Letters to the Editor
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Evidence of Glenn's striking a nerve
I've only scanned a few pages of the comments, so this may already have been said. I never have the opportunity to get over here while the posts are still few in number, but to my amusement, it seems that our trolls lie in wait for Glenn's latest pronouncements. What else would explain their popping in to leave snide/obtuse comments within the first pages?
I say the more trolls, the better indication that Glenn's columns are striking a nerve. If his observations are as inconsequential as they claim, why are they spending inordinate amounts of time here on the defensive? Methinks they protest too much.
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better?
better bitter butter?
butter bitter margarine.
I won't feel better until the bitter margarine fake butter
is butted up into Beelzebubs stinky butt!
Good better butter build best dead brains?
Dead brain McCain's club seems close to the mutt kennel's
scooper, and the proximate bitch is scruffy.
The politico's are bastards are butt-beavers!
But,
I'm juggling 'stuff' and trying not to be banged in the
butt by a ten-pin bowling duck-pin?
The NSA uses my phone-line for conference calls.
If I'm not here, I'm being 'busted' for too much
butter on a pumping muffin. Praise the butter!
But stay off the dead dog slime lard.
Send NO lard offerings to murderous politicians.
Rev. bitter beeps-coo-boo.
Rev. marjarine overdosed on sweet blubbery jam?
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@bop
You sound, er ... surprisingly good! Butter than I would have imagineered.
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In Australia we call these kinds of questions "Dorothy Dixers, but they usually come from members of your own party
From Wikipedia:
"Dorothy Dix's name has given rise to a widely-used term in Australia, where a "Dorothy Dixer" is an obvious or easily-answered question. It comes from Dix's reputed practice of making up her own questions for advice columns to allow her to publish more interesting answers.
"The term is most commonly used in a derogatory sense in politics, to describe a 'planted' question asked of a minister by a backbencher from their own party. Often the question has been written by the minister or their staff rather than by the questioner, and is used to give the minister a chance to promote themselves or the work of the government, or to criticise the opposition party's policies, to raise the profile of the backbench member asking the question, or to consume the time available for questioning and thereby avoid tougher questions. It is a common and widely-accepted tactic used during question time in the House of Representatives and the Senate."
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Hey Bop, after that great vet experience
You better rest your eyes and heart. About time you followed orders. If I keep hearing about docs like that, I'm going to have to give you more orders.
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I can't keep up.
I did read, Dirigo, that Oz from Australia has not opened a
Kangaroo Outback Acrylic Paintball Store?
Equals1 best not eat any dead quail birds.
Bird pallets splattered with buckshot from Dick Chaney's shot gun may break teeth. Gun bullets ought to be paint-balls that are flavored butter, honey, and strawberry. Make ammo that alleviates pain.
I'm okay (better) if being 'on my last bum leg' is better? Shad up. Eat a halibut flavored doe-nut?
Gaudy darn,
Kitt would say.
P.S. In Australia if they see a kitten,
or full grown cat they will shoot to kill.
Mercy, Oz.
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John King Dorothydixing John McCain
And who the hell can be certain that the questions King was asking McCain were not written by the McCain campaign? A genuine journalist wouldn't ask such pandering fluff of anyone even when drunk, not that King is a journalist of any kind.
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Don't look now
But it would appear that Michael Scherer just pointed out that McCain might be ever so slightly less than honest with reporters on the bus:
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/01/the_two_sides_of_mccains_south.html
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re: Striking a nerve
Too true Cindy.
I've been a regular reader of Glenn's since he started here though I hadn't read any of the letters in a long time. Shocked I was. Shocked indeed. Try as we might you can't reason with PW any more than you could with Ann Coulter. He doesn't want to reason. He is here to stir poop. Just do what people do on every other online public forum, put up a big sign saying TROLL and move on. I do wan't to comment on one thing he said though:
"In the UK where I lived for many years they routinely call journalists 'hacks' and have no great expectations of them"
This is misleading. The British public indeed have a very low expectation of the tabloid press, but not of the broadsheets or tv media. Compare King's interview with examples from his uk counterparts. I'm sure you can dig them up on YouTube.
If Jeremy Paxman at the state funded BBC or Adam Boulton at Murdoch's Sky News conducted interviews like the one King did, they'd be out of a job. They both excel in the "adversarial" type of interview you never see anywhere in the U.S. media(except when O' Reilly's interviewing a Dem).
The British public gets a decent standard of journalism, because for whatever crazy reason that's what they expect.
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@Beth
Read the McClatchy piece. Thanks. Kinda grim.
So Musharraf will only allow Scotland Yard to determine cause of death. Nice.
He also says he will not allow any unilateral American military activity against al Qaeda and the Taliban in the mountainous tribal areas. Seems to think it should be a "team" effort, suggesting the 10th Mountain Division might get lost without Pak guides.
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RMP
I defy orders. You go kiss a toad. Stop feeding the readers mystery brownies. Act 16 instead of 100 and plead with a moose to kick your bronze tanned, naked, brass butt. You 16 yet?
Your gigs line is crooked. You have red, white, and blue suspenders.
There is a good possibility if your grandchildren have an influence upon you, you may be normal, but that's doubtful.
You listen to too much Led Zeppelin and still have a crush on red head sharpshooter, Annie Oakley. She's Williams last hot-date and she dumped Timberboy. boo-hoo.
I need a baby bottle with a nipple to drink warm goat milk.
Ow. burp. heh. stop being stupid. You will be payed back for it in 10,000 more miserable lifetimes and not remember this.
O, The Land of Forget Fullness.