Letters to the Editor
david-smith
Published Letters: 88 Editor's Choice: 8
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God, Perino Is One Truly Loathsome Republican Bubblehead
[Read the article: $2.4 trillion for Iraq and Afghanistan?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fantastic! Now, every single time the Baboon-in-Chief deprives another sick child of health insurance or opens his filthy noise hole to demand "fiscal restraint," the Democrats should simply quote this oily Republican bubblehead: "I'm not worried about the number."
ce notes, If an American taxpayer were to go to the Budget Office and ask "What are we spending this $2.4 trillion ON, exactly?", there would be no way to answer beyond the interest on the money that's been borrowed and spent.
The problem, of course, is that the racist religious fanatics of the Republican base couldn’t give a rat’s ass about what we’re getting for our $2.4 trillion. All they do care about is that not a single one of those two-and-a-half trillion dollars is spent on blacks, Mexicans, or any of their other assorted political enemies.
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Giuliani's Exactly The Same As He Was 20 Years Ago
[Read the article: Anonymous Liberal for Glenn Greenwald: Giuliani on torture]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How the hell can anyone be surprised by Guiliani? This deformed monster is the spawn of an illiterate part-time leg breaker, a greasy thug too stupid to become a regular Mafia enforcer. After the loss of his first mayoral election, he was caught on tape whipping a mob of rioting drunk cops into a racist frenzy. In addition to threatening museums and the press, he spent his time in office attempting to transform New York City into a police state, harassing jaywalkers, squeegee men and hotdog vendors, while licking the nut sacks of Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump in the basement of City Hall. He was already an enthusiastic supporter of torture while mayor, barely able to mutter even the most reluctant expression of disapproval after the lynching of Abner Louima in a precinct bathroom. Quite simply, Giuliani is a malignant fascist animal, and it is a desecration of the most fundamental democratic values upon which America was founded that he could ever be considered a viable candidate for elective office; in short, this brutal thug should be hanging on a meat hook like his inspiration Mussolini, not running for president of the United States.
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Nosferatu Is The Republicans' Dream Candidate
[Read the article: I can't believe it's not torture! ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Torture jokes on the campaign trail. I can't believe Giuliani's the GOP front-runner!
Joan’s sarcastic skepticism of Nosferatu’s popularity among the Republican base is thoroughly well taken. Incredibly, though, there really are people who are surprised that ‘Dolph is the Republican front-runner, when the truth of the matter is that there is virtually no chance – and never really was – that the party faithful would have ever considered a candidate other than Nosferatu. The notion that Giuliani would somehow become anathema because of his positions on abortion, gun control, and the like – much less such trivialities as serial adultery or treating his own children like shit – reflects a profound naiveté and a fundamental misunderstanding of the real values that drive these people. This is largely the case for two principal reasons.
Though I often find Bob Herbert’s observations in The Times to be less than compelling, he wrote a superb column a few weeks ago in which he provided an insightful analysis of the inveterate nigger-hatred at the heart of the Republican Party, the apotheosis of which may have been when Ronald Reagan spit on the graves of three murdered civil rights workers to kick off his triumphant 1980 march to the White House. Quite simply, there is no candidate in America better poised to carry on the cherished Republican tradition of bigotry than Nosferatu Giuliani. Sure, Giuliani may lack adequate “pro-life” credentials, but the fact of the matter is that any sin is forgivable to the Republican base so long as a candidate is sufficiently reliable in the intensity of his sneering contempt for blacks, Mexicans, and other enemies of the party.
Perhaps even more than bigotry and religious fanaticism, it is authoritarianism that is likely the most essential and salient Republican personality trait. These are people who long for submission to the will of a Supreme Leader who will relieve them of the terrible responsibility of free will and personal choice, and for whom obedience and servility are among the most highly cherished values in life. When viewed from this perspective, the enthusiasm of the Republican base for Giuliani becomes not merely comprehensible, but virtually inevitable.
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Well, That Makes Three of Us
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jason G. calls me a penis *and* a douchebag. I went and read his past letters, posted in reply to various articles here in Salon.
Holy shit!! I did exactly the same thing after reading this guy’s trenchant criticism, wondering what huge bug might’ve crawled up his ass (well, almost the same thing; it only took me the first few of his letters to determine that he wasn’t the total freak I was expecting). Oh well; I guess we’ll have to chalk-up his tirade to the aftereffects of some kind of psychotic episode or a grand mal seizure, or the simple fact that there’s just no accounting for taste.
Patrick Smith’s column was the first thing that had me reading Salon on a regular basis, and I still find him not only to be smart as hell and consistently well informed, but the most incisive and gifted writer on the staff. As a rule, I tend to get a bit testy when the column focuses on anything other than the government’s relentless use of airline security as a tool of fascist social conditioning, since, well, it just matters so much more than any of the other assorted problems and experiences associated with air travel.
But this column was just so damn funny, it had me laughing out loud. Really fucking hard.
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Quite a Joke, jesusfchrist
[Read the article: Clapton is not God]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That joke represents quite an achievement. Its utter tastelessness is nothing unusual, of course. What makes this one really special, though, is that it’s not merely tasteless, but witless, pretentious, puerile and fantastically unfunny.