Letters to the Editor
david-smith
Published Letters: 99 Editor's Choice: 8
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NEVER Miss An Opportunity To Make Giuliani Eat Shit
[Read the article: Where were you really, Rudy?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nosferatu Giuliani is a grotesque, blood-sucking parasite and the only politician in the entire United States that could conceivably match up to George W. Bush for all-around personal loathsomeness. Democrats better get it through their heads right now: there is no political priority more important than goading, ridiculing, and ripping Giuliani to shreds at every opportunity humanly possible. This would include compiling and publishing an exhaustively detailed list of every witless, lisping canned speech the vampire hustled while the 9/11 Commission was in session, as well as the total amount of blood money he managed to extract from each.
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More Brave Muckracking Journalism from The Stenographic Media
[Read the article: Romney hearts Bush (just don't tell anyone, OK?)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You must be fucking kidding me!
Tim, are you seriously suggesting that Catherine Decker of The Los Angeles Times -- Catherine Decker, goddamn it -- ought to be tying her analysis of Romney's attitudes toward Bush to what the man actually said on the campaign trail? Come on, what bullshit; what naive, self-indulgent, idealistic bullshit! How the hell would Catherine Decker -- Catherine Decker -- have enough time for all that Googling crap? No, when you're Catherine Decker you simply plant your fat ass in your $1,500 ergonomic office chair at The Los Angeles Times and wait for a representative of the Romney campaign to call and tell you -- very insider, very sotto voce -- that Mitt is embracing the "risky" and "treacherous" strategy of "implicitly" suggesting that the grunting-baboon-in-chief is something less than a combination of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
Besides, why should Catherine Decker do any actual, independent research into Romney's position beyond the characterization provided by his own staff podiatrist? I mean, the evidence of his "risky" strategy is just so compelling. After all, there aren't any actual photos of Romney crawling across the floor and licking Bush's nut sack in front of the whole Washington press corps, and who could ask for a more dramatic "implicit" rebuke than that?
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Post-Katrina New Orleans Is A Republican Wet Dream
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While Archie Manning’s use of his celebrity to promote the New Orleans tourism industry is certainly commendable, and it’s easy to understand the city’s abiding affection for him and his family, it’s nonetheless genuinely fascinating how things have finally shaken out.
I mean, isn’t it incredibly lucky – just about miraculous – how beautifully things have worked out for the Republicans and the city’s leading business and property owners? What a break! Of the 300,000 or so African-Americans who lived in the city before Katrina, something approaching two-thirds are gone, while only one-third of the white population has relocated. Works out pretty good for the Republicans on election day, doesn’t it? And what a fantastic “business climate” New Orleans has now! No-bid contracts galore for Halliburton & Friends; business redevelopment funds by the truckload for the Uptown district and the French Quarter; the suspension of all those pesky minimum wage and employee protection regulations; the closure of all those schools, hospitals, housing projects, and other urban money pits that serve no productive economic purpose; and just imagine the bonanza of future real estate development, with acre upon acre of abandoned property just sitting there waiting for some new wild-west prospectors to come in and make their fortunes.
Yup, all in all the makeup of post-Katrina New Orleans is like a Republican wet dream. After all, it could hardly have turned out better if events had been shaped by a set of deliberate, well-coordinated government policies meant to rid the city of its inconvenient black underclass, instead – as everybody knows – of being the result of nothing more insidious than Brownie’s incompetent bungling.
Nonetheless, I guess I’m just the overly suspicious type. Accordingly, it seems to me that while enthusiastic boosterism by civic-minded celebrities is great, if you really want to do something for the people of New Orleans, the best thing you can do is to insure that the racist stink of Republican fanaticism is permanently eradicated as a political force in the United States.