Letters to the Editor
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Timmeh did it
To his credit, Russert hit him with the 100-year question yesterday. McCain tries to compare Iraq to Japan and Germany. Such a feeble and weak candidate, a truly embarrasing shell of his former self - why are Kewl Kids so impressed?
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NYT Editorial
Taken from today's lead editorial: "Then came the four Democrats: the woman, the African-American, the Hispanic American, the coiffed Southern lawyer. They seemed younger, livelier and clearly to be living in 21st-century America."
Coiffed Southern Lawyer? They just can't let go of his poofy hair can they? And don't get me started on Bill Kristol.
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Coiffed!?
What are they quaffing? And while on the job, too!
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MTP
MR. RUSSERT: ...and say, “I’d be all right with having U.S. troops in Iraq for the next 100 years”?
SEN. McCAIN: Most importantly, so would the American people if Americans aren’t dying. We have a base in, in the neighboring country of Kuwait, very large base. We have a base in Turkey. We have a base in Japan, Germany. We’ve had bases there. It’s not American presence that bothers the American people, it’s American casualties. And if Americans are safe wherever they are in the world, Americans—the American people don’t mind that. So what I believe we can achieve is a reduction in casualties to the point where the Iraqis are doing the fighting and dying, we’re supporting them, and, over time, then it’ll be the relation between the two countries. With Kuwait, they want us there and they want us there for a long time, so we’re glad to be there. The Saudis? They didn’t want us there for various reasons, so we left. That’s going to depend on relations between the United States government and the Iraqi government. My point was—everybody says, “How long are we going to stay?” My point is, how—when are we going to succeed? Which we are succeeding now so that the Iraqi government is functioning, and we have stability in the region. Instability in Iraq means instability...
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Edwards surge??
Great post Glenn, I agree with all of your points on the substance of the argument, but I disagree with your contesting that somehow Edwards is surging more than Barack Obama. The one poll you cite implies that, but there are so many others showing an enormous momentum building for Obama both in New Hampshire and Nationally.
I don't see how you can argue that Edwards's campaign deserves more attention than Obama's after Iowa.
I do agree that Edwards has been shunned by the national media due to personal dislike, just as with Ron Paul.
I just think it's hard to convincingly argue that the last week's events require Edwards receive more attention than Obama.
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"My Kingdom ..."
Boy, how many of us would give a left toenail to get the opportunity to do what this guy described in Jason Zengerle's New Republic article got to do? Prior to the excerpt Zengerle explains how the media pisses off the civilians by taking over the venue and obstructing their view of the goings on. Novak, wouldn't you know, being one of the worst offenders, apparently.
In one such showdown, a 50-something white guy (whose face could appear next to the word "flinty" in the dictionary) gave Robert Novak a good shove in the back to move him out of his way. Novak turned around and leaned over to say something to the guy, but, before things could escalate, a heads-up McCain aide scurried over and quickly found a seat for the prince of darkness in another part of the gym.
--Jason Zengerle
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Reporting Conflated With Premature Ejaculation Prognostication
Reporting and commentary have been so conflated, and so misrepresented as reporting for so long, that fewer and fewer of the informed public even recognize this. I am grateful to Glenn for keeping it front and center.
More concerning is that the so-called reporters do not know that they are poisoning the well, so to speak.
I used to be a passive voter in that I read the major newspaper from the nearest city (Akron Beacon Journal before college and Cleveland Plain Dealer during college), and I watched the network television news. Then I voted. I never met a candidate, attended a campaign event, nor contributed to a campaign.
I did try to read about issues.
How misinformed I was until I began to do due diligence. And that takes time, commitment and scholarship/research know-how.
So how do we transform voters from passive recipients of infotainment and corporate shilling to informed and comiited citizens and voters?
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I may as well be the first to say it, and (hopefully) get it over with...
GLENN! I can't believe you *&^%ing endorsed Edwards! WTF!?
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Their Picks
What has been so notable, and depressing, isn't just how the political press chooses its favored candidates, but also how they all change their minds, simultaneously. What a short time ago McCain was "irrelevant" and Clinton was "inevitable." Proven wrong, they show no normal reticence about going out on a limb again and redouble their efforts, slinging some mud at their new non-favorites, while waxing lyrical about the genius/statemanship of the freshly anounted. Thus we are treated to the many and varied meanings of "second" and "third," and a whole host of other inanities about how Americans "really" feel.
There is some evidence, however, that voters are catching on, and doing pretty much the opposite of what they're told they should do. Today George Will wrote a deranged little screed that dismisses Edwards and Huckabee with such dripping condescension that it seems likely to boost both, if such claptrap has any effect at all.
Fox is also berating large portions of its audience; even such usually credulous viewers can't help be a little put off.
The beltway media may finally be getting the skepticism and open defiance it so richly deserves.
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The "chatter squeezes"...disgusting.
A stay in Iraq for one-hundred years...(Insane)
Old 'Stewball' was a better racehorse...(better bred)
These pundits have foul/fowl chicken breath smells....
The Tin Man who danced around the munchkins in the Oz story was at least a great dancer and respectable.
These 'critter' are worst than any whiskered-up looking soused hogs. The red lipsticked blood-smeared politico's are shameful.
I'd rather be Toto the lovable dog, tin-man, shy-lion, or straw-man any day than sold-out lame mules, goats, and lice-infested chickens...O, so-to-speak....Vote for dear Dorothy?