Letters to the Editor
Mergent
Published Letters: 65
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On the use of the word ? 'HO'
[Read the article: Why David Vitter matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I, too, saw you on Hardball. I also watched watched, MSNBC, Keith Olberman, which followed, although, Keith was not on this night. Toward the end of the show, there was a segment about Sen Vitter's fidelity problem featuring his wife's comments regarding her feelings and forgiveness and interviewing a pundit for some site called radar...., I don't actually recall, but it is not that important. What is important is that the segment was ebtitled "Ho-Pah" and the conversation centered around the outfit this wife was wearing which was something in a leopard print that I personally didn't register, but that the commentator described as looking like a prostitute.
I can't remember another time when I have been so angry at this unprofessional display passing for journalism. Does MSNBC not wish to have any female viewers at all??? I was so outraged at this total disrespect for this women in pain, I nearly turned over to FOX.
WOMEN need to make it perfectly clear, at least to these news organizations that the use of this word 'HO' is the same to us as the use of the word 'C**T'. We find it very offensive and totally unaccepatable. You would think they would have learned something from the Don Imus fiasco, or were they only able to get ONE message from that i.e. nappy headed is bad, ho is OK.
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NETWORK Production techniques
[Read the article: Why David Vitter matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you Garry Owen, for pointing out specifically what we probably knew in our gut was happening. So many times I have seen Joan Walsh, and others cut off from speaking on MSNBC when I particularly tuned in to hear their opinion.
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Hillary and Way
[Read the article: Shot across the bow]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Elleanee,
To answer your question: No your memory does NOT serve you correctly...perhaps it is Alzheimers. Hillary is against the war as is Ron Paul.
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Women's Butts???
[Read the article: Chris Matthews skewers Mitt Romney]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure there is a better place to post this, but (pardon the pun) when the first thing I see as I log on to salon is about 20 female derriere's in advertising, it somehow takes away from any serious discussion that may ensue. I mean come on!!! I'm sure you can be a bit more selectie it the placement of this advertising?
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Outsourcing
[Read the article: Chris Matthews skewers Mitt Romney]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I daresay Gary Owen may be on to the very besy approach. Let us out source the hole dang thing. It is after all what we do best! We will recruit Mexican and other South or the Border Nationals to fight American misadventures with the promise of ultimate citizenship, post service in the infantry, should they survive. This would, of course, require that our sarqents and other commanding personnel be fluent in spanish or porteguese, and that other basic infrantry men also have some basic knowledge in these lanquanges. But it would greatly expand the military pool. I do realize I am not the first to come up with this thought, however it seems to me that, as silly as it may sound to some American citizens, it is a proposition that many non citizens would be willing to pursue because the dream of American Citizenship is such a draw that to these individuals, the risk is worth it.
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Health Care Debt
[Read the article: Son of subprime: Credit card debt]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...And of course, health care debt causes 40 - 50% of all bankruptcies. Now, how many people have no health insurance again???
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Broken?
[Read the article: "Broken Government"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, now we know where the real 'axis of evil' is located. 1600 Pensylvania Ave! Oh and GOP headquarters.
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Such Cruelty
[Read the article: Hit her, baby, one more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is still a 25 year old, very young girl. A girl who is in desperate meed of serious psychiatric help but who is going to flame out and die just as Anna Niclole, and it very short order.
What will we all say then about her friends, family, agents handlers, lawyers, all people who could have intervened, and didn't. No money in that I guess.
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Scalia acting strangely?
[Read the article: "The Nine"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I not sure how one tells when Scalia acts strangely vs his usual irrascible self. Perhaps he has a brain tumor...it would explaing so much. It would be my fervent hope that it would be a rapid growing malignant one.
Yes, I know thats cold. It was meant to be. I just would prefer to have judges that didn't decide everything based on a rabid Catholic Doctrine.
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Flop
[Read the article: The 9/11 backlash against women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good move on the part of the Bookseller. This will never make it to paperback. It is nonsensical.
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California
[Read the article: The healthcare war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are several seats in Congress that are Repugnicon here in California that are considered safe (gerrymandered) seats. These are the Congresspeople that will vote to uphold the veto believing themselves to be 'safe'. But, what they don't seem to get is that their constituents are rural people who may support the war but are at the same time working people who have no health insurance. These voters may not take kindly to their representative vetoing a bill that could bring health insurance to their children even though they themselves can't get it. It is worth pointing out to these potential voters in a campaign, just how they and their children have been screwed by their Repugnicon Represenstative. I suspect this will prove true across the U.S. and it can create a break from the RNC by these people when they realize that their interests are not being served.
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Resolution
[Read the article: Chris Floyd for Glenn Greenwald: Rain of terror in the U.S. air war in Iraq ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You gotta wonder...just how many years will it be before some other, say, European country passes a parliamentry resolution condemning the genocide committed by the US against the IRAQI people in the years 2003 to God knows when? And what other countries will sign on to it?