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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I know this is a very terrible thing to say but I've always believed the Mayors sangfroid re the immediate aftermath of 9/11 [ I swear he seemed almost giddy at times] was entirely the function of his..... psychopathology. I swear that [ particle] mask barely obscured a beaming smile as he walked directly into the lens of history and a shot at running the Big Island not long down the road.
Equally terrible, Night Rider,is my sense that post-literate America always gets what it deserves.
So much for my earlier defense of Garry Owen's right to be disturbing.
I wrongly assumed that the comment had "passed" Salon's check. I understand why it was pulled, though. Although I still have objections to moderation and censorship based on subjective criteria, e.g. "common decency".
It's rather like coming to terms with using a condom.
I’ve never had an objection to Giuliani – apart from the fact that he is a complete and utter fraud.
At least with a cornpone knuckle-dragger like Bush, there is the omnipresent danger, that, if not scripted, his speech will wonder down the occasional solecistic blind alley – and you just know there are scads of metaphors yet to be mixed. But, deep down beneath the cow pie and squinty eye, you know there’s a real sincerity to Bush: You can sort of sense he is genuinely stupid.
Rudy, on the other hand, has sufficient guile to present himself as something he’s not: a moral man. In fact, Rudy is something of a rutting pig.
So, when we learn that he was exaggerating just a bit about being “down there” with the real heroes, it doesn’t surprise us in the least.
I don't know why this one topic seems so verboten. Perhaps someone on staff is dealing with the "Big C" in their family right now.
Let me tell you how I feel about that. I've lost both parents to it. I lost my first love, my first girlfriend to it. I've sat the bedsides of friends throughout my life who have been taken by it.
I of all people know more than my share of it.
One thing I know: We're all going to die. Almost all the people that I knew as a child, right on up through age 30, they are all dead now. They are gone. Some by war, drugs, street crime, car accidents, drowning, industrial accidents. That's how they went.
I just am amazed at the number of people who think just because they are in their 20s and 30s, that death is a long way off. It isn't. They get squeamish about it. They get all bent out of shape about cancer in particular. That's strange.
Why was my comment about Snow so offensive to one editor? I don't know. Was I being mean?
How mean is it for a man to stand up at a podium and shrug and mock the deaths and the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people and act so cynical and dismiss their pain with the snap of his fingers. To say that casualty figures are just a number.
That's the cold, dead reaction of a sociopath.
Now it's coming straight at him. I just find it interesting that he gets all choked up and weepy for himself now.
I have watched helplessly as the light passed from my beloved's eyes, my parents, my friends over the years. In each instance, toward the last of days, they came to peace and they asked forgiveness.
I'm just wondering if the same holds true for a man who has built an entire career making a mockery of death and the suffering of others. He's going to face what we all will have to face and there are no exceptions.
just to mention that in paragraph three the days from sept.17 to dec.16 number 90 not 60 as posted
The way I understood it, Giuliani was saying that he had spent as much time at Ground Zero as the cleanup workers in order to refute their claims that breathing the crap in the air had made them sick. Yes, he was grabbing a chunk of political capital as well. But mostly he was saying that he was there as much as they were, and he didn't get sick, so they have nothing to complain about.
This is about something much more vile than some cynical grab for the spotlight. This is about avoiding responsibility for telling lies that led innocent people to their deaths. This is about telling more lies to cover previous lies.
Talking about the time he spent with the Yankees, or talking about his other qualities, or talking about the amount of time other politicians spent at Ground Zero is actually hiding the crime. I don't think that's how we want to respond to this lie.
Trust me on this, Salon always did PLENTY of letter censoring, even before the recent policy change.
I can remember that long ago Sunday night when Guiliani, then a mere Federal Prosecutor, was profiled on "60 Minutes." It was right after he got Boesky and Millken. He was nattering on, some twaddle about believing that "confession is good for the soul" and so forth, and even waaaay back then he might as well have had "EGOMANIAC" tattooed on his forehead. When the stories about how he was running New York started coming out (I think Breslin was first), I wasn't the least bit surprised.
Rudy Guiliani is a liar, a cheat and a thorough-going scumbag but, most dangerously, he is a narcissistic totalitarian. I predict that if he is elected President this nation will be under martial law within a year, and only spontaneous and cooperative lethal rebellion on the part of this nation's citizens will put a stop to it, and him.
In other words...
GIULIANI MUST NOT BE ELECTED.
The ass cheeks are back! YAY...NOT!
Tony Snow letter before some anonymous Salon censor decided it had no place in history.
I originally subscribed to Salon for the articles, but soon realized that reading the letters taught me as much, often more than the articles because they made me think from different angles.
Removing this letter was wrong. There was no threat in it to anyone. Removing it was way worse than the content.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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