Letters to the Editor
omooex
Published Letters: 964 Editor's Choice: 5
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DCLAW1
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Matthews...I've actually got him set for regular tivoing, but haven't watched in weeks...it had just become a parade of campaign insiders volleying the same tired crap back and forth, with, of course, Matthews' insane gibberish as relish. For all of his bad qualities--which I would say take up about 95% of his show--he has regularly aired issues that get very little cable-play, especially around Iraq. Which is why I tivoed him in the first place...
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DCLAw, Matthews
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]DC, you were right that Matthews mentioned the McCain 'mispeaking' on his show, but having just watched it, I can tell you he did veracity no favors.
Matthews never questioned whether McCain was lying, instead he ran the story as point, counterpoint with a McCain-bot given many precious, uninterupted mouth-flappings to muddy the water. Add to that the very confusing counterpoint by John Soltz--that Iran is arming Shia militias, not q'eida ones--and the show at the least bolstered McCain's reputation. Contrast that with Matthews segue immediately after, a segment on Hillary's claim of landing in Bosnia under sniperfire. In that segment--with the title, "Caught", which leaves nothing up to the imagination--Matthews called Hillary Clinton a liar in plain English.
This is why I don't watch that creep.
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Anonymust
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do your homework dude...
"Unfortunately, bucky and omooex are irony-challenged and attribute many more screen names to L.W.M. than are his."
I made a joke about it and commented sardonically about what a waste of time it would be to suspect everyone of having a sockpuppet. I stayed the hell out of this stupid conversation. You should have done likewise.
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Aych
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In Star Trek, they apparently solved the universe's problems by killing all of the people of color except Sulu and Uhura.
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Aych II
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Same for LOR. Except in the movie, you get to watch it happen.
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Ondolette, Two Sides, Etc.
[Read the article: The ongoing exclusion of war opponents from the Iraq debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wanted to ditto Glenn's observation (or was it Atrios) of the narrow confines of the debate. The dichotomy, I am sure, is a product of our two party system--the corrupt 'opposition party' vs. the corrupt 'entrenched party'. And no, I'm not a libertarian, and I don't care who is. What i see in the media's framing, is nearly always a 'democratic strategist' vs. a 'republican strategist'. Especially, on the right, this boils down to a reductive view of the anti-war voices. Hannity and others on Fox are very good at silencing anti-war critics by saying, 'well, then why did your party vote to authorize force?' Its frankly frustrating.
Ondolette: On a previous post,some weeks ago, you demonstrated that your analysis of the Palestine-Israel issue is less than complete. Many Palestinians want peace, and others don't, but that is a moot point. Iraqi's like Palestinians can have all sorts of opinions about their respective occupations, but they are nowhere near being able to do anything about it. Should a huge consensus of 'peace-seeking' Palestinians (and if I am to understand the way that is characterized, those who acquiesce to the US-Israel boilerplate peace proposals) they would merely be agreeing to institutionalization of apartheid. There is just no other way that an impoverished Palestinian state can exist with a an incredibly powerful Jewish state.
Israel controls something like 70% of the West Bank with access roads, military bases and colonies (which it vocally claims are permanent). It has completely shut off Gaza. Neither area has the ability to control its economy or foreign policy. The ratio of Palestinian deaths from Israeli violence to the vice versa is literally three to one, and the Palestinian population is half that of the Israeli Jewish one.
Don't you think its a little late in the game to be towing this fake "balance" to the two sides?
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Ondolette, on this we agree
[Read the article: The ongoing exclusion of war opponents from the Iraq debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It's just another manifestation of our religion-based foreign policy. Darfur matters because Sudan matters because Equitorial Sudanese are being converted to Christianity by American evangelists. Congo doesn't matter, same as Rwanda."
I agree wholeheartedly. I also think that if the US had not both bankrolled Israel and provided it cover in the UNSC for the past four decades, the Israeli Palestinian conflict would be a forgotten memory, one way or the other. The world spends more money on Palestinians per capita than any other place on earth, but there is much light and little heat. But then again, the Egyptian and Syrian governments would have fallen long ago as well.
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Aych
[Read the article: The ongoing exclusion of war opponents from the Iraq debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Back in my ngo days, I knew where that statistic came from...probably a world bank estimate of aid per capita. Feel free to look it up if you think it wrong, I don't have the time today unfortunately,...Certainly more than African per capita, at the least. My point is of course lots of light but little heat; the world allows the US and Israel to economically marginalize Palestinians and then throws aid at the problem rather than trying to solve the root problem....
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Sinnard
[Read the article: The ongoing exclusion of war opponents from the Iraq debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That was beautiful.
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Aych
[Read the article: The ongoing exclusion of war opponents from the Iraq debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Religeon is an element to be sure, but its one of the least important. As our country exemplifies, its easy to marginalize religeous groups and also easy to elevate them to an extreme level of influence when political expedience dictates.
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Bucky 1
[Read the article: The ongoing exclusion of war opponents from the Iraq debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If God doesn't have a dick, then how do you explain Jesus.
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Frontline
[Read the article: The ongoing exclusion of war opponents from the Iraq debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know if anyone else caught Frontline last night. A handy timeline of Iraq, beginning with the day of september 11. Good to see it all in context. But one thing I thought was odd, was that the pro-Bush line was toted soleley by former Bush-Innards, while the counter-point was all paper of record journalists. I found this to be an odd dichotomy. Were there no political appointees or leglislators available to argue the anti-war point?