Letters to the editor re Dean in Dallas Morning News.

[madfloridian]

These are apparently in response to editorials about him by Kristof and Krauthammer. There is an especially delicious one at the end about Krauthammer. And this is Dallas....go for it, Dallas.!

http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/letters/stories/121403dnedideansundayletters.5f20a.html
This guy says it well about Dean as a Bush opponent.
SNIP..."Mr. Kristof has a curious position: He seems to be saying that although Howard Dean is right to be opposing the war, Democrats should nominate somebody who favored the war so he could get elected. He also seems to think the Democrats must nominate a Southerner, even though Republicans win almost all of the South anyway.

Further, he cites a poll that shows George W. Bush beating Dr. Dean, 52-41. But relatively few people outside the Democratic base know much about Howard Dean. Assuming he gets the nomination, he will get great media exposure, debate the president and the outcome could be a different story.

And this hilarious mention of Krauthammer:
SNIP.."Dr. K proceeds to identify Dr. Dean as having "no detectable sense of humor," then alters a transcript of MSNBC Hardball by deleting "laughter" annotations, so that he can claim that humorous banter initiated by Chris Mathews was a serious comment on breaking up a news network.

The public is clearly safer with Dr. Krauthammer as a right-wing columnist, but I would suggest to him that he dig out a copy of DSM-lV and read up on "narcissistic personality disorder." This may be a case of psychiatrist, diagnose yourself.

[dodger501]

1. We got one here, too

Minnesota's own Tamara Baker, of APJ, nailed a couple of local wingnuts who wrote a long commentary on Dean being a nutcase, etc., etc.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/563/4288421.html

It's the second from the bottom:

What they forgot


Scott W. Johnson and John H. Hinderaker, in their Dec. 21 Op Ex column, repeat an anti-Howard Dean slur originated by the Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer.

What they may not realize is that Krauthammer did selective -- and deceptive -- editing of what Dean said.

Anyone who has heard the radio show in question knows that Dean was not espousing any theories, but stating that, in the absence of real information, theories inevitably spring up, and that the Bush people are hurting themselves by not allowing the Kean Commission access to the information needed to clear the air.

[janx]

3. I should pay more attention to my local paper.

And we should all act in Dean's defense when these vile purveyors of of so-called journalism--called columnists--raise their ugly heads.

[liberalhistorian]

2. LOL!

I love the dig at that pompous ignorant macho windbag Krauthammer!

[candy331]

4. Tallahassee Democrat

had 2 letters today to the editor favorable to Dr Dean . I loved their responses and just wonder how many letters are going out daily to the many hundreds of newspapers in support or correcting misconceptions and some outright lies?

[madfloridian]

5. Found them. Good ones.

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/editorial/letters/7566545.htm

SNIPS:
.."I pray daily for our soilders to finish their work and come home safely - and I agree with Dr. Dean that they never should have been sent there. We had Saddam surrounded with inspectors on the ground. He was in no position to move. Now we are up to our ears in Iraq and losing young Americans daily.

Life is scary, and it should not be this way...."
(To that I say Amen....it should not be that way.)

And part of another:
.."A democracy should weigh all voices to seek the best actions, so I welcomed an honest discussion of the ideas Dean advanced. But instead, we have had a pack-mentality obsession over a single sentence uttered by Dean and more than one piece like Miller's, all of which have lowered the political debate to the level of picking nits.

I find Dean personable, passionately optimistic and courageously honest. Miller is certainly entitled to disagree, but I find great sorrow for my country when the Fourth Estate, an essential part of a living and breathing democracy, fails us so.

I do agree with that pack-mentality phrase. And our media has totally failed us.