Letter to the Editor in the local newspaper

[dean_dem]

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784077034&path=%21editorials%21letters&s=1045855935005

Editor, Times-Dispatch: Paul Krugman writes, "And now we know just how far was willing to go with these smear tactics: As part of the effort to discredit Joseph Wilson, Rove leaked the fact that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA."
Could someone please tell me what the smear is? What is wrong with working for the CIA? It does not exist by accident. Congress votes money for the CIA every year. The agency takes orders from the President. If it is disgraceful to work for the CIA, then shouldn't it be equally shameful to work at the Capitol or the White House -- or fraternize with people who do?

I know some people would object that the CIA practices employment discrimination. Narcotics addiction, alcoholism, adultery, gambling, and conflicts of loyalities do not bar a person from elected office or other positions of political leadership. The security-clearance system keeps most applicants with these problems out of the CIA.

Democrats -- not CIA employees -- are the ones who should be embarrassed. The moral climate that gave us Tyco and Enron in the private sector must have fostered some juicy public-sector fiascoes. Democrats should be ashamed if they can't find a scandal with a bit of substance and entertainment value. Charles J. Gambill, III. richmond.

Most of this letter does not make one iota of sense, but I just loved the last paragraph. Here that folks? Unless we can come up with a semen stained dress, we should just forget the whole Plame leak! Boring!

The Republican Times-Disgrace lately has been much more frustrating than usual. Idiotic letters like this don't help.

[swag]

1. Gawd,

Sounds like something my mom, dad, and brother collaborated on.

[WMliberal]

2. damn, I shoulda known the Clenis was behind the Plame leak!

:silly:

[KarenInMA]

12. who's Clenis?

[Jo March]

14. It's a combination of Clinton's penis

The Clenis is the mighty, mighty penis of Clinton! It is responsible for all of the bad and evil in the world.

FEAR THE CLENIS!!!

[jedicord]

3. What's shameful about working for the CIA?

Immediately the guy shows his ignorance. That's not even CLOSE to the reason Rove told the media about Valerie. SHEESH people are stupid!

[bunkerbuster1]

7. Not ignorance, deliberate misstatement.

this is all part of a disinformation campaign.

If they can't weasle out of the charges that are starting to stick, they can attempt to make it seem inconsequential.

[jedicord]

10. Somehow that makes me feel better and feel worse at the same time.

On one hand, every time I hear a Repub say something like that I think to myself that our country is full of truly stupid people. Knowing it's on purpose means we're not having an genetically induced intelligence drain. Which leads me to...

On the other hand, how friggin' scary is that so many people buy into this propaganda without educating themselves!

It's like all the e-mail hoaxes that go around the world, with no snoping to see if they're true. So many of my acquaintances send this stuff to tons of people. I'll call them on it, but they continue to do it. "OH, it's on my computer! It HAS to be true!"

:banghead:

[Bill McBlueState]

4. you should send them a short letter

"You know, you don't have to print everything you get in the mail."

signed,
you

This Gambill fellow sounds like Bob Boudelang's cousin.

[MindPilot]

9. Every newspaper will claim that their letters are in proportion

to the ones they receive. We all know it's bullshit of course.

A couple of weeks ago, I made the mistake of looking at the letters in my own hometown paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune. There were seven letters that dealt with political issues. One was kind of non-partisan, six were hard right, and one of those was complaining about how liberal the paper is!

[bunkerbuster1]

5. "Could someone please tell me what the smear is?" RW yak point

I'd heard that one a few times last week.

[dean_dem]

6. Well, that kind of sums up their position pretty well.

Semen smear= Impeach
Wilson smear= Ignore

[MindPilot]

8. Has this ignorant fuckwad never seen a James Bond movie?

How is someone that stupid even able to operate the equipment necessary to write a letter? I'd have to assume they didn't use a computer, so did someone show them how to get the inky part to stick out of the pen?

It is so typical of the pretzel logic the right uses when they are so out of excuses, they have nothing left but to simply deny reality.

Reminds of a comment I read after the Exxon Valdez spill; "since oil comes from the earth, it's a natural substance and therefore it's not really pollution."

[greekspeak]

11. That Valdez comment is possibly 1 of the stupidest things I've ever heard

Uranium comes from the earth, so lets collect a bunch and drop it into Niagra Falls. God how stupid.

[MindPilot]

13. I forget exactly where I heard or read it, but that was my reaction also

Hey, dog shit is a natural substance too, but I don't want piles of it in my kitchen.