Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 32 Editor's Choice: 3
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This guy's from Batshit, Arkansas
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee, on a wing and a prayer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But he knows how to sucker liberals, all right. So far, Huckabee has gotten the coziest reception of all the Republican candidates at the hands of liberals. (with the possible exception of Ron Paul)
Is this really a left-wing version of the Rovian game of pushing the opposition's weakest candidate forward only to mow him down when the real election battle begins? Or is Scherer actually in thrall of Huckabee's aw-shucks demeanor? It sure was a curious bucket of softballs lobbed underhand to Huckabee, that's for sure.
What about Iraq, Michael? And since Huckabee doesn't believe in Plan B, how about asking him whether ANY female oral contraceptives should be legal (they all work substantially the same way-get out some product circulars and read about their mode of operation.)
How about drilling the guy over his disbelief in evolution? What does he think schools should teach?
The guy's nuts. But the interview lets him come across like somebody's sweet, dotty, uncle.
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The angel of reason visits Huckabee. Finally.
[Read the article: The dark side of Mike Huckabee]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After reading the Scherer puff piece on Huckabee I hoped Joan Walsh would discern the utter lack of shoe leather that went into it. Glad Salon decided to ask somebody who actually knows something about Huckabee for once. Yeah, Huckabee is smooth and doesn't come across like your typical redneck shitkicking snake handler.
He just thinks like one. Good job pointing that out, Max Brantley. I hope this story grows some legs in the major media. It would be a shame to lose moderates to Huckabee's ingratiating and self-deprecatory ways without them knowing that they were really voting for a guy who wants a Scopes trial do-over.
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Lighten up
[Read the article: You, too, can be a campaign reporter!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]fer Christ's sake. It's just a story. At least Scherer isn't trying to cover Huckabee in special sauce like he tried a couple weeks ago.
I think some people didn't score as highly as they imagined they should.
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Liber-atholics
[Read the article: Ron Paul's free, green market ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How anyone in this day and age can imagine that the free market (as if such could ever exist) can solve the encyclopedia of all the world's ills baffles me. There is no magical power in Laissez-Faire. Humans are adaptable and opportunistic and at every turn they will take unfair advantage if allowed. The only way to get around this is government regulation and enforcement. When you combine a humanely regulated market with a strong and fair public infrastructure you get prosperity. Maybe enough to combat some of the rest of the world's ills. When you monkey with it like a bunch of children, worshiping an economic philosophy as if it were some mighty Jesus, then you stand to lose everything.
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Mr. Opus1:
[Read the article: National Review reporter caught fabricating; where is the "liberal media"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's "bated" breath, not "baited". Bated is a contracted form of "abated". Cheers and kudos for keeping watch on the right wing blogs. If I read them for too long they make me puke.
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The role of simulators
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Patrick seems to be saying that the experience of both Jamie and Adam in the NASA simulator is not *really* valid. He may be right of course. The show did not go into any great detail about the simulator modes used (was it on "easy", "beginner", etc.?)
However, the use of simulators as substitutes for the real thing is not just commonplace in commercial and military aviation, it is universal. Everybody uses simulators, they are proven to increase aircrew proficiency much less expensively than real flight time and allow aircrew to practice scenarios that would be difficult if not impossible to duplicate in real life.
The main point is that if the simulator is not good enough to test the ability of the pilot to land the aircraft then shouldn't it be suspect in its ability to test any other scenario? Why, if it is such an inaccurate mimic, are people being paid to maintain it?