Comments on Sane Letter of the Day

a fancher article tedious? who knew?

How's it goin Josh? We're almost wrapped up here; there isn't a classic rock celebration of November, is there?

Alright to business: the link of your article (...THE ONE I MADE) concludes with my favorite quote of yours, "Unfortunately, they failed to tell readers what 'most of it' is."

Isn't it actually "Fortunately"? I mean, how else could you feel proud of your dilligent reporting if they didn't provide such "outlandish" convictions?

No, I'm not Your definition of sane.

Vesely never once mentions the Estate Tax in his commentary, which is the other criticism that has been made about these endorsements.

So the Seattle Times Editorial Board agrees with Maria Cantwell on almost all the issues and praises her job performance, but they endorse Mike McGavick, without any justifications, based on their "gut."

It's sad that politicians and the media today have been reduced to open, shameless lying. What a disgrace.

Jim Demetre certainly had a much more adult response to the article than I did; I read that "boil and simmer" bullshit, and Fancher's article, then threw the paper down screaming, "What a load of horseshit!" I then went and started a fire in my woodstove with that section.

I wish the Times would quit whining and snarking about how people are picking on them for their poorly-justified and poorly-thought-out endorsements and just have the courage of their convictions. They need to stand up straight and tall and say, "We can't see anything of any particular value in Mike!, but he's anti-estate tax, so Frank told us we had to endorse him, and you all can just shut up about it."

I cc'd Mr. Feit because Mr. Vesely is too hen-hearted to answer his questions on the phone or address his charges directly on the pages of the Seattle Times. By choosing to disparage the "checklist" method of making endorsement decisions -- a not-so-veiled reference to Mr. Feit's sound, Aristotealian approach -- without explaining his own decision-making process, Vesely reveals not only his foolishness, but also his cowardice.