DU makes Chicago newspaper

[imenja]

Check out this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x112564

They don't like us.

[KitchenWitch]

1. "Honest liberals"

like Zell Miller and Joementum.

[xmas74]

2. He is what makes Americans look like jokes

and makes us hated worldwide.

[imenja]

3. nominate that original thread for the Greatest

So Radical Activist's sexcapades, or lack thereof, gets off the top of the Greatest page. His post has been up there for a couple of hours.

[RagingInMiami]

4. I sent him the following e-mail

You would think that after writing a column for two years, you could manage it without having to fill it with random quotes and movie analogies that fail to drive your point across.
But then again, I wouldn't be surprised if you're another one of those representatives of the mainstream media that are actually on the Bush payroll. How many has it been now, four or five? I've lost count.
So as a member of the Democratic Underground, whom you refer to as "the enemy", I will remind you that not only more than 1,500 American troops have been killed in Iraq, but more than 160,000 Iraqi civilians as well.
That is one hell of a price to pay for the removal of a dictator who we both know was not responsible for 9/11 (where more than 3,000 American civilians were killed).
It's obvious that the only Ceausescu in a state of denial is you. So do us all a favor and take that shower cause you do stink.
By the way, thanks for the plug.

RagingInMiami
(One of more than 66,000 registered members of www.democraticunderground.com)

[imenja]

5. the point about the war not making us safer pissed me off

Like questioning the war is un-American. It just shows how intolerant of dissent they are that they feel threatened by web discussion boards.

Good letter.

[RagingInMiami]

6. I also just sent it to the newspaper's editorial board as an LTTE

I even included my real name, but I doubt they'll publish it.

[xmas74]

7. Nicely done!

I have thought about doing the same thing. I have relatives in the Chicago area and I plan to pass this on to them-maybe they to will write a LTTE.

[Kellanved]

8. Can't they afford a columnists who went to college?

This almost looks like satire.

I've been writing this column now for precisely two years. It happened rather by accident. In February 2003, I was angered by the frenzied, irrational opposition to a possible war in Iraq from those on the Angry Left.

Ok, international law and falsified evidence are no good reason to protest against a war. I see.

The boss said sure, give it a shot, and my first column appeared on March 2, 2003. I said today's pacifists are still brainwashed by the lessons of Dr. Spock, who taught Baby Boomers in the 1960s that violence is never the answer. Kids bullied on the playground are not allowed to hit back. Likewise, when bullied, America is not allowed to hit back either.

Wait a moment. Two paragraphs ago it was the "angry" left. And he might want to read the new Testament - just as a reminder that we are talking about the policy of a self-proclaimed Christian President.

Now I know different. Now I look back at a few of my early paragraphs in embarrassment. Now I'm leaning toward the "Tuco" approach. I refer to the 1967 Clint Eastwood movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."

Actually that was in the 1966 Sergio Leone Movie "Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo".

Another shortcoming is that I've failed to make it clear that I really do recognize that not all liberals are nitwits. Some are. Too many of 'em. But others are decent Americans who just happen to disagree with the way George Bush gets things done.

Name a single thing he got done.

There's no shortage of the newly honest liberal nowadays. You can hardly open a newspaper or magazine without reading some fervid Bush opponent painfully acknowledging that hey, maybe the president wasn't so wrong about the Middle East after all.

Sure. That's because being a journalist always means being a liberal. :eyes:

One such Ceausescu is Robert Fisk, a British journalist who has made a living out of hating America and Israel. In Lebanon, he says, "democracy, if it comes, will be drenched in blood."

Wow. a comparison to a dictator. How original.

But, as Sun Tzu, the famous ancient Chinese general, wrote, a fundamental rule of war is know your enemy. So let me tell you some of the things they say at DU.

Huh? Where does that come from? The connection to DU is really a display of l33t writing skills.

Bush is certainly doing so. It's one of the things that have allowed him to change the world. Soon he will be remembered along with FDR and Reagan.

Remembering him would be fine by me. Let's hope we'll to remembering instead of seeing him in inaction ASAP.

[tigereye]

18. nice breakdown there, K!

n/t

[RetroLounge]

9. Well, he's right about one thing...

"Make stupidity work for you. Bush is certainly doing so."

RL

[DelawareValleyDem]

10. Congrats to the three posters who were mentioned by name

if you're pissing off the freepers that much, you must be doing something right.

[tanyev]

11. Oh, snap!

There's a michaelbowers that posts at Free Republic. Think it's the same guy?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?name=Michael+Bowers

[warrens]

14. Nope, he lives in CT

He's just as much of an idiot, though.

[warrens]

12. Anyone who calls himself an iconoclast

Isn't one.

I doubt he even knows the meaning of the word, which is about par for bushbots.

[Padraig18]

13. That's a RW suburban rag.

Mst people in the Chicago area use it for wrapping fish or lining bird cages.

[warrens]

15. I live in Chicago

Never heard of it. Must be one of those weekly shopper things, with ads for used furniture and free puppies.

[liberalitch]

19. FREE THE PUPPIES!!!!!

oh, sorry... I got carried away

[Padraig18]

21. It is. n/t

[flvegan]

16. Bowers is nothing more than a Freeper with a pen.

Read some of the other shit he's "written" and you'll see.

[liberalitch]

20. I didn't think they were "tool users"

[Bunny]

24. Do they have opposing thumbs?

;)

[CanuckAmok]

17. LOL:

"Make stupidity work for you.

Bush is certainly doing so."


I love that RW "he may be a complete moron, but he's our complete moron" attitude!

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

22. That ain't no Chicago newspaper

And he ain't no Chicago columnist. He's the layout editor of the suburban chain that prints his tripe.

Eric Zorn, a real columnist at the Chicago Tribune, has written approvingly of DU and Walt Starr.

[HEyHEY]

25. Yeah, "layout editor" is code for

"Not good enough to write or build ads"

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

28. I figure he's somebody's nephew too

Why else does the layout guy get to do commentary?

[warrens]

34. It means "paste-up guy"...oh, and I got a response

Suddenly he never said Iraq was free, just that it is taking baby steps. I sent back a note asking if he is referring to those little baby truck bombs. No answer.

I also asked him why he was quoting a liberal like Frank Zappa, who was referring to HIM with those comments.

[Bunny]

23. I'm so banal, I can't get quoted in a so-called Chicago paper.

Sigh.

[imenja]

26. It's probably your screen name

Bunny doesn't sound seditious enough.

[Bunny]

27. Good point. Maybe I should change it to:

Bunny the Liberal Bush Hater? That would probably do it!

[imenja]

32. or Bun Laden/ Bunny Laden

that would really get them going. They'd probably use the patriot act against you.

[Bunny]

33. OMG! That's fabulous!

Bunny bin Laden? I love it!

[derby378]

29. Well, I'm insulted

They didn't quote me even ONCE! "Fair and balanced," my eye...

[The Revolution]

30. "Soon he will be remembered along with FDR and Reagan"

:puke:

Why do these people hate FDR so much? Why do they think he deserves to be grouped with the likes of Reagan and W?

[shesemsmom]

31. Must have been a slow news day

lol

[Dastard Stepchild]

35. Oh please...a Chicago Heights paper...

That's not a paper, that's a rag. :)
Course, I feel the same about the Trib and the Sun-Times. Thank heavens for the Chicago Reader.