Comments on: Meet the Newest Member of the Firedoglake Community

By: Erwin Franzen

Erwin Franzen — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:31:38 +0000

Congratulations. I’m glad you can work together with Rabbi Lerner and his friends on Tikkun. I have supported their work also, and I think a lot of good can come from your cooperation.
Best wishes.
Erwin

By: Conrad Barwa

Conrad Barwa — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:35:17 +0000

Congratulations Richard, I enjoy reading both you and Phil Weiss immensely. I don’t always agree with what you have to say but your posts are always thoughtful and well-reasoned. A real pleasure to read. Glad it is now being disseminated to a wider audience. Kudos!

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:01:07 +0000

Congratulations, Richard!!!

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:49:20 +0000

Thanks, Peter. I’ll look for you at Tikkun online. If you send me a link to your blog I’ll feature it here.

By: Peter Marmorek

Peter Marmorek — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:15:42 +0000

Congrats, Richard! I’ll also be blogging at Tikkun, and as a long time fan of yours, it’ll be fun to be bouncing off each other. And firedoglake is exactly what Ilene says; an honourable space.

By: Warren

Warren — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:38:51 +0000

There was a bit of humor in the NY Times thing, I’m afraid you’re a little too off-the-reservation for our august friends over at the paper of record (that’s a good thing, by the way). Maybe if we can shift the culture a bit. Really not flattering you, either, I consider our elite media to be chock full of mediocrity. A requirement of establishment media editorializing seems to be the shutting down of the little gray cells, if they were there to begin with. The notable thing about the Times is that there are a couple of exceptions to this rule on the op/ed page.

Frankly, I wouldn’t use the Washington Post Op/Ed to wipe my derriere with. Pure unadulterated insipid & bloodthirsty trash. The American people deserve so much better than this. All I’ve got outside of the internet, alternative print media, and the foreign press (mainly the London Independent & Guardian), is Bill Moyers Journal and NOW on PBS. We’ve gotta start somewhere, though.

P.S.—you like Gail Collins? I read a couple and that was it for me. I’ll give her another try, though. Agree about Dowd (knew I was forgetting a few), gossip laden content-free Schlock, though she has a clever turn of phrase once in a while.

By: Ilene

Ilene — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:30:20 +0000

I would like to add my congratulations, Richard. Firedoglake is an incredibly honorable space.

I also know everyone will want to get the latest copy of The Israel Project’s Global Language Dictionary, which Newsweek posted last night. It contains the obnoxious new argument that removal of the settlements is ethnic cleansing.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/206021

By: Mary Hughes-Thompson

Mary Hughes-Thompson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:51:21 +0000

Congratulations, Richard. I’ve always been grateful I found your blog. With so much email to read these days a lot gets deleted, but I always read yours – and all the comments.