Letters to the Editor
Ché Pasa
Published Letters: 768 Editor's Choice: 2
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Re: Salon's Eternal 'Maintenance'
[Read the article: If only Newt Gingrich were president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This of course is OT, BUT:
One reason -- of many -- I dropped my Salon Premium membership was the farking "maintenance" crises that periodically subsumed the site. I realize that Salon is an Intertube Pioneer and all, and that it used to run out of money all the time, and that many of its systems are creaky, old, inefficient, or deliberately designed to provide the most aggravation possible in the shortest amount of time, but it got to the point where it wasn't even worth bookmarking and checking the site. Nothing -- or very little -- would be working. Or if they were working, they would shortly be "down for maintenance" -- and sometimes be resumed an entirely different, and typically hostile format.
And look! Here we are again.
Oh well. At least you know where you are... No paragraph breaks in "preview." Oh. Boy. Won't that be fun.
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The TIME piece is quite the eye-opener
[Read the article: If only Newt Gingrich were president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]considering how the CW has changed with the revisionism of the Bushevik Era.
As we know, after Clinton was thrown out of office by Newt's masterfully engineered Impeachment, the nation went through a long, slow period of recovery, during which, of course, the Clinton-Gore Recession affected millions of Americans barely scraping by. But thanks to the Bush tax cuts for the upper .01% of the well-off, an economic melt down was prevented.
Newt, of course, withdrew from active day to day management of governmental affairs about the time of his greatest achievement, the removal of the Dreadful Clinton from office, which was the wise thing for a man of his many talents.
That TIME magazine, in a contemporary report, got things so very wrong about Newt only goes to show what a liberal rag it was in those days (and to an extent still is). The only reason to print those lies about Newt is to advance the Liberal Agenda.
Once Newt is brought in to Save America (Redux), that sort of calumny will have to be excised from the public record. It would behoove readers of Glenn Greenwald's columns in Salon to clear their minds of what was reported long ago. He has a habit of bringing up things from the past that were wrong then and have nothing to do with Our Glorious Future. He should give it a rest.
A Country Needs A Leader™, and Newt is far and away the most Leaderlike of the current crop of Republicans. Remember what he did to Clinton. He'll do the same to the She-Clinton. He is not afraid.
And Hugh Hewitt should be his Secretary of State.
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Little bit of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy", eh Glenn?
[Read the article: National journalists believe you should trust them]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This post and thread have been about as thorough a demolition of ABC News as it is humanly possible to get. And by extension, the rest of those clowns in the media are spitballed and slimed as well.
Masterfully done.
Here's a bit from the "Tiger Mountain" blurb to get you fired up for more:
"Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" is one of the outstanding model theatrical works. It describes an episode in the great Chinese People's War of Liberation, a battle in which a pursuit detachment of the Chinese People's Liberation Army wiped out a Kuomintang die-hard gang in northeast China. The opera creates the brilliant images of Yan Tzu-jung and other proletarian heroes by the method of combining revolutionary realism with revolutionary romanticism, and eulogizes Chairman Mao's great thought on people's war. The successful creation of the modern revolutionary Peking opera "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" is a splendid victory for Chairman Mao's revolutionary line on literature and art.
Wish I could post some of the pictures here; can't, so you'll just have to visit:
http://parslow.com/TigerMountain/
Enjoy.
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Well, this one is obviously about Power
[Read the article: Newt Gingrich's 1997 trip to China]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Specifically the Power the Big Media still has to drive the stories that will be accepted as Truth by history.
As noted, the double standard regarding Newt (ever see Katie Couric interview her Darling Newty? Contrast that with the way she treated the Edwardses) versus Nancy is SOP.
But there is more to it. Nancy has had a pretty successful run as House Speaker, exceeding expectations, you might say. Newt, too, did well as Speaker, but he was widely supported in the mass media. Nancy has been subject to unending ridicule and constant sniping from the media. Nevertheless, she's handling her position very well, and making those who are whining and complaining about her... look bad.
So The Syria Gambit is another -- rather pathetic -- effort to denounce and disparage Nancy's role and the job she's doing.
I doubt the talking points even have to come from the White House any more. The Big Media itself is obsessed with Bringing Down Nancy (and once they've done that, they will return to their long time obsession with Stopping Hillary). So with a nod from the White House, they were ready and went after her with guns blazing.
Have they accomplished their task? Hard to say. Nancy looks pretty good all and all, but she has had a few missteps. The failure of the media to mention the Republican delegations to Damascus is -- of course -- deliberate. But it doesn't seem to be affecting Nancy negatively. In fact, despite all the whining and cat-calling, Nancy is far from destroyed by all this. If anything, she's coming out stronger, and the media hysterics are making them look terrible.
But they are still determining (most of what is) "news."
Soon, though, maybe not...