Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 2149 Editor's Choice: 7
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Glenn, isn't that what you do here everyday?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Find someone who spouts outrageous comments on the right and then hold it up as an example of what all on the right think.
No...that would be find an outrageous comment spouted by someone on the right, compare it to something equally outrageous spouted by the same person, with the absolute opposite meaning. Then put them up side by side, proving that the person in question is a liar.
Not the same at all.....
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A little perspective....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]We are engaged in a hand-wringing discussion regarding comments concerning the death of an individual. We all agree that those comments are inappropriate and reprehennsible. The individual in question however is directly responsible for the actual (as opposed to hypothetical) deaths of tens of thousands of people many of whom were innocent of anything beyond living in target zones.
Calling for someone's death is reprehensible.
Causing it is worse.
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After all, it would be inapproriate
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]to take people at their word, that they say what they beleive Why don't they instead have the gumption to instead say the bullshit I accuse them of believing instead. After all I'm a self appointed expert.....
Does ANYONE on the left have a backbone and will stand up for what their netroots believe - as lunatic-ish as they are?
Quite the crock...if I do say so myself.
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Your assuming a symmetry that doesn't exist.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]If instead of endless ad hominem attacks, “both sides” actually LISTENED to each other, an open, democratic political culture could emerge.
There is a fundemental difference in the people who end up becoming Liberals vs Conservatives. It's not an accident that the left refers to itself as the reality-based community and it's not an accident that all the attacks on science are coming from the right.
To claim that both sides needs to listen to the other is to ignore the fact that there's only one side that's willing to even examine the world in sufficient detail to allow for the possibility.
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What's taking so long??
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of all the "senior administration officials" one could name, the Vice-President has the longest and most grandiose string of false statements ever documented. So why in the hell is ANYBODY listening to a word he says?
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Their own reality
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]to the point that they have created their own reality or ability to see the “truth” nobody else can.
The more I observe of the human condition the more convinced I am that we are all "creating our own realities" as we go and that our world would look very different if our vision of it weren't filtered through the story-lines that we use to divide the world up into managable chunks. The main difference I see between so called Liberals and Conservatives is the degree to which those story-lines include the viewpoints of people who are outside of one's own self-identification.
Stated more simply, it is the total lack of empathy for outsiders which is driving the conservative movement in this country. I'm thinking and hoping that most people have had quite enough.
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One of the hardest charges to prove...
[Read the article: Why do so many neoconservatives lack the courage of their convictions?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is the one that accuses someone of thinking something they're afraid to say.
I'm reminded that one of the trolls on the Cheney-Huffington thread came in and said words to the effect that liberals were afraid to stand behind what we really felt (in this case referring to dire wishes for the VP's health). He was of course full of it, but your current post is assailable due to similar reasoning.
That said, there's no doubt about the accuracy of your conclusion. One could write an entire book on RW code phrases that are used to conceal the racism and jingoism that actually drives their agenda. ("freedom of association" comes to mind immediately)
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The Left appears to be entirely apathetic. Except, that is, to heap scorn.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]That is, of course just a flat out lie.
Of course your first sin is to refer to the left as if it were a single object. To then assert that "the left" (as an object again) is unconcerned about Iran is just flat out deliberately wrong.
The problem is of course that we've already seen this movie and we know how it ends. All the maneuvering thats going on concerning Iran, assumes serious time constraints. The time contraints are quite unrelated to Iran's relationship to nuclear weapons but are totally tied to Bush's remaining time in office.
Whatever happens, has to happen soon, not because Iran will soon have the bomb but becuase we will soon have adults in charge.
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There goes another one...
[Read the article: Is "Howard Kurtz" a software program?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]talking about "The Left" as if it were a single object instead of a loose collection of people with varying agendas. Of course, that way its easier to lie about it.
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raj - mbf
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]What will I accomplish if I say I think your both wrong??
While Raj is right that things are getting better and we'll accomplish the most by working within the system, mbf is right that what we are fighting is a powerful organized movement that we ignore at our peril.
What really make ME feel like we're beating our head against the wall, is that the establishment media has so skewed its viewpoint that it now appears that a solid majority of our countrymen are now officially moonbats!
That's what we have to fight hard and thats the short version of what service Glenn provides.
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The problem isn't...
[Read the article: Terrible hatred and anger on the left]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that Ann Coulter called John Edwards a faggot. The problem is that at least 60 million Americans think that's funny.....
We have a lot of work to do.