Letters to the Editor
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Taking over instutions
Another excellent column that shows how the press has become enablers of the take over of the means of power in our country. How much longer can the "journalist" keep their game going? When are the Democrats going to truly realize that following their lead plays right in to the hands of the right wing?
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Required reading for Congress critters
Once again you have clearly delineated the inanity of the Beltway pundits. Our most serious problem is that too many Dems actually believe them and get scared off their own positions as a result.
Reading Glenn Greenwald should be required for all members of Congress. Perhaps we could then get some more healthy partisanship and some progress, as well.
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Maybe...
if the dems even hinted that they were seriously concerned about the country instead of their need for power their all important polling numbers would creep up.
But they don't care about the real world. They just care about the ideology that they think they can manage to get them in power.
And we all know that you would give your right nut to get access to admin contacts. Just because you would disagree with everything they said doesn't mean you'd have any more insight than Broder and co.
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Broder could just be senile, but...
Broder showed the same deep insight during the Vietnam War period, toeing the LBJ line that "there's light at the end of the tunnel" and then the Nixon line of "peace with honor." How he can be considered the "dean" of the Washington press corps given the eternal vapidity of his columns and his supine critical stance is totally beyond me. But wait!--that's the point--he typifies the entire group, but just done it a lot longer.
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opinion?
Segways,
Having lived in 'the beltway' mostly since 1995, I was just thinking this morning about an NBC televsion spot for a commerical, no branch compay was listed no a phone number given, yet it was an ad for Jesus and the bible and all i have to do for happiness is get to know both.
oh..and tesla as a car company? 2 cents per mile? 200 miles per charge? what iF big electric just gouges the rates? oh not important last I heard this week F Roosevelt was a...and ened with fag.
Along with Bush-following dead-enders, our nation's opinion-making elite are the sole remaining group loyal to the GOP's right wing.
IS THERE A REAL DOCTOR [missing COOP}
in the hOUSE? why?
http://discovermagazine.com/2005/sep/stem-cells-save-dying-hearts/
[fair use]
55-year-old Ruth Pavelko lies in an operating suite that looks a bit like the mission control center for a rocket launch. In the darkened room, physicians and nurses gaze up intently at glowing monitors as interventional cardiologist Emerson Perin injects stem cells into Pavelko’s weakened heart. ....
live to tell......
and.....hows YUR brain?
or...
and..
glad to see around the web name calling is back in fashion, why do i 'feel' like it's 1st grade all over again?
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Emergency message
New York voters wanting to vote for Ron Paul need to register as Republicans by Oct 12. the party wants to stop anti-war crossovers.
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Thanks, Glenn
Once again, Glenn's arrow seeks and finds a plump target. But who's listening? Not Americans, that's for sure.
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Mendacity, Meet Mediocrity
What have we come down to? Surely the Administration puppeteers can find better regurgitants to tell their lies than poor ol' Davy Ignatius. Isn't there anyone left in the Beltway Shill Brigade that has at least a room-temperature IQ?
My how Junya's stock has fallen when he's forced to depend on a mouthpiece even less intelligent than himself.
Fairy tales generally don't go over that well if your narrator's credulity won't con a 4 year old.
And don't even think of getting me started on everybody's fool's tool, David Broder...
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That's why he's The Dean
Guitargirl, you've stumbled onto the truth. It's puzzling for those of us outside DC to understand how someone who fails to do the most basic job as a journalist on a weekly basis can be so revered as to be called "The Dean" of DC pundits. But then you realize that's exactly why he holds that title -- because he's not a journalist. Instead he's an apologist for those in power, and he's been doing it for decades. The true key to "success" for DC pundits. Ignatius has learned that lesson well.
And "tiberius", not projecting much, are you?
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Well, we could always ask a poet....
Viennese bow from the hips,
notorieties
contorted laudatory lips,
wreaths and bouquets surround
the mindless menopause.
Stillborn fecundities,
frostbound applause. -- From Aus dem zweiten Reich, by Basil Bunting, 1931Plus ça change....
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I read in disgust for two reasons
As I read Glenn’s dissection of these what I used to think were distinguished columnists, I get disgusted that they get away with it and even more disgusted that I used to fall for their crap. Because I had sufficient military and regional knowledge to know how weak and misleading the before Iraq invasion coverage was, I started to wake up. But, I didn’t really wake up until I started becoming a devotee of Glenn and his commentariat. Thanks.
Other than emailing my friends or sending letters to the editor, I struggle with how we can wake up more Americans. Americans who know the war is wrong and can now recognize the Repug thugs for who they are, still don’t understand the slimy tactics Brooks, Broder types use and how much of a threat it poses for our country and the world.
Broder gets far too much visibility on PBS with apparently intelligent, educated viewers like myself who fall for his act. As I have said before, we need to replace Mark Shields as nice as he is with someone who can expose these tactics. I understand Glenn’s reasons for not wanting to be that person and how hard it would be to convince PBS, but it still needs to be done. While reading columnists in print, I know that the papers like to provide pundits with so called opposing views. I also know that PBS tries to do the same thing. Somehow, I was a bigger sucker as a viewer than a reader. And I say that knowing that Brooks has that insincere smile like Bush junior has.