Letters to the Editor
nancerich
Published Letters: 554 Editor's Choice: 18
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On Bended Knee
[Read the article: "Saddam chose to deny inspectors"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]by Mark Hertsgaard detailed the media's massive suck up to the Reagan administration. And it serves as reminder of how Republicans fully understand to cow journalists.
Remember how Reagan would repeat whoppers about events he supposedly experienced which actually only happened in movies. Nobody ever called him on it, because in the end, that was Reagan.
Of course, Clinton was another kettle of fish...and I have a feeling when the Democrats get into power, the gaggle will take out their humiliation by the Bushies out on the Democrats, who actually believe in accountability and openness.
Silly us.
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McCain is, was, and always has been
[Read the article: McCain's Falwell flip-flop]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]a hard right Republican who pandered to social conservatives.
If you want believe he is different from anyone of them. Sure he is. He is not as bright as some, and not as terribly articulate as others.
He can't be relied on. He can't be trusted. He will always cave....or exploit his own weakness, such as in the case of the S and L Scandal.
All these reporters who like McCain because his staff gave them sandwiches, and pretended to talk straight to them might check his record before they fall in love with him, again.
Or act shocked when he does what is necessary get the Republican nomination.
He's a snake. That's his nature.
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Delay's greatest failure...
[Read the article: How will you remember Tom DeLay?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]he never did get the EPA to re-legalize DDT.
Otherwise, the stink he spread around congress will last for a couple of more election cycles. What a powerful legacy.
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With all due respect
[Read the article: Jon Stewart, John McCain and "Bullshit Town"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]unless one has personal knowledge of what Jon Stewart really thinks, isn't it a little arrogant to project who he loves and why?
I am really getting tired of Manjoo's man crushes.
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Manjoo...
[Read the article: Jon Stewart, John McCain and "Bullshit Town"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I had watched that show that night, why would I have to bother to read you?
In any case, if what you say is true, I now have reason to reject Jon Stewart as another rotten judge of character, rather than someone who was indulging in his usual hyperbole.
because it seems that a bunch of people out there who seem to have made judgements about McCain without checking his voting record who are shocked he is actually a hard right social conservative...who ocassionally peeks out to say something brave...and then folds like a cheap suit when it matters.
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Great messages all...
[Read the article: Is God pro-choice?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]congrats to three of TT's best. A very good week!
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Who could have predicted
[Read the article: Breaking the silence]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that a measured and cogent discussion of the elephant in the American livingroom would unleash the usual hysterical response complete with accusations of antisemitism, as well as a failure to understand to that the "third rail" in American politics is a huge obstacle to any sane foreign policy?
The very fact that commentators are are bloodlessly suggesting that nukes should remain on the table with regard to Iran. when engaging in the irresponsible saber rattling, even as the level of rhetoric is pumped up beyond all reason should wake up even the most single minded proponent of the interests of one country in the middle east, that if this thing goes much further, we are all well and truly screwed.
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If you read between the lines
[Read the article: From Al Gore, a step toward 2008?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]on Gore's recent statements whether or not he will run...it is clear that the door is opened more than a crack, and he is looking at his options.
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I keep thinking those
[Read the article: From Al Gore, a step toward 2008?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]who keep doing the Republican's work for them by declaring the strongest candidate we have "damaged goods"...might just want to throw in the towel now.
Because whoever we throw at them will be equally attacked by the Republican smear machine.
In any case, looking for bulletproof candidates is a sucker's game.
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Meet the new boss....
[Read the article: Wait, there's a difference?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]same as the old boss.
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Silence is golden
[Read the article: From Al Gore, a step toward 2008?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]especially when one is flogging false dicotomies...and sees science as something which is politically motivated.
Classic projection and the tragedy of binary thinking.
Still, it is hilarious seeing someone call Al Gore a tool of the left.
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As Regularly as Clockwork
[Read the article: The left splits over immigration]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it never fails to happen.
An issue which was barely on the national radar, and was the property of paranoid radio talkers and a bunch of cranks with SUVs, walkie talkies and guns playing vigilante is now suddenly a burning issue which makes everybody
suddenly experts even though
nobody knows the extent of the problem.
Nobody knows how many undocumented there actually are here.
Nobody really knows if citizens are really being displaced by the undocumented.
Nobody knows, even though "the law is the law," that being being undocumented is a civil infraction, sort of like a speeding ticket...
Nobody knows, except a bunch of immigration lawyers, the labyrinth of immigration law..and how to navigate it.
But that doesn't stop everybody from having an opinion
And everybody has a grea idea on what to do about it, except nobody seems to have a clue of what any of this would cost, not to mention without actually thinking out the implications of what they suggest.
And all these ideas from from walling out the rest of the world, to playing round up the interlopers....
to supporting the most punative of draconian provisions of politically driven immigration policy...
are done without the public at large
actually knowing if there actually is a problem....
or certainly if there is a crisis.
Which I am sure warms the cockles of Karl Rove, not to mention David Duke's, heart.
AND all because NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING.
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Twist, twist
[Read the article: A perjury charge for Rove? All in good time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]slowly in the wind, Mr. Rove.
All these suspense about your future kind of makes it hard to keep your mind on you next big plan to save this train wreck of an administration.
Right?
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Steny Hoyer
[Read the article: A Democrat knocks Colbert, says Bush "deserves some respect"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]remember that name. Next year he will not be Majority Leader in the House.
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Dr. Mr. Cohen:
[Read the article: Cohen: Colbert was rude, and his defenders are dangerous]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Stop cribbing from Joe Klein!
Plagiarism is a serious problem in journalism.
And, oh...by the way, WANKER!