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My Man Godfrey

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Tuesday, January 8, 2008 10:36 PM

(Sigh.)

As some of you will have noticed, I've been posting shrill messages all over this site deriding Hillary, critiquing Salon's Time-Magazine-esque coverage of her campaign, and -- this I regret -- crowing about the change that the progressive youth vote was going to bring to American politics.

Well, I know when I'm licked. The entrenched DC establishment is just too hard to overcome.

However, I've also just sent an email to premiumhelp@salon.com requesting that my Salon subscription be cancelled immediately. This will be my last comment -- welcome news, I'm sure, to those few who have paid any attention to my posts -- and I will no longer be checking the site -- even the Glenn Greenwald blog, which has lately been the only thing worth maintaining a subscription for.

Salon has played a small role -- very small, but, still, a role -- in suppressing (and, perhaps, snuffing out) the encouraging, democratic (small-d), deeply American movement represented by the Obama candidacy. Over time, Salon has evolved into the very thing I came to the site to get away from.

I hope you guys will continue to break important stories about scandals like the Walter Reed disgrace, and I look forward to reading about them as they are reported in places like the Washington Post.

For others who have been unhappy with the way Salon has covered this race: the only way to make an impact is by denying Salon your readership and your financial support.

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