I missed these letters in the paper today, but I'm glad to see that the Post published these.  Great rebuttals.

Thanks to dmsilev for pointing this out: He's the Worst Ever about GWB.

George W's draft eligible children were celebrating their 25th birthday in Argentina.

The headlines dominating TV and newspaper coverage in Argentina involve the theft of Barbara Bush's purse, including her phone and credit cards. One tabloid headline also had the twins running naked in the hallway of their hotel, a report the hotel staff denied. Boston Herald.

Hmm... one concerned parent to another?  It looks like the Bush family's Number One concern better be to make sure "Plan B" is available Over-the-Counter soon.

To get to the LtEs, you have to click on "Feedback." For some goofy reason, the geniuses at the Post decided to give the link an unrecognizable name other than LtEs. It's here.

Who woulda thunk.

Thanks for the link.  Deborah Howell is in this grouping, and tomorrow she's analyzing whether Virginia news gets a fair shake from the Post, and she concludes it does not.  http://www.washingto...

I agree.  The Post's coverage of Virginia politics is weak. 

I complained about this problem in an RK diary last August. 

Oh well, better late than never...

You got it right; I'm surprised she acknowledged the problem, but I'm glad she did.

They really need some aggressive reporters on the Virginia beat.  I'm so tired of their passive reportage.  An event happens, and the Post's idea of coverage is to get a quote from Larry Sabato.

I am still waiting for the story listing how many Washington Post writers are sleeping with Tom Davis...

But WaPo is also weak in MD. The nutjobs endorsed Bob Ehrlich for Gov without even admitting that he used Joe Steffen (an admitted Karl Rove wanna-be) to infiltrate the Dept of Natural Resources (the state EPA) and fire Democrats.

Eleanor Clift has a different opinion than Mr. Will it would seem.

I wish Webb had brought up the twins.  Heh.

Whenever a Repubican finds a national figure that they're terrified of, they run spin jobs on them.  Clinton became one of the liberl hippies who smoked pot in college, when he was CLEARLY moderate.  Al Gore, who was an experienced leader, cared more about the environment than the workers of America.  In 2004, John Kerry, a former soldier, became a traitor who had faked his heroics in an attempt to build a future political career.  John Edwards became a dirty trial attorney who made his money sueing honest business men. 

They're trying it on Jim Webb.  He scares them because he took down a very popular republican in a red state.  So, they get there "firestarters" to call him a "boor" and "rude" to try to paint him as this hulking gorilla that can't be controlled.  The problem is that nobody is listening anymore.  They've had enough of Republican hit-jobs.

I say it's about time.  The American populace fell for those things for 10 years.

The jerk reporter noted the ton of responses to Will's idiot article but didn't weigh them at all--in other words, there were maybe 2 that supported or praised Will's viewpoint while the overwhelming majority condemned GW and cheered Webb on.  I so disgusted--ready to cancel my WAPO susbscription.  What is with that paper?

I think that at the end of the day, this will actually help Webb.  His building credit with Independents in Virginia by doing exactly what he promised.

Kathleen Graham was a big Reagan fan,, and said so in her book. The paper has supported the Iraq War and opposed a deadline for troop withdrawal. It has even written at least one editorial in favor of trade agreements without even admitting it had been lobbying for the agreement because it affected company holdings.

It's obvious the side this paper is promoting. Every article I've seen on the incident has cited Webb as being "controversial". The policies and the president are controversial, not Webb. He is just saying what most people are thinking. It's too bad that its now controversial to tell the truth.

Another thing I've noticed is that the Post's comment section doesn't accept apostrophies or paragraphs. That tells you what they think of the bloggers. This makes every post look like it was written by an illiterate.

I wonder how long the WaPo can last at this rate? Check here for another article on the Washington Post and their connections to the Bush family:

http://www.dfa-fairf...

Briggs at Left Wing Laughs posts this proposal of how the conversation between Bush and Webb could have gone:

Being rude would have been to actually engage the president in conversation:

Bush: How's your boy?
Webb: Oh, he's fine, fine. How're the girls?
Bush: Living up to the family name.
Webb: Yeah, so's my boy. I'm so proud of him. He's in the Marines, fighting in combat, trying to be a war hero like his old man.
Bush: My girls are drunk off their asses in Argentina.
Webb: Ahh, kids. You have to let them leave the nest sometime. You try to protect them, but eventually they make their own decisions. He wanted to go to Iraq.
Bush: Mine wanted to go to Cancun.
Webb: I wish he was home.
Bush: Yeah, I wish the girls were home, too. They'd still be drinking, but at least there'd be no hotel streaking...
Webb: Now he gets shot at every day.
Bush: Do body shots count?
Webb: All I have of him right now are these old combat boots.
Bush: All I have is a police report.
Webb: Well, good luck with the girls. I hope they make you proud.
Bush: Can I claim your kid instead?

As far as I can tell, Bush got off easy. Sure Webb said that after their conversation he wanted to "slug" the president, but even that would have been better than an actual battle of wits. Why, for Webb, that would have been like hitting an unarmored vehicle with an IED -- no contest... and close to home...

But then this White House doesn't know when to cut its losses. Even when the president is at a loss for words...

I think this says it all. 

I'm sure I was far from the only one who wrote one that wasn't published. Judging by the comments Will received--75 pages of them, I believe?--I'm sure there must have been a lot of them.

 

Webb is obviously the victim of a dedicated smear campaign by the likes of Will, Tyrrell, and the rest of the columnists of the American Slurtator.  Will's column, and to a lesser extent some of the others, are syndicated nationwide.  Webb is going to be in the national spotlight from the start of his term, and this seems to me to be a coordinated attempt to sap any potential national influence he may have by instilling in the minds of newspaper readers around the country the sense that he's a loose cannon or extremist. 

I have started looking up Will's column wherever it's run and posting a comment describing how he lied and "misapprehended the truth" by leaving out critical details of the encounter.  If you all want something to do there are plenty of newspapers out there running Will's column without any comments posted.  I'm also trying to get some LTEs out which will correct the record.

I'd like to see that SOB deconstruct my writing.  Snotty twit.

I believe the first sentence went like this:
"I am writing to inform you that you, sir, are a hack."

reading over his shoulder when he gets "civil but frosty".
I am sure he will be appalled that yet another "civilian" has the temerity to question him.....

...for so effectively making the case for Webbian populism.

The best way to boost a populist is to have him attacked as a "boor" by a geeky, pencil-necked, pampered aristocrat in a bowtie, who cares more about the fine points of grammar than about whether we are wasting hundreds of billions of dollars and the lives of thousands of our kids and hundreds of thousands of civilians in a pointless, hopeless, cynical war.

Thanks, George -- keep up the good work!

Have I forgotten the Will column George MUST have written about civility in government when Vice-President Cheney told Senator Leahy to "Go f--k yourself" on the Senate floor? Must have. I'm sure he wrote one.

Re Bush and Webb: I wish with all my heart that Webb had poked Bush in the kisser. I know, I know, not very civil but it would have been just lovely.

but an icy stare from those gray eyes probably did the job nicely.