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John the Lockpick

10.24.08 @ 6:01AM

McCain's play for PA. Tyrrell slams the media monkeys. This is getting creepy. Plus more.

GET IT ON
Re: Quin Hillyer's Picking the Lock in the Keystone State:

As a Pennsylvanian born and raised, I want to shout that Quin Hillyer's prescription for winning Pennsylvania is spot on.

C'mon John, Get it ON!
-- A. C. Santore
Pennsylvania

What is that attractive, vibrant Conservative doing in that Pennsylvania photo flanked by a Moderate and a Left Wing Liberal? Does she have any unmarried sisters?
-- David Shoup

MEDIOCRE MEDIA
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s The Shoddiest Coverage Ever:

First of all, you are making two entirely incorrect statements when you refer to today's media [so called] as the "mainstream media." Number one, they are no longer mainstream and number two, they are not media. Media implies journalism and journalistic ethics.

We have today organizations such as The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders [equipped
with pom-poms and short-shorts] as well as other cheerleader squads. What use to be called the mainstream media should now be referred to as The Illinois Senator's Cheerleaders. The only thing missing are the pom-poms and short-shorts [not that I want to see Ms. Couric in short-shorts]. I cringe at the image.

Bottom line folks, America no longer has a "mainstream" media.
-- J. Lawrence
Sandwich, Massachusetts

Has anyone at Spectator heard anything about a lawsuit in the state of Hawaii which Obama was supposed to answer to by October 22, concerning his citizenship status? (speaking of shoddy coverage) It was Martin vs. State of HI or Governor of HI. The plaintiff was seeking an order to have Obama disclose family records and citizenship documentation.

I think it's highly coincidental that he's visiting his sick grandmother this week in Hawaii. I am trying to get this to as many news venues as possible so that someone might investigate it.
-- Heather Mayfield
Albuquerque, New Mexico

CANDIDATE FATALE
Re: Christopher Orlet's Creepier and Creepier:

You won’t believe this…and I don’t blame you…but…a few days ago, as I watched a televised segment of an Obama speech, I noted the glazed-over eyes, and the "Stepford wives"-like facial expressions of the audience on the stage behind him...and I thought... this must be what Eric Hoffer was talking about way back when. I didn’t understand what he was saying when I read him then, but I surely do now.

We are in deep trouble, and may the force protect us...and as I’ve pleaded before, don’t send a relative, come Yourself!
-- Joe Holmes
Cedar Park, Texas

I suspect that for otherwise intelligent and rational people like Hitchens and Buckley, Barack Obama is the beautiful but crazy femme fatale who they know will lead them to ruin, but whom they still cannot resist. Remember the Steely Dan hit, Do It Again? "So you love the little, wild one and she brings you only sorrow. All the time you know she’s smiling, you’ll be on your knees tomorrow."
-- Anne T. Stinneford
Chicago, Illinois

IGNORED WARNINGS
Re: George Neumayr's The Unholy Triumvirate:

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Letter to the Editor View all comments (4) | Leave a comment

Robert| 10.24.08 @ 9:54AM

Heather and all concerned others, read all about it here:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78931

burt| 10.24.08 @ 9:56AM

Most Pennsylvanians are fairly conservative, but the state has been rules by voter fraud in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh for a long, long time.
Obama should carry the state fairly thanks to crooks such as "fast eddy".

Dave Smith| 10.24.08 @ 3:27PM

First, a big thank you to AS for the comment engines you use. They are easy and responsive.

BO gets traction because Americans, a forward-looking bunch, have short memories. All too often the country dabbles with a President-D and then sobers up on serious issues and elects President-R. Combine the general amnesia with already well-described BO cheerleaders disguised as journalists and reporters and you obtain the current situation. When John McCain, with SP, overcomes this he'll go down as the penultimate Comeback Kid.

Diane Smith| 10.25.08 @ 11:52AM

Thanks, Dan Martin for the nomination. I went back to see what profundity I might have stumbled upon. Sounded like the typical wing-flapping of a gadfly to me. Gadfly, for those born after dictionaries went into disuse, is either 1. an insect that bites livestock or 2. one who annoys others, esp. by rousing them from complacency. It is a point of extreme rancor with me that "volunteers' will invade nursing homes to "assist" the elderly in exercising their right to vote, when that old person has long since lost the ability to think rationally. The ones who can still marshall enough brain cells to have an independent political thought don't need some ACORN rep of chicken thief mentality to assist them. I have friends in their eighties; one or two in their nineties. Some still possess the mental acuity, if not the desire to stay informed. But time and over-medication have altered their thought processes to a point beyond what is required to judge the political intention of a candidate, the direction this country will take, should he be elected. It is a sad fact of life, that a segment of the population, once more serious, have narrowed their concerns to Social Security and Medicare. I consider it voter fraud every bit as criminal as Freddie Johnson registering 73 times. A kind of mugging of the helpless elderly.

Diane Smith