Letters to the Editor
CuttySark
Published Letters: 41
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Authentication Not Required
[Read the article: A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . Or at least, not all that verbiage about authentication. Glenn is not doing himself or his readers a favor by over-investigating the origins of that e-mail, he's doing Col. Boylan a favor. It seems pretty obvious that the e-mail is authentically from Boylan, so why dignify him with so many acres of ersatz doubt? This non-issue could and should have been wrapped up in two sentences, max.
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Nekkid is nekkid
[Read the article: If Britney Spears shouldn't be naked in front of her kids, what about me?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Mom-- The answer to your question is: ignore all this blather and go put on some cotton-pickin' clothes. No matter what Cary Tennis and these inexplicable others say, it is not one world for Britney and another one for you.
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Glenn has only his own too-thoroughness to blame
[Read the article: Col. Boylan's implosion accelerates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Face it, Boylan got the idea that he could deny writing his e-mail from Glenn's column, which overreacted to a few people who wrote in to ask -- "Are you sure it's real?" On the strength of these letters, Glenn started investigating himself. Why? Of course it's real and always has been.
And by now we're all sick of acting as if it were ever in doubt . . . aren't we? Well, anyway, I am.
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Maybe the, uh, FACES, are a factor?
[Read the article: Why voters don't like Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]See, I have this theory that somehow seeing Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid out there together causes an attack of sheer disgust in the masses. Perhaps you've even noticed a similar reaction in yourself.
Nothing against Nancy and Harry. They're nice people, I'm sure, and they mean well. They just give the party an image of impotence, and Image, as you may have heard, is everything.
Well, maybe not everything, but way too much to let Nancy and Harry fail at giving it a boost -- over and over and over again.
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Hello, SCHLOCKVILLE!
[Read the article: "Beowulf" vs. "The Lord of the Rings"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How come us intuhleckchulls have to pee all over something just because it's not "Lord of the Rings"?
Check out, if you can, Joe Morgenstern on "Beowulf" in the Wall Street Journal. Not all intuhleckchulls have to respond like Gary Kamiya.
Hello, SCHLOCKVILLE, Hello!
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These people hate the truth and will fight it to the death
[Read the article: The NIE changed everything. Yeah, right]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's nothing like a good dose of the truth (i.e., the NIE) to drive Bush, Hadley, Bolton, Negroponte and all their cronies daffy. The hell of it is, their wall-to-wall denials immediately crowd the truth so far into the corner it can barely be detected.
I don't mean to neglect Cheney and his group, but their relative silence is refreshing -- a word definitely alien to everything else about them.
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Times Hires Bill; I Cancel Times
[Read the article: Bloggers mature, the New York Times stumbles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill Kristol, huh? I decided I'd had my fill of the Times, with its Michael Gordon, its Sam Tanenhaus, its O'Hanlon and Pollack op-eds, its David Brooks, its Kevin Martin op-ed, Its Judy Miller, its reconstituted version of Tom Friedman, and on and on.
But would I have the guts to cut the Times out of my life? I did it this morning. Alas, the woman who took my cancellation had no idea who Bill Kristol was, but I made sure she wrote down his name.
There's always the website, Pinch, where I can pick and choose the columns I see and read. And the minute Murdoch hires a liberal columnist, I plan to renew my Times subscription.
I don't think that will be any time soon, do you?
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Too many updates, Glenn
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why let some of these "update" phonies cast doubt on the truth you've gone to so much trouble to tell? Also, this stuff consumes too much space and, hence, too much reader time. Is it really worth it to be so thoroughly "updated"? I don't get it.
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Strausbaugh? Really?
[Read the article: John McCain is running for sissy in chief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You don't mean it . . . not the same John Strausbaugh who worked for the New York Press back in the days when it was crazy right-wing from head to toe? And here we have Salon's interviewer behaving in just the way Glenn Greenwald tells us John Roberts behaved toward Mike McConnell -- in other words, sucking up to the (fill in the blank).
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The 'So-What?" Effect
[Read the article: The Leader isn't protecting us and keeping us safe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What depresses me is that even if The Leader isn't protecting us and keeping us safe, his lie works like crazy as propaganda. We Democrats have got to find a better way to answer the Prez and his party than just saying it ain't so.
Also dead in the water is that other favorite Democratic response, in which our own leaders accuse the Rethugs of "fear-mongering." This has the virtue of being true, but alas, also the quite awesome drawback of being terminally wimpy and ineffective.
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Chuck Party Leaders? Bad Idea
[Read the article: A supersize controversy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Somebody has to keep pointing this out: the reason to have party leaders as self-interested superdelegates is because they're the only people -- besides a (very) few journalists -- who know that it pays to have an electable candidate. Now that "the people" have spoken, however, it's probably too late to do anything about resurrecting any of those maybe-electable white guys like Biden, Edwards or Dodd.
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Inconstant Reader Fwowed Up
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dorothy Parker was wrong years ago when she wrote "Tonstant weader fwowed up" about Winnie the Pooh, so maybe I'm wrong to react in exactly the same way to Heather's Oprah essay. The front end of the piece is terrific, but then we find out that Oprah is the golden exception to Heather's rule that people who are too kempt have a tendency also to suck, just a little -- or maybe a lot. Right away I knew I was in the presence of an Obama voter, even though Obama's name doesn't come up. Oh Heather, please! Give me a break!
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Give Me a Break!
[Read the article: Does Oscar hate his own smell?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh Cintra, bag it, willya?
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Enough Already with the Updates!
[Read the article: Exclusive capitulation report: House Democratic leadership circulates FISA bill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The update avalanche is cooling my ardor, Mr. Greenwald. Please move on to a different subject instead of updating, updating, updating . . . mostly a waste of time (yours and your readers'), in my insufficiently humble view.