Letters to the Editor
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Where's the hook!?
This all being said: I do recall that Bush ran on what Ron Paulalways reminds us was a "humble foreign policy" in 2000; he was for the first year of his tenure, the anti-foreign policy president. The Republicans were the anti=war party of the 90's in a sense--at least in terms of boots on the ground. Check out the voluminous venom spewed at the Clinton Administration for his adventuring in Somalia and the Balkans. You could make a good case that votes for Bush were anti-war (or at least invasion) votes, seeing as the unusual number of military invasions that Bill Clinton presided over.
Get this guy off the stage!
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Aycharaych
Yes, well Lucas claims this and that, but the storyline is that he arranged to ship nearly pure heroin from Southeast Asia to the US, using some accomodating American military personnel, including a key relative who served in uniform 'in-country," for many years during the Vietnam War..
The War On Drugs.
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@ Armagednoutahere
RE: Worse even
-It's not like were weren't warned by the first few actually competent professionals (that were, of course, summarily driven from their posts by this craven band of freaks) that something shocking was happening. Paul O'Neill and Richard Clarke, among many others, tried to warn the country that these guys cared about absolutely nothing outside of political loyalty, in every single decision they make.-
They call it 'Shock and Awe. Wait a minute, that strictly applies to Bahgdad, right?
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Northwestwoods
I am sure the staff was more than delighted to be of service ;>
Certainly true for me, and I tend to think it'd be true for Jeanette, Gordon, and sysprog as well. Glenn, didn't even need the prize for bait. I have no idea what Glenn has in mind, and maybe we all talked him out of it anyway... but, in a private communication to me, another reader suggested the following:
Maybe it will be a recent nude photo of Mr. King, suitable for a dartboard, admittedly with a bullseye too small to hit.
;-o
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Honesty
Please continue to outline the confluence of incompetence and professional entitlement that make journalism useless to an informed democracy.
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Classic Authoritarian Tactic
As Noam Chomsky and others have pointed out time and again, the tactic of convincing the people that the issues are just too complicated for them to comprehend is intended to discourage the average citizen from questioning authority. I think that is what we have here, with John King playing the part of the poor befuddled citizen, setting up McConnell to play the part of the saviour expert who we should all trust and not question, because he is so Wise and Good.
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I have to admit...
The most disappointing thing about Glenn's post today has been the lack of response from John King. I thought he'd leap right in with his customary display of zero self-awareness. It's one of the reasons I keep checking back... and scoping out the thread - in case Glenn had another for thread only update - like he's done previously. Oh, well. I console myself that Mr. King may be reading the thread in silent frustration and grinding his teeth.
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@bystander
But don't you know Mr. King is busy covering a campaign? I'd put money on some sort of response by the end of the week.
I'm a little surprised our journalism professor hasn't shown up yet, though.
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Gangster
I'm tellin' ya, Aych, I just know I came home from 'Nam in one of Frank's mule coffins! And, lived to tell the tale!
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A Sure Bet?
"But don't you know Mr. King is busy covering a campaign? I'd put money on some sort of response by the end of the week."
Somehow I doubt it. He did last time, and got nothing for his efforts. This time I think he'll do a duck and just let it roll off his back. He may be a sleeze, but he certainly isn't a fool.
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@ WT
Nothing objectionable - I just saw it as an enumeration of more or less related effects, rather than their unitary cause.
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Yo Aychy
if you make certain "serious" posters here uncomfortable they will start to harp on your personality.
Rather as you are doing now.
You misunderstand me. I'm neither harping, nor attacking "you" personally... all I can react to are the letters on the screen I see above your pseud. That I find your words rather repetitive, restating the same obvious, fairly nonremarkable point ad infinitum is merely my opinion of some words. I have, quite obviously, no idea who "you" are in your non-pseudonymous life... nor, quite frankly, a whole lot of interest.
On the basis of that opinion, of course, you are free to impute all sorts of things about my character, but I'm not doing that to you.
That's just your opinion.
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No, wait! Hold the hook!
If you are a conspiracy minded person--and a conspiracy is just an organized plan kept in secret--it would seem clear that having worn out their welcome in the last decade or so with their own constituents, Democrats need to cut through the clutter. Enter Obama. I am certainly voting for him, and I have to admit it is mostly because he is black and wasn't involved in the Iraq war cowardice. For christ sake's there just doesn't seem to be any legitimate reason or criteria to vote for a president anymore.
I didn't read this part. Priceless!
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Olive Oyl is voting for Bluto the Dread Pundit!
http://dreadpundit.blogspot.com/
He's Laaarge!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRUa_E1CugU
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our DUMB discourse
We can't count on our "journalists" to understand even the rudimentary parts of wiretapping and telecom amnesty, but, as evinced from tonight's Democratic debate on MSNBC, we can certainly depend on them to understand every last detail of Louis Farrakhan's saying nice things about Obama, and every viewpoint taken by Obama's minister.
Even though MSNBC has indeed shown a proclivity for Obama over Clinton, their political coverage is still often, on the whole, the most loathsome on TV. They fixate - particularly Chris Motormouth Matthews - on the most unbelievably inane non-issues again and again. Just now, Chris Matthews could not resist grilling Barack supporter Jesse Jackson about Michelle Obama's "proud of my country" comments, as though this Drudge-Reportable gaping nothing will determine the outcome of the 2008 general election.
What a steaming heap of fetid irrelevance our media has become, radiating the soporific cola-in-the-sun heat of a stupidity that emanates all around us like undulating mirages of water on a bleak, featureless desert horizon.