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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Zoshig
Published Letters: 25 Editor's Choice: 2
Katie Couric and her cute-serious-whatever news game is kaput, the evening network news broadcast is now irrelevant and dying a slow and inevitable death ... with a viewership demographic that is pure baby boom - if not older. It's because of Couric and her smarmy ilk that I have not watched morning or evening network news for many years.
Why Couric jumped on board this media dinosaur is beyond me ... the glove does not fit her. Yes, she's fluff and trendy.
Her current vehicle is supposed to have 'gravity' ... she lends it none at all. It's clear she will be back to the fluff sooner than later. Personally, I've never been able to stand the little troll ... and would not want to have partied with her when I was in Sigma Nu, insincere smiley thing that she is.
a country where basically all entertainers are of the caliber of a Paris Hilton, LILO or BritSp. In other words, they have no discernable talent but get by on looking cute and acting bad.
It's sad these days that such lowlife 'talents' in the U.S. get so much print and airtime. Television and the print media here in Tokyo are trash - and America appears headed for the same garbage dump, despite the fact that it produces the finest actors, singers and musicians in the world.
Why does the U.S. media constantly cover the crap and not the cream? What a waste.
you and Judi ... belong on cable tv ... some kind of shopping channel ... far from the levers of power.
Good luck to both of you in your sordid futures.
... this was a grave mistake.
A demonstration for the powers that be in Tokyo Bay would have sufficed ... and the war would have ended on a more honorable note.
And the Japanese would have had to face their awful crimes against humanity ... that went back decades all over Asia.
As it is today, the Japanese have never faced anything ... and continue to wallow in their 'victimhood' ... in an especially pathetic way every ealy August.
I've lived in Tokyo for a long time and am rather sick of the total focus on Hiroshima/Nagasaki, at the expense of everything and everyone else related to WW2 in Asia.
What a terrible vacuum of memory these bombs created, along with the incredible human suffering of course.
and clear a clean road for future leadership from 2009.
However, the more you read about this guy ... the more it becomes painfully clear that it's not going to happen, it's not part of his history or character. He's a brilliant yes-man, not ever a bull in the proverbial china shop - and his remark on Iraq ('break it, own it') clearly illustrated the cautious path he treads.
So sorry, loyalty and courage are not the same grape.
whose favorite interview subject was ... himself! He never shut up about how great he was or how many famous people he hung with. Sorry, he may have been rich - but what a complete B-list entertainer. I hope the man is in heaven cause my idea of hell would be to spend eternity anywhere near Mr. Smiley.
but I do feel sorry for his wife - who he obviously married in 1983 for political beard coverage ... and for his kids - who aren't really his kids, his wife brought them to the marriage ... and for his step-grandkids ... all of these folks must be feeling real low right about now, thanks to Senator Smiley Head. Life is not fair.
Larry, we all hardly knew you.
Her indignant attitude during a recent taped interview was more than a bit silly - she's nobody's fool. Jiminy, hon, some of those perks you are so used to are finito today. Don't forget to shut the door on your way out.
but am an American citizen, born in Florida.
I have to say that this piece of video disturbed me on several levels.
First, this young - perhaps too enthusiastic - student asked a few questions of Mr. Kerry ... and the Senator is clearly heard to welcome the queries. Exercising his free speech right, he's attacked by the police ... what the hell?
No one in the hall makes a move to help him.
Kerry sounds finally as though he's mocking the man as he is on the ground, smothered by police.
He's 'electrified' ... why? ... because he wouldn't shut up?
He certainly posed no physical threat to the mob of cops.
The whole scene reminds me of something I might see on tv from Putin's Russia, not from sunny, smiling Florida.
Excuse me while I go throw up.
when did Americans lose any semblence of class or perspective?
Why does every life event - even ones which should be cause for shame or sober contemplation - have to be so public and in-your-face?
It's as though we're just a bunch of bloody exhibitionists who insist everyone around us must feel our pain, celebrate our petty victories and ... pay attention to us, by god.
Where have all the grownups gone in this nation of wallowing, overly sensitive, voyeuristic, uber-competitive CHILDREN!?
Why the heck is everyone always trying to 'get on up' on everybody else?
Really sick of this game.
it's that ole Boylan boy is never going to make General officer.
What a partisan disgrace he is to the uniform!
Is this low fellow supposed to be a man of the character and experience great enough to aspire to the most powerful political position in the world? What a complete joke.
Where are our leaders?
Where are our best and brightest?
What's happened to us when a cretin like the Huckster - or a one-note johnny like the former (unpopular) mayor of NYC - can be considered by anyone to be viable candidates for the White House?
Please, do your jobs, lazy journalists. Suss these guys out.
And thank you Max.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
