Letters to the Editor
Baldie McEagle
Published Letters: 992 Editor's Choice: 3
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@ noballz
[Read the article: Everything that is rancid and corrupt with modern journalism: The Nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And Negroes is still lazy watermelon-thieves! We Southerners done fought a war to prove it. So what if we lost?
You mean it isn't a reporter's job to report without comment what people are calling _____ (fill in blank) these days?
These people are a bunch of gabbling old matrons, gossiping about anything their vicious little minds can grab onto. Yet I'm still floored by that "correction" and how juvenile it is. Perhaps the managing editor of Time.com needs to be forced to write a real correction 100 times on the blackboard.
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@Anons
[Read the article: Fantasies in black and white]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To the first anon: Well put. Blacks have support systems too, but they tend to provide things other than large amounts of cash.
To the second anon: Also well put, in your own way, but you forgot to take your foot out of your mouth. Who said anything about making babies? Oh, stereotypes---right.
To the third: Look it up.
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But Hoekstra's right!
[Read the article: Time tries again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Too many terrorists in Iraq are "lawyering up" and walking away scot-free. This is terrible. How will we ever learn the orbital coordinates of the terrorist particle-beam space station if we aren't allowed to eavesdrop on their communications?
How many American soldiers must be fried by the terrorists' antigravity-tank-mounted lasers before we all realize that we MUST acquire that decoder ring?
This Democrat legislation limiting our intelligence services to cans-and-string and sending minatory notes to the terrorists' parents MUST BE STOPPED.
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Hilarious
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Chad Vader"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks Michael. I couldn't have watched that.
Next, for a little light relief, please give us a glimpse into a nest of snakes, or perhaps a colony of mole rats.
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@meglev
[Read the article: The Chicago Tribune vs. Time magazine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fine points, and points that have been discussed by Glenn and here in these comments many times.
But how do you separate the two? How can we as a nation have a rational discussion about whether we should drop nukes on a few sheepherders, when the liars and sycophants (knaves and fools as you more delicately put it) are pressing at every point, feeding disinformation to the media, obfuscating the facts, and generally throwing wrenches in the machinery of national discourse?
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@cowardly anon
[Read the article: The Chicago Tribune vs. Time magazine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What evidence do you have that Glenn corrects other people's grammar, as he corrects their reporting of vital facts pertaining to major constitutional issues of the day? I've never seen it.
And you: what do you contribute but superficial and beside-the-point criticism? Surely there is a video on YouTube you should be watching instead of lurking here, perhaps something Britney-related?
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Wow Glenn
[Read the article: National Review reporter caught fabricating; where is the "liberal media"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Michelle Malkin almost sounds like you! In fact, if I read her text unquoted here I wouldn't have thought twice about it.
This issue raises, as always, interesting larger questions about blogs vs the MSM. As noted, Lopez tried to blame her failures on the medium, so she started it---but Malkin is ending it.
Malkin et al. are way out there, to be sure, but they didn't cut their teeth reporting for the Washington Post or the NYT. That means she didn't learn the usual corporate butt-covering ethics and procedures. Nuts she may be, but I am reminded more than ever of the state of Anglo "journalism" in the 17th through 19th centuries: completely irresponsible and unregulated, but real. Broadside writers then were not afraid to be extreme or to be wrong. It's not a bad thing.
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Rumsfeldiana
[Read the article: National Review reporter caught fabricating; where is the "liberal media"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the WaPo tip, bebop.
Looks like Rummy is still working for the White House. Brilliant tying together of Truman, Chavez, Islamofascism, and the threat of the Intertubes into one silly Chicken Little package.
Incidentally, if anyone is to blame for Chavez' rise, it's the US and its Venezuelan proxies and the way we threaten him every time we hear a sneeze from his direction. Stop puffing him up, and sooner or later he will fail and go away.
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Poor use of rhetoric can be revealing
[Read the article: Our serious foreign policy geniuses strike again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]BOLTON:Even a stopped clocked is right twice a day.
That's not appropriate language to refer to someone who is accused of being "in league" with enemies. Such a person would say whatever is convenient and advantageous in any situation, much as neocons have been proven to do, but would not repeat the same message for years, as El Baradei has done and is accused of doing. If he has repeated the same message consistently, like a stopped clock, then he cannot be saying it in the service of both Iraq and Iran, two formerly bitter enemies. That reasoning doesn't work.
Rather, this language is appropriate to a subject who is known for producing the same message because its thought process is always the same. It fits the model of "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" much better. It perfectly fits people who always say, "1% of an Islamic nuclear program is too much---bomb ____."
So who's a stopped clock now?
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So ...
[Read the article: Is waterboarding more like swimming or eating rice pilaf?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Torture only works when you have the subject's full cooperation. Or is it the element of surprise that makes torture work? Certainly it isn't the torture itself, according to these experts.
Are Al Qaeda people told they will not be asked any tough questions? That they will be housed in luxury and fed delicious chicken entrees? Perhaps they are lazier than we thought, and this apparent desire for calories and a little peace and quiet could be exploited.
Maybe it already is!
But that would mean that talking about the food at Gitmo is also revealing secret practices.
My head is spinning!
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Short-pants Scooter gets it half right
[Read the article: New poll reveals how unrepresentative neocon Jewish groups are]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since it's very easy to support pacifism when not being shot at, I'd guess Israelis are more conservative.
I'd guess it's also easy to support militarism when you're not being shot at---and are at no risk of being shot at whatever you support.
Hmmm, where does that put the average Israeli citizen? (assuming he/she is done with his/her mandatory army service, which also applies regardless of political views)
Try again, grasshopper.
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@bethincary
[Read the article: New poll reveals how unrepresentative neocon Jewish groups are]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just went to the CIA site and found no evidence of a governing board. Can you provide a link?
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I would think
[Read the article: Why is California so special?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the presumption would be that the US would lose the "bargaining chip" of NOT cutting emissions, if states cut emissions willy-nilly.
THAT would teach them.