Letters to the Editor
Jkalos
Published Letters: 485 Editor's Choice: 3
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Scrub Shrub
[Read the article: WSJ Op-Ed page decries hatred of the president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Day. Now there's a vision of a thing, Bebop-o: a vast army of spring cleaners, scrubbing out the national soul. We could invite the Dalai Lama to be our honorary team captain, all put on orange or crimson robes in his honor, take up our brushes and scrub and wash and clean and mend until we are the shining, or at least cleaned up, city on the hill. America like some poor old folks home patient, neglected, lying in its own filth, needing some cool competent volunteers to clean them up, wash the linens, scrub the floor, open the windows. Bush hatred? More like Bush horror at what they have done to themselves and others. Horror. Pity. Sadness. Disgust. Ever worked in a hospital? I wan an orderly once upon a time. You would feel a disgust so visceral sometimes you wanted to go puke. But you stood firm and did your job to clean the person up. But they won't let us get to cleaning. They won't let us debreed the bed sores and was the linen. They insist in laying in their filth and forcing others to do it with them. That can lead to quite an anger. And quite a sadness. O bebop-o, whatever will we do?
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Anonymust
[Read the article: WSJ Op-Ed page decries hatred of the president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I put my hands together, and do that little buddhist bow toward you. Respect!
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Does this
[Read the article: Self-satire scales new heights]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]person Bush exhibit brazen contempt for us all or is he abysmally unselfaware (and thus a tool for those who hold us in brazen contempt, etc)? Either side of the dilemma is terrifying for us all. I don't know how you get the gumption to keep on writing about this, Glenn. It just makes me want to go back to bed.
On the other hand, it somehow puts me in mind of Samuel Clemens and his marvelous satiric comments on the politicians of his day during the Gilded Age, which has apparently returned to us with a vengeance.
Ah, well: as Bebop-o might point out: the sun is shining here and the air is crisp and cool. And my morning oatmeal was tasty.
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Marko, I tell you,
[Read the article: Good riddance to John Howard ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always feel like apologizing to everyone I meet these days for the sadness my country has brought to the world. I feel like wearing one of the ad boards, sandwich board thingys, that says on it like the nice bridge ladies in China: I did not vote for Bush. I would add on it that I went door to door for Kerry. I walked and talked myself blue. But it wasn't enough.
Sorry, world. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
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Sysprog
[Read the article: Good riddance to John Howard ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That is an amazing news item about the good Colonel at Guatanamo. Simply amazing. I am heartened by such acts of conscience. And I think if I lived in a real democracy with a real free press that it would be headline news.
Alas.
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I want a button
[Read the article: Demand answers from Time magazine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to press so that all I can read are bebop-o's posts, for days when I need reminding of what is truly important. Hey bebop-o, sometimes when I read you I seem to catch a glimpse of why I am glad to be alive.
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Che Pasa
[Read the article: The NYT's Michael Cooper demonstrates what real reporting is]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I really like what you said. You seem to accurately limn the media and who it serves. But I think the purpose of calling them out as Glenn does is educational in the following sense. What you so clearly see about the media was not always so clearly seen, for example, by me. I bought into the claims of their serving the public, the fourth estate, etc. etc. It is folks like Glenn calling them out and taking them at their word that they serve the public, and exposing the hypocrisy, that made it possible for me to come the the point where it is clear to me that the media has and always will be a tool of the elite power classes. But it is so revelatory to take them at their word that they are not doing this, and then to call them on their hypocrisy, for the purpose of helping people come to see the actual situation. I used to do that as an Army officer: well, I took an oath to be honest, and a gentleman, etc., so I cannot in good conscience do x, y, or z. And those in power think you are being an idiot: but those who you are in charge of see it, and think about it. A kind of Socratic examination, in a sense, and I think that is what Glenn and folks like him are doing: helping to educate us all.
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What I meant, Che,
[Read the article: The NYT's Michael Cooper demonstrates what real reporting is]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to add a comment, is that the point expecting them to go against their nature and become what the are not and have never been? is an ironic stance taken for educational purposes in terms of those who are listening.
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A nice run
[Read the article: The NYT's Michael Cooper demonstrates what real reporting is]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]of comments: I enjoyed reading through them--particularly the Jefferson, the beer, and the rainfall stats. My education continues.
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@grubert
[Read the article: Time magazine refused to publish responses to Klein's false smears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the link to the Fuller article. It was a nice summary of the situation.
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Mishima, I am fracked too.
[Read the article: The Dodd and Biden show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I live in Florida, which means that the ***holes in New Hampshire, etc., who want to be first have made it so my primary vote will not count. Our primary process is fracking insane.
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O Grubert:
[Read the article: Away in an awesome manger]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"love the christian, hate the christianity"
that's a good one.
thanks.