Letters to the Editor
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@Holly McLachlan
Unless you simply believe that a middle aged white man married to a black woman is an over-educated commiepinko by definition? Yeah...that would be it, eh?
Sucks to be you.... in a free country, doesn't it?
Hell, ProWar thinks I'M an over-educated commiepinko, despite my continual defense of traditional conservative principles on this site.
I'm just not willing to call up "down" when the GOP tells me to.
That's really all it takes with these guys.
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This is a great observation
... the thing confusing hell out of me is the comment trail to Williams' piece. The first ten or so praise him, praise Noonan, then proceed to bash Bush, the GOP, and the general state of things. One mentions she can't wait for Williams' upcoming segment on the 'depilated' (sic) infrastructure. She then wonders why the government didn't start a new WPA, rather than send rebate checks. Another person mentions that the only time the Correspondent's Dinner was worth watching was when Colbert was on.
While I'm no fan of Brian Williams, and think Peggy Noonan is freaking insane, surely this speaks to the larger picture?
For me, this is a key to the puzzle of why Americans respond to polls like liberals and vote like moderate conservatives, if I may frame it like that. The above commenter may not be typical, but how revealing it is that she doesn't know the difference between Reaganism and the New Deal.
That degree of naivete and plain ignorance must account for a huge part of the disconnect between what Americans want from their government and what they get.
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@ prunes
I hate to tell you this, but you are too a commiepinko. The cabal met last night and secretly inducted you into Comrades for Peace and Justice.
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I need an air sickness bag at Gate 14, please
Glenn, I'm now once again filled with nausea and rage. Thanks a lot! :) Please keep up the good work you do.
The NY Times articles that Williams scorns and looks down his nose at are actually just the kind of typical story that Nightly News loves to run in the latter half of its 22-minute "news" broadcasts.
On the Nightly news website right now are two items about Rev. Wright, and one about Afghanistan---if you scroll down. It just beat-out the bottom article, the one about how Americans are watching those calories.
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prunes.
Congratulations. If William nominates you you will be given a aspirin. Wash it down with a six pack of prune juice. The rear seat pant-britches are getting threadbare from commenting here
Readers deserve a Selzer Pulitzer? Pull up the holy britches. satire? seltzer?
@ U.T. O, well. Prunes deserve an award. Prune juice with bubbling seltzer.
Sent Special Delivery from Germany via W.T. Great.
W. Timberman sends e-mails to congratulate you?
William's e-mails are 12 non-legible pages long.
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Hairy Bridges
the 'depilated' (sic) infrastructure.
I missed that one the first time around. Hilarious! Imagine what the lawn-mower acquisition costs will do to the deficit ...
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The Onion
I have to agree with one of the fist posters. Surely this is sarcasm; surely no one with HALF a brain could find the insipid, hackneyed drivel that was Noonan's column to be anything other than hilarious...surely...
Yes, I know I'm wrong. I know that these minds are what pass for intellectuals in the Right Wing Noise Machine. What could be sadder than that?
I'm Canadian, but I honestly feel sorry for Americans right now. I feel like you are having your democratic process stolen from you. It truly WAS once a beacon around the world, but now everyone can see that the current culture of "fact-free truth" has spawned a government that does not seek to protect and nurture citizens so much as increase the wealth of a few giant conglomorates.
They are trying to ensure that your voices aren't being heard, your opinions are worthless, and that you continue to vote against your own interests.
Glenn has done a great job pointing out the hypocracy with which the Right has done these things, but it still boggles the mind.
"I'm a regular Joe-Six-Pack NASCAR fan! Sure, I make millions of dollars and live on the Upper East Side, but I know what is best for you, fellow NASCAR dads!" GAWD.
Please please please don't get distracted, and please vote for a Democrat this fall.
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@ quickstrategy
I understand that Halliburton trucked in and applied the depilatory creme, which was manufactured by ADM. The lawnmowers were strictly a photo-op for our proto-Pulitzer winners, who were were picked up at Gate 14 and brought out to the site on the McCain press bus.
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Salon practices the best journalism imaginable
When did Obama start running for president?
Kudos to the Politico's Ben Smith for apparently piecing together an interesting puzzle and reporting that Barack Obama may have begun to make early moves toward a presidential campaign as early as 2004, before he was elected to the Senate.
Smith noticed this sentence from a story that ran in the Wall Street Journal last week: "By the end of the [2004] campaign, his aides were sending workers into Iowa, the first Presidential caucus state, to begin developing contacts among Democrats there, according to Al Kindle, an Obama campaign aide at the time."
From there, Smith fleshed out the story, talking to Kindle, who "said there had been outreach to Iowa and, he said, Wisconsin, with a possible presidential campaign among the aims." Smith also quotes Kindle as saying, "As he was planning his prominence in the Senate, there was a need to begin to extend those coattails, so neighborhing states were critical -- and if in the future [the presidency] was ever going to be a possibility, those states were going to be critical."
Obama's chief strategist told Smith, however, that "there was not one iota of thought or discussion about 2008 in 2004. Not at all." Dan Shomon, an Obama aide at the time, also told Smith he didn't recall any presidential planning in 2004.
Smith does note, however, that Obama's first stop in Iowa was "notably early: October 4, 2004 in Davenport, right across the river from Illinois, where he was still just a state senator."
A month after that appearance in Iowa, and after his election to the Senate, Obama told reporters, "If I were to seriously consider running on a national ticket, I would essentially have to start now, without having served a day in the Senate. Now, there are some people who might be comfortable doing that, but I'm not one of those people."
In Obama's defense, if he was indeed not telling the whole truth at the time he made that statement, he wouldn't be any different from any other politician. "I'm not running" is, at this point, practically code for, "You bet your ass I'm running, would you like a campaign bumper sticker?"