My Last Three Letters to the Boston Globe
As always, each letter is self-explanatory.
Editor,
The Boston Globe chose to publish the letter ending, "Those smears were highly offensive because the played to the bigotry, homophobic and racial, of a major part of the conservative Republican base in "red state" America, in addition to being false, ad hominem attacks," for the irony, right (It's political discourse, of course, letters, March 11)? (End of first letter.)
Editor,
I will stipulate that columnist Mr. John J. McSheffrey, Jr. was exactly correct in his eyewitness account of the events aboard Flight 1220 when he wrote, "After we were in the air, the pilot announced that the Navy captain on board was escorting home the body of a soldier who had died in Iraq. When we landed at Logan Airport, the pilot made another announcement. Don't be alarmed by the flashing lights, he said . . . I witnessed a flag-draped coffin of one of our finest slowly carried away (Mr. McSheffrey was even allowed to photograph the coffin being carried away) . . . . "
Of course, that Mr. McSheffrey, and everyone else on the plane, witnessed everything he described, especially the flashing lights, does not square with another of his statements, "Most of us are insulated and protected from the hard realities of the war because our government tries very hard to hide from us what I witnessed that night."
Mr. McSheffrey offers no evidence of his indictment of "our government"; he offers quite a bit of evidence to the contrary. But, people believe what they want to believe regardless of the facts. (End of second letter.)
Editor,
When the Boston Globe Editorial Board smuggly and snidely writes, "President Bush came to office six years ago pledging a 'fundamental commitment' to Latin America. Whether because events elsewhere distracted him or because he was incapable of concentrating on more than one or two foreign challenges at a time, Bush has failed to keep that promise," is the Editorial Board lumping the positive nuclear disarmament developments with Libya, North Korea and Iran into one issue and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into one issue so as to suppress the "challenges" count (Bush visiting the neighborhood, editorial, March 9)?
How is the Editorial Board counting the progress on a negotiated peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the eye the President is keeping on Russia's Vladimir Putin (lest he take something) and the other eye the President is keeping on the appeasing EU countries (lest they give away something)?
No, on second thought, I'm sure the Boston Globe Editorial Board is right, the ethanol tariff issue is the international issue of our time. (End of third letter.)
As always, each letter is self-explanatory.
Editor,
The Boston Globe chose to publish the letter ending, "Those smears were highly offensive because the played to the bigotry, homophobic and racial, of a major part of the conservative Republican base in "red state" America, in addition to being false, ad hominem attacks," for the irony, right (It's political discourse, of course, letters, March 11)? (End of first letter.)
Editor,
I will stipulate that columnist Mr. John J. McSheffrey, Jr. was exactly correct in his eyewitness account of the events aboard Flight 1220 when he wrote, "After we were in the air, the pilot announced that the Navy captain on board was escorting home the body of a soldier who had died in Iraq. When we landed at Logan Airport, the pilot made another announcement. Don't be alarmed by the flashing lights, he said . . . I witnessed a flag-draped coffin of one of our finest slowly carried away (Mr. McSheffrey was even allowed to photograph the coffin being carried away) . . . . "
Of course, that Mr. McSheffrey, and everyone else on the plane, witnessed everything he described, especially the flashing lights, does not square with another of his statements, "Most of us are insulated and protected from the hard realities of the war because our government tries very hard to hide from us what I witnessed that night."
Mr. McSheffrey offers no evidence of his indictment of "our government"; he offers quite a bit of evidence to the contrary. But, people believe what they want to believe regardless of the facts. (End of second letter.)
Editor,
When the Boston Globe Editorial Board smuggly and snidely writes, "President Bush came to office six years ago pledging a 'fundamental commitment' to Latin America. Whether because events elsewhere distracted him or because he was incapable of concentrating on more than one or two foreign challenges at a time, Bush has failed to keep that promise," is the Editorial Board lumping the positive nuclear disarmament developments with Libya, North Korea and Iran into one issue and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into one issue so as to suppress the "challenges" count (Bush visiting the neighborhood, editorial, March 9)?
How is the Editorial Board counting the progress on a negotiated peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the eye the President is keeping on Russia's Vladimir Putin (lest he take something) and the other eye the President is keeping on the appeasing EU countries (lest they give away something)?
No, on second thought, I'm sure the Boston Globe Editorial Board is right, the ethanol tariff issue is the international issue of our time. (End of third letter.)
posted by Zack at 7:10 PM
7 Comments:
Gonzales, Libby, "vast right wing conspiracy", anything?
are you dodging the real stories?
What gives?
Your neighbor's babysitter takes the kid into town for a ice cream cone. Your neighbor comes home and finds the house empty. In a panic, he calls the police because he suspects kidnapping. The FBI is called. Twenty minutes later the babysitter returns home with the kid. The kidnapping investigation is closed.
The FBI comes over to your house anyway and asks if you've eaten out lately. You say, "Yes, last Friday." You are called before a Grand Jury and asked the same question under oath. You again aswer, "Yes, last Friday." Your credit card receipt strongly suggests you were there Saturday . . . as does the waiter, who was shown your picture . . . as does the valet, who was shown your picture. The Grand Jury indicts you for obstruction of justice and perjury in the "babysitter kidnapping case".
You are subsequently found guilty of obstruction of justice and perjury in the babysitter kidnapping case because your answer unde oath was deemed a lie by the jury.
What's not to understand about the Scooter Libby case? Shameless exploitation of a non-event by liberal extremists and their co-conspirators in the liberal media.
When you write, "shameless exploitaton of a non-event by liberal extremists and their co-conspirators in the liberal media" do you mean 8 is not greater than 93?
ZR, your story above rightly depicts the ridiculousness (sp?) of this non-story. (I'm sure you'll be first in line to buy Valerie Plame's hot new book when it comes out)
anonymous,
Please, share your thoughts. You obviously have the Gonzalez thing properly diagnosed. Don't let me have all the fun.
Folks,
Please hang in there and continue to check this site frequently (once a day) over the next week or so. Blogger, the host of my blog, switched over to a new format and when I tried to move my blog to the new format something bad happened. I'll create ZACKlyRightII.blogspot.com, or similar, if I need to but let's give it a week.
Zack
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