Letters to the Editor
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I can't wait. I guess I'll have to...
The book should be placed in every public golf course. Every truck stop latrine in America should have a few donated by Salon.
On scorching days in a hell on Earth,
every resident should sit with a glass.
With ice cubes, and some lemon aid,
maybe America will wake up neocons!
Drink with a straw with a green leaf mint. Yup.
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That's the objective of this book
"-- to put these right-wing leaders under that same microscope and to apply the same standards to them -- the ones used successfully by them and their media allies to mock and destroy the personality and character of their opponents..." (GG)
Good for you. It is high time that politicians and talking heads of the left as well as the right undergo an inspection; a fair yet intense inspection. The press in this country should fill the function of providing this close inspection, yet as your many posts have pointed out --- they are failing at this task.
Keep up the great work.
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Happy to order
I look forward to receiving my copy of the book.
I agree with the sentiment in your quotation of Rachel Maddow. We cannot wait to begin the takedown of the myth of John McCain. If a Democrat were to try to so completely abandon their core ideology in an attempt to get elected, they would be laughed off the scene overnight.
I don't know where this came from, but today I have an intense desire to refer to Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham as McCain's butt-monkeys. Anyone have a better term for them?
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George Lakoff with steel toed boots
is what we need this election cycle. No more Mr. Niceguy. Expose their lies, larcenies, and hypocrisies for what they are. Our republic's survival depends on us going to the mat with these evil, scheming rat bastards. They have robbing us blind, destroying our nation, and laughing at us to our faces for too long. Screw the weasels.
No Pax
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If you ever wonder why you're enemies are so adamant...
They are strong, courageous, honor-bound, protective, morally upstanding salt-of-the earth Everyman-warriors -- contemptuous of elitist prerogatives, and oozing traditional masculine virtues and cultural normalcy. As important, if not more so, is the corresponding character demonization of liberals, Democrats and a growing group of miscellaneous right-wing opponents -- those weak, subversive, conniving, appeasing, gender-confused, elitist freaks, whose men are as effeminate and cowardly as their women are angry, threatening and emasculating.
I can read that sentence and it just passes right through me because I basically share the opinions and worldview that it expresses. But I can imagine that if I disagreed with your sentiment, I'd find your ability to string colorful adjectives together in ways that just roll off the tongue to be quite annoying and occasionally infuriating.
Imagine my concern.......
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Jim White?
Orthodox rabid red lobsters.
A bad keloid. crabs. cheapo.
Real lowly. No qualities or awe.
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The Cover Art
Is a classic.
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can't
wait to read it, I ordered a couple days ago, hopefully that still helps the presales thing. It sounds like it should be a good addition after reading "why we're liberals".
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Shock and Awe
Paranoid rants. Appeals to your base emotions (fear, jealousy, guilt). Colorful language used to paint the opponent in the worst possible light.
Looks like Glenn is following Ann Coulter's lead, hoping to bring home some Coulter size money.
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I am gonna have to take a walk or I'll be in a barn.
I read again. A great wowser.
"... wider public discourse..."
It will not be a 'killjoy' read.
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Beautiful. My suggestion :
Translate into Mandarin.
Place in every Wall-Mart.
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I think if you had Sarah Silverman's publicist.........
Not that you are an crass cretin like her, but man for someone that has absolutely no talent she has some high octane placement. I ordered your book early and I will order another today. They make great gifts, especially for my friends that work at Ft. Meade. Best of luck and thanks for your passion and energy. Good luck and thanks beyond.
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tilting at Big Media's windmill
I fear Glenn's noble fight against the MSM is getting more and more Quixotic by the day. The media tend to ignore any type of criticism; they still don't (nor do they care to) understand why so many people are getting their news from Jon Stewart, or why anyone thinks Stephen Colbert is funny, or that bloggers aren't some fringe element of wackos and extremists.
When they do bother to respond they show exactly how shallow and thin-skinned they can be -- see John King's petulant response to Glenn. It's only logical the MSM would be Bush's biggest war cheerleaders: after all, they both share the fatal traits of arrogance ("We're already perfect") and self-delusion ("We've always been perfect").
I know Glenn's not the only one fighting the good fight against a corrupt, complacent and frankly incompetent media. The real tragedy is that there's a need for fight in the first place.
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NotOrbitBoy
Shock and Awe
Paranoid rants. Appeals to your base emotions (fear, jealousy, guilt). Colorful language used to paint the opponent in the worst possible light.
Looks like Glenn is following Ann Coulter's lead, hoping to bring home some Coulter size money.
Those are some great skills you've cultivated -- being able to divine what's in a book you haven't read and know the motives in why it was written.
You come here constantly and spew the most tired GOP talking points of the day and obviously wish that the playing field would remain one-sided. If people like you weren't insulting and trying to demean it this way -- even without having read a word of it -- I would feel like I wrote the wrong book.
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Dr. Greenwald's diagnosis
Glenn's diagnosis is spot-on: America's body politic is sick -- maybe terminal. We've been bleating about these things for years. So what's the cure?
Street action? General strikes? Kneecappings?
When political culture becomes as morally and intellectually diseased as ours, conventional therapy may no longer be efficacious.
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Apogee!
Looking off into outer space,
with a far off miserable face,
see the GOP family photograph?
All neoconservatives appear gaunt.
Someone must please say, "Cheese!"
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Can I ask who suggested the title?
I don't think its possible to get more succient or attention grabbing. My compliments to whoever suggested it.
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Will do
If the new book is even half as good as the last one, it will be well worth the read. I am in awe of GG's relentless pursuit of all that is politically wrong in this country.
As many of us have repeatedly said...thanks Glenn!
cliff