ny observer is getting so vile

[rusty charly]

can someone write them about this? i'm not much of a writer. just got this week's issue and on the front page, two issues, immediately:

"Then, like clockwork, Sept. 1. Cool rain, sweet sweep of autumn, dumb Presidential candidates. Sept. 11 looms, choked grief. Winding around it like ivy vines are the signs of life that only autumn in New York brings: new movies, mobs at the Gap, little girls in school uniforms. But there’s a tough, no-nonsense attitude that it will take to make it through this strange season. A year from now, Republicans in New York! Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh at the Garden. For now, just Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, Christina Ricci in Woody Allen’s Anything Else, the Yankees in the Bronx, the soaked tennis courts in Flushing, a stern Mayor, a fizzy stock market, crisp mornings, long afternoons, the sun dropping, brisk and efficient. Hemlines are up. Glitzy galas are passé. People are eating sandwiches and chops. Right now, for once, it’s the rest of the world that seems nutty, jumpy, neurotic. For the first time in a long time, New York feels like … home."

http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage5.asp

huh?

"dumb presidential candidates"???? what about the DUMB PRESIDENT???? what about jawohl-DUMB California candidates???


then...


"At a time when the United States could use friends in the Arab world, Senator Charles Schumer has been doing everything in his power to arrange a divorce between Washington and one of its most important partners in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia.

(snip)

But given that most Americans hardly need reminding that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, what, exactly, is Mr. Schumer trying to achieve? The answer, according to the Senator, is that he wants to bring about an end to America’s "friendly" relations with Saudi Arabia. "The Saudis are a large part of the terrorism problem—without the Saudi government exporting extremism, we wouldn’t have had 9/11—and yet this administration has been coddling them," he said. "It should be our policy that we’re not friendly with them."

http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage1.asp


huh?

i don't know what polls the ny observer has been reading, but, yes, most americans DO need to be reminded where the highjackers came from, since most americans are still blaming Iraq for 9/11

(sidebar... the times let stand that front page war-wife whose sewing quilts for the soldiers who come home in a bag and she's getting behind... "we've got to finish this once and for all. no one wants another 9/11". honey, Iraq didn't do 9/11... but wait. that's right. most americans don't need to be reminded of that...)

sorry about the rant, but i've had it. maybe it's reading al frankens book... first i was laughing but alot of it is just depressing