Letters to the Editor
Baldie McEagle
Published Letters: 992 Editor's Choice: 3
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@slider and others
[Read the article: CNN's John King responds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What makes you think the interview was edited? If it was, do you know what the other questions were?
Of course you don't. As far as any poster here can ascertain, those other questions have not been published. Anywhere.
If they do exist, and they do hi harder than the published questions, then why were they suppressed? To make King look like an ass? Are you suggesting there is a conspiracy afoot to make King look like an ass, and King is in on it?.
Back to you, Slider et al.
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@totoro
[Read the article: CNN's John King responds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]those with glass houses shouldn't be the first to throw stones
Me, I don't live in a glass house. Fortunately!
Then again, I'm not paid 6 figures to go on TV every night.
So throw stones I shall.
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An finally, one for the professor
[Read the article: CNN's John King responds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Professor Smith, you've been quiet for a while. I guess you shot your load and left. But here goes anyway.
Question: If you have read GG's previous columns about bad reporting and the reporters who report it, why then do you assume that he has an ulterior motive in criticizing reporters? I've read his posts; I don't know the guy; and yet I know why he criticizes bad reporters. (Answer below)
Did you know reading involves looking at words? Maybe they should teach that in journalism school.
(Answer: It has to do with bad reporting.)
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And Karl Rove is ...
[Read the article: Lawbreaking telecoms still conniving to obtain immunity from Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]who, exactly?
It's amusing that Beltway insiders do seem to hang on his every word, when every word of his is so remarkably predictable. Why don't they just watch the Colbert Report?
I guess that doesn't have the same cachet as "Karl Rove whispered it in my ear as he buggered me behind the Press Club."
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Thanks Farhad
[Read the article: FCC can't stop Diane Keaton's TV F-bomb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for that kick in the balls!
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The corporations' long-term plans for the middle class
[Read the article: Did somebody say "recession"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This makes me think of all the signs that the corporate elite wants to elevate the rich (increase the gap between middle-class and the rich, thus bringing more citizens into their camp), shrink the middle class, and expand the working class (whom they can then treat as they will, and use to scare the rich and the remaining middle class).
We already know the poor make great liquid labor. Here's another service the working class can perform for their masters: to be the pump-primers of their "private sector engine."
And yes, I sound paranoid to myself, but Bush did whip out that rebate fast, didn't he? Knowing, of course (as a poster pointed out below), that the IRS would get it back. However, I suppose that if we must convert taxes to economic expansion, this was a cheaper way of doing it than invading Iraq.
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@RBL
[Read the article: Did somebody say "recession"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not sure political parties need to rely on "the rich" quite as much as you think. Yes, the rich write bigger checks, and of course even "progressive" candidates need to stay friendly with the corporatocracy.
But a dollar from 10,000 working stiffs is still $10,000.
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@proctology warning
[Read the article: Joe Klein rewrites his role in the 1990s]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, we're all quite "incredulous" here. We can't believe what Glenn writes in his posts. That's why we keep coming back---in case he writes something so unbelievably banal that we understand the world is all right again and we can stop worrying about it.
But seriously. "Whilst"? Character "floors"? Don't you have your own country to go back to? Don't they need trolls there too?
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Anyway, it's true
[Read the article: Joe Klein rewrites his role in the 1990s]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill seduced me and then abandoned me. Where is he now? What's he doing? Is he thinking of me?
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beg to differ
[Read the article: Joe Klein rewrites his role in the 1990s]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And a 22-year-old flashing a thong at a responsible middle-aged man in a position of authority should set off danger signals in his head, not spasms of sexual excitement.
BOTH are entirely normal. Especially in a man who belongs to the elite.
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Procto
[Read the article: Joe Klein rewrites his role in the 1990s]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What you are seriously not getting is that our pundits play a game in which they encourage their fellows to consider some triviality to be a problem, then criticize the serious consideration of that problem.
It's the old "We really don't want to know about your sex orgies with goats. Stop talking about it. Why do you have orgies with goats?" Just as the govt and the press make shit up and then cite each other on it until a myth is born.
It apparently works wonders for keeping flagging careers in punditry alive. At worst, Glenn is keeping himself occupied complaining about lying pundits. It's not like he has to make anything up.
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Of course it's true
[Read the article: The payoff from being environmentally correct]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And it's especially true if the government hands out cash to small companies with new ideas to meet the new environmental standards.
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A child could see through this argument
[Read the article: Michael Gordon "reports" on the "only serious" Iraq option: Staying forever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But only if he takes off his MSM glasses. Let's take statements made or implied in Gordon's article and put them next to one another:
(1) (a) The surge is working and the war is basically won. Violence is down. (b) It won't be easy, but we just need to occupy a little while longer---as long as it takes---to give the Iraqi government breathing room to establish itself. Maybe a year to 10 years.
(2) If we leave within the year, Iraq will collapse in a bloodbath that will destabilize the Middle East.
I can see how a committed pro-war adult could convince him or herself that these statements do not contradict one another. But no one else.
Further, I enjoy how Gordon pretends that the problem given military officers to solve---how to fix Iraq---frames the problem for politicians to resolve. Naturally the issues of invading in the first place or just getting out now don't come up in these officers' comments? How could they? Do builders ponder whether they should stop building?
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Of course smears are spontaneous
[Read the article: The Headless McCain Smear]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just like swiftboating, combustion, and virgin birth!
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More specifically
[Read the article: The Headless McCain Smear]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"On the Internet": These things just happen
in the same way that rumors about Obama supposedly being a Muslim "are out there."