Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 8
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Already investigating and legislating
[Read the article: On the trail of "legislate, don't investigate!"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Both halves of Congress just passed significant legislation with popular drawdown deadlines while facing down the President on funding his war. The House and Senate leadership accomplished these tough votes while also investigating the DoJ -- clearly, this either/or meme is patently false.
It's great for the country to have accountability and accomplishment, unless one is close to gettin' a subpoena.
Good work, Joan.
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Just another good, non-conspiracy-theory-believing
[Read the article: The unresolved story of ABC News' false Saddam-anthrax reports]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just another good, non-conspiracy-theory-believing Christian grad student who thinks that Glenn Greenwald's research is a national treasure. Here at Berkeley if I used four faulty sources in a research paper I'd get an F. But hey, that ain't news. . .
The claim that Ross should be trusted with unnamed sources because his work has earned four duPont and four Peabody award is a logical fallacy: argumentum ad verecundiam.
Ross: the newest example of Mickey Mouse reporting.
Here's "Brian Ross & the Investigative Team's" anonymous tip line.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1927431
I think that I'm going to do my crazy blogger activist duty and give them a hot tip about a journalist who got used by "unnamed" Bush administration "sources" to market a war that turned out unnecessary.
Won't you join me?
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Oh, I've been forwarding this site to my friends
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love the "Ascroft" quote. And that USA Today is left. And that her father earned a "metal" of valor over here.
I now see how the US Attorney thing got so bungled.
Something tells me that she was more of a smiling non-detail person. . .
What was her job again? Oh yeah. . .senior counsel to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Justice Department liaison to the White House.
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Back to the 1700s
[Read the article: The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Excellent points Glenn and good to note that this is rooted in Mansfield's Machiavelli scholarship. That Prince-informed thinking justified European authoritarian governments during the 17th and 18th century. Louis the XVI was the embodiment.
Mansfield's arguments are nothing new, merely the articulation of exactly what the American revolutionaries fought against. In fact, Mansfield would be a great justifier for George III.
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Solid work Glenn
[Read the article: A beautiful mosaic of anti-blogger hatred]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I appreciate your attention to this wackiness on the right and the middle-minded.
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Correction "s"
[Read the article: BloggingheadsTV session with the Politico's Ben Smith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's Bloggingheads.tv.
And clearly since I care enough to note that I'll add that I really like the service. It's great to add dimension to the blogging community and it shows that most of the usual pundits on old TV are really more informed than anyone who reads and writes blogs seriously. With the diavlog links it adds a helpful dimension to the conversation. I would recommend the Robert Wright/Micky Kaus stuff. Bob has a perfect head for the medium (much better than meaningoflife.tv) and it's great to make Kaus actually consider rather than merely act on his tendency to promote rather than probe novel ideas.
Just another graduate student who watches all his TV online (thank you free TVEyes account!), has no landline, shares Wi-Fi with nine friends, and works half time as a paid blogger. Oh yeah!
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of course there should be a "not" in that line about old TV
[Read the article: BloggingheadsTV session with the Politico's Ben Smith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and an "e" in Mickey. Damn hearing aid. . .
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Good analysis Joan
[Read the article: The Democrats defeat the media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought that it was a relatively thoughtful debate. I have two middle-aged friends who live in San Francisco. They are Republicans, two of the few. On Monday they both switched their registration to Democratic and plan to vote for Sen. Obama. I thought of them while watching the debate, hoping that my "team" would prove worthy of all the time I've spent cajoling my friends. With some decent discussion on Iraq, race and guns, I'm proud again.