Letters to the Editor
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so, their forefathers fought and died for America?
Well, if I seem to remember correctly, SOUTHERNERS fought and died to DESTROY America in this little thing called the Civil War a few years back. Us damned Yankees tried to take away their precious slaves and they were perfectly willing to destroy the country of America because they were too lazy to pick their own cotton.
If they are feeling any sense of loss, it's probably for their slaves, not some loss of "blood equity".
Cry me a river.
Randy
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Parker, a bigoted cow
Let's see if anybody in the MSM has the courage to take on this bigoted piece of human garbage. Of course, somebody in the Post should do it, but neither Gene Robinson nor E.J. Dionne have the guts. The WaPo is a disgrace. Has been for a long time.
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@ 7:29 Chris C. My respect. Integrity. Walk upright.
That read was fresh. It read smooth as a quart of creamy goat milk. It won't hurt you even if a goat hoof stepped in the milk bucket at the parlor. Maybe Parker will have to change any of the gangs potential offspring's last names/
Oh. yahoo. Low class politico's `a Barker.
Instead of a 'P'.... add a 'B' for bull patty.
A mongrel GOP dog is a scrounge hyena.
Maybe soon we will see the GOPS on all fours.
Crawler. See black maggot crawlers cleaning up.
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specialagentkenray:
I'm not one to organize boycotts, but personally, I'm finished with the Washington Post. The media is big enough so that I can get any of the information they provide from some other source.
I don't dispute the central premise here that the WaPo is making many of the same absurdly idiotic editorial decisions as many other papers "of record" - i.e., giving voice to the narrowest, most ignorant and mendacious of right-wing voices while refusing to share space with their equally ideological counterparts on the left.
However, the paper is not yet a lost cause. It was the WaPo that published the Harold Meyerson column I mentioned upthread. That column is as thoughtful and insightful as Kathleen Parker's was stupid. Give it your love:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302303.html
This, of course, does not excuse the paper's risibly inept editorial choices of the kind demonstrated by Parker's column. But it's something.
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"How can a sentient being..."
Glenn may have a point. When you're speaking of the aptly named Electro Robot (1140 letters to Salon in the last two months, most of them resembling the above), you're less likely to be talking about a real human being than an automated snark generator. Love to have the algorhythm for that, though. It could be put to a more noble use.
As for Parker's column, what a load. I remember her from years ago (about when that picture was taken) as a lightweight family columnist. She was awful then, too, though the bigotry was aimed more toward "preserving" the "traditional" family. Read today's piece first thing this morning. Enough to make you whoof your Cheerios.
But, seriously, after the last couple weeks, stuff like this is all they've got left. Get ready for a lot more. And the WaPo, which used to be worth reading, deserves to be answered.
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Democrats--unAmerican and Unmanly
In Parker's article we can see the two primary threads of the Republican campaign against Democrats: they're not American enough and they're not real men. Both were used against Kerry to good effect--he spoke French and windsurfed--the elitist, unAmerican sissy. They will of course be used against Obama with large doses of subliminal racism and anti-intellectualism thrown in for good measure.
It's all so depressingly familiar.
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Girly Men
It would be nice if these idiots would shut up about race, gender, and heritage and just get to the main point of this campaign - one is highly qualified and the other is not. Of course since the qualified one happens to be a woman and the media and the country can't get past its sexist ways, all we're going to see and hear about are Hillary's failures while Obama can do no wrong. All one has to do is compare Hillary's first three years as a senator with Obama's only three years as a senator. If fact, there is no comparison as Obama was MIA and Clinton won the praises of both sides of the aisle with her hard work and dedication to becoming a stellar senator.
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@specialagentkenray
I read the Washington Post on a near-daily basis for many years, including during the Watergate era.
When I was away from the D.C. area for over 20 years, I almost never read the Washington Post.
When I got access to the Internet in 1998, I began taking advantage of the widely expanded variety or sources from the world press.
Since returning to the D.C. area a couple of years ago, I became a daily reader again. (Thankfully, I'll be lighting out for the Territories next month, escaping the balefully resigned gaze of the Sivilization.)
I assure you, you are missing absolutely nothing in the way of national news by not reading the Washington Post.
For that matter, their overall coverage of local stories is substandard, as well- mostly in terms of what gets chosen to be covered (not very much.)
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Ms. Parker
I think Kathleen's right: a presidential candidate at least needs to be born in the US.
But wait: don't you HAVE to be born in the US to become president? Hmmmm -
Where does she come up with this shit? No one's said a WORD about the fact that, technically, McCain WASN'T born "in the US." Or, maybe, Hawaii isn't "really" the US, and doesn't have any "real Americans" in it. I guess "real Americans" have to come from the South (if they're white, of course).
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Those bloodlines include Confederates?
One ardent group of White Pride folks are those descended from Confederates -- you know, the folks who fly that flag all over the place because of their great pride in a heritage of taking up arms AGAINST the United States of America... sort of like John Walker Lindh, only longer ago, & in a way much more threatening to our nation. Yes, things have "worked pretty well here for over 200 years," except for that little war in 1861-5 that killed more Americans than any before or since.
& what about all those White Pride folks who are descended from people who participated in lynch mobs? Using violence to achieve political ends? It's called terrorism, I believe. So, I guess what I'm saying is that the Washington Post pays terrorists (or their apologists) to write for it. Has anyone informed the FBI?
In any event, let's look at the data -- Bush & Cheney, I take it, are "full-blooded" Americans who "trace their bloodlines back through generations of sacrifice." & let's see, when it was time for them to sacrifice during Vietnam, Cheney had other priorities & Bush went AWOL. But Bush has given up golf recently, so I guess that makes up for it? Bush made a big deal of how proud he was of Jenna the other day -- was that because she had signed up for military service? Had her new husband?
How old is Ms. Parker? From her picture (possibly airbrushed beyond reality) she looks young enough to enlist. Or has she decided to follow Bush's lead & just give up golf, instead?
In the final analysis, when people immigrated to the US is a function of historical accidents, not patriotic superiority. My husband is an immigrant; some of my ancestors have lived here since the 1600s. But is that because my family is superior to my husband's or because my family went broke at an earlier point in history? The ancestor I know the most about was deported to Virgina, in lieu of being executed for theft in England. He was an indentured servant who committed the further crime of "self-theft" (i.e., he ran away) to what was then western Virginia (now Rush County, Kentucky). This is a common story in that region whose "bloodlines" Parker exalts. Does a family history like that make my family superior to my husband's family, who left Greece for Canada after the WWII & the Greek civil war? THEY didn't come to North America as convicts. My husband teaches medicine & treats often quite poor patients in a big city hospital -- he could make a lot more money by being in private practice. Has Parker given up as much for this country?