Letters to the Editor
totallyblase
Published Letters: 348 Editor's Choice: 1
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Shgould LIES Be Censored, hmmmm.
[Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Elephantman writes: "This is the funny thing. You'd never see Rush Limbaugh complain about censorship. He pays his own way, thank you very much. He's not begging for grants or donations or more budgetary funding. Rush is negotiating his next deal. Are you listening, Garrison Keillor, Terry Gross, Ira Glass and Amy Goodman?"
Limbaugh replies: "Now, we're not through with this because there's still a chance to get this -- this whole thing taken out over on the House side. And I think -- I -- I do not withdraw from the position that I -- that I said yesterday. This is unprecedented for a United States senator to single out a single citizen in a Defense appropriation bill -- a major, major piece of legislation -- a United States senator singles out a single citizen, me, as representing harm, as spreading propaganda, as damaging the morale of the troops. (An aside -- the bill was to get Rush yanked from Arm Forces Radio -- publically funded BTW)
Now that's censorship. That is attempted censorship -- not what happens to other people in the private sector. That may be bad enough, but it's not censorship. This, when a United States senator, reacting to a bunch of numbskulls that are extensions of the Democratic Party, can simply add an amendment based on a single citizen. Why, I mean -- I mean, on the one hand, folks, it's astounding. It's -- it's unbelievable. On -- on the other hand, I'm going -- heh -- "I am really screwing with these people and I love it. Now this is cool.""
totallyblase says: I respect your right to hold an opinion, elephantman, even if it is a bald-faced shameless rotten lie . . .
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Yeah, But Clinton Waz Worser
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Elephantman flails back (after being caught in a lie, albeit a silly one): "I note, however, that one of the 13* Armed Forces broadcasting service "channels" carries NPR on a 24/7 basis**. Given that status quo,*** Armed Forces broadcasting really ought to carry Limbaugh. For balance. And can you just imagine the outcry if anyone tried to pull the plug on NPR's leftwing feed? Simply examining NPR's content, it seems, is enough to prompt outcries of censorship."
*Actually, no. "Altogether, AFN produces 10 general-use streams for AFN stations to use." Wikipedia
**Again, no. "Interruptible Voice Channel (mainly NPR programming and sports programming from FOX, ESPN, and the Sporting News; this channel also broadcasts many talk shows such as those from Al Franken and Rush Limbaugh; it's called "Interruptible" because the channel can be "interrupted" by sports programming)".
***I gather you mean a left-wing bias. Again, no.
"Despite the commonness of such claims, little evidence has ever been presented for a left bias at NPR , and FAIR’s latest study gives it no support. Looking at partisan sources—including government officials, party officials, campaign workers and consultants — Republicans outnumbered Democrats by more than 3 to 2 (61 percent to 38 percent). A majority of Republican sources when the GOP controls the White House and Congress may not be surprising, but Republicans held a similar though slightly smaller edge (57 percent to 42 percent) in 1993, when Clinton was president and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. And a lively race for the Democratic presidential nomination was beginning to heat up at the time of the 2003 study."
Read the link http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1180
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Poor Man's Weapon Of Choice
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"What's the difference between bombing someone to smitherines with a B-52 and bombing someone to smitherines with some C-4 strapped to your body?"
Let's put it this way. If the Palestians, or the Tamil Tigers, or the other folks who use themselves as bombs had access to B - 52s, Hellfire equipped Predator drones, cruise missiles, artillery, and other weapons of mass destruction, there wouldn't be any suicide bombings. But there certainly would be a new status quo . . .
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Howzat Again???
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anonymoose writes: "I'm sorry she got killed and all but all this catawauling about Rachel Corrie is completely misplaced, especially on the occasion of the Jewish High Holy Days."
nabalzbbfr, he only interest you have in the Jews are their tie-in with your silly vision of the "Rapture".
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Randomly Firing Synapses?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know, things are just kind of rolling along, one comment after another, what folks call a string, and then "kaplowie" right out of the blue:
"I'm sure that if these people had insulted Glenn Greenwood's fragile sense of manhood, though, he'd be full of high dudgeon, pissing and moaning all over the place as is his wont when this happens. -- Hornet Driver".
Shake of head, reread it again, sigh. You really start to wonder WTF is going on inside that head . . .
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If Ann Althouse is the stupidest woman alive,
[Read the article: Jamie Kirchick's fantasies of the grave Muslim threat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]then I guess that would make Sean 'The Chin That Dares To Walk As A Man' Hannity as the stupidest man alive, especially for his defense of has-been State Fair Rocker The Nuge. But wasn't that title already taken? "General Tommy Franks, according to Plan of Attack, says of Feith: "I have to deal with the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth almost every day."
Speaking of , well, not necessarily the brighest boy in class, shooter242 writes: "It turns out that there IS a group in Gaza that would behead Britney and Madonna.
"If I meet these whores I will have the honor – I repeat, I will have the honor – to be the first one to cut the heads off Madonna and Britney Spears if they will keep spreading their satanic culture against Islam," said Muhammad Abdel-Al, spokesman and senior leader of the Popular Resistance Committees terror organization.
But no worries, Glenn has assured us that this can't happen."
Dixie Chicks receive death threats -- Google Results 404,000 hits for death threats dixie chicks
Ted 'Noogie' Nugent (Hannity's buddy)issues death threats against Obama, Clinton and other Democrats -- Google Results 273,000 for ted nugent death threats
You really are one silly, silly little man, shooter . . .
but I do admire your perseverance as you clutch at those wingnut straws.