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8.16.04 @ 12:01AM

THE AGONY OF DEFEAT
Re: The Washington Prowler's Making It Look Big Easy:

The Republicans should get along very well with Rodney Alexander. He is obviously a man without honor. He will fit right in with the Tom DeLay crowd.
-- Bob Derry

END OF THE AFFAIR
Re: Lawrence Henry's McGreevey Update:

Thanks for the excellent and tightly written "Another Perspective" by Lawrence Henry. Yet another perspective is "Hooray for him!"

Bill Clinton showed us that having affairs with government employees was fine, as long as you don't lie under oath about it. McGreevey confessing with Dari by his side was a better piece of performance art than the Clintons' version of the same passion play. Since McGreevey's affair was a same sex union upstages the Clintons again.

I am amazed at the astuteness of McGreevey for shrewdly playing for public sympathy and popular opinion while becoming the quintessential Democrat politician. All of this should play wonderful for McGreevey, placing him after Hillary at the top of the list of Democrat presidential candidates. After McGreevey, his wife Dari should run.
-- Newt Love
Annapolis, Maryland

We're still missing the point on McGreevey. The man is under investigation for major felonies. He's may be indicted by a federal grand jury. This is one of the worst cases of political corruption in American history...

The guv is trying to hide behind his gayness, but it's not a "coming-out-of-the-closet" story.

It's a story of a governor endangering the citizens of an entire state by appointing an unqualified person to be head of homeland security, which person turns out to be his gay sex partner. In addition, it's a story of sexual harassment, by offering a taxpayer-financed job for sex, and obstruction of justice by offering jobs and money for silence.

If New Jersey allows this character to avoid a special election by remaining in office until Nov. 15th, the state will need to apologize to Tony Soprano.
-- G. Ferguson

BIAS-FREE
Re: Patrick Hynes's Book-of-the-Month:

I agree that Unfit for Command is an important book. I hope it becomes a best-seller. But, the Book of the Month Club (BOMC) shouldn't be faulted for political bias.

BOMC publishes books on all political sides. E.g., they have published Ann Coulter. They're currently putting a big push behind Tommy Franks's book. They were unable to use Unfit for Command because its publisher, Regnery, works on an unusually rapid time schedule. BOMC didn't know about Unfit for Command.
-- David Skurnick
Montville, New Jersey

MEDIA INSURED
Re: Lawrence Henry's Lies, Damn Lies, and Media Bias:

I often wonder how long the media could exist if they tried to operate an insurance company. Their laxness with the truth would soon bankrupt the company. Would they end age discrimination by selling cheap policies to older people? I doubt if anyone with an SUV could buy insurance since SUVs seem to be having the most spectacular accidents. Would they even sell insurance to pregnant women since they are alleged to be such bad risks? Our economic system discards poorly operated companies that do not at least conform nominally with reality. The government, however, if infested with frivolous views of reality, can stay on tax payer life support almost indefinitely, as did the Soviet Union.
-- Danny L. Newton
Cookeville, Tennessee

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