Letters to the Editor
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bernbart
I disagree with you that say print is dead.
Could you point me to where I said this, because I don't remember it. Thanks.
If some of you young whipper snappers just read a newspaper once in a while you might be more infromed. The New York times is one of the great print news left. I read it every day before I do anything else. When I hear ,"I don't have time to read the newspaper " I groan.
Spend hour on blogs, but not reading does not get one informed.
This is a great point. Think of all the important information about Saddam's weapons programs that one would have missed out on if one had not religiously read the NYT before the war.
Who is arguing that someone should only read blogs but not newspapers?
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James65
I read Brook's piece on Obama on Friday and then reread it after seeing what you infered Brooks was saying in it because your assertions don't and didn't match with what I read.
I'm more than happy to have anyone read what I wrote about what you call Brooks' "eminently fair" column and then go read the column itself to judge for themselves if I described it accurately. That's why I always include what we call "a link" to the article I'm discussing -- so that anyone is free to click on it and go read it.
All the facts you claim I ignored are, in fact, ones that I explicitly referenced.
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The Best and The Brightest
i don't believe for a minute that:
1. kristol was hired because of nepotism
2. kristol got his facts wrong because of sloppiness
3. NYT hires extreme right wingers to fend off charges of liberalism
4. that mainstream journalists & pundits disseminate fallacies, myths and lies because they are ill-informed and/or are too sheltered amongst beltway insiders
5. that the MSM focuses on trivia, scandals and personalities and ignore stories of great importance because they are rating/profit driven
5. that the bush administration is incompetent
6. that congressional democrats enable the crimes of the bush administration, because they are timid and are afraid to branded as weak, unpatriotic and obstructionist
why is it that all their mistakes, erroneous beliefs, fears, errors, sloppiness, etc.. always ends up benefiting them, their cronies or their policies? all of these people and institutions are or are managed by very smart and often brilliant individuals. kristol is no dummy. they know exactly what they are doing. they do what they do for power, profit and control. they are propagandists above all. they are not benign and they must be stopped.
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@James65
First, Brooks listed a number of points and then asked if Obama agreed with them because if he did then it would place him far on the left when it comes to Hezbollah. He did not say that Obama is in the Chomsky wing of the Democratic Party.
That is not what I read. First he quotes Obama about engaging in diplomatic efforts concerning the Lebanon situation. Then he asks several rhetorical questions that do not follow from the quote, but make Obama appear to be a fanatic appeaser. Then he describes his interview with Obama and says the guy is not that bad, but rather half republican, half democrat.
So who is Brooks trying to please with this article?
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Whatever happened to Kristol's calls to prosecute the Times for treason?
Whatever happened to this?
"I think the Justice Department has an obligation to consider prosecution. ... This isn't a partisan thing of the Bush administration. This is a U.S. government secret program in a time of war, willfully exposed for no good reason by The New York Times." ~Bill Kristol, Fox News, 6/25/06
http://mediamatters.org/items/200606270010
Has Kristol ever responded to this statement since being hired by the “treasonous” New York Times?
That didn’t go over very well with the staff:
"My personal opinion is it's an appalling choice," a former veteran Times staffer said of Kristol's appointment. "Not because he's been wrong about so much, but because he called for prosecuting the Times for treason. You're entitled to your opinion, but, in all due respect, go fuck yourself."
http://tinyurl.com/ywppgg
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Glenn
I understand what a link is, but it requires people to follow it rather than assume you are accurately portraying what was written.
From my reading of your admittedly minor reference to Brooks' piece and reading what Brooks wrote I really don't think you accurately represented what Brooks said or was writing about.
Your post about Kristol relates to accuracy, so if you inaccurately describe someone else's writing, well...
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It's funny, but...
Even as I was reading Kristol this morning I knew this claim was a lie, and I just kept going. Didn't even faze me, I knew that Billy K. was fact-challenged, and I didn't even feel I had to go to the Web to prove it to myself.
I remembering thinking, "Boy, I am sure that Glenn will be on this one faster than a speeding bullet"--but it wasn't even this gaffe I was thinking of, it was Kristol's shoddy characterization of the CA Supreme Court decision as "judicial activism" that I thought would prompt a reply in these parts.
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..."Mona's blog is back up".... (save)
Wow. The sound blast almost had me dive on the floor. peripeteia. Yes.
Phrynikos was an early Athenian tragic poet. `Ref : birds song contest.
` Whence Phrynichus of old, Sipping the fruit of our ambrosial lay,
`tio, tio, tio tiotinx. Ye`ll be quite overburdened with pleasures and joys,
`So happy and blest we will make you` O woodland Muse, tio tio, tiotinx.
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OT: Buckley v. Chomsky
Since the names of Buckley and Chomsky are being bandied about, I thought I might mention that those two had a great debate in 1969 regarding what was at the time, contemporary American foreign policy. Not surprisingly, the salient points from the debate are as relevant today as they were forty years ago. You can see the entire thing on youtube and I recommend at least taking a peek. If nothing else, the debate really drives home the hegemonic attitudes which acted, and continue to act, as the ideological basis for conservative foreign policy.
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NYT, are you listening?
Maybe the Times could restore some balance to their op-ed page and add some much-needed non-nepotistic value to their service by permanently embedding a link to "opinion/greenwald" in the on-line version of every future Kristol column.