geode00: folks are starting to write to The Washington Post...this is from Brad Blog...
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COMMENT #32 [link]
...Shelly said on 6/17/2005 @ 2:42pm PT...
I an furious that the Washington Post would print such insulting crap. Here is my letter to Milbank:
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To Mr. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post,
I'm a middle-aged adult American citizen. I remember Watergate. I remember the Iran Contra hearings. I remember the impeachment of a president for lying about sex. I remember how the media drooled and frothed at the mouth when waiting for each new sexual tidbit about a presidential affair.
I watched the events unfold on 9/11 with horror. I then watched our country go to war with a country unrelated to 9/11 with even more horror. I saw Congress lay down and play dead as the president of this country forced his fake war "intelligence" on them and then went to war based on made-up bullshit. I saw the media do nothing. I watched the press ignore it all as some of our civil rights were taken away from us and we got involved in an insane, illegal, and insanely expensive war with a country that was no threat to us.
I'm enraged that you, Mr. Dana Milbank would call yourself a journalist and get away with writing erroneous malarkey like you wrote yesterday ("Democrats Play House to Rally Against the War," ) about the Democratic hearings on the Downing Street memo. Your article didn't pay homage to your teachers in high school, your parents, your family or your fellow American citizens. You failed in your duty and you should be ashamed and your teachers and parents should be ashamed.
These were serious hearings about a very serious matter, and you obviously don't get that. There are millions of Americans who feel that getting to the bottom of why the war started is the most important news today. It directly affects the lives of each and every American. It affects our rights, our economy, our very futures. It may very well lead to the impeachment of a president for high crimes.
I can't think of a "higher crime" than leading a nation into war based on lies, and lying to Congress to accomplish that, can you?
We got into this idiotic, illegal war in Iraq in the first place because journalists laid down and played DEAD. You're still doing it! In fact, you're complicit in all of this. You're completely abrogating your DUTY to report the news in a fair and informative matter. I now must assume that the whole of the Washington Post, like your article, will be all stinking, biased BS.
Report the news or admit you're not a journalist. Call yourself an "entertainer" like Rush Limbaugh does.
You're now among those I consider "in on it." So is the Washington Post as a whole.
Sincerely,
[my sig.]
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...kmsor said on 6/17/2005 @ 4:57pm PT...
My letter to the Washington Post:
To Messrs. Abramowitz, Getler, and Milbank:
I am writing to express my profound disappointment with your paper's coverage of the hearing conducted by Congressman Conyers yesterday on the Downing Street Memo and its implications. Dana Milbanks exercise in creative writing, it could scarcely be called journalism or reporting, should have been printed under a banner of "Opinion," or perhaps on the funny pages. Your paper has virtually ignored the issues raised by the very troubling information contained in the Downing Street Memo and related documents. While I will not jump to any conclusions about the reasons for your avoidance of this topic it does lead many of your better informed readers to become concerned about the lack of coverage and to speculate about the reasons your editors and owners have not pursued this very serious issue.
What an irony that just as we learn of the identity of "Deep Throat" and are reminded of the great service your paper rendered to our nation during "Watergate" we are simultneously reminded of the depths to which your paper has fallen.
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COMMENT #43 [link]
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...Arry said on 6/17/2005 @ 5:04pm PT...
Here's mine:
Dear Sirs,
Mr. Milbank's absurd and demeaning article "Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War" about the June 16th Conyers hearings was a new low point in the evaporating credibility of the Washington Post.
We would expect something of the sort from a low-level courtier of power who hasn't a clue about journalistic standards and whose sole purpose is to ingratiate himself into the current regime or his Beltway bosses. By printing such sloppy, nonfactual, absurdly slanted, sycophantic, sneering drivel, the Washington Post has abdicated any kind of pretense of journalistic standards worthy of a 'major newspaper".
If Mr. Milbank believes that the Conyers hearings were a game and that clear evidence of misleading Congress and the public about the reasons for going to war resulting in the deaths of more than 1700 Americans is unworthy of congressional investigation and testimony or serious journalistic interest, then we - millions of concerned Americans - will certainly consider Mr. Milbank and the Washington Post unworthy of consideration and get our journalism from the hands of those do who take it seriously.
There is dangerous abuse of power in our nation, and it is clear that the Washington Post is a participant in it.
Nevertheless, I hope you will have the minimal decency to publish Rep. Conyers letter to the Post dated June 17 in reply to Mr. Milbank's childish essay.
Sincerely,
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COMMENT #50 [link]
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...Citizen A said on 6/17/2005 @ 5:56pm PT...
Dear Mr. Milbank,
To even quantify the term "journalist" with the likes of you is a direct slap in the face to every newsman that has faced the adversity of war on the battle lines.
I qualify that by being a former Decorated U.S. Navy Photographer. I know what it is like be carrying a camera, while everyone else is carrying a gun.
Your recent condescending, factually incorrect article on the Downing Street Memo hearings chaired by the honorable Congressman Conyers, and many other distinguished Members of the House, is an affront to what the WaPo used to stand for.
Take a look at the Pulitzer Prizes decorating the walls, look at the distinguished names, the likes of which you will never be spoken with in the same breath.
It pains me to have to comment on your neo-con controlled spin of the serious historic hearings yesterday. Your article was so fraught with inaccuracies that I could write a Gettysburg Address sized rebuttal. It would be fruitless however, because I doubt any one there that proof reads this drivel has more than an eighth grade education, hence I presume you receive some sort of paycheck for your irrelevant ramblings in print.
I'll bet you get all the "Skittles" you can eat.
You sir are a complete waste of time. Your articles aren't worthy of wrapping fish, let alone the lining of a cat box.
You are a disgrace to the profession of journalism. You should get a broom and a shovel with a tall set of boots to clean out your office of the fecal matter you write and pass off as a news story.
And continue to sweep it down the street to the nearest landfill, where it can be disposed of as hazardous waste.
Citizen A
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COMMENT #65 [link]
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...QUALAR said on 6/17/2005 @ 9:28pm PT...
Dear Mr. Abramowitz:
I just completed reading an article concerning Representative Conyers’ informal hearing to determine whether the President committed impeachable offenses against our Constitution. Apparently, your reporter was not in attendance, because his report did not vaguely resemble what transpired. Also, it’s an insult to the American people to label this meeting as an antiwar gathering in an attempt to detract from its significance. It is the first step towards restoring dignity and honor to the White House. Sound familiar? Bush’s promise in 2000 - what a joke.
I can’t explain how angry I am that this guy claims to be a journalist. I was appalled the way he degraded the people in attendance especially Mrs. Sheehan. I doubt if your reporter knows the meanings of patriotic or honor since he appears to lack both traits.
Someone should start monitoring this guy’s work and insist that he report the facts - not make them up. If not, you paper is nothing more than toilet paper. I am fed up with the lies from this administration and the media cover-ups. BRING BACK BRADLEE!!!
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COMMENT #67 [link]
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...Peg C said on 6/17/2005 @ 10:00pm PT...
Here's mine. I'm so revolted and furious I don't know what I might do if confronted with the worm that is Dana Milbank, a frequent (and wriggly) CNN political pundit.
To ___:
This outrageous travesty of a "report" on Congressman Conyer's hearing to address the implications of the Downing Street Minutes deserves nothing less than the condemnation and contempt of the American public. Such denigration of honesty and integrity on the part of serious, honorable public officials is disgraceful. This hearing, far from being the clownish show you have portrayed, was the truest, most honest display of democracy I have witnessed in this country for too many long years.
Mr. Milbank, you have eradicated any vestige of respect intelligent readers might have retained for The Washington Post.
Very sincerely,
Sent to every Post address I could find. |
