Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 344 Editor's Choice: 70
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What a Shame Tom Kean Did This
[Read the article: The Sept. 11 that never was]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like Christy Whitman, Thomas Kean has finally gone and become a partisan Republican who puts his party above his country. Shame. I guess I shouldn't be surprised - they are both politicians and politicians are nothing if not self-interested. I don't know why I expect politicians not to act like scheming, slippery, wealth-gathering... politicians.
September 11 proved to be the downfall of both of them. Whitman will go down in the history books as the woman who lied to the residents of lower Manhattan and to rescue and recovery workers at the site of the World Trade Center. She sold out.. for what? People are now dying. She has that on her soul, if not on her dubious conscience. And now Kean has put his stamp of approval on a politcal hack job disguised as entertainment. And that's what ABC/Disney is claiming now - that "The Path to 9/11" is merely entertainment-- not a documentary! Certainly, say the ABC apologists, it wasn't made to be educational!
Except that ABC worked with Scholastic to put educational material based on "Path to 9/11" in our nation's schools.
Let the rightwing chew on that. Remember the Reagan miniseries that gave rightwing partisans the vapors? Were there educational materials developed by the network which made that series and a nation-wide educational service that is practically inescapable in our schools?
Didn't think so.
So when rightwingers try to compare the Reagan miniseries to "The Path to 9/11", stop them dead in their tracks with that little reminder that apples is apples, and oranges are "docudramas" about national tragedies that insinuate themselves into our schools as "living history."
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LW, Get Thee To Amazon.com
[Read the article: My boyfriend is a wild animal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And buy the biography of Keith Moon by Tony Fletcher. I won't tell you how it ends.. heh heh.
Suffice it to say that's how all these guys end up.If you're lucky, he doesn't take you with him.
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Meanwhile, Back At The Ranch...
[Read the article: Quote of the Day, Anniversary Edition]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]According to Andrew Sullivan, Karl Rove is putting the finishing touches on his next act, which will premiere next month. He is going to unveil his media campaign to portray John McCain, Mark Warner and Lindsay Graham as "delaying justice for the perpetrators of that atrocity (9/11)" because these senators want to continue following the constitution and the traditions of US military justice. Rove has lined up families of people who died on 9/11 to abet him in this attempt to justify his administration's illegal power grabs.
I have no doubt that Graham, Warner and McCain are aware of this. Having seen how cynical Mccain has become - embracing those who smeared his family in South Carolina during the 2000 presdential primaries - I firmly believe McCain is merely playing a role (like Arlen Specter) of the "dissenting moderate" in the party, the person who attracts the attention of the media and "takes heat" from the administration, while all along they planned to give the administration what it wants. It's all an act. McCain has made his deal with Bush and Company and he knows what is coming down the pike. After Rumsfeld bungled his "Nazi appeaser" speech and inadvertently scored points for the Democrats, Rove is careful this time to use his 9/11 props against members of his own party, so he won't be accused of using 9/11 for partisan purposes. But he will accomplish his goal of linking the expansion of executive power, the deconstruction of constitutional rights and the undermining of traditional military justice to the "security" of America with his willing props.
And bin Laden remains at large, given a free pass by our allies in Pakistan while the Bush administration does nothing. This is how sick and twisted our nation's "leadership" has become. That the perpetrator of the atrocity of 9/11 skips free while an elaborate kabuki takes place smearing Americans for wanting to retain their liberties, using co-conspirator Republicans as stand-ins for Americans who want to retain their freedoms.
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100,000 troops there in Pakistan is not the answer. It's someone saying 'Guess what?' and then the kinetic action begins
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No soap...radio
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Christine Todd Whitman and Thomas Kean Sr.
[Read the article: Jersey hustler]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think they should be honorarily inducted into Newark, New Jersey's Museum of Science and Trucking.
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My Son Still Wets The Bed
[Read the article: The breast of times]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Two page confessional article for Salon soon to come!
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I've seen Campbell Brown on Pundit Shows
[Read the article: Early-rising Americans not ready for pretty childless women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She's an asshole. A rightwing boob with a snotty attitude. That's why I switch the channel whenever she appears on my screen. Perhaps other television viewers are doing the same thing for the same reason.
I don't care if she has children, chimpanzees or a chia pet. I won't watch snotty rightwing assholes and I'm guessing millions of other people feel the same way.
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Oh, And While I'm At It...
[Read the article: Early-rising Americans not ready for pretty childless women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]can I please opinie that I will NEVER watch a news program that is hosted (or cohosted) by someone who is married to or the child of, or parent of a political operative or a political candidate or political office-holder? We once tried to achieve an independent press in this country, but politicians have been succeeding at bringing it to heel by buying up media outlets (newspapers, magazines, radio stations, cable networks) and by having their children become a part of the media. And by marrying high profile members of the media. I don't want my news from a senator's daughter or a president's niece or nephew, or from the relative or spouse of someone who married into a political family. I want my news separate from political operatives, political candidates, political office-holders, their relatives and their agendas.
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Please Tell Me There Is Video of This Exchange Somewhere
[Read the article: George Allen and the "aspersion" of Judaism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I so very much want to see it. Was Allen's opponent videotaping him that day, like he was videotaping Allen during the Macaca Brouhaha? Because this will make some good viewing.