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3.19.07 @ 12:01AM

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Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Picture This:

How utterly delicious -- the photograph of RET and quarry in "Picture This." On the right a handsome tanned gent looking ten years less than his unstated age, celebrates with a frumpy old one on the left, who looks 10 years older than that on his birthday announcement. Surely, once the most powerful earthly man knows that Mr. Tyrrell is almost singularly responsible for cooking his goose and serving it up ala peche to the Congress, that impeached him. Let bygones be bygones -- how peachy.
-- Robert S. Hattner, MD

That "photograph" of AmSpec's estimable editor and der Schlickmeister "posing" together is just about the funniest thing I've seen since Britney's upskirt oopsie a few months ago. The idea that the nasty clown would even be seen in the same room as Mr. Tyrrell is as laughable as seeing Henry Waxman chair a congressional committee. Keep up the good work. Nothing like a good laugh, especially at Boy Clinton's expense. The old satyr deserves every ounce of disrespect he gets, and then some.
-- Peter R. McGrath
Winter Park, Florida

In the relaxed atmosphere of a private birthday party for an aging ex-President, Mr. Tyrrell may have felt the kind feelings of a magnanimous conservative, but the apparent warmth of friendship from such as William Jefferson Clinton would make me as comfortable as cuddling next to a tiger on a cold night, especially if Clinton's lovely wife Bruno ascends to the throne. I almost fear an IRS audit, if you print my name and our next president is Hillary Rodham Clinton. Bill Clinton's IRS audited TAS.
-- David Shoup
Grovetown, Georgia

You are a total nut... I would prefer to have a president that was a womanizer than what you want: a president that has taken part in the killing of thousands of young men to help his pocket book. How can you feel the way you do? You surely will go to hell when you depart us!
-- K. Brant

I should be named Cassandra. The stuff about Bill fooling around isn't going to hurt at all. The Clintons are going to have a highly public dust-up. They will separate, maybe even divorce, BUT Bill will of course campaign for her, not because of any personal relationship but because she is so clearly the "best person for the job." The thirty percent of women that aren't going to vote for her anyway will certainly vote for her after that.

Later, we will have a White House wedding with coverage that will make you think Elvis and Princess Di came back to life and got hitched.
-- unsigned

Not to put too fine a point on it but Mrs. Clinton was referring the jamming of N.H. phone lines that resulted in a conviction. The last thing thinking conservatives should do is give these people ammunition by behaving in as corrupt a fashion as "progressives" do.
-- Rick Peterson
Duxbury, Massachusetts

How you can continue to write tripe against the Clintons and ignore the most corrupt government the U.S. has ever had. So much material, so few rational brains.

Ben, I adored your column in Los Angeles about 1980. What laughs I had. It's sad to think it's come to this.
-- Kate Wagar
Minnesota

HOMEFRONTING
Re: William Tucker's Patrolling Tikrit:

I was critical of Mr. Tucker's last piece "Prisoner of War." Today's dispatch is better.

Reports from the front by embedded journalists are important. I believe that part of the problem with declining support for the war in the U.S. is that many Americans hardly know a war is going on. We are so comfortable in our lives, so wealthy in almost every respect, so protected from the dangers of the rest of the world, that the Iraq war seems like just another political fight between Republicans and Democrats. Did Libby lie to a grand jury? Should Howard Dean talk to foreign governments? Should we pull our troops out of Iraq? Many Americans seem to think the answers to these questions, whatever the answers might be, will make no difference in their lives. And with respect to the first two questions, I agree. The third question is different. The third question is in a different league. The third question has direct implications for the safety of Americans at home and abroad and long-term consequences for American national interests.

Informed, factual, sober, non-biased reports from Iraq can help change the dynamic I just described. As Americans understand the nature of the enemy we face, the dedication and bravery of the men and women in our all-volunteer military, and the implications of American withdrawal from the global struggle against Islamofascism, I believe the collective will to prevail in the struggle will improve. We cannot count on MSM outlets to bring this type of reporting to Americans. The decision by The American Spectator and other "New Media" outlets to support reporting of this type and bring it to the public is a good one.

I must reiterate that the quality of the reporting in this instance is critically important. The American public needs facts, not journalistic opinion -- we get plenty of that. Report it straight. Good and bad. Tell the truth.
-- Doug Santo
Pasadena, California

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