Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 2149 Editor's Choice: 7
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Between robotempire and Retired Military Patriot
[Read the article: Our rotted press corps, a division of "Camp Victory"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's nice to get some perspective from people who are actual participipants in the war on terror. I can't help notice the sharp contrast between their contributions to the discussion and the mindless cheerleading and hate-bating that contriubuters like tiberius and politicalrealityunhinged have to offer.
It's a serious illness that's affectying our country that we lack the visual acuity necessary to differentiate between the actual enemies who wish us harm vs those who just happen to share their faith or geography. That we dropped the pursuit of Bin Laden in order to disrupt Iraq instead is a symptom of the problem. The fact that there are people who proudly parade their blindness over the nature of our enemies, just further demonstrates why our worst enemy is our own ignorace.
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There's a big difference....
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And the Ann Coulters of the world never shy away from attacking the media, and haven't for years, with their "Liberal media" chants
There's a big difference between railing against a liberal media which is usually accomplished by finding an obscure instance of a Mexican or Muslim doing something bad and then whining about the lack of coverage that the incident generates and what Glenn does which usually involves identifying someone by name and pointing either A: how something they just typed is in complete opposition to the things they typed one year prior (with examples) or by pointing out that what they just typed is exactly what they typed one year prior when what they typed was that everything was going to be different and better in six months.
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The comment I posted at WaPo
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]reprinted here and dedicated to our favorite troll!
There has always been a difference between being impatient with uncertainty vs being downright proud of our ignorance. We have unfortunately crossed that line.
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Applied logic
[Read the article: Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The detainee is also suspected of recruiting Iraqis to fill the ranks of Iranian terror groups operating in Iraq, officials said
Following this marvelous sentence to it's inevitable conclusion, If Iraqi's are engaging in terror tactics within Iraq, it's because they are members of an Iranian terror group. The sick thing is that this kind of magical thinking actually works.
This of course also highlights why the Hate-R-Us crowd (Michelle and Ann and Jeff and John and to a lesser extent Jonah) need to work so hard to make sure that the 2-minute hate is directed at ALL Muslims. It simply would not do to actually apply effort into considering the possibility that there are any who AREN'T our mortal enemies and therefore deserving of death.
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In honor of Golden-boy's abrupt reappearance
[Read the article: Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'll repost excerps from three of my most recent comments:
on the side of the American-backed Iraqi government.
How can they be on our side? Their MOSLEMS! Everybody knows that means their out to kill us all! Right? right? I read it on the internets!
-anomymous
It's a serious illness that's affectying our country that we lack the visual acuity necessary to differentiate between the actual enemies who wish us harm vs those who just happen to share their faith or geography.....
....railing against a liberal media which is usually accomplished by finding an obscure instance of a Mexican or Muslim doing something bad and then whining about the lack of coverage that the incident generates....
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The comment about the word order
[Read the article: Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of the articles is actually very helpful.
If the first sentence opens with "the US military said on Monday" then you can be pretty sure that your not dealing with an American news organization. If on the other hand it opens with "Iranian forces helped plan one of the most sophisticated militant assaults of the Iraq war" then it's pretty much following the AP lead.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1117770949
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I've always been less interested
[Read the article: Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In seeing Libby suffer personally, than I have been in seeing that the truth continues to come out. With his action today GW Bush has acknowleged that a crime has been commited and has gone on record that he doesn't think that Libby deserves prison. To objective observer it would appear that he is complicit in the crime itself. We always knew that to be the case, but I think a larger proportion of Americans will also come to see the President as profiting from criminal behavior. In the grand scheme, I think that's a good thing.
Sorry shooter. We win again.
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Very thorough summaries of the press reaction to the clemency here:
[Read the article: Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_070703.htm
Highlights include
CNBC's chief Washington correspondent John Harwood, on NBC Nightly News, made a similar point, commenting, "This is not going to be popular with the American public as a whole but Republicans and Dick Cheney are happy tonight."
Under the headline "Soft on Crime," the New York Times editorializes, "Judging from his decision yesterday...untarnished ideals are less of a priority than protecting the secrets of" Bush's "inner circle and mollifying the tiny slice of right-wing Americans left in his political base
The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page isn't happy with Bush's decision, arguing that "by failing to issue a full pardon, Mr. Bush is evading responsibility for the role his Administration played in letting the Plame affair build into fiasco and, ultimately, this personal tragedy
I figure that anything that makes the WSJ unhappy is probably good for America.....
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Emotions.....
[Read the article: Lewis Libby owes his freedom to our corrupt political elite]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For some reason, I don't feel any of the outrage that Glenn and most commenters are expressing at this point. As I mentioned in the previous comment thread, I'm more interested in seeing the truth emerge than I am in seeing any particular bad fate befall the perpetrators. I honestly believe that the corruption that permeates this administration is coming into sharp relief and that, more than we realize (because we still get our news from inside the beltway) people are awakening to the stench.
Related:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/014982.php
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Booga Booga!
[Read the article: Lewis Libby owes his freedom to our corrupt political elite]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This coming from the same guy who is convinced that the Islamofascists won't rest until the entire USA is forced to pray to Mecca!
Booga Booga indeed!