Letters to the Editor
drdave39
Published Letters: 32
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Very familiar..
[Read the article: Rudy Giuliani's messianic paranoia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to anyone who has worked in a state psychiatric hospital. Glenn, you call it exactly- paranoia. He really, really believes he is divinely inspired (the narcissistic component) to save us (even if he has to destroy the world to save it...)
When will the Democrats learn that you can't "reason" with either the 25% of the electorate (who just happen to be the top quartile of Altemeyer's Right Wing Authoritarians) who lap up this insanity, or the paranoid crazies who vomit it up? I work with lots of blue collar folks who were hard-core Bushies 5 years ago- if you just say "these people are f-ing CRAZY", they take the ball and run with it! Why isn't Dennis Kucinich taller?????
drdave
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Professional stenographers...
[Read the article: Bad stenographers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]as Glenn notes, take "getting it right" very seriously, as does the legal sytem that employs them. I have been deposed on multiple occasions, and in every case the stenographer offers me the option of reviewing the written transcript before it is presented in hearing or court. If I say something stupid or self-contradictory in my deposition, I can't later claim I was mis-quoted (hint to Mitt Romney!).
On a seperate note, to call Shooter a troll is to insult the entire class of hardworking, right-wing-ass-kissing trolls...
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WTF?
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Will someone explain Thrasher to me? GG pens a post pointing out and CRIRTICIZING the racist themes quickly emerging from Goldberg, Hewitt, et. al. about Obama, and soehow that makes GLENN a rascist? Is Thrasher he dumbest Freeper ever, or a black person so poisoned by his views of racism he projects it on everyone else? Given Thrasher's homophobic and anti-semetic digs I guess it could be either...
FWIW, Thrasher, my granparents (Jewish liberals) marched in the Civil Rights movement for African-AMericans, when it was far from safe to do so. Do THEY have "cred"?
Dipshit.
drdave39
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Posting quality, PW, and Thrasher..
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, PW, if you delete all of your and all of Thrasher's comments, and all of the responses to and about them, the overall quality is pretty good.
But that was your goal all the time, wasn't it?
drdave39
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Conspiracy before and after the fact...
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]FWIW, on the subject of why some Dems seem eager to give immunity now- another poster raised an excelent point, that some were probably briefed early on the illegal wiretapping but probaly felt that a)publicly appearing "weak on terror" post 9-11 was political suicide b) it would never come out anyway c) made them feel part of the "in crowd", or d)all of the above.
I was reminded of this when I saw this article in the NYT today:
The two senators who honored flight instructors for alerting the authorities to Zacarias Moussaoui before the Sept. 11 attacks are asking why the men were left off a $5 million government reward given to another tipster. Clarence Prevost, 69, received the payout on Thursday, when he was honored in a private ceremony as part of the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program. But Tim Nelson and Hugh Sims, two of Mr. Prevost’s former colleagues at the Pan Am International Flight Academy outside Minneapolis, are questioning the reward. A 2005 Senate resolution commended them for alerting the F.B.I. about a month before the attacks. The Minnesota senators who sponsored that resolution — Norm Coleman, a Republican, and Mark Dayton, a Democrat who has since left the Senate — want answers. “I have contacted the State Department to determine why these heroic men were not recognized for their roles,” Mr. Coleman said in a statement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/washington/26brfs-TWOOTHERSSEE_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
Giving them the reward would re-light the issue of how the FBI completely screwed the pooch on 9-11, utterly ignoring a smoking gun of a warning. So, conspiracy after the fact- to cover up one's own negligence and incompetence?
"Never assume a conspiracy if simple stupidity will explain the facts"
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Shooter- are you Stupid? Or deliberately missing the point?
[Read the article: Chris Wallace: Probing, hard-nosed journalist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're comparing two things that aren't the same.
But are both examples of obsequious media behavior, yes? That is the salient object of all Glenn's posts, media that is not confrontational.
-- shooter242
Obsequious- "sucking up", in other words. So you're saying that David Schuster and Chris Matthews were obsequious when they apologized?
Confronting obviously untrue statements is NOT the same thing as being insulting, using ad hominem attacks, etc. You of all people ought to know the difference, lil' popgun- it's your signature move (avoid the facts, be snarky...)
Talk about trying to teach a pig to sing...
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Elephant poop...
[Read the article: Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, most polling is now showing Obama beating McAncient, whereas Hillary loses to him. By the way, nice toss in of Fox Talking Point Barack "Hussein" Obama.
Dipshit.
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OMG..I agree with Shooter on something!!!!
[Read the article: Newsweek catches McCain in a serious contradiction]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lordy, you people are petty.
You're all wound up about a letter to a bureaucrat to get on with it? That's the best you can do?
How about the Keating Five, or not willing to vote for his own immigration bill? Then there's my favorite, wanting to be exempted from the campaign finance law he authored.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/22/MNMCV6H8C.DTL
-- shooter242
Well, not the "petty" part...Shooter, we actually agree- that McCain is a well-marketed hypocrite, who is as corrupted as any beltway insider, yet somehow has "branded" himself as the incorruptible rebel against the system.
The point, however, that this is a situation where the public might actually "get it" for a change, provided the spinning of the story into a sex scandal doesn't fly...