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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
josephandrews222
Published Letters: 50
...in your answer/response to the white WPost writer's analogy that Dems in NH, when asked about whether they send their kids to public or private schools, have the same kind of problem that Romney/Repubs have, when asked about whether their kids are in the service.
But I shouldn't have been disappointed, because your answer is indicative of the tone-deafness possessed by liberals that seem to congregate on both coasts, in terms of what matters to many old-school traditional Dems, old school Dems that in some ways can still be referred to as 'Reagen Democrats'.
I could go on and on...
The compromising of media-types is pervasive yet subtle. My best example: the baseball Hall of Fame (Cooperstown NY) is more-or-less run by Bushies. In 2003, Tim Russert was elected to the baseball HoF's Board of Directors! Russert...a huge baseball fan...rubbing shoulders with the likes of Jane Forbes Clark (chairwoman and staunch Republican) and Dale Petroskey (HoF president and former assistant press secretary to Ronald Reagan)! If you believe that Russert wasn't picked in part due to an effort to curry favor (successful or not)...I've got some real estate to sell you...
Glenn, this is your very best piece. Ever. Keep it up.
...and I have been married for over a quarter of a century--to the same woman.
I desperately hope that all that the USA promises is available to all women, including my daughters. I believe our country has made tremendous progress in gender-related areas, and yet I believe we can do more.
I have never cheated on my wife--I nearly always vote Democratic...and believe that our current president is the worst president in my lifetime.
So I think I'm rather progressive...for a guy.
I used to be a Salon subscriber; I am no more...and Joan Walsh's article 'The Other 18 Million' reinforces my decision not to contribute to Salon (in terms of a subscription fee).
In all seriousness, I wonder if Joan is menopausal. I also wonder if a primary reason that she has her position is because of her gender. She simply is not very bright. She is not very good. She is not deserving of her position at Salon, in terms of ability and output.
Her article is symptomatic of something...I'm not sure what...but her perspective is so twisted...I think she is in over her head and she knows it.
Not surprisingly, she seems off-key when she writes about sports, too. And yet she is so confident of her own perspective, sports-wise and politics-wise. Wow. Wow. Wow.
Finally, her appearances on MSNBC...my God.
Whatever benefit of doubt I may have had for Joan...when she does her TV stuff I literally cringe for her. And I realize how wrong she is when I recall what she wrote/thinks about Chris Matthews. My goodness, Matthews absolutely PERSONIFIES the terms 'Reagan Democrat'. And Joan refuses, or is unable...to see that her perspective, her views, her politics...and the politics of her brethren...pushed Matthews and the rest of the 'middle 20%' of the American electorate, the electorate that basically decides national elections...Joan Walsh and her ilk brought this country all those Republican presidents the past 28 years.
I'm serious. I don't think she gets it. And I don't think she is intelligent enough to understand what I'm saying. In that way she is kind of like Clarence Thomas--a similarly challenged individual.
Clarence Thomas doesn't understand what people think about him and his views...and he doesn't understand why people hold those views.
Joan Walsh, meet Clarence Thomas!
Joan Walsh:
You.
Don't.
Get.
It.
And I'm afraid you never will.
You don't understand the reasons why Reagan and the Bushes won elections.
And you don't understand why I don't pay (directly) to read Salon.
I'm afraid you aren't very smart. Your opinions are not valued.
I honestly believe in diversity. It is important to have mediocre talent in positions of authority.
It is almost impossible for me to overemphasize my belief that what you write, in terms of your views, are only understood to be 'logical' in the same way that the OJ Simpson jury's verdict was 'logical'.
I'm 100% serious. You, when writing about Hillary and Obama and gender...your own experiences have so colored your views that your writings on the subject are as WRONG as the Simpson verdict was.
Perhaps understandable...but wrong. Wrong for the country, and wrong for the Democrats (which includes me).
...whether this is a battle worth fighting. My heart says it is. My head says it isn't. I plan to try and read as much as I can about Obama's position and post again. For sure, though, Glenn G.'s perspective is important--more voices with his perspective need to be heard.
I cannot emphasize enough how much I agree with Ventura's point of view regarding Bush and Cheney, in terms of how their thoughts and actions regarding the war in Iraq would differ if their own offspring would be required to serve on the front lines.
In this way, Rep. Rangel was on to something when he suggested, years ago, that perhaps the draft should be reinstituted.
Gary, you have put into words what I have been thinking since the '84 LA Games. Do you s'pose that Carter's 1980 boycott signaled to the patriotism zealots that it was OK to carry on like they do?
But it is the over-the-top patriotism combined with the incessant desire to get women to watch, with touchie-feelie references galore...together with the notion that NBC is playing with its viewership (lack of live coverage for important events)...I feel like my kids have been cheated as far as real Olympics coverage is concerned.
Now ESPN programming head John Skipper is on the record saying that NBC has dishonored the notion of the Olympics with their shaping of the narrative...and that ESPN plans to bed on upcoming Games...and will show everything LIVE.
Bravo ESPN!
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 Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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