Letters to the Editor
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bucky1
The fact that the GOP is evil, does not make the Democratic Party the party of Angels. No, really; it does not.
I hope you're not a smoker because you'd be at serious risk of going up in flames wrapped up in your straw men. Better for you to turn them into cellulosic ethanol.
No one's said that the Dems were perfect, and your argument, as it were, could be refuted in 7 second by any semi-intelligent 4th grader. This was the same patently idiotic and dishonest argument made by Nader in '00, and bought hook, line and sinker by those who voted for him in states where he made the difference. With the exception of the most conservative and/or corrupt Dems and the most liberal and/or honest Pubs, almost no elected Dems are to the right of any Pubs these days, nor likely to be anywhere near as bad as Bush and his predecessors have been. As non-progressive and even anti-progressive as Clinton was, he was still leagues more liberal than your garden variety Pub since 1981, and a lot more effective at managing the country than them, even allowing for his blunders and bad moves.
And no, NAFTA, welfare reform and DADT do not even begin to compare with Iraq, the Patriot Act, MCA, signing statements, USAgate, and all the other stuff. Anyone claiming otherwise is just being dishonest. And you don't give up on everything just because the current viable alternative to disasterous ranges from awful (Hoyer, Emanuel, Landrieu) to incredible (Feingold, Kennedy, Dodd). Show me more than one or two (at most) Pubs who are not resigning who are better than the worst Dems. Yeah, I didn't think so either.
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HEY, AKA MIDDLEAGE BOOMER FROM TEXAS
"Maybe Bill ain't whistling for who you think he is whistling for."
Couldn't have said it better myself. My husband of 30 years is a middleage boomer from Texas also ... and he always sees through the fog on just about everything, especially political doublespeak. If those battles we fought in the '60s and '70s had been won, we wouldn't be having a dialogue about race and gender in the first place. And if journalists today were what they were in the '60s and '70s -- Cronkite, Murrow, Huntley, Brinkley, Wallace, Severide, etc, etc. we wouldn't have to worry much about the distortion of the facts and the tough questions would be asked of all the candidates, including Obama. People like Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, Tucker Carlson and the whackos at Fox would be bringing the coffee if they were lucky enough to get through the door. And who in broadcasting then would have allowed the likes of Carl Bernstein, Bill Bennett, Gloria Borger and Howard Fineman to tell us what to think? or what we think we saw? The technology may have been primative, but the integrity of the news people was not. Thanks AKA
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Imagine
If Bill Clinton used the kind of rhetoric against blacks that Matthews uses against women regularly he wouldn't be allowed to show his face in his wife's campaign. He'd be shamed, spit on, and kicked out of the party. People could not line up fast enough to condemn him.
Yet Matthews makes one sexist remark after the other and is paid big bucks, his own show, and is protected and supported by his fellow hosts, Schuster and Scarborough who vouch for his character.
Sorry Glenn, you are so wrong.
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bebop-o
Someone at Salon- would you PLEASE stop this mentally ill person from filling the letters section up with their endless spam. We are tired of having to scroll through it!
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Look on the bright side.
We've comepletely managed to dispel any notion that Glenn's readers are a bunch of conformist cheerleaders for whatever he writes. Not that anyone seriously believed it but I have seen it asserted by various trolls.
Now anyone who comes in and spouts anything about "Glenn-bots" or "Salonistas" can be officially told to flame off.
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@Pointblank:
All of those 'journalists' you mentioned, except for Carl Bernstein, might have been lucky to just deliver the coffee. Bernstein might be of pretty low quality nowadays, but he is, after all, the one who teamed up with Woodward, resulting in the fall of Richard Nixon.
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@rosemaryk
A wise man once said something about Scotch and poetry. Maybe if your scrolling finger is hurting, take a break, have a drink, read a book!
It's not nice to come into a bar and start trying to throw out the other patrons.
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rosemaryk
I on the other hand am tired of people who suddenly appear in a longstanding community and think that anybody gives a damn about what they think about our friends.
oh... and welcome......
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bots, bots, and more bots
Sheesh. This is almost as fun as when you write about Ron Paul, Glenn. Wonder what the thread count will be by tomorrow morning? Well, maybe we'll be back to FISA by then and all these folks will vaporize from the threads... either because they don't need to comment, or because they simply don't want to hear about it. I'm not willing to place a bet on who is who.
rosemayk? YOU are tired of scrolling though, many others are not. What? You found the one thing you thought could safely comment about? Start over. You ain't found the one safe thing yet.
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rosemaryk
Don't be so freakin' lofty.
Obviously, bebop-o's complexity is just a tad over your head. Maybe if you bothered to read bebop-o's posts a little more carefully, you'd see the mad genius behind them.
Bebop-o adds a particular piquant to anything in the letters section. He sometimes has very important points to make that no one else has made.
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Not to mention...
Yet Matthews makes one sexist remark after the other and is paid big bucks, his own show, and is protected and supported by his fellow hosts, Schuster and Scarborough who vouch for his character.
Seems to me just about everyone gets away with bashing H. Clinton in ways nobody would dream of attacking anyone else. And fat people thought they were the last group it was okay to discriminate against.
But hey Oh-bama says we don't need to worry about all that tired old sixties stuff, so who cares if the daughter you paid 50k to send to college is going to get paid 40% less for doing the same job and all that boring old stuff.
Sorry Glenn, you are so wrong.
and not for the first time by a long shot.