Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 90 Editor's Choice: 3
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Seriously? Four Clinton mentions.
[Read the article: On to New Hampshire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even Hillary Clinton supporters seemed awed by what Obama had done, as am I.
What you mean here is "Even Hillary Clinton supporters like myself are awed by what Obama has done."
Joan, you're not fooling anybody. You haven't been for quite a while now. And this 'article,' purportedly about Obama, in which you mention Clinton about four times and Edwards (who also beat her) not even once, just makes it ever clearer.
Look, seriously, just go ahead and say "Salon's editorial board endorses Hillary Clinton." Your readers will respect that (although many of them, judging by the letters, will disagree with it). And you won't have to keep pretending to be impartial.
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Great news! The stock market is headed back into the stratosphere Monday...
[Read the article: Hewitt: Romney's loss real reason for stock dip]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... Romney won in Wyoming!
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@Alex Tucker
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you're being unfair to their friends in TriBeCa. In fact, I'm starting to wonder whether the authors get it, either.
Salon, you can pay me what you're paying Schlesinger and Bachtell, and I'll provide you with a blank piece of paper every week that will garner better reviews than this comic. It's win-win. Have your people call my people.
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@Bridget0
[Read the article: It's getting closer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The "male blogging universe"?!
Yeah, boy. We all hate Clinton because she's a woman. Not because her policy ideas suck; not because she doesn't stand a snowball's chance of winning in a general election; not because her vast "experience" consists of hanging out in the White House with the President for eight years--oh, and failing to accomplish the one policy goal with which the President tasked her.
It certainly has nothing to do with her pro-censorship stances, her vote for the Iraq war, or her vote for the Kyl-Lieberman amendment.
No, you're right. It's 'cause she's a woman. Darn you for seeing through our elaborate ruse!
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"Obama... HE'S SO VAAAAAAGUE"
[Read the article: It's getting closer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This "Obama is vague" meme has gained traction on Salon. Look, he's no more vague than any of the other candidates. If you're making your judgments about Obama's policy positions based on stump speeches, of course he's going to sound vague.
Would you like to see what his positions are? Have a look. They are clearly delineated and well thought-out.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
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This is the real reason...
[Read the article: The comeback chick]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... I was dreading a New Hampshire victory for Clinton.
It had very little to do with her just-barely-to-the-left-of-the-Republicans policy positions, her completely unwarranted attacks on Obama's level of experience, and her utter unelectability in the general election.
No, the big reason is that I now have to put up with at least another couple of weeks of Salon being All-Clinton-Cheerleading, All-The-Time.
Yeah, this was a big victory for Clinton--without it, she was dead in the water heading into Super Duper Tuesday. No doubt the media buildup of the last few days has turned what should have been considered a strong showing by Obama (he and Clinton are leaving New Hampshire with the same number of NH delegates, which means he's still ahead overall) into a stinging defeat. I'm just annoyed that we will have to see that storyline repeated day in and day out for the next however many weeks, until Joan gets her gloat-quotient filled.
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Bleh.
[Read the article: More about race and the Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Russert tapdanced... selectively quoting and badgering and not giving Clinton time to answer the questions.
Clinton tapdanced... claiming there was "not one shred of truth" and then having herself proven wrong, and failing to address any issues in any substantive way.
They both came out of it looking bad, which is about what always happens in the depressing media-political climate in the U.S. these days.
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Yup...
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... still sucks.
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Is it just me...
[Read the article: My partner is being stalked by a trolling MILF]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... or would this article have been WAY better if the headline had been "My partner is being MILFed by a troll in stockings?"
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"Our people"
[Read the article: Nasty, again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Full disclosure: I'm an Obama supporter.
If this ad had been in English, there would be no question that it's about union members, not some racial group. Because it's in Spanish, Salon and the Clinton camp immediately assume there must be a racial component.
It certainly sounds like there's some form of racism at work here somewhere. I wonder where it could be...?
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@jebldmm
[Read the article: Nasty, again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, no.
The newsmedia (and I emphatically include Salon here) have turned every comment about Obama into a race question, and every comment about Hillary into a gender question. This particular story is not an example of the campaigns injecting race and gender into the contest; this is an example of the newsmedia trying to inject race and gender into our perception of the campaigns.
I see nothing in the reporting of this ad to indicate that the ad was anything but an attempt to lodge a complaint about the union members' being treated unfairly by one of the campaigns. Similarly, it was the media (again including Salon here), not Obama or Johnson, who made Johnson's comments about Obama's drug use into a racial issue.