Letters to the Editor
dr rick
Published Letters: 59
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Awesome job once again, Glenn.
[Read the article: Response from ABC News re: the Saddam-anthrax reports]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...thanks so much for exposing ABC's complicity in misleading the US into an unneccessary, disastrous, and immoral war.
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"Whos[e] side are you on here? How dare you be outraged over an American Prison Camp! Where is your outrage over what the Terrorists do? What the hell is the matter with you?"
[Read the article: The Abu Ghraib files]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course we're outraged at the terrorists; afterall, the terrorists are really bad people who do really bad things. Those of us who were so shocked at Abu Garib already knew that about the terrorists, but many of us believed and still believe that we're supposed to be better than the terrorists. Subscribing to a standard that we are 'not as bad' as the terrorists won't make us good people. That's why the argument that "you should be outraged at the terrorists" is so unsatisfying: we expect to be outraged by the terrorists, but we don't expect to be outraged by our own government. If we want to be better than the terrorists, then we can't justify what we do by comparing ourselves to them. They're terrorists; we're supposed to be civilized, decent human beings.
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Glenn takes Freddy to the woodshed...
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt defends the administration's mild, restrained secrecy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...check-out the comments section under Hiatt's pathetic column today: many of them are pointing to Greenwald's post.
Thank you, Glenn; you really are a patriot.
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No doubt about it...
[Read the article: John Yoo -- then and now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Is John Yoo a practitioner of doublethink who is therefore capable of of holding two contradictory beliefs in his mind simultaneously"
Yes; in fact, it appears to be an absolute prerequisite to working in the Bush administration.
BTW, Glenn, thanks for another spot-on analysis.
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Shooter posted:
[Read the article: What were the pre-2005 "other intelligence activities"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Anything purely domestic still requires a warrant."
So does a domestic call going overseas, but that didn't stop the Bush administration from violating the law.
"the program in question is not surveillance of a particular person, it's surveillance of overseas phone calls by millions of people at any given moment. The idea being to link people or places in a significant pattern. How does one get a warrant for that? Comprende?"
One doesn't get a warrant for that, because indiscriminately spying upon calls originating in the USA is illegal.
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Thanks, Glenn;
[Read the article: The really smart, serious, credible Iraq experts O'Hanlon and Pollack]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...for yet another great piece. Your efforts are very much appreciated.
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Another brilliant analysis and summary of how right wingers "deplore" the very tactics that they use
[Read the article: One-sided rules of political debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for all you do, Glenn.
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@ -- totallyblase
[Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nice work on researching and debunking e-man's claims; thanks.
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No specail pass
[Read the article: The ADL purports to respond again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Foxman wrote:
As a Holocaust survivor, saved in my childhood by a courageous Polish Catholic woman who hid me from the Nazis, and as one who lost nearly all of his family to the Nazi gas chambers, the suggestion that I or ADL would suddenly hold back such criticism due to political or other considerations is personally hurtful and deeply offensive.
As the son of a late Holocaust survivor who saved himself by his own courageous actions, and who lost nearly all of his family to the Nazi gas chambers, the ADL's failure to speak out against abuses of the memory of the victims of the Holocaust due to political or other considerations is personally hurtful and deeply offensive.
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Great job, Glenn
[Read the article: Time magazine refused to publish responses to Klein's false smears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please keep the pressure on Time and Mr. Klein
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@ the professor
[Read the article: CNN's John King responds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...But [Mr Kings's] response raises a point that your reply dodges: what reporting did you do? From what I can tell, you referred to what was aired and then proceeded to spill your vitriol all over Mr. King. Judging from other columns about reporters, that appears to be your style. Your privilege, of course, but it does raise the question about your qualifications..."
Prof. Tim Smith, Kent State University.
I respectfully disagree, Professor; the merits of Mr. Greenwald's arguments stand on their own, irrespective of his "qualifications". If you doubt that this is the case, just ask any professor or instructor at your institution who teaches a course in logic.
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1/2 right, but 1/2 wrong, too
[Read the article: How the Web pushes politics further left, further right]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr Manjoo is only half right when he concludes that the respective primaries moved the race for the House seat "further left and further right" and "away from the center".
In America, the "center" is overwhelmingly opposed to the war in Iraq, and it does not favor tax cuts that benefit only the very wealthy; one need be only vaguely familiar with the results of the 2006 elections and the numerous recent American polls to know this. Ms Edwards opposition to the war and her opposition to tax cuts for the wealthy place her squarely in the political center of America, not on the "far left" as Mr Manjoo falsely asserts. Conversely, the win by the pro war and pro tax-cuts-for-the-rich Mr. Harris, whose views are shared only by a minority of Americans, did move the Republican offering away from the political center and toward the radical-fringe right.
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Though there may be more...
[Read the article: Jihadis throw a wild bash over the Protect America Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I think there is probably joy throughout the terrorist cells throughout the world that the United States Congress did not do its duty today." - Representative Ted Poe, Republican of Texas.
So now we know that Texas sent at least two idiots to Washington.
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It figures
[Read the article: McCain, Obama, Clinton push dangerous vaccine-autism myth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In a country where many still believe that the universe began 6000 years ago and that life was "intelligently designed", is it really any wonder that the vaccine-autism myth continues to flourish?
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Let me get this straight...
[Read the article: McCain, Obama, Clinton push dangerous vaccine-autism myth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"to -- cestmoi123: Ugly posts like yours are why I made my statement and left it." -- peeps
So now you're claiming that you didn't substantiate any of your claims in anticipation of being called out on your failure to substantiate any of your claims?
"I am not going into defensive mode with small-minded people who conflate this with 9/11 conspiricy theories or Jew-baiting or creationism."
Yet you clearly are in offensive mode with your "small-minded" and "ugly" name-calling.
And cestmoi123 doesn't appear to be conflating anything; he is simply drawing an analogy between you and others who make claims that are as insubstantial as yours.
"If you are interested you can do your own research."
Why should anyone else research your claims when you don't support them yourself?
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At the risk of stating the obvious...
[Read the article: Larry Di Rita's responses to questions about the "military analyst" program]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Right. Let's see, he [Di Rita] was a PR guy right? Part of the DoD PR office, right? That would be relating to the public via the press as his official and budgeted duty, right?... -- shooter242
Mr. Di Rita was not "budgeted" to facilitate an illegal program.
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It's pathetic, actually
[Read the article: Was Karl Rove involved in the military analyst program?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tsk. It's a sad, sad, thing to see so many lives spent in hate. Tsk. -- shooter242
What's really sad is too see someone living in such a state of denial.