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dave123williams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 11:44 AM
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Here's my letter to Michael Gerson of the Washington Post today...
Edited on Wed Jun-18-08 11:54 AM by dave123williams
Here's what he wrote about Al Franken:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702006.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Here's my letter directly to him:

from Dave Williams <dave@xxxx.com>
to michaelgerson@xxx.org
date Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:30 AM
subject Your Franken Article.


Michael,

Franken's 'too vulgar' to be in the Senate? Really.

You're afraid he might sully his high office by walking on to the senate floor and telling another senior elected official to 'go fuck himself', as did the Vice President?

Maybe you're afraid he'll shoot someone in the face and then cover it up for three days.

Perhaps he'll gin up intelligence to start a war (man's ultimate vulgarity) of choice that results in a million dead civilians, four million refugees, and costs this nation a couple of trillion dollars...that we're borrowing from the Chinese.

Maybe he'll reveal the secret identity of one of our spies for nothing more than political payback, to suppress dissent in a country where free speech is the rule of law.

You're writing as if neoconservatives, are due some kind of respect.

Respect, sir, is an earned thing. It doesn't naturally flow to the party of Larry Craig, Jack Abramoff, David Vitter and Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush.

They, like you, have richly earned contemptuous mockery.

You see, with zero credibility, you don't get respect.

Aren't you the fellow that said a 'looming mushroom cloud' was our causus belli, even though everybody knew the Iraqis didn't actually have WMD's? Aren't you the guy that provided the foundation of false, jingoistic rhetoric to take us to a bloody, useless, and expensive war?

For the record; Rove is worse than 'human filth'. Human filth, you see, doesn't think political victory at any cost, at the expense of the nation's health and reputation is acceptable. It just kind of sits there, stinking. That's the end of it's capacity to wreck the world. Rove is more advanced than filth. He's filth with the capacity to slither.

Fleisher would have to study ethics for seven years straight to achieve 'monkey' status. Monkeys generally aren't professional cyphers.

In closing, do us all a favor and remove your mouth from Fred Hiatt's pecker. It'll be easier, that way, for you to type your next load of specious crap.

Your cry for 'civility' is hilarious; you fuckers have been questioning our patriotism for going on seven years now. Anybody who opposed your catastrophic boondoggle was labeled as 'weak' or a 'dirty hippie' or 'un-American'.

Well, the nation can finally and clearly see who's been working against the interests of our Country, asshole.

Enjoy your time in the desert, fuckwit. You're going to lose more of the Senate, more of the House, and we're going to have a President Barack Obama. Oh, and a Senator Franken, too.

That's how bad you people have fucked things up. That's how incompetent you're perceived as being - we're going to have a Senator Franken!

And the best part is that there's nothing you can do about it, except whine like a little bitch, as you have in your column today.

Yours in vulgarity,

Dave Williams
Santa Monica, CA
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pennylane100 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 11:51 AM
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1. Wow! What a great letter,
let us know if you get a reply.
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dave123williams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 12:01 PM
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6. :) - will do.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 11:51 AM
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2. Loved your letter-thanks for writing it! nt
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 11:52 AM
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3. Nice
:thumbsup:
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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 11:54 AM
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4. Damn! I wish I could write like that! Well done!
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 11:57 AM
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5. excellently done n/t
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Polly Hennessey Donating Member (274 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 12:03 PM
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7. Wow,
what a great letter. Please let us know if you receive a reply and let us read more of your stuff.
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petersjo02 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 12:07 PM
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8. Might have been worth mentioning the presidential
candidate who called his wife a c__t in front of supporters and reporters.
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dave123williams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 12:10 PM
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9. I thought of that, but it was more about civility in public discourse than a guy...

...being cruel to his wife.
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 12:13 PM
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10. great, seething letter. too bad about the f-words, though.
Edited on Wed Jun-18-08 12:13 PM by Gabi Hayes
it might get printed if you tone it down and sent it to the editors....

Gerson is one of the very worst, because their only strength is marketing, and monsters like him and Frank Luntz are at the core of their success in fooling the inattentive news consumer, who exists on a diet of scandal, fear, and delusional acquisitiveness
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dave123williams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 12:15 PM
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11. Yep. That wasn't meant for publication, more of a personal excoriation...

Perhaps I'll brush it up and submit it as an LTTE.

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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 05:29 PM
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13. please do. That smarmy prick needs to be taken to task. make sure
you mention the Post's horrible sense of judgment in hiring two bit PR hacks like Gerson, out of all the other 'columnists' from whom they have to choose

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dave123williams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 11:03 PM
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14. Luntz, right - the guy who thought discrediting global warming science was a good idea.

I'm familiar with the soulless cad. How to use language to get your way, even if it fucks the world. That's his thesis, right?
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 11:05 PM
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15. ''Words that Work''
for fascists
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 12:30 PM
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12. Great Letter!! Recommended!
:thumbsup:
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gulfcoastliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 11:33 PM
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16. Well done sir. K&R nt
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