Letters to the Editor
softdog
Published Letters: 186 Editor's Choice: 8
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Walsh is still too disingenuous
[Read the article: Obama "outraged" by Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To me, the quotes around "outraged" in the headline imply the authenticity of the word is in doubt, like this is what Obama says, but he may not mean it. As does the post.
It strikes me this way due to the tone and manner of all of Joan's previous posts, which have often been less than genuine in intent and honesty.
Meanwhile, Obama, for those who want to demonize his campaign, is damned if he embraces Wright, a betrayer if he doesn't. Which is as bad as Clinton haters who act like not agreeing with her policies or tactics proves she's beyond human redemption.
Obama has now had to repeatedly denounce various black leaders under relentless press pressure. Meanwhile McCain has abandoned his integrity far more than either of these candidates at their worst moments and the AP gives him donuts and altered his words to support the claim a new DNC ad is misquoting him.
At what point will Salon recognize race as a force of bias in the media like gender?
At what point will Joan just admit she wants Clinton to win and it influences her writing?
I'm not saying one can't have an opinion, it should just be presented honestly and be informed.
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Joke's on Joan Walsh and her devoted.
[Read the article: Obama "outraged" by Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Carol Richards:
"Not to mention Obama has never lived in the White House AND he can be perceived as elitist. If you take all that along with the fact that Obama has other weaknesses, I think it is our duty to make sure we don't just start talking about something other than Wright. Even people in the Obama trance must admit that we have a long way to go with this issue, as long as people keep talking about in on the news and blogging about it on the internet. We do have a responsibility to find out exactly what it means about Barack."
Joan Walsh:
"Carol, you're better than that. Give it a rest, and think about what he said."
Hint to Joan: She's not agreeing with you, she's making fun of you.
I'm guessing "better than that" means you're not picking up on the sarcasm and think she's going to far in her emphasis.
Or you pick up on it entirely and don't like the nerve it struck.
You didn't mind wheh Carol's humor still seemed to agree with you, but now that it's classic satire - i.e. exaggerated agreement as a form of critique - it bothers you.
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Finally.
[Read the article: Why the Jeremiah Wright story deserves more attention]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So very awesome and far classier than any of the rants I've written here.
Well played, Greenwald. A perfect takedown without total trolling.
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What a crap analogy
[Read the article: George Bush is John McCain's Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even as she appears to critique McCain, Joan is still demonizing Obama using Wright.
George Bush is not like Rev. Wright.
Rev. Wright served in the military. His big mouth and incendiary opinions aside, his 30 years of service tended to the sick, the need and children.
Rev. Wright did not authorize torture, lie in order start a war, head up a party which openly pandered to the religious right then install lawyers trained at a fundemenalist law school in the Justice Department where they proceeded to purge people in the name of a religious agenda. Rev. Wright did not systematically undermine every reglatory body.
Bush is the most unpopular president in modern history.
Rev. Wright is a big mouth who deeply offends some people.
Also, unlike Hagee or the religious right, Rev. Wright's firey opinions did not blame natural disasters on gay people or push any political agenda to take away rights from anyone, not the white people he criticized.
So let's cut that crap out.
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@wychwood, a "serious" person.
[Read the article: George Bush is John McCain's Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Joan, I admire you...for continuing this thankless job. Which involves being insulted on a daily basis because you and your staff cover what's going on Out There rather than what some readers think SHOULD be going on out there."
Why yes, because constantly referencing Wright is the most important, and in fact only, thing Out There. There's nothing else in the news, or even the campaign, to mention, really. As Glenn Greenwald, part of Salon, put it.
"I think the most important thing to note about the Jeremiah Wright Story is that we're a Nation plagued by exceedingly few significant problems; blessed with a quite healthy political culture and very trusted political and media institutions; composed of a citizenry that is peacefully content with its Government and secure and confident about their future; endowed with a supremely sturdy economic foundation free of debt and other grave economic afflictions; vested with the ability to command great respect and admiration from the other nations of the world; emancipated from the burdens of war and intractable conflicts which have toppled and destroyed so many other great nations of the past; and, most of all, we're becoming freer and more prosperous by the minute."
wychwood, even the Salon staff is insulting Joan now. You really are thick, aren't you.
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The paradox bears repeating
[Read the article: George Bush is John McCain's Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Let's hope the media starts paying as much attention to McCain's association with questionable political characters as it has to Obama's."
This in a story titled: George Bush is John McCain's Rev. Wright
Front page stories and Walsh Posts mentioning Obama and Wright this week: 8
Featured about McCain: Zero. Walsh wrote a Sunday post about McCain but it wasn't on the front page due to being bumped by her first Wright post
The First line of the one post to mention John McCain: I think it's terrific John McCain went on an "I care about poverty" tour last week, but let's remember he did it when everyone's attention was on the Democratic primary race.
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elsylee vs. The Truth
[Read the article: George Bush is John McCain's Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]elsylee is being dishonest.
Savage Politics is an anti-barack obama website. It's accusations range from valid to utter truthiness with selective use of detials.
Presenting this propoganda as "a start" while not providing links to other sites which vet all candidates is what we call concern trolling: pretending to care about a general issue in order to spout propoganda, usually against it.