin color over ability just a little bit....racist?
As for your bizarre Dent/Obama comparisons, the less said the better. I am no "Obamaniac," and remain a committed independent, so I have no partisan motivation when I say that your reference to the "barely suppressed rage beneath superficial placidity" is ludicrious and baffling.
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The media outlet's use of Bush euphemisms sparks a much-needed debate on journalistic standards.
And so are his Fox News pals, who lambasted Sen. Al Franken's "stolen election"
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Thanks for sharing, Governor. Now please take a cue from Norm Coleman, and go away
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