Letters to the Editor
DCLaw1
Published Letters: 996 Editor's Choice: 2
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Trust me, Orson
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You don't want to get into a tangle with me about what is relevant to a legal (or other) debate. Especially not when your own quoted Wikipedia (how amateur) says "Ad hominem tu quoque refers to an irrelevant accusation of hypocrisy."
I don't care how many "sources" you cull together from the Internets, you will hear only silence or laughter trying to pedantically convince people that a person's hypocrisy on the very argument they are advancing is irrelevant to their argument. Sure, in the pure abstract, the hypocrisy says nothing about the objective veracity of the argument (as advanced by no one in particular), but when has Glenn or anyone else here talked about the objective veracity of what Hemingway said about Justice Souter? The whole point, which you seem incapable of grasping, is that Hemingway's and others' credibility on the subject of toughness is hilariously abysmal. Accordingly, your comments thus far have been the epitome of academic, in the least flattering sense of the word.
You want to keep rehashing the same points you've made several times already, be our guest, but you are only making yourself and that point increasingly obnoxious by doing so. It's also no surprise that you've turned to the favorite security blanket of many lamenting dissenters on this site: that everyone just wants to stifle your incredibly potent argument, you misunderstood rhetorical martyr.
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prunes
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The guy has so much money he could buy and sell my family five times over and has had that much for his entire life. How does anyone in America identify with this guy?! He doesn't seem like someone "I'd like to have a beer with", he seems like the spoiled, humorless lout I'd avoid at every opportunity.
I really just don't get it.
I think a lot of the mythos that surrounded (and continues to surround) Bush as an ordn'ry guy stems from his lack of communication skills and his inability to think in anything other than simplistic terms. We have had in this country a decidedly anti-intellectual bias for quite some time. In many ways, we are a sort of jock nation, scornful of the nerds and tough girls, and clustering reflexively around our national prom queens and football captains. W., for all his Ivy League grooming and power-wealth pedigree, is the quintessential towel-snapping jock. Probably never was much of an athlete (but a cheerleader), but then again jock status hinges not so much on physical prowess but on a devil-may-care attitude and anti-intellectual jocularity.
Just one superficial but revealing example of this: think of how few American Presidents have worn glasses since not wearing glasses has become an option. I do think that, right now, the country has tired somewhat of the "average guy" template, but not to the extent that it needs to. We still openly court and swoon over (incredibly) Fred Thompson's cigar-handling-shewt-ferm-the-hip-wise-cracking, and fixate on the substantively empty gotcha moments of past campaigns and events ("there you go again").
Which network news anchor was it that said recently, to paraphrase, that as you grow up you realize that life forever remains like high school. And we wonder why human history continues on such an F-ed up trajectory. Student council elections have more going for them than most of our presidential contests.
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Titus
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In fact, his speech had been written days earlier by Adam Walinsky, a former speechwriter for Bobby Kennedy.
Kerry claimed it was imprumptu; in fact, it was not.
The liar!
Wow, he doesn't stand a chance in '08.
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SusanMc
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gracias.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a flaming capital A-hole John Bolton is. "A" is for Archetypal Authoritarian, spewing untruth, yielding no admission of his own blatant errors and misdeeds, and redirecting blame to everyone but himself and his ilk.
What an intolerable excuse for a man that talking moustache is. I couldn't imagine having to work for him, in the proud State Department, no less.
I heard his management style is Screamer. I need an alcoholic beverage to cleanse myself of his psychological stink.
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Pedinska
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The first time I saw [John Bolton] I wondered about the fact that his moustache was so white compared to his hair. Then he opened his mouth. The scalding, in-your-face lies and other filth that came oozing out from under it more than explained it's bleached-bone color. It's a wonder it doesn't burst into flames and fly off his face!
Ha!