Letters to the Editor
CT Voter
Published Letters: 136 Editor's Choice: 17
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You left a few out...
[Read the article: Fred Thompson, "tough guy" and "folksy cultural conservative"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not just Matthews, or Fineman but also the pathologically gullible reporters who coin phrases like "commanding daddy", and the columnists like Maureen Dowd whose thought processes seem to be frozen in a junior high mode.
They're sad, and embarassing, and it's sad and embarassing that they continue to get paid, and handsomely, for their commentary.
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Here's the Democrats counterpunch....
[Read the article: GOP senator blames Democrats for troop deaths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]“The last thing this country needs right now is this kind of disgraceful rhetoric,” Jim Manley, a spokesman for Reid, said of DeMint’s remarks. “Democrats will continue to insist that this administration accept responsibility for its failed conduct of this war, and that the Iraqi government accept responsibility for its own future.”
Take that, Creme Deminthe!
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In a rational world....
[Read the article: What Alberto Gonzales said]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And if Gonzales just conceded that, albeit tacitly and inadvertently, isn't it pretty clear now that he lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he said in 2006 that there had been no "serious disagreement" about that program?
It WOULD be pretty clear that Gonzalez misspoke or outright lied, but this ain't that world.
Gonzalez just "didn't recall" that whole episode where he tried to bully Ashcroft into doing something he (Ashcroft) no longer had the power to do. Details, details. Gonzalez had ALOT going on--he can't be expected to remember a visit to a sick friend in the hospital a couple of years ago...
And it doesn't matter what he said today, because he will have simply misspoken. No harm, no foul. At least with this Congress, so far.
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That sentiment popped up in another context
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yesterday, on "On Point" (Tom Ashbrook) they were discussing the Republican debate. And this individual:
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, columnist for the New York Sun and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. She has served under President Bush, first as Chief Economist in the Labor Department (2003 to 2005)
--copied directly from the On Point web site said that in the next year or year and a half, she firmly believes Al Quaeda will attack on American soil, and then people are going to change their minds about Bush's policy.
Unfreakingbelievable.
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Nail, meet hammer.
[Read the article: Chris Matthews on Fred Thompson's sexiness and smells]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This just nails it:
And what is most striking about it is that -- literally in almost every case -- the most vocal crusaders for Hard-Core Traditional Masculinity, the Virtues of Machismo, are the ones who so plainly lack those qualities on every level.
You'd think someone who is a putative journalist would be capable of a little introspection and would realize just how embarassing he (Matthews) is.
You'd think.
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Only 18% know the winner of "Idol"?
[Read the article: "Is our children learning?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That doesn't seem right. Given the astronomical ratings of "Idol", how can only 18 percent know who one the final?
Our children is not learning, no.
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I is not learning, at least.
[Read the article: "Is our children learning?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Someone won American Idol, not "one". Ouch.
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To ce (Wait a minute)
[Read the article: "Is our children learning?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those are good points. People might, when asked, say that to the best of their knowledge, there's no link between you know who and you know what. But they were asked about their beliefs, not knowledge.
It would be nice if our knowledge influenced our beliefs, but...
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Oh, Chris Matthews would be beside himself....
[Read the article: A Cheney-Thompson swap?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everybody loves Fred
Everybody, but especially Chris Matthews--can you smell the aftershave??
Everybody, ex-girlfriend, who speaks for all women, I'm sure, when she says:
"I think he has a great chance of capturing the women’s vote. He’s majestic. He’s a soft, safe place to be and that could be Fred’s ticket...Women love a soft place to lay and a strong pair of hands to hold us."
Excuse me--I have to hurl.
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Whoops. Why isn't there an edit function??
[Read the article: A Cheney-Thompson swap?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That should be "Everybody, including his ex-girlfriend..."
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Do I hear Arlen Specter? Lindsay Graham?
[Read the article: Tough talk on Iraq, but will any action follow?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sounds a bit Arlen Specter/Lindsay Grahamish...you know, just enough daylight between the senator and the White House, and the press drools all over itself lauding the "independence" of said senator...and then, nothing comes of it, except good press for those very independent senators who, when asked to do something meaningful, just continue to ennable the administration.
And the media falls for it, every time.
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@Juliebird--dead on...
[Read the article: Edwards vs. Coulter, Clinton vs. Edwards]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the E. Edwards smackdown of Ann Coulter (Coulter was just a little bizarre in her response...) is noteworthy.
And incredibly satisfying, as well.
I also think the Mark Penn polling story is noteworthy, as well, because it provides some insight into the campaign.
I don't think they should have been combined into the same post, however. Push polls (or whatever you want to label them--some people argue this isn't a push poll) and wishing for someone's assassination in public are just not in the same category of political behavior.
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Evidence. Such an annoying concept. So...so...concrete.
[Read the article: White House: Transcripts are a "perjury trap"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]so a transcript may be convenient, but there's no intention to try to avoid telling the truth."
So while evidence of WMDs may have been convenient, there was no intention on the White House to try to avoid telling the truth about the WMDS before the invasion.
If someone wrote a novel or screen play that included what this administration does and says, it would be dismissed as to crazy.
Check that. It would have been dismissed before the Bush Administration.
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Or is it just me they hate?
[Read the article: So what does that rug say now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just you.
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Uh, the problem isn't the rearview mirror, you dope...
[Read the article: So what does that rug say now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"He has a terrific knack of not looking through the rearview mirror."
He has a terrific knack of not looking in ANY mirror. Reality bites, doesn't it?
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Baggage we DON'T need...
[Read the article: Hillary commutes her views on Libby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps, she did not want to get drawn into a debate about the controversial pardon record of her husband who let off Marc Rich, the fugitive ex-husband of a major campaign contributor, not to mention a Tennessee couple with financial ties to Hillary Clinton's brother, Tony Rodham.
And this is why Hillary Clinton should not get the nomination. Looking for a forceful response to an issue? Won't get it, if it invites scrutiny of Bill Clinton's presidency. Does anyone need more evidence than Hillary's sidestepping of the Libby pardon question?
We don't need this. We don't need this. We don't need this.
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Welcome to the Eastern Time Zone....
[Read the article: A note to War Room readers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and PS: It's a LOT more humid in DC....