Letters to the Editor
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Bullseye...
Absolutely, positively dead on center, well done.
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@Bystander
I like BradBlog. He keeps the electronic voting and voting rights issues prominent and they should be kept prominent but there is an element of "you know what" and "that other thing" over there from time to time. Just saying.
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Thank you thank you thank you
I was very pleased to see Tom Brokaw back on the television last night and there was a round of applause here after his statements to Chris Mathews. We don't even bother with CNN anymore - at least NBC has Keith Olbermann and Brian Williams, who try very hard it seems to me to be real journalists and ask the critical questions. I'd like to see our other real journalists back even if we have to drag some out of retirement and convince them to take on apprentices. Surely their are some younger journalists out there who want to be real journalists instead of 'celebrities'?
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@ be-bop( off topic)
OH NO... You must go to the Dr. I know that I would so miss your thoughtful and kind responses.By the end of spring I shall be a certified Master Gardener and look forward to discussing vegetables!Sending the white light your way!Be well, my friend...xo
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Chris Matthews is itching for a Clinton victory.
Why? It will give him at least 4 more years to stand on his desk, unzip his fly and scream. That's made him a wealthy and successful man. In fact, should Clinton win, Matthews will make the move to Fox/EIB.
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@bop
Top o' the mornin' to ya, sir.
Your stuff looks and sounds a lot better than last night.
I hope YOU are better today.
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@Bystander
It looks like you and that mysterious anonymous poster were right.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2008_01_06_archive.html#4497461629130458519
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The Medium is the McCluhan
Brainwashing artists run TV-Land. Despite the obvious literate intelligence of the posters here, and Glenn's well-argued observations, condemnations, assassinations, insults, and analyses, the center of the political world is still the TV in its one-eyed monster glory.
Drop in, tune out, turn on (yourself).
Why let airbrushed coifed surgically-enhanced talk prostitutes influence your ideas? They have none but those their paymasters feed them.
I don't know much but what I can touch. The rest is distraction.
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And everyone should write MSNBC
And tell them to fire that putz Carlson and that lump Matthews and give Rachel Maddow Glenn Greenwald their own shows. Or maybe team them up.
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Thank you Tom, thank you Glenn!
This is so completely spot-on. It was amazing to read Brokaw's quote, because it's a line that's commonly heard among the common man, yet absent--forbidden, even--from the media itself.
Thank you, Glenn, for sharing and supporting this message, and stating it so directly and strongly. It needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Don't let go of it!
I can only speculate what's really behind this behavior by the media. Having worked in a corporate environment for a long time myself, I've seen the slow, suffocating effect it can have on true analysis and asking the fundamental questions. It's not so hard to imagine journalists, jockeying for favor and position (and job security), choosing the path of least resistance and least potential offense to those whose power they wish to be near and for whom they want to be conduits to the outside world. With the trickle-down pressure of advertisers and executives further stifling any boat-rocking, the result is little more than celebrity gossip.
It's sad, because what the media should actually be doing is very simple. Asking the kinds of basic, fundamental questions that Greenwald poses as examples here. Approach things from the perspective of reporting and analysis, not hyperbole and prediction.
In short, they should approach their roles with a sense of responsibility to the civic structure of this country. Instead, we get a mainstream media whose approach to Britney Spears and Hillary Clinton is indistinguishable, and radio filled with right-wing hatemongers telling us all how we should be thinking and behaving, and demonizing those who don't agree. And this is the state of thought in our country. Shameful.
Consider this one call for them all to shut the hell up and focus on the world as it is, not on their oversimplified, melodramatic, soap-opera imagined reality, where they can take shortcuts, never ask the hard questions, and still be seen as Serious Authorities.
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@Nulla Sallus
Why? It will give him at least 4 more years to stand on his desk, unzip his fly and scream.
You've always been my favorite troll. Does that make me a bad person?
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xo. okay.
That's where my heart lies.
I 'hate' politics. pen-queen.
Or, rather Penquenn. Thanks.
My bath water is now chilly.
Can I say I love penqweens like you?
I'll be merry if I know gardener's are there.
I love the guardians of the Earth. Oh, and Yowza, to Yews. xo.
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@ Kitt
Yes, I am saying that Clinton won votes for the fake cry. Having a vagina -- or because your candidate has a vagina -- doesn't make you any less likely than men to be vapid and swayed by team emotion. American voters are shallow, uninformed people, for the most part, and that's true of both genders.
I quote another poster:
On top of that, I honestly think (and this is just my opinion), the disgusting treatment of H. Clinton in the media irritated women enough to vote for her--who might not have otherwise voted for her (and I am in that group).
Are you going to tell off this poster?
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@-- dagnabitkat RE: Hysteria Ain't History
I also noticed Brian Williams' hyperbole. "tonight, history was made in modern american politics"! What History? Front runner squeaking by in one primary, of one party, mere 10 months away from general elections?
That's what you get when you pay someone big bucks to TALK 7-8 hours a day. They have to say important things. Guess what Brian Williams' column in MSNBC is titled today:
"The Biggest Loser In N.H.? It Was the Media"
We know Brian. We were watching you.
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Bebop - have you seen a Dr. yet about your leg?
Please tell me you are going today, or even better, that you've already been.
I am VERY concerned.
MRSA is only one of several bugs that can cause very aggressive and dangerous infections and it is critical that you be on an antibiotic that is appropriate for the organism causing your infection as not all antibiotics work for all bugs.
If you are on antibiotics your Dr. prescribed, and there has been no improvement in the past 24 hours, then you need to go see the Dr. again. Immediately! If your leg is too sore to drive, then you need to call your son, or someone else, to take you.
I am not kidding. Delaying is not an option B. If this is MRSA or Group A Strep (you know, the "flesh-eater") then you can very quickly lose your leg, or worse.