Letters to the Editor
sajwan
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 13
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Teenage Gossips
[Read the article: The warped reality of our media stars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LAUER: But if the Democrats and Speaker Pelosi appear to be acting irresponsibly or incompetently, and let's face it, a lot of people think she messed up on this one, what's the impact for Democrats overall?"
"...let's face it alot of people think she messed up..."??? What? When my daughter became a teen ager and discovered the wonder of the phone, I would overhear her having conservations on "which so and so was reacting to which so and so's actions and which so and so liked which so and so". In effect, Lauer takes the same approach as my daughter did in gossiping with her newly teen friends. It is no wonder the latest study found that people who look to the morning shows for news are the least informed of people, right down there in the sewer of misinformation with Rush and his ditto heads.
Hopefully Lauer will continue to sink farther and farther down the sink hole of his own making, and then eventually become invisible.
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It's the Math
[Read the article: Instant prejudice: Korea and Virginia Tech]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gee wiz, I thought for sure it was not because he was Korean but because he was exceptional in math. I've always been suspect of people who were really good in math, now this cements it. All colleges should start profiling people who are good in math.
--end sarcasm
From a position of absurdity, Cho had been in the country for 15 years, since the age of eight. At this point he was more of American culture than Korean. Further more, to even remotely link this to illegal immigrants or race is beyond contempt.
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It's all about the Hippies
[Read the article: Anatomy of Beltway conventional wisdom]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Somerby does deserve tons of credit for tirelessly writing about the crap that passes for news over the past several years. I think that Glenn in many ways enriches the discussion Somerby soldiers on with. In other words, they are complimentary.
I do not completely agree with Glenn’s statement:
In the rotted world of Beltway media cynicism, any talk of "root solutions" or "ideas" or "abstract concepts" is automatically insincere, irrelevant and merely a tactic for avoiding "real substance."
I don't think that particular trope of media cynicism is automatic but in practice selectively applied. Therefore, for Obama, "big ideas, root solutions" are avoiding the substance. For Bush the “root solution” of "bringing freedom to the middle east" is leadership and grand thinking.
As far as haircuts, yes great, no one should get haircuts; the hippies had it right in the 60's.
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Fools
[Read the article: Abortion and the court, or the silver lining that isn't]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia in declaring that the Supreme Court's "abortion jurisprudence, including Casey and Roe v. Wade, has no basis in the Constitution."
It is not only the lack humanity that is so startling - don't they know that the procedure they outlawed is rare and only used in extreme cases, and only because it is the best choice out of bad ones, and usually in situations where the parents do want to keep the pregnancy, but due to extreme medical conditions have to end it?
In addition to their lack of compassion, their grotesque interpretation of the Constitution is even more startling. If they are suggesting there has to be a specific language in the Constitutional for a womans right to choose, they are idiots. In a totalitarian state, individual rights are only those granted by the state, in a free state, individual rights are those not explicitly denied by the state. The Constitution is not there as a tool to deny rights but to keep the state that wants to deny rights in check. Claiming that there is no basis in the Constitution for a womans right to choose, infers there is Constitutional basis for determining an embryo is a person with inalienable rights.
Deplorable stonehearted fools.
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best represented their views
[Read the article: Abortion and the court, or the silver lining that isn't]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The 93K people in FL who voted for the candidate that best represented their views, did not get the candidate that best represented their views, they got the most shallow, incompetent and corrupt administration arguably in the history of the nation. Along with a never ending war as a bonus.
So go feel proud about that.
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Good
[Read the article: Abortion and the court, or the silver lining that isn't]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good. I'm glad anonymous agrees it's Doctors and The American Medical Association who should be making medical decisions on the behalf of their patients - not bloviating politicians and lawyers and judges in a court room.
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In summary
[Read the article: Alberto Gonzales testifies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To sum up Als testimony:
"To my knowledge, I never made a decision I remembered. I am confident though they were all very good decisions."
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Have you ever noticed
[Read the article: Supreme Court upholds ban on "partial-birth" abortion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In response to: "Have you ever noticed how everyone who is for abortion has already been born?"
How about:
Have you ever noticed how everyone who has been born has already been born.
or
Have you ever noticed how everyone who is against choice doesn't give a rats ass about kids who are already born.
Well if the conversation is going to go stupid, all is fair game.
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"pro-death crowd", "pro-abortion crowd"
[Read the article: Supreme Court upholds ban on "partial-birth" abortion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look if you are going to put invectives and false labels like "pro-death crowd" and "pro-abortion crowd" in your comments, you can make the comments a lot shorter and succinct if you left out all the filler sophistry and misinformation and kept the comments to the stripped down invectives. The message remains the same without the filler.