Letters to the Editor
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Hatred? More like, disgust...
That our President seizes the moral high ground, or so he would have us believe, concerning the American taxpayer's interests, is not only infuriating, it's disengenuous. Our President, with the help of the spineless Democratically controlled Congress, has taxed us generations into the future by engaging in this war of choice in Iraq. We, the taxpayer, are now shackeled and beholden to China and Japan from whom we are taking out loans, in order to pay for this war. That our President paints the Democratically controlled Congress as 'irresponsible' in trying to fund domestic programs, and himself as the last bastion of taxpayer's interests, is not only reaching the height of cynical comedy, it's an obvious slap to the face to 'our special interests', we the people. Ridiculous insanity rules the land and the sheeple accept it with a shrug, to our own detriment. My disgust of this President, in my mind, is well deserved.
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It would be irresponsible to NOT speculate...
...on World Trade Center 7, Tora Bora, Abu Ghraib and the Torture Memo, Ohio 2004 voting irregularities, the Energy Task Force's Iraq oil maps, the seizure of Prescott Bush's Nazi assets under the Trading With The Enemy Act, Poppy's Paris trip of 1980, the 2005 murder of New Orleans, the warrantless wiretapping of Americans BEFORE 9-11, or on the fact that the threat level hasn't even been mentioned, much less raised, ever since last November...
This is the Bush Crime Family. We don't hate Tony Soprano, we ROOT for him! The Bushes deserve no less, right?
A firing squad is too good for these people. And so is Hell.
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The hypocrisy of the ruling classes...
...is never hypocrisy, is always respectable, and their thoughts are always worthy of serious discussion.
It has to be true - you can read it in the newspapers they own.
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Public Record Archives...
That's one way I think of Glenn's posts (in addition to their being inspiration for debate in the comment threads)... as an important part of the public record. Just like the WSJ, except more accessible, since anyone can bring these pages up on a screen, paid subscriber or not.
Anyone doing research in the next few decades, and wondering how we have come to such an unthinkable pass as this, will find so much of that history right here.
Otoh... The WSJ's historical record (at least for now) is mostly trapped behind that paywall, accessible only by elites with the means (and desire) to pay for it.
I've commented before about the NYTimes before, and I think it also holds true for the WSJ... that until they (both) come clean about their agenda during the Clinton years, we'll never really be able to trust the mainstream media again. Those tiny, baby steps they took as mea culpas re: WMD do not even begin to make amends for all of the misleading stories and deception that have brought us to this precipice.
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It's Murdoch, but not the sane one from the A-team
Faster than expected, I admit, but Rupert's influence is already becoming tangible.
Imagine the reach of those opinions when the WSJ online will be open without subscription. Ouch. (Hey, now I get why they'd do that.)
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And so it goes....
If it is this bad now, what will happen with Murdoch at the helm?
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There Was A Sizable Chunk Of The Right Wing
That was joyous when JFK was shot. I was a child in Alabama but I remember it. Talk about confused.
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Upsidedown World
Up is down, black is white, war is peace, etc.
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"Anyone doing research in the next few decades"
... will have a difficult time determining what reality was, back when the Vast Right Wing Echo Chamber controlled nearly all the media. Hundreds of sources will repeat the lies, hatched in Grover Norquist's weekly meetings or Karl Rove's strategy sessions - few, if any, will mention actual facts. How can facts be determined, when only the fantasy and spin are broadcast?
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Classic Jilted Lover Complex---WSJ
It's the classic jilted-lover complex.I loved Him but He done Me wrong!!!But He was My lover so I can't hate Him or else I will have to hate myself!!!But that doesn't mean you can hate My lover!!!!!!!
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Bush Haters in Shanghai
Faux News just ran a story about the US women's bridge team that won a tournament in Shanghai. One of the smiling five is holding up a large trophy, and another a cardboard sign that reads:
We did not vote for Bush.
Shades of the Dixie Chicks.
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Rush
The WSJ is so serious and intellectual, they've even let the brilliant Rush Limbaugh write an editorial a while back. That's the kind of serious discourse they have resorted to.
If you read the letters to the editor over at Opinion Journal, they are all written by the same people day after day. If they need a pithy one liner that bashes Dems or supports Bush, it will be written by a guy from Davis, CA. A guy from Massachusetts is their predictable, wordy liberal, a guy from Canada is to the right of Hitler, etc.
It was pointed out elsewhere (TPM?) that the WSJ did not report on Judith Regan's lawsuit and her accusation that she was approached by a NewsCorp. executive to lie to federal investigators about her relationship with Kerik, so as not to hurt Rudy's future plans.
I'm so sorry that the poor little editorial writer has to defend himself about his views (and support) of torture, wiretapping and unjustified wars. BooHoo.
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remember, we're not dealing with the reality-based community here
"your honor, the defendant was arrested after publicly, in full view of hundreds of people, tearing the heads off dozens of puppies, bunnies, and little babies"
"Objection! the prosecution is trying to bias the jury against my client!"
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Rich Man's Rag
Why don't they rename the Wall Street Journal what it really is----THE RICH MAN'S RAG!!!!!
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re: There Was A Sizable Chunk Of The Right Wing
The Notorious W.E.S.,
"That was joyous when JFK was shot. I was a child in Alabama but I remember it. Talk about confused."
That's interesting...because there was a sizable chuck of Left Wing that were happy when JFK was shot, in Tennessee. I was a child then too but I do remember it.
It IS confusing that the right wing would be joyous when JFK cut taxes and did a lot for the right wing.
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Nobody takes the WSJ editorial page seriously.
The subject editorial is no different than any other editorial excreted by the howling monkeys of the WSJ editorial page. It is inane, insincere, insipid, and incessantly insane.
The usual lunatics will applaud this latest load of garbage, but they'll applaud anything that figuratively or literally goose-steps in front of them. Serious people view the WSJ as they do a man without pants gibbering in the playground: poor, misguided soul. Let's get it some help, and keep it away from the children.