Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 363 Editor's Choice: 1
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Joan Walsh -- "All the news tonight was bad for Republicans."
[Read the article: On to New Hampshire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I find the one line you devoted to the Republicans particularly odd in light of the fact that Huckabee beat Romney 34 to 25. A pretty convincing victory. Surely one Republican had good news.
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It ain't over till Cankles cackles.
[Read the article: On to New Hampshire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary lost and Republicans everywhere are depressed -- because she alone was the one they're most likely to beat. Now poor old Hillary will have to scratch and claw, which will only make her more unattractive. I sure hope she doesn't resort to that shrill fingernails-on-the-blackboard caterwauling she used to assail us with -- it's sure to send shivers up the spines of even her most ardent supporters, including Joan.
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Jeeze, Joan, you really seem to have been thrown under the bus here.
[Read the article: On to New Hampshire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I won't pile on. Not my style. However, it DOES amaze me how fast people on the left are able to turn on a dime and eat their young.
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Feminazi. That's right, feminazi.
[Read the article: Hillary without tears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My God, how many reader posts have I read here that call Bush a facist, a monkey and a thousand other slurs. And yet most folks at Salon can't handle feminazi? Jeeze, get over yourselves. If you're gonna dish it out, kindly be able to take it.
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@ Sonny Black -- "It's interesting and telling to see the liberals here reaching for the axe of censorship at the first sign of deviation from the party line."
[Read the article: Hillary without tears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I couldn't agree with you more. So much for tolerance. Perhaps liberal readers at Salon would rather see this site run the same way they are at the Democratic Underground. Over there, all posts are constantly being scrutinized by a team of "Big Brother" types. If you dare (as I did) present an opposing point of view -- no matter how well-crafted or respectful -- your post is deleted before your eyes and you're banished from ever posting again. It's amazingly neo-Stalinist. I was surprised I wasn't sent to a re-education camp.
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Political labels are slippery little words.
[Read the article: "We're all fascists now"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, I think Jonah Goldberg makes some very thoughtful observations. Words like "facism, socialism and totalitarian" have definitions that evolve over time. They have different meanings during different periods of world history. Remember, the NAZI party was the National Socialist German Workers Party. Yes, socialist, like much of Europe today. But it's hardly the same thing.
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You missed how it was stolen completely.
[Read the article: Was the New Hampshire vote stolen?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It wasn't rigged machines or fraudalent reporting of results. It was importing busloads of voters from other states. There were many reports of people in small New Hampshire towns (where everyone knows everyone) of hundreds of brand new faces showing up to vote. This is easy in New Hamphire because the rules for qualifying to vote are virtually nonexistent. Basically, if you show up and say "hi" -- you can vote. This also makes voting many times in many places possible.
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Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal arrested.
[Read the article: More about race and the Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Speaking of that nasty Clinton machine, longtime Clinton advisor and former Salon writer Sidney Blumenthal has been arrested and charged with an aggravated DWI. He was doing 70 mph in a 30 mph zone and swerving all over the road. What a fine, upstanding citizen. You may recall that back in the early ninties, when a group of Arkansas state troopers began leveling charges that Bill Clinton had been philandering, Blumenthal shot his venom back at them in an article he wrote in The New Yorker, accusing the troopers themselves of attempted fraud, marital infidelity and drunken driving. Yes, drunken driving!
Ahhh, poetic justice is so so sweet.
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More problems for Hillary: Advisor Sidney Blumenthal arrested.
[Read the article: The Clinton-Obama contest gets rougher]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Speaking of that nasty Clinton machine and those run it, longtime Clinton advisor and former Salon editorialist Sidney Blumenthal has been arrested and charged with an aggravated DWI. He was doing 70 mph in a 30 mph zone and swerving all over the road. My, my, what a fine, upstanding citizen. You may recall that back in the early ninties, when a group of Arkansas state troopers began leveling charges that Bill Clinton had a long history of philandering, Blumenthal shot his venom back at them in an article he wrote for The New Yorker, accusing the troopers themselves of marital infidelity and drunken driving. Yes, drunken driving!
Ahhh, poetic justice is so, so sweet.
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But Glenn, when you ban a reader you disagree with from posting their comments on your site, you're guilty of precisely the same thing.
[Read the article: The Noxious Fruits of Hate Speech laws]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"But equally pernicious, at least, are those who advocate laws that would proscribe and punish political expression, and those who exploit those laws to try use the power of the State to impose penalties on those expressing 'offensive' or 'insulting' or 'wrong' political ideas."
Sorry, Glenn, I'm afraid penalizing people who disagree with you by banning them from posting here -- no matter how "offensive" or "insulting" or "wrong" their political ideas are -- is exactly the kind of behavior you're professing to deplore. Could you possibly BE more hypocritical?
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More good news for Obama: Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal arrested.
[Read the article: Chicago is Barack Obama's kind of town]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Speaking of that nasty Clinton machine and those run it, longtime Clinton advisor and former Salon editorialist Sidney Blumenthal has been arrested and charged with an aggravated DWI. He was doing 70 mph in a 30 mph zone and swerving all over the road. My, my, what a fine, upstanding citizen. You may recall that back in the early ninties, when a group of Arkansas state troopers began leveling charges that Bill Clinton had a long history of philandering, Blumenthal shot his venom back at them in an article he wrote for The New Yorker, accusing the troopers themselves of marital infidelity and drunken driving. Yes, drunken driving!
Ahhh, poetic justice is so, so sweet.
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@ -- Ktwdawg -- "I'll type this slowly"
[Read the article: The Noxious Fruits of Hate Speech laws]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry your arthritis is acting up. Perhaps you can type faster later. But thanks for pointing out the obvious -- namely that on the one hand you have the Canadian government and on the other you have Glenn's blog. And again, thanks for pointing out what's even more obvious -- that one is more powerful than the other, the limits of each, etc. But my argument is about the overarching concept -- using a position of power to quash ideas you don't agree with. It really doesn't matter whether it's the neighborhood bully, a teacher, a journalist or the president of the United States who's doing it. It's simply wrong. On any level.
Cheers.