[email protected]

[BurtWorm]

And don't hold back! :evilgrin:

Actually, maybe you should count to ten reread it, rewrite it, and then hit send. :blush:

[Triana]

1. thank you

:evilgrin:
:evilgrin::evilgrin::evilgrin:

[Beetwasher]

2. Hasn't Milbank Done Some Decent Reporting In The Past? WTF Happened?

I seem to remember reading some decent pieces from Milbank. It's like he (she?) all of a sudden turned rabid. I mean that piece is as vicious a hit piece disguised as news as I've seen in the Post.

[BurtWorm]

4. He

was in hot water with the WH for being such a friggin' snark. He's in the MoDowd school of yuppie cynicism. He was awful during the Lewinsky crap. Pathetic during 2000. As were they all.

[autorank]

43. I'll tell you why but you give me the link. I love bashing the Post.

I saw Milbank interviewed by Keith about the Jeff Gannon affair. He looked dyspeptic in general, Milbank, but when Kieth asked him how Gannon could have hung around without the WH Press Corp knowing who he was or his scamp, Milbank's face did a Dorian Gray fast forward, I thought skin was going to start dripping off his face. He was really rattled. Well, he didn't say any words that gave things away, but he sure looked "guilty." I think he's been "turned" and he's now on the payroll.

Besides, he's a fucking wimp like the rest of the spoiled brat, blow dried, intellectually shallow, lazy, poorly trained, mealy mouthed, solipsistic, pseudo-intellectual, parasitic, cast of "reporters" at the Washington Post and NYT. At least the Times has Krugman and Wolcott. The Post has nobody, nothing, zip, nada.

Contact the DNC and Tell Them to PREVENT Election Fraud

NEW LEADERS FOR A NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY

[kittenpants]

54. he was in Skull & Bones too.... n/t

[Melodybe]

3. I keep it simple, title "How do you sleep at night?"

Body, "You disgusting piece of fascist filth!"

Why should a waste my time on a POS like her?

[senseandsensibility]

38. It's a he!

Let's not allow such a scum into the female sex! Let the males take responsibility for him! :)

[understandinglife]

5. I began with "Could not state it better..."

Cut and pasted Congressman Conyers letter into the body of the email and concluded with a 'shame on you, shame on the WaPo' simple salutation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4173.htm


WE THE PEOPLE .... WILL NEVER FORGET

"... we sent our young people into harm's way without leveling with the American people." - Congresswoman Pelosi before Congress, 16 June 2005

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.

[Stephanie]

6. Is there an ombudsman?

Maybe best to go over his head and demand some real reporting instead of snide derision on a matter that is costing American lives every single day.

[BurtWorm]

10. [email protected]

Good question.

[senseandsensibility]

41. Please e-mail the ombudsman!

It could be even more effective than writing to Milbank!

[fishnfla]

56. Done

I done it, thanks!

[Vadem]

49. Yes! Mike Getler, Ombudsman at the Post! He is actually prettty

good! He answers email and post mail about his responses, and debates the arguments pro and con. I like him!

[neuvocat]

51. Here's what I wrote:

Why is Millbank getting paid for something that looks like the work of a borderline psychotic?

[Donailin]

39. I wrote to the ombudsman two days ago

fuckers. That article today was devastating. It marginalized this whole effort. I guess half a million voters and 122 reps dont count for shit.

[Eloriel]

7. Look, everyone, be FIRM but don't come off like a raving lunatic

You'll just get your email deleted as soon as it becomes apparent that you're going off on him.

MUCH BETTER to be polite and reasonable enough that it gets read. Please. Otherwise you're wasting your time, or at best just venting your spleen (and in a vaccum since, I'm tellin' ya, it won't get read).

Here's what Ray McGovern wrote him:

Ray McGovern to Dana Milbank

Dear Dana,

What's happened to you? You were often quite good when you were on the Post's White House beat...perceptive—occasionally even courageous—especially in exposing White House dishonesty. Is that why you were taken off that beat and assigned yesterday to trivialize the historic proceedings in the Capitol basement and Congressman Conyers' courage in convening them?

more here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/showstory.php?pn_sid=295
and excerpt above on the home page here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/

[Triana]

8. Eloriel is right...

...I guarantee you that if you rant and rave, they'll just delete the message. DO remain polite and reasonable and stick to facts without insults.

[BurtWorm]

15. I add my agreement.

Which is why I advise everyone to count to ten, reread your e-mail, and rewrite it. Make it something you'll be proud of. We can skewer him here on the board, but when writing to him as a person, remember he is a person, believe it or not.

[bigwillq]

30. Good idea!

I was polite in my letter. If anyone cares to read it, I'll post it.

[BurtWorm]

58. I care.

:hi:

[burythehatchet]

34. what have you got against lunatics?

:silly::dunce:

[Donailin]

40. but the lunacy lies in the fact

that the media, the pundits, the politicians are ignoring the fact that BUSH LIED about going to war.

WMD WMD SADAM HUSSEIN!!! 911 911! MUSHROOM CLOUD WMD! SMALLPOX! DUCT TAPE!

and what is in the news today?

Halliburton got a $30mil contract to rebuild gitmo http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-guan0618,0,7325263.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

but I'm the lunatic?????

[October]

9. Thank you.

I emailed him.

I told him the only "pretending" going on is him pretending to be a journalist.

[LiberalEsto]

35. Oooooh, I like that

"pretending to be a journalist"

just like the Post is pretending to still be a legitimate newspaper rather than a gussied-up supermarket tabloid.

[Quixote1818]

11. Tell them you are suspending your subscription

even if you don't have one. Their is no way they can check on that.

[soleft]

12. I told him his coverage read like it had been penned by Jeff Gannon

[Quixote1818]

22. Good one!

[Al-CIAda]

52. nice -n/t

[nittygritty]

13. delete

[LSK]

14. mine

"C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/memo.html

Did you find any WMD yet??

[dogday]

16. Here is what I wrote

First off, let me say, you sir, need to get out more. America is filled with personal stories of Americans who are barely able to hang onto their lives. People are suffering in this country, alot of people and you can't see it in your little cubicle filled with Republican slanted hate. The polls are showing the despair and the anger of what they feel is happening to this country and with this war and to journalist who have sold out.

If you feel as strongly as you do for the Republicans, may I suggest your local recruiter, who can help you serve the administration's need for more warm bodies to blow up.... Before you label me as a liberal, please first label me as a Mother Of a Son who is in Afghanistan. This is personal to me. I need to know if we had honor in this war or not. These boys deserve the truth, the country deserves the truth and we shall keep fighting till we expose the truth regardless of writers like you who try to push their opinion off as news. You honestly should be ashamed of yourself.



America needs Americans, not Republicans, not Democrats, but Americans who are not afraid of the truth. Tell the truth, that is all I ask of you sir, is to tell the truth....

[BurtWorm]

17. Amen, and bless you.

I don't throw blesses around. I'm an atheist. But I mean this sincerely. Well written. May it help him think.

[dogday]

19. Thanks BurtWorm

I am so personally involved with this war. I will continue to write these types of letters and hopefully one letter one day will make a difference....

[Evergreen Emerald]

23. beautifully written

[Quixote1818]

24. Wonderful Letter

[calimary]

25. Dear God what a gorgeous response! I'm so sorry to hear your son

is in Afghanistan. I hope he comes home safely, in once piece, in good, living condition, and SOON!!!!!!

It's people like you who MUST speak out. You have more credibility in your cuticles than the entire bush administration, and all its simpering media stenographers do.

God bless you for standing up. God bless your son and the people with whom he serves. May they all come home soon, too, under their own power, that is. Their lives are too precious to be squandered for the whims of some lazy, greedy, LYING, spoiled, arrogant, fatcat chickenhawk with delusions of world conquest.

[G_j]

26. done

just a short, civil note, but to the point.

[BurtWorm]

18. Mine

I'm sure you're hearing from a lot of angry readers, raking you over the coals for your mocking story about Rep. Conyers' hearing on the Downing Street Minutes. I also found your "sketch" objectionable, unfair, juvenile, unprofessional--it's difficult to settle on just the right word to describe how appalling it was. Evidently you saw your role as being that of a mocker at worst, a creative writer at best, but certainly not as a journalist.

I wonder, who you were writing this sketch for? Yourself? Your journalist friends? Or were you thinking you were informing anyone who might not have known the event was going on? Maybe you shouldn't bother reporting on the disempowered Democrats in the future if you can't hide your contempt for them from your readers. It's very unseemly to kick the out-of-power when they're down. Makes you look like a toady for the powerful. If you feel you must make fun of the form Democratic dissent takes, you can always amuse your reporter friends via e-mail. But please, spare the rest of us unless you can deal with the substance of the dissent first and foremost.

[glitch]

20. Very good. It will be interesting to see which, if any, of the great

letters I've seen here on DU the once mighty wapo prints.

They owe everyone on the planet an apology.

[calimary]

21. KICK! Milbanks is UTTERLY useless. Pitiously useless.

He's so pathetic every time I see him on Olbermann's show I just want to SCREAM!!!!

VERY clear whose hands are gripped around his scrotum, and who owns his balls.

[bigwillq]

27. Just sent my e-mail

:bounce:

[brettdale]

28. what did this person say?

What did this person say or write about?

[faithnotgreed]

46. he wrote a condescending article re: yesterdays dsm hearing

and john conyers. overtly biased "reporting"

there are several threads about this today so im sure you can find the link in most of them

take care

[bvar22]

29. I am going to print out an hardcopy of Conyers letter

I am going to print out an hardcopy of Conyers letter and add my name to the bottom,
just as I did to the Conyers letter to George Bush, and mail individual copies to:

Mr. Michael Abramowitz, National Editor

Mr. Michael Getler, Ombudsman

Mr. Dana Milbank

The Washington Post 1150 15th Street
NW Washington, D.C. 20071

Editor
Minneapolis Star Tribune

I encourage EVERYONE ELSE to send hardcopy snail mail as well as E-Mail!
It will be difficult to ignore several thousand HARDCOPY letters!
1 Million E-Mails can be deleted with the push of a single button.

[grasswire]

31. Milbank = Skull and Bones

His allegiance is sworn to the secret society, all other allegiances are lesser.

[EVDebs]

36. Hey, Woodward is another Yalie secret society member

Do they have some kinda hiring preference or sumthin ? I remember reading a thing about Mormons, Inc. from Time Magazine a few years ago and got blown away when it said the FBI and CIA have a Mormon hiring preference. I thought that kinda crap was illegal. Guess not. CIA hired Sen Robert F. Bennett (Mullen & Co source for Woodward during Watergate).

[fooj]

32. I've had just about enough from that SKULL and BONES frat boy!

:spank: I think that it is time to hold our press accountable. Why not make him our first "example" as to what the AMERICAN PUBLIC will not tolerate in the media!

peace.

[burythehatchet]

33. that article really got in your craw didn't it

me too. I'm glad Conyers smacked him down in his letter.

[bobbieinok]

37. if I send email right after being on DU, can they tell where I've been???

I think someone on DU said this some time ago

if so, easy to dismiss as leftie mass mailing

[Career Prole]

42. I was quite mild-mannered in mine, as compared to how I was seething

Mr. Milbank,

I’m sure you’ve heard it many times today, but allow me to add my voice to the chorus.
You, sir, have just completely destroyed your own credibility.

I can hardly believe my own eyes.

To repeat what I’ve heard over and over today, “Dana Milbank? Didn’t he used to be one of the good guys?”

I hope you realize that what little damage you did with your article will soon be undone as the Downing Street Minutes story grows, but the damage you’ve done to your credibility and reputation will live on and on.

[CantGetFooledAgain]

44. Good letter! (nt)

[Cocoa]

45. mine

Dear Dana,

Wow that article you wrote was terrible, as you probably realize by now.

I'm just wondering, how did you manage to get such a mistake of an article into print? That would have been rejected, for obvious reasons, from the paper I worked at in high school.

[halobeam]

47. Kick

[brettdale]

48. What I want to write

Do you think this is okay to send to him. I will wait replys.

Dear Sir

I have read your item about the Downing Street Memo, and Im suprised you think its a nonstory, the reasons Democrats think this is to be taken seriously, is below.

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[gulfcoastliberal]

50. Here's my email

Subject: Conyers Editorial
To: [email protected]

Dear Sir,

I was astonished to read the farce you penned
regarding the Conyers Downing Street Memo hearing.
Perhaps you need to take some remedial journalism
classes; unless of course you are yet another paid
propagandist on the White House payroll. Shame on you
for such shoddy "journalism". Apparently you must
think that lying about receiving oral sex is a far
more grevious crime than lying to engage in an
illegal war that has exacted an enormous toll on both
our blood and treasure, with no staunching the flow in
sight. And that's because of idiotic screeds such as
the one you penned. Have you no decency, sir?

Sincerely,

[kittenpants]

53. I opted for the sarcastic praise method. I hope to lure him in

with false flattery & then BAM, he realises his fan is either mocking him or insane!:)

Mr. Milbanks,

Thank you for your insightful piece on the Downing Street Investigation. Clearly the "long suffering" Democrats have forgotten their place in the pecking order and need to be reminded--particularly since many on the panel are such uppity Blacks. Well done in mocking their make-shift, little hearing and defending the Republicans who relegated them to the basement of the Capital building.

You are doing a true service to your country in concealing the crimes of the president. The Washington Post must be so proud.

thanks again,

[kittenpants]

55. kick--don't forget to write. .

an article that biased is clearly a cry for attention!

[libertypirate]

57. Ask him who he takes orders from.... I am serious badger the fucker

Ask him who contacts him before he goes on to fuck the american people and wipe the president's ass...

My Letter to prick...

Too many people are dead, for you to play skull and bones clubhouse with cuckoo-bananas.

Who gives you your marching orders? Do they call you directly, email, what? You can tell I am only one of those DUmmies we won’t do anything with it. Just like we did nothing with the DSM you found so “old news”; asshole. You might have become the most hated mother fucker in the news industry.

I have an idea until you come clean on the truth, maybe we should dedicate those who die in Iraq to your extending their duty. How can a person be such an asshole?

Wayne