Letters to the Editor
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woody allen
Has anyone brought up this quote from Annie Hall yet:
"You know, I was having lunch with some guys from NBC, so I said, 'Did you eat yet or what?' And Tom Christie said, 'No, JEW?' Not 'Did you?'...JEW eat? JEW? You get it? JEW eat?"
Sounds like Broadsheet has a slight case of the Alvy's...
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Shoe-shopping?
Post a link to this ridiculous claim. Or is this another thing that is all dreamed up in the mind?
Did he call her a "heel"?
Remind voters of all the "sandals," I mean scandals, surrounding her and her husband?
Say that she is "mulishly" refusing to release her tax returns?
Saying that she is being a "loafer" and not campaigning in Wisconsin personally?
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@Anonymous
I am guessing you are a Kucinich reporter, since he had a long career, was of the right race, and gender (in a country that has a right race and gender) and was clearly the best choice.
By your logic, any way, the democrats never had a chance.
Edwards is the right race and gender but has less experience than the resume light Clinton and Obama.
Richards had the resume but again, wrong race.
At the moment I beleive there are two choices left in the Democratic campaign. A woman with very little actual experience in elected office and an African American man with much more experience in elected office.
As to ties to shady business dealings...well...let's be nice and call that a draw.
They are going against McCain in the general election, a centrist with a proven track record at pulling independents, and a very clean money trail. The last thing the Democrats need is a polarizing long term political insider with a history of "unique" funding schemes.
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Language police on the beat
But wait, Clinton fires back with a syllabic salvo of her own...
"My opponent's tired ejaculations will fail to penetrate the American electorate. Though he has been cocky, rest assured: he's going down! Offering a program both hard and firm, instead of flaccid oral dickering, I will turn our turgid political system on its backside! Business and government make natural bedfellows, come what may, and encouraging intimate generative relationships between these two partners is what I will do. The wanton consummation of American desires must not take a back seat to economic promiscuity! By screwing with American dreams, tempting them with his shady smooth talk, my opponent flirts with a democratic dalliance that may incite the passions, but avoids the messy details vital to working out the kinks in our system. I will not tolerate the ongoing defilement, plan to put that to bed, and declare in no uncertain terms: It's the Morning After in America!"
Just kidding. Barely.
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Juliebird
I think he meant more "Feels down in the polls," than "down in the dumps."
And besides, it would still be a personal insult rather than a sexist one. There is nothing specifically male or female about the behaviour commented on (It really could have been equally applied to McCain.)
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EEEK @Factoidus NOT @Anonymous
Sorry about that Anonymous, my last diatribe was for Factoidus not you.
A million appologies.
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Further applogies
Factoidus, I was suggesting you were a Kucinich supporter, not a reporter.
one of those days.
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To Ano @ 4:03 a.m. and to his/her clones
I so very much regret that I couldn't sustain the high level of debate initiated by Manos 99 in the first letter on this thread and I suppose I'm expected to go into Uriah Heep mode (never mind!) and show my humility. You'll get none of that from me and I try to keep my vocabulary civilised. It's interesting to know that I'm being stalked by a rather dim-witted person who mentioned my "faux-Celtic" nationality and another cloaked individual who described me as an "Irish harridan" - words are clearly not "his" thing. I did not mention my Irishness when I posted mid-morning (l7th February 2008) so perhaps you should read more Raymond Chandler or James Lee Burke, and then you might not show your hand quite so obviously. That inevitable mention of leprechauns has me in stitches (of laughter) and I'm sure such wit would also have been appreciated by Oscar Wilde. Of course, you've never heard of the 8th century Book of Kells, one of the great manuscripts of "Old Europe", written at a time when America, as we know it, did not exist.
There's an election in Russia in March and in Pakistan shortly but I don't speak Russian or Urdu so, early in January, I thought I'd have a look-in at the American election. It's been an eye-opener and not in a way that flatters your country.
I had no interest, vested or otherwise, in any of your candidates although, since America is the biggest war-machine in the world, everyone on earh must hope that this time the American people will get it right. Eventually my thoughts about your candidates crystallised, particularly around the time of the South Carolina hustings and and the uproar about "fairytale" (this time without leprechauns). From a distance, I began to evaluate Barack Obama, a man with three years experience in the US Senate. His campaign was cleverly conceived; the autobiography was a form of "getting your retaliation in first" so that any subsequent criticism about a whole variety of things could be dismissed as youthful indiscretions or "whatever you're having yourself", as we say. The media has been slavering shamelessly and I wondered why. High-falutin' speeches won't cut the ice with Dmitry Medvedev, tipped to be the new President of Russia and Obama has no experience of foreign policy, the area in which America can hurt the rest of the world most of all. Dubya Bush had no understanding of any place outside of Texas and I wonder if Obama's knowledge extends beyond Chicago and Honolulu. Questions such as this, particularly from a foreigner, tend to provoke wrath rather than thought. No, I'm not Christopher Hitchens, that pompous prat with the plummy accent who wrote a hatchet-job article on Mother Teresa. If any of the Anos think that I would aspire to be Christopher Hitchens you're even more foolish than that arrogant little man. He's a naturalised American now, isn't he, along with Andrew Sullivan whose saliva quotient must havw run out with all the slobbering he's done over Obama in "The Sunday Times" (London). Well, Ano. and co. why don't you go the whole hog and contact Joan Walsh to have me silenced? I don't know the woman or anyone of her kith and kin but my grandmother;s name was Walsh, a very common name in Ireland. Maybe "Irish harridan" wouldn't go down all that well with her but I don't really care. We all have our foibles. I wouldn't go as far as the Irish playwright, Brendan Behan, once did when he said that America was discovered long before Columbus but they managed to hush it up!