Letters to the Editor
Baldie McEagle
Published Letters: 992 Editor's Choice: 3
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Harsh, Lynx
[Read the article: Cokie Roberts speaks out on the war on behalf of the American people]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think he does understand "the."
But i think he's been swimming in the far-right water so long he can't comprehend that corporate-elitist oligarchism is, by definition, not the will of the people, no matter how many liberal talking heads he counts.
You might consider, E-man, that counting well-known liberals just dodges the question when we have a thousand non-celebrity newscasters across the country, on every channel in every city, who are mindlessly and unthinkingly conservative---just like you.
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peewee, on the other hand
[Read the article: Cokie Roberts speaks out on the war on behalf of the American people]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn does three things: criticizes Republicans, criticizes Democrats for not criticizing Republicans, and criticizes the media for not criticizing Republicans.
can't count past three..
Did you lose your place when you hit "criticizes Democrats for misrepresenting constitutional matters"?
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it's true!
[Read the article: Megan McArdle and Dan Drezner's defense of the media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reporters should not be reporting on past events. They should confine themselves to speculating about our glorious super-safe terror-immune corporate-technological future, and how one day we will travel to Baghdad to take bus tours and take in the local culture, and bring home photos of colorful markets and interesting beggars.
Those shootings that occured downtown over the weekend? Pah! Don't work so hard, reporters. Just take the phone off the hook (an antique phrase, never mind) and start typing!
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Nozzlebuffer
[Read the article: Lee Hamilton denies Michael Mukasey's claim about 9/11]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you mean hyperpartisan Democrat, don't you?
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Don't know the numbers
[Read the article: The Starbucks economy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But is it possible people are buying their beans in the supermarket, where Starbucks has been commonly available for several years?
Or did the declining numbers cover only actual store-brewed coffee purchases? or did they include out-of-store bean purchases?
Tell us more!
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Apparently advertising doesn't exist
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]or else has no effect: The Atlantic and Salon/GG are therefore on a level playing field, according to McTardle:
en it comes to the journalistic coverage of same, Mr Greenwald has the correlation running the wrong way: the public doesn't know because it doesn't care, not because the journalists don't want to tell them. If the public did care, Mr Greenwald would have more readers.
Move over, Ann Althouse. There's a new village idiot in town.
Follow-up: Anyone notice McArdle is an economics reporter on defense, but when she's on offense, she covers the campaign trail, the media, and the Nuremberg Trials?
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@cestmoi
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]So you're one of the blinkered fools who keep American imperialism going in the face of all odds and common sense. Nice to finally meet you!
So you'd agree that Officer Murphy, who lives down the street from you and is an all-around good guy, should be able to shoot suspected criminals on sight and torture anyone at the scene of a crime.
What, then, would separate him from murderers, thugs, and lynch mobs except for his innate decency? Or is that the point?
Dream on.
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@omooex
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]But it's a quality Russian dating service.
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the thing that bothers me
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]is when LWM and bucky post as each other.
Then it gets crazy.
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omooex
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's impossible for me to tell, from your last post, what exactly it is that you want.
Fairness? Sure. When posters read carefully and post carefully, there will be fairness, I guess. Elephantman, for example, is perfectly clear when he posts. And he gets what he deserves---I'm sure you agree.
Evenhandedness? Good luck.
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jjs123
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your example is backwards. Sure, we can't be held guilty by association of time or place. But pointing to the past is different from pointing forward. Those who believed the war was right may not be powerful in any sense, and therefore their responsibility may be minute.
But they should at least disavow their previous claims, and admit that the platform they wanted us to follow has led to ruin.
And if they don't, they need to be prepared to defend themselves---and I don't mean by attacking, though that's invariably what they do.
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@omooex
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't like the local celebrity catfighting either. I never know what people are arguing about. I don't agree with the consensus on LWM's sockpuppets, though. I think their numbers are vastly overestimated.
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But PeeWee
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]We only mean to return that contempt. It's been explained to you before.
Now beat it, stupid wanker.
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@peepee
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]At what point did the lameness spread to your brain?
Oh, snap!
There, twelve years old today.
Are you satisfied now?
Of course not.
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Actually, peewee
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]what I noticed is how the rightwing/complacent fuckface posters on McArdle's blog all tended to think in very black and white terms. Always, they would respond to a comment as though the only alternative to a proposition were the extreme opposite.
Surely you noticed that, PeeWee, in your stroll among the pustulates of the lower city?
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@Paul
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shut up, you dirty cunt.
Now respect me. And I mean TRUE respect, not just the kind of respect men give to those who bravely show their contempt for them.
But whatever you do, don't call me names.
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Umm, no, Bucky1
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]... Contrary to what the thin-skinned seem to believe, ad hominem arguments are natural when the content of an adversary's argument seems to consist largely of a mixture of ignorance and special pleading. And how do we know when that's the case? We don't, not with any certainty, but we're obliged by events to make our own judgments, are we not? -- William Timberman
Timberman says that ad hominem arguments are just fine by him if he hates the other fellow.
Bucky, that's not even close to what WT said. He's simply saying that it is possible to earn the epithet of liar, or of parroting automaton. That's all.
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I'm in complete agreement, Silash
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]What makes their claim unsuccessful is that the platform that leads to ruin is war in all its manifestations.
But I wouldn't consider "competent war" to be a different platform from "incompetent war," seeing that the latter is no platform at all.
War is a "platform." One could argue that war with Germany vs war with Russia is a platform distinction. But while parties may disagree, I doubt those are platforms either. Not in the US of A.
What a strange word, "platform." Rather "woody."
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Nozzlebuffer
[Read the article: Have Republicans given up on FISA and telecom amnesty?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When al-Qaeda succeeds in 9/11 part II (perhaps even on 9/11/08), due to Democrats' aid and comfort.
You mean they're suing the telecoms too?
Boo!