Comments on: New letter of the week… this one is hard to believe…. http://www.ibabuzz.com/outtakes/2009/04/02/new-letter-of-the-week-this-one-is-hard-to-believe/ Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:32:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: James http://www.ibabuzz.com/outtakes/2009/04/02/new-letter-of-the-week-this-one-is-hard-to-believe/comment-page-1/#comment-296 James Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:16:34 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/outtakes/?p=1027#comment-296 Calling someone’s opinion Shameful is a very Bushy (president) way of completely sidestepping the issues raised. There is nothing shameful about saying what you mean to say. We may not agree, but to use a word like ‘Shame’ is to condescend. It communicates that he is thinking in a way that he shouldn’t. Now who are you to decide that? Moral high-grounds are only good for sniping.

I’m not really into the Right-wing, Left-wing thing.. but I do notice quite a bit of Arrogance in the press. Which is why the masses have turned away from the traditional sources of news and information and have turned to the Internet. Newspapers are dying for a reason. It’s time for the press to stop talking down to their readers and to start respectfully engaging them instead.

btw: The funny part is: Telling someone their opinion is Not Shameful is equally condescending because it communicates that his thinking is OK; which you can only know if you stand on the same Moral High Grounds as the one who said it was shameful. Now your shameful use of the word shameful has turned me into a hypocrite. ;-)

]]> By: James http://www.ibabuzz.com/outtakes/2009/04/02/new-letter-of-the-week-this-one-is-hard-to-believe/comment-page-1/#comment-295 James Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:37:51 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/outtakes/?p=1027#comment-295 Anderson has no respect for his own life, so why should anyone else? Sounds a bit cold but it’s the truth. He put himself in harms way to satisfy his own ego; so he could say, “I was there”. Well, he was there and he got, not what he deserved, but what he wanted.

There was a line in Mel Gibson’s film Braveheart where the father of the soon to be King of Scotland, Robert the Bruce, asks his son “..how does it help us to join the side that is slaughtered? “.

How did it help Anderson or the world? What has changed because of Anderson’s egotistical self-serving self-sacrifice? Absolutely Nothing. He just wasted his life.

]]> By: OakFan http://www.ibabuzz.com/outtakes/2009/04/02/new-letter-of-the-week-this-one-is-hard-to-believe/comment-page-1/#comment-293 OakFan Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:30:26 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/outtakes/?p=1027#comment-293 Kristin, I agree with you that Robert went too far in appearing to be glad Anderson got hurt. But I also agree with Robert that Anderson put himself in harm’s way once too often. You start to sound like the bleeding-heart liberal you say you aren’t when you focus on how ‘mean’ and ‘shameful’ his comments were, but ignore a key point – how does Anderson manage to travel the world to agitate for his leftist causes? He cost the University of California (meaning all of us) a lot of money by sitting in a tree for the dumbest of reasons. On a personal level, I’m sorry he got hurt, but I can’t summon a great deal of sympathy when it’s clear he made it his business to look for trouble.

]]> By: Dave C. http://www.ibabuzz.com/outtakes/2009/04/02/new-letter-of-the-week-this-one-is-hard-to-believe/comment-page-1/#comment-294 Dave C. Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:14:24 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/outtakes/?p=1027#comment-294 The Israel/Palestine issue tends to arouse these sorts of passions, don’t you think? Almost any discussion of the subject will quickly deteriorate into venom and vitriol from one side or the other, and often both. I’ll bet that if you covered issues regarding the middle east on a regular basis, this letter wouldn’t surprise you at all!

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