Letters to the Editor
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It's all about the Hippies
I think Somerby does deserve tons of credit for tirelessly writing about the crap that passes for news over the past several years. I think that Glenn in many ways enriches the discussion Somerby soldiers on with. In other words, they are complimentary.
I do not completely agree with Glenn’s statement:
In the rotted world of Beltway media cynicism, any talk of "root solutions" or "ideas" or "abstract concepts" is automatically insincere, irrelevant and merely a tactic for avoiding "real substance."
I don't think that particular trope of media cynicism is automatic but in practice selectively applied. Therefore, for Obama, "big ideas, root solutions" are avoiding the substance. For Bush the “root solution” of "bringing freedom to the middle east" is leadership and grand thinking.
As far as haircuts, yes great, no one should get haircuts; the hippies had it right in the 60's.