Skinner's LTTE to the NYT will be in tomorrow's paper!

[Bouncy Ball]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/opinion/l10blog.html?oref=login

There's also a post about it in the Editorials forum.

Go Skinner!

(It's about how the NYT mentioned a post made here on DU.)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Skinner!

Thanks!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

2. Excellent editorial, Skinner. Cut right to the point.

[RetroLounge]

3. Skinner!

:yourock:

RL

[catzies]

4. I just said it should be posted inGD and the Lounge so everybody'd see

GMTA! :)

Everybody go read it NOW!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/opinion/l10blog.html

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. Great letter, I'm glad its going to be in the paper. Good job Skinner!

:yourock:

[Patsy Stone]

6. Skinner in 2008! Congrats! n/t

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. That's great... BUT

They really ought to reciprocate by cherry picking a few from Freeperville. Our's was nutty. Theirs are downright frightening in the level of hate and animosity toward those that disagree.

[Bouncy Ball]

8. Agreed.

[fujiyama]

10. Very true

What was mentioned here was silly, but what was on freeperville was just plain sick.

[Amaryllis]

19. Yes. Nutty VS. vile and evil. " A wretched hive of scum and villianry..."

Wasn't that what Obi Wan said about...what was the name of that place where they hooked up with Han Solo? Los Eisley?

[fluffernutter]

9. very cool. nice job, Skinner!

[seito]

11. Excellent n/t

[PittPoliSci]

12. Well done!

[Angry Girl]

13. Way to go, Skinner!

[bunny planet]

14. Viva Skinner. This is great!

[enough]

15. As usual, Skinner, you have perfect pitch.

Excellent letter.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

16. This was excellent in my opinion!

"It is fairly common for right-wing Web sites to cherry-pick the most extreme or outlandish posts from our forum in order to paint all liberals as wacky or extreme. I was surprised to see The Times doing it, too."

He pointed out that they were behaving just like those crazy internet(s) people!

[LeftCoast]

17. Great letter!

I'm glad they posted it.

[sakabatou]

18. Very good

I wonder if they run these online LTTEs in the newspaper

[Leilani]

20. Terrific!

DU & Skinner are famous.

[Amaryllis]

22. DU is gonna get a lot of hits from this....maybe a good way to educate

about election issues...

[RagingInMiami]

21. Straight and to the point

[Lorien]

23. I won't register with the Screw York Times, but

Way to go, Skinner! :toast: :bounce:

[RevolutionaryActs]

24. Go to bugmenot.com

http://www.bugmenot.com/

Put in the NYT web address, and then you wont have to register. :)

[Lorien]

27. Cool, Thanks!

:hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

30. You're very welcome.

:)

[Cobalt Violet]

25. Neither will I .

Hopefully we will find out what is said.

[Eric J in MN]

26. Obviously that is your decision to make, but

I think the NY Times is worth reading.

[babylonsister]

32. Agree! I like to read editorials.

Dowd, Friedman, et al. There's a lot of knowledge to learn from. Even if you don't agree, they are there, but I find myself agreeing most of the time.

[icehenge]

29. THe letter

the Editor:

As the administrator of the Web site Democratic Underground, I am perplexed as to why you would consider an obscure posting on a busy Internet discussion forum to be worthy of an article ("Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate," news article, Jan. 3).

Your article did not make clear that the message in question was posted by a completely anonymous individual, whose identity and political agenda are impossible to determine. The article also did not mention that the posting appeared to be an innocent question from a person guilty of nothing more than ignorance. Indeed, the posting's title (which you did not mention) was "One more dumb question regarding the earthquake in Asia."

Our discussion forum is different from a traditional blog. We get approximately 25,000 messages posted each day, and we cannot possibly check them all for accuracy.

It is fairly common for right-wing Web sites to cherry-pick the most extreme or outlandish posts from our forum in order to paint all liberals as wacky or extreme. I was surprised to see The Times doing it, too.

David Allen
Washington, Jan. 5, 2005

[TrustingDog]

31. Skinner is David Allen? Isn't that the BlackBoxVoting.COM guy?

:wtf:

[Skinner]

34. That's a different David Allen.

It's not a particularly uncommon name.

[TrustingDog]

37. whew. ok, thanks for clearing that up. n/t

[jonnyblitz]

39. i was confused about that also. n/t

[WMliberal]

28. no surprise they won't publish it till monday.

They couldn't allow serious criticism of their methods being printed on a Sunday!

Hey David! Take it as a compliment!!! They're chicken!

[babylonsister]

33. No one works on weekends. n/t

[Bunny]

35. Never mind. Note to self:

read the entire thread before posting!

[NewJeffCT]

36. good letter

Short & to the point. Longer ones risk not getting published. Now, if we could just cherry pick a few doozies from Freeperland and have the NY Times publish it.

[NYYFan]

38. Bravo, Skinner

:yourock:

[GOPBasher]

40. Woohoo!! Thanks, Skinner!