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- Written by: Rita Cormulley
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Sometimes, ash responds to more than one letter at once, even when they addressed entirely separate issues. It's not easy, but with practice, it can be done seamlessly, as demonstrated below:
• Krugman’s continual ranting is tiresome
I am both amazed and appalled at the opinion column Monday from Paul Krugman, columnist for The New York Times. He spent his entire three columns bashing President Bush on the past year’s events. You’d think that our country has gone to hell in a handbasket!
It must be awful to be such a conservative hater that one’s eyes only see the bad. I might add that the bad that Krugman noted about President Bush was somewhere between half-truths and lies and innuendo, with just enough truth to keep him from being treasonous. I’m also assuming that his only reading and research comes from Molly Ivins and Howard Dean. They certainly appear to have the same 100 percent liberal bias and blinders on that Krugman has.
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The following weaves several story lines together, beginning with one of narrow obscurity, extending into a briefly celebrated case, and concluding with a seemingly unrelated larger point. Or is it?
Maureen Dowd wrote a lovely eulogy to a Washington columnist I never heard of. She can be quite serious when she wants to be. It was his honesty which fed his essential goodness, she asserted. Which she proceeded to compare to the dishonesty of the latest novelist caught in a fraud.
This one is of particular note because it involves Oprah Winfrey, a woman so famous,successful, beloved that she influences millions to commit to causes, to books.
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ash knows just enough about Psychology to appreciate the truth of the adage "a little bit is a dangerous thing." Nevertheless, what harm is caused by having fun with people who are familiar with that other adage "public figures are fair game"?
George Bush, the formerly empty vessel, is a dunce. Dick Cheney is a war-monger. Tom DeLay is a power-monger. Bill Clinton is a narcissist. Hillary Clinton is disingenuous. Bill Frist is an opportunist. Denny Hastert is the literal turned figurative sports coach. George Bush “the Elder” is insulated by the family name. Barbara Bush is Marie Antoinette reincarnated. Richard Nixon was a clinical paranoid. G. Gordon Liddy is a thug. Donald Rumsfeld is a buffoon. Colin Powell is too loyal. Dick Durbin is too timid. Katherine Harris, the Cruella Deville of Florida, is an exhibitionist.
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Ted Rall, a proud, devout liberal, is one of ash's favorite columnists. Here is her appraisal of an article he wrote illustrating a case in point of conservatives not arguing not issues but using diversionary tactics, specifically, whether universities trend left (mais bien sur!) reference
Hi, Ted. I’m delighted you chose the conservative attempt to overtake all facets of society to address this week. Not only is it a blatant and insidious effort to control the last liberal bastion of the American culture, it is dishonestly disguised as an innocent project to vent one of their pet complaints.