Your View of Sharkey's Matt Hale "Get"...

I just read the interview with Matt Hale and it is the best interviews of the man I have yet read. Matt Sharkey did a great job. Slick racists like him all have their party line down solid and it can be really hard to keep after them with hardball questions but Sharkey pulled it off well. I webmaster The Holocaust History Project and over the last five years have taken more than a passing interest in hate groups and how they function...kudos.

I like the zine. I'll be making a weekly visit. --
Jamie McC.


From Robert P., Westminster, MD. USA:

Rod:

Sharkey's interview with Hale was a good one. As you mentioned awhile back, the links at the end were important -- crucial in fact. The bane of dealing with folks like Hale (as with Holocaust revisionists generally) is that they heap upon you a mountain of half-facts and psuedo-facts, organized into a more or less coherent paranoid, bigoted worldview that's difficult to rebut on the fly. Sharkey was far better prepared for Hale than most interviewers are for his ilk.

--Bob


From Jack W., Des Moines, IA, USA:

Rod,

After reading your Don't Read Me First, I just wanted to write in and let you know you made the right decision on running the Matt Hale interview. Your interviewer, Matt Sharkey, was obviously prepared and highly professional in his approach to this slime.

Hope G21 is ready for all the spam you'll get from the WCOTC wingnuts.

Keep fighting the Good Fight!

Jack

More on the Jules Siegel Interview

Rod,

Why would anyone care what Maureen Dowd thinks...she lets her mouth over load her rear. As far as Joyce Maynard goes, she is after the money and notiriety. This is just my opinion, what do I know about anything. At the rate she is going, she will soon be thought of like Linda Tripp, anything to sign a big book deal.

Carma

But Rod just sacked Charlie --- AGAIN!

Hey Rod! John here. Really do love that Charlie Tuna! ..Yeah!! (P.S. I have an undying love for Judy Blue.)

See ya,
John

On our New Look & Focus

Hi Rod,

Your paper reads and looks more like a major part of the media. I know this isn't coming out right...your issues were always well written and informative...this one is very professional, not just for entertainment.

I liked the new format, It's easier to read and covers all the main points. Now the next issue should deal with sex after 45. If Modern Maturity can do, so can you.

Carma

Liked the John John thing. Thanx for using my brief as a lead. Very intelligent commentary from your readers. Also like the new News & Commentary bit. Wider appeal than Satire. All around very very tight presentation. Kudos.


From Jurate M., Vilinius, LITHUANIA:

Rod,

I like a style of your writing, always something [is that] not banal. And most I like your left-wing deviation. I [am not in the] habit [of] praising others, however I want to say that for my eyes, Rod, you are a talented writer.

I agree with [the] opinion of one Frenchman [in the Reader Forum] which is in last edition. If you call your magazine "The World's Magazine", you must [show] more interest... [in] the problems of other countries. Perhaps [G21] has difficulties with [finding foreign[ correspondents, however it is [the] only possible way to attract more readers. The more you will have the different correspondents, the more readers [there] will be.

I wish you every success!
Jurate


From Jennifer B., Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS:

hoi rod,

i like the design of the magazine. i liked it when you did this in the past (like three years ago?). very cool (the colour blocks and the keywords pasted on the colour blocks in fliss' piece).

but my favourite piece is yours. you enthrall! perhaps i will do what you do and write thousands of words of text a week because it is definitely working for you.

i love adam. i am glad he's back.

that's all. i just thought i would endow you w/another commentary on another issue of G21.

duey,
miss blue.

But he's NOT Charles Kuralt...

Much entertainment and knowledge gained from your column on the media. Also greatly enjoyed Fliss's return. And thanks very much for taking the time to find the album covers to go with my column.

I really like the new no-frills appearance of the magazine.

I salute you, sir!
Bob


From Barbara A., Berkeley, CA, USA:

Radical AND Realistic - how refreshing! I especially enjoyed the bright red ink, when you really need to make a point! And the sidebar with the "Make a Difference" plea that gives us guilty middle classers a way to relieve our apathy/guilt - a subtle coup!!

"If our interest is connected to the drug trade at all, it is only to insure that the profits from the lucrative trade are flowing into the right hands. We are there to secure other interests, some obvious, like profits for the American defense industry?"

I know this is Adam's opinion, but if this is my first time reading the site, I need current facts (some kids don't know Oliver North). Just my reaction...

Good show, my dear!
Barb


From CS, [No City Provided], USA:

Dear Editor,

I don't care if you're biased...I am too about certain things. I think my children are the prettiest, smartest, etc. You think your opinion is right. It most likely is. I'm just kidding Rod. The only letter to an Editor I ever wrote before was to the LA Times..my reply came from the Washington DC office..I didn't write to them for a long time, I thought I had a FBI File on me by this time.

I like knowing you and knowing I can call you Dear Editor.

Take care of yourself.


From Jean H, Seattle, WA USA:

Just babbling off the top of my head here -- no real thought before putting mouth in motion.

Early on, your "huddled poor around his feet of clay," you got to me. First of all, it always gets to me when people call the President of the United States "Mr." You wouldn't call your doctor "Mr." You might call him Roger-baby, but not "Mr." Even that avuncular idiot -- the one who created the worst national financial crisis ever for us with his GD trickle-down theory -- Ronald Reagan was President, not "Mr." Small gripe, I suppose, but obviously one I really gnash my teeth over.

And following along that line, Clinton wasn't responsible for the HMO insanity, for instance. Nor did he close down the mental institutions all over the country and turn the inmates loose to fend as best their broken minds can -- that was good old Ronnie-baby. He isn't lobbying for a humungous tax cut, helping out the Gates and Allens of the world many fold more than me and thee -- that's these good old boys in the opposition. And, of course, it's a PROJECTED zillion-dollar surplus, not eggs in the basket already. God forbid we should pay down the national debt, or shore up Medicare, or anything else EXCEPT cut taxes!

I'd natter on some more, but I know you: you simply MUST respond to every e-mail you get. So I'll stop there.

Jean L. H.


ROD RESPONDS: Jean,

Babble away. That's what columnists like. Otherwise, we'd feel we are writing into a void instead of being noticed.

Fact is, I wasn't comparing this President to any other. I was comparing him to himself and his own self-mage. That's what columnists do.

So go ahead and tell me that women and children were not impoverished and damned by the welfare reform legislation. I'll attempt to believe you.

Rod

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