Letters to the Editor
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English as a second language?
Is it really surprising they can't comprehend simple English when their entire vocabulary consists of right-wing soundbites, Republican talking points and wingnut knee-jerk vocalizations?
It's truly amazing that anything more comprehensive than heavy grunting comes out of their mouths when they pick up their clubs and attack. A tree full of chimpanzees has a more nuanced understanding of English than they exhibit.
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It's always about fear....or smear with the right.
It's all they have. It certainly is not about brains.
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gee, that sure was a long subject line.
The subject line of the email -- which I am publishing in full, unedited form here -- is "The growing link between the U.S. military and right-wing media and blogs"...
Gosh, Glenn, I thought that was the full, unedited email subject line you were publishing. I sure am glad you didn't edit that subject line down, since it was crucial to your argument.
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What's to do?
I don't think they are "stupid" stupid; they can buy houses and hold some kind of job, and they can instantly tell you the skin color of Mexicans and other illegals just by looking. No, they are not stupid; they just have arrived at the end of all thinking they ever plan to do. It's over. Done.
As far as "Dread Pundit" is concerned (and isn't that name alone telling? Should we all not just tremble in fear at the towering height of his perspective?) He dreams of appearing on O'Really, or Hannity, or one of them Fox shows (I'm deliberately speaking all folksy-like so the 20 percenters can keep up) and being asked his opinion on the question "U.S. Torture: present levels okay, or should we really go all out?"
As he speaks of the glories of hot lead boots and prisoners with heads enclosed in cages of starving rats, the credentials beneath him will say "Ripped the lid off E-mailgate"
The 20 percenters will smile and nod, and they will observe that Dread Pundit may be one of the smartest people they ever done heard talk, but he is still just the kind of person they would like to have a beer with.
And that's the world we live in today. Keep up the good fight, Glenn.
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Why do they do this? To win and truth does not matter.
What is the half truth the wingnuts would not proffer to tip the balance of power? What is the lie they would not tell to achieve their ends? What country would they would not invade to maintain their advantage?
Political power wins and they don't give a damn how they get it and hold it.
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I read the full text immediately after reading the column with the excerpts
and it didn't change the meaning or the overall tone of the excerpts one bit. But what can you expect from the people who pulled the "Al Gore says he invented the Internet" stunt? Freud called it "projection."
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Interesting that a couple of the RW blogs...
..are now admitting that Glenn DID publish the whole Boylan e-mail but that, since it was in a LINK, it wasn't fair, so IN ESSENCE, he didn't REALLY publish the whole thing. After all, some people might be too LAZY to click the link...
I'm not making this up.
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Giving Howie some credit....
government officials know that if they send an e-mail to a reporter or commentator it's going to be used, unless specifically marked as an off-the-record communication.
At least he's not a Cum Laude graduate of the Joe Klein school of journalism. Also, in the context of an online chat, he is less responsible for having a clue since he wouldn't necessarily have time to break away and actually READ Glenn's post.
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FEMA spokesman loses spy job offer...
on a related matter...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071029/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/intelligence_fema;_ylt=A9G_R3iFLyZHyk4AeBes0NUE
FEMA spokesman loses spy job offer...
By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The man who staged a fake Federal Emergency Management Agency news conference has lost a chance to be National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell's top public information officer.
John P. "Pat" Philbin, FEMA's external affairs director, who had been scheduled to move into the new job on Monday, will not be getting it after last week's phony news conference. The staged question-and-answer session was harshly criticized by both the White House and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, whose department oversees FEMA.
Granted, a few arrogant (and lying?) emails probably don't rise to the level of a completely faked news conference, but still... we can hope, can't we?
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Total Set-Up
If Kurtz is going to have an article out on this soon, then this is nothing more than set-up. From start, to finish. I can see it now: Crazed, incompetent lefty-blogger publishes ‘fake email' Claims it was from a true patriot.
You have so thoroughly embarrassed these clowns, there’s nothing they can do but try and trap you in some ‘gotcha’ bullshit.
They play these games because they know people like Kurtz and fox will gobble them up.
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This post is not a distraction
Glenn, I completely agree with your comment that it is crucial that you address this disinformation and that today's post is not taking your eye off the ball or whatever other metaphor commenters have used today...This needed to be addressed by you today and it's cool that it only took 15 minutes or so, but it is important to meet it head-on.
The right is skilled at disinformation. As one commenter pointed out, Dread was able to comprehend how to get the entire e-mail. He may have missed the opening lines where you link to the entire e-mail. Wouldn't he want to doublecheck it all? And wouldn't anyone who linked to his comments and created new headlines of Dire Urgency?
But look at it all in context. The FEMA news conference is another version of Jeff Gannon tossing softballs to the White House Press Secretary; The Daily Show often shows how different media channels all say the same phrases in a news cycle, showing that the media figures are regurgitating the official positions or spins of the White House. You yourself have shown that happens in print at the WP - whose op-ed arguments about the telecoms border on the ridiculous - and the NY Times, whose lack of basic journalism skills means they have been played like violins from the run-up to the war to the latest O'Hanlon op-ed after hanging out in the Green Zone. Boylan probably booked that hour-long exclusive on Fox when the Congressional hearings with the Great General were being held...
If you do not hit this hard and head-on, then it will be used against you. "Greenwald did not even respond to our showing how he manipulated the Boylan e-mails! How can we trust his opinions and pieces now!" Etc. There's a serious amateurishness about Boylan writing to you the first time over the weekend, and about the weird replies, and there's some stupidity about how easy it is to disprove Dread's contentions, and how he could not anticipate that...but it is not abject stupidity as much as disinformation used to discredit a major critic of the right who is being read by a lot of people, and more and more in Washington.
Keep it up and please let us know if Boylan ever gets back to you. If Al Qaeda starts to write to him, he can always get a hotmail account and let all his contacts know, including you, the new address to reach him.