Letters to the Editor
Had It
Published Letters: 19
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Champions of Mediocrity Win Another One
[Read the article: Elegy for Aaron Brown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nebraska StatePaper.com has captured my feelings:
Score another victory for the mud-brained champions of mediocrity - otherwise known as the management at CNN. Bowing to the perceived benefit of catering to fans of hair spray and insipid blather, the network is planning to remove Aaron Brown from his anchor spot on NewsNight. First, the network fiddled with the program's format, then added Anderson "Look, Mom! The wind's blowing!" Cooper. The other night Paula "Oh, tell me how you feeeel" Zahn was at the desk. Mostly, we feel embarrassed for her when she styles her hair with a cake mixer then proceeds to ask really sappy questions. Brown represents down-to-earth, intelligent interviewing. He understands context, and how the things that happen in the world reflect on the human condition, including the human comedy. Somewhere, amid programming aimed at IQs exceeding room temperature, Brown will find a place. We hope it is one that will let him do what he does best - present news as reality, rather than soap opera.
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Champions of Mediocrity Win Another One
[Read the article: Brown out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nebraska StatePaper.com has captured my feelings:
Score another victory for the mud-brained champions of mediocrity - otherwise known as the management at CNN. Bowing to the perceived benefit of catering to fans of hair spray and insipid blather, the network is planning to remove Aaron Brown from his anchor spot on NewsNight. First, the network fiddled with the program's format, then added Anderson "Look, Mom! The wind's blowing!" Cooper. The other night Paula "Oh, tell me how you feeeel" Zahn was at the desk. Mostly, we feel embarrassed for her when she styles her hair with a cake mixer then proceeds to ask really sappy questions. Brown represents down-to-earth, intelligent interviewing. He understands context, and how the things that happen in the world reflect on the human condition, including the human comedy. Somewhere, amid programming aimed at IQs exceeding room temperature, Brown will find a place. We hope it is one that will let him do what he does best - present news as reality, rather than soap opera.
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Look who's first!
[Read the article: Ten years of Salon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Every day, I read them in this order: Salon, the Washington Post, the New York Times.
Congratulations!
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Dems on the Ropes, Moderate Repubs on the Upswing?
[Read the article: Conrad: I know Alito's no ideologue because he told me so]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reading this post and the one immediately preceding it ("Kennedy on Alito: But we've been on vacation!") makes it clear that the two-party system is in serious jeopardy--at least, the two-party system we've know for the past 100+ years. It seems that a viable new party may be emerging from the ranks of moderate Republicans (see Christine Todd Whitman's "It's My Party, Too" website). If joined together for purposes of voting with the ever-increasing numbers of independents, such a party could be a force to be reckoned with. Given the performance of the Democratic Party, marginalization appears to be its due.
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Think Again, Mary
[Read the article: "Alito looked me in the eye and told me that he is not an ideologue"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Sen. Landrieu thinks the rest of the country believes an issue as significant as the confirmation of a new Supreme Court Justice should be swept aside in favor of the ongoing D.C. machinations that would result in rebuilding her city on a swamp, she is sorely mistaken.
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God created who is his own image?
[Read the article: Bad news dad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Scherer: Raising kids is like raising dogs. The only difference is the dog parents are usually better at it.
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And in January . . .
[Read the article: Air head]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's see all you live-with-the-environment, heat-loving types who live in a four-season climate turn your central heating down to 45 in the winter. Bracing!
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Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
[Read the article: Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The evidence presented in Mr. Blumenthal's piece is cumulative.
It reassures us that Dubya is everything ... that Dubya is.
Mr. Blumenthal should provide more useful and constructive and entertaining work with a minutely detailed look into how the dimwit in the White House acquired an MBA from Hah-vud.
Does anyone (even his mom) believe that Dubya could read a balance sheet? Balance a checkbook?
It's a good bet that he still can't answer the best question he ever posed: "How many is a Brazilian, anyway?"
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Better black than female
[Read the article: The dude vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If it's news to anyone that sexism is a bigger problem in this country than racism, it's because the media has been ignoring this issue since the beginning of the Clinton-Obama contest. (Come to think of it, the media is the main vehicle by which sexism is purveyed to the culture, so their failure to land on the issue with both feet is predictable--either because of tone deafness or complicity.)
Lou Dobbs was the most recent Y chromosome to demonstrate incredulity when a black female commentator on his program this evening said that people in this country are more likely to vote for a black man than a woman. "Really?!" Dobbs intoned. "Why?"
"Because this country is heavily invested in keeping women subservient," came the response.
Or, as John Lennon said, "Woman is the nigger of the world."
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Dear Libertyson
[Read the article: The dude vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) I live smack in the middle of the rural Midwest and have for 60 years.
2) I understand and condemn both the sexism and racism that resides there. I think the former is more tolerated and, as such, is much more insidious.
3) I'm voting for Barak Obama.
4) I didn't author the words "Woman is the Nigger of the World." John Lennon did. He and Yoko Ono wrote the song in 1972. Look it up.
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libertyson, libertyson
[Read the article: The dude vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On what do you base your conclusion that I'm a woman? Or that I'm not black?
Calm down. I'm on your side.
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Gentlemen, Start Your 527s
[Read the article: Bomb, bomb Iran?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One question: Are Democrats ready to form and fund the 527 groups that will run the television ads that can take this clown down?
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Once More With Feeling:
[Read the article: My last word (for now) on sexism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Hard as it is to believe that the "postfeminist" era may actually just be the era of denial, this election proves that sexism is more acceptable than racism in our society. Not more important, or more difficult to overcome, or more widespread, but more acceptable, less likely to occasion outrage. . . . What is clear is that all of us are losing by refusing to deal with the unfairness shown Clinton. If these attacks work against her, it will have a chilling effect on other potential female candidates, and if we refuse to recognize and name the sexism, we are that much farther from a truly fair society."
Amen, Cannie. How rational. Just wanted to make sure everyone read it again.