"Can't Stand The Heat?" - WP Editorial Will PISS YOU OFF - please email

[hatrack]

No, I am not making this up.

Can't Stand the Heat?
Thursday, August 14, 2003; Page A18

"To listen to the fuss Europeans are making about their weather, anyone would think that it was actually hot over there.

EDIT

Okay, so maybe it's a bit warmer than usual . . . But is this really hot -- hot enough to close businesses, hot enough to cancel trains (the tracks might buckle) . . .?

EDIT

Not all Europeans may want to go this far -- but maybe they will not at least stop turning up their noses at those American summer inventions they've long loved to mock: The office window that doesn't open, the air conditioner that produces sub-arctic temperatures and the tall glass of water, served in a restaurant, filled to the brim with ice."

EDIT/END

That's right, 3,000-plus dead in France alone, most of them old poor people, and what better time than now to derive hearty chuckles from that fact, while zinging them wicked Frenchies for failing to serve ice water and crank up the AC?

FUCKING REPTILIAN SONS-OF-BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can contact these slime-molds in human guise by e-mail at [e-mail], if you're so inclined.

Original Editorial

[realFedUp]

1. It would be nice to actually have a name to e-mail to.

Some Francophobe.

[DUreader]

3. Ombudsman phone # here [phone]

[phone]

email: mailto:[e-mail]

[realFedUp]

5. I was referring to whoever the author is...

Convenient for the editorial board member to not
have to sign his or her name to this.

[jackstraw45]

7. Names

Email format for Post Employees: [e-mail]

Example: John Smith is [e-mail]
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Boisfeullet Jones Jr.
Publisher & CEO

Leonard Downie JR.
Executive Editor

Steve Coll
Managing Editor

Milton Coleman
Deputy Managing Editor

Fred Hiatt
Editorial Page Editor

Colbert I King.
Deputy Editorial Page Editor

Jackson Diehl
Deputy Editorial Page Editor

[linazelle]

6. I called the ombudman, Getler, he's out of town until the end of the month

I did leave a voice mail and my return email and phone number.

[jackstraw45]

2. Typical for the editorial board of the Post lately...

KKKarl Rove may phone in the headlines to the Washington Times but the Washington Post editorial board is just plain pathetic.

From the Post website:

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Letters should sent to:

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Michael Getler is the ombudsman for The Washington Post. Before taking on this position in November 2000, he served as executive editor of the International Herald Tribune from 1996 until 2000. He can be reached at [phone] or by e-mail at [e-mail], or c/o The Washington Post, 1150 15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20071.

[DUreader]

4. I just called Ombud Guy and he is on vacation so voice mail

I was calm yet scathing in expressing digust at the insensitive

opinion in the WP in the face of minimum 3000 deaths

[hatrack]

8. My letter to Hiatt:

Dear Mr. Hiatt;

I am writing regarding the editorial "Can't Stand the Heat?", published on 14 August 2003, page A18.

Has Michael Savage joined your editorial board? As many as 3,000 people have died in France alone in the past two weeks, most of them old and frail, many of them poor, and you think this is FUNNY?

"Okay, so maybe it's a bit warmer than usual." No, it's not just a bit warmer than usual. Temperatures have reached 105F in Germany, 107F in Switzerland, 110F in Spain and a stunning 117.1F in Portugal during the heatwave. This has been going on for weeks now, but I guess if your job is to write vicious, snarky editorials which milk the deaths of thousands of elderly people for comic effect, why bother checking the news?

"Last time we checked, the weather in Washington was in the upper 80s . . . " Pardon me for pointing out the obvious, but Washington's weather has less than zero to do with what's happening in Europe.

Particularly disgusting was your jab at Europeans for eschewing air conditioning and other red-blooded, all-American innovations out of snobbery. Just for the record, most Europeans don't have air conditioning because it usually just doesn't get that hot there.

I suppose when thousands of Chinese or Indians die in floods, you'll run an editorial entitled "Don't Complain, it's just Rain." Perhaps the deaths of tens of thousands of Japanese in an earthquake might elicit "Can't Take the Shake?"

The reptilian brutality this editorial displayed was mind-boggling. What the hell is wrong with you people?

Yours in disgust,

XXXX

[Skittles]

9. I emailed mediawhores

saying sure, no "extra-ordinary" measures are taken in Texas in 100+ degree weather. But just add a quarter inch of ICE and the whole g.d. state practically SHUTS DOWN.