Letters to the Editor
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Mena
"The piece [linking Saddam with the Oklahoma City bombing] was written by Micah Morrison, a senior editorial writer at the Journal who gained a certain notoriety during the Clinton years by chasing all sorts of conspiracy theories, most notably that as governor of Arkansas, Clinton was somehow associated with a drug running operation out of a remote airport in Mena, Ark."
How about that?
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WSJ????
The WSJ's editorial page is a rag. Plain and simple. But than again, a lot of the papers are
in the last 25-30 years. What a shame, that an intelligent person in America have to find informations in foreign papers/radio.
Bush harvests that he sow!
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Berkowitz is an idiot.
Berkowitz is a total idiot. In fact, Bush hatred is totally justified. Here is a moron who barely eked thorugh, and indeed LOST the popular vote by over 540,000. Any sensible person who lost the popular vote would govern temperately by giving an ear to all, and keeping a low profile. He would not, I repeat would not, act as if he had taken 49 of 50 states in a landslide. THAT sort of brash, cowboyism is what launched Bush hatred. (That plus his stupid, incoherent speech ....at the level of a low grade imbecile)
By contrast, JFK also got in by a very narrow margin, he did win the popular vote - but by barely more than a hundred thousand. He governed with a tenor of noblesse oblige and always reminded himself of his narrow edge, lest he act too precipitously.
Not so the cowboy Bush!
As for the WSJ, these maggots on the op-ed page are still writing and acting like they are all in la-la land.
Yesterday there was a piece by some HMO ignoramus asserting that Americans still have it better than their European counterparts because although health care is so expensive, they get paid more than European workers! (Hmmmmm......why do my Swiss and German friends still insist they prefer the benefits?)
Three weeks ago, another academic twit wrote an article bemoaning all the attention to income inequality. He had the chutzpah to ask why so much attention to this, when Americans clearly had no such inequality in their happiness index, or in their optimism index.
Errrr.....mayhap because those don't pay the bills, moron!
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Making it personal
This is how the Republican hegemony has undermined democracy in this country- by keeping it personal.
Watch the Democrats fall into line as they are verbally assaulted for their 'bad manners' by hysterical egomaniacs on the right.
Our liberal values of kindness and cooperation are being exploited to our detriment. Keep it objective. Stick to the facts. Firm, but polite.
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Michael Ganzeveld
The more voices available to push back at Berkowitz, the better.
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Thanks Chelseajoe
for reminding me of that. And, thanks, Glenn for the "highlights reel" of the '90s.
In retrospect, the White House "vandalism" story that broke in the first week of Bush's first term was a near-perfect segue into the new Administration. A lie, some half-truths, a gullible press falling over themselves to both curry favor with and demonstrate their "access" to unnamed sources. If only someone had a thumb-screw.
It was a smear from start to finish, followed by a reality-twisting denial that it had ever been a story.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/briefings/20010522.html#WhiteHouseVandalismReport
You'd have to be seriously unhinged to hate Bush.
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Were you a leftist in 1963?
I'm late to the thread and am going back to one of the earlier postings. In 1962, when I was 17, I was one of 150 people out of Metropolitan Chicago's 4 million to feel compelled to demonstrate in downtown Chicago against John Kennedy's bringing us to he brink of destruction in the Cuban Missile Crisis. I thought that as long as I was going to die, it might as well be "on the picket line." The 150, of course, included a large FBI presence. There was no New Left yet, and those of us who were there were basically sons and daughters of the old left. We did not care for Mr. Kennedy. When he was killed I was in the dining hall of a freshman dorm. I felt absolutely no remorse. I only hoped it had been done by the right rather than the left because "there would be hell to pay" and I wanted them to pay it.
In those days we leftist kids congregated in various summer camps. Mine was Circle Pines Center in Michigan. Circle Pines had had to add the word Center to its name to avoid having the initials: CP. I personally got Phil Ochs kicked out of camp for alcohol policy violations. In those days we were LWAs. At any rate there was a comparable camp in Tennessee, the Highlander Folk School. It's true the gov't shut it down in 1962, but a few of the Highlander dudes were undoubtedly still hanging around and maybe didn't mind the "offing" (as we used to say later) of JFK. Of course, the rightwingers who welcomed this event outnumbered us at least a thousand to one.
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i've always hated bullies
and that is how i feel about w. that his actions suppport my feelings is mostly coincidental...
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@ Jordan Orlando
This may be the worst logical leap you've made in...well, days. Who mentioned Hitler? I said "polarizing figures."
And Hitler certainly qualifies. If you aren't going to fill in the blanks, don't get upset when someone does it for you. I'm not a mind reader.
Krugman is a liberal columnist
And that explains everything? Does that excuse visceral, personal, hatred? I don't think so. Not liking someone's policies is a long way from personal animus.
This is Glenn Greenwald's blog; not Instapundit. We're not hypocrites; we're liberals.
Indeed, and as a result, liberals such as found here are relegated to being just another faction of the loony left. People who can't speak intelligently about issues without going off into emotional excess. It's entertaining, but doesn't inspire respect.
You're actually trying to argue that a President who won over the majority of the population (vs. a President who is less popular than Nixon at his worst) is an example of hypocrisy and prejudice. You're not making any sense at all; just flailing wildly.
I didn't say Clinton was an example. I said that the reverence accorded Clinton while acting in similar manner for which Bush is loathed, is hypocritical or prejudice. As for Clinton's approval ratings, as always IOKIYAD.