Letters to the Editor
PoliticalRealist
Published Letters: 23 Editor's Choice: 1
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They attack women because they don't agree with them
[Read the article: Men who hate women on the Web]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sometimes answers are obvious if you step away from your personal feelings.
Are there men who hate women? Yes.
Are there women who hate men? Yes.
Are there white people who hate blacks, Yes.
Are there black people who hate white people? Yes.
Jews, Arabs, fat people, thin people, Wasps? Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes. Yes.
But these facts mislead us to the real problem. .
When some people disagree with what you've said, they attack whatever they can "target" about you.
Tom Cruise, the most successful actor of this generation is attacked for being short.
Rosie for being gay.
Janet Reno, the brilliant Attorney General, for not being attractive.
In most societies, the way to attack a woman is her appearance... or her sexual behavior...or her intelligence or simply by spewing hate.
The way to attack man is to claim he is weak... or his appearance... or his intelligence or simply by spewing hate.
Everyone who stands up will be attacked. This is reality.
But historical prejudice blinds the individual. It makes you think "they" are attacking you because you are a woman, or black, or gay, or Jewish, or whatever. No, they are attacking you because they don't agree with you and they target you in any way they can, and being a woman, gay, etc. simply provides them with the target.
But being attacked is hurtful. So you can't see beyond the hurt to the reality. The same people who attack a woman on the web would defend her if she wrote things they agreed with.
Now wasn't that obvious?
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Do you actually get paid for these reviews
[Read the article: Why I returned my iPhone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr Manjoo
Does Salon actually pay you or are you being paid under the table by rival companies?
Are you playing the media shock game that says to be successful you must write things that run counter to what people are thinking?
The iphone may not be "perfect" (are you? is any product?) but it is a giant leap beyond any existing technology - phone / music / web.
It is very disappointing that Salon allows you to write nonsense under the guise of a "tech expert".
But I do think you would be a great writer for the far right. Your techniques are identical. Reshape reality by manipulating emotions. (oh, I have to return the phone. Its forcing me to access information on the web against my will.).
Salon, are you paying attention? Are you endorsing this nonsense?
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Shame on You Walter Shapiro
[Read the article: Let 'em duke it out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is very disappointing that Walter Shapiro, who has provided insightful commentary to Salon for some time has become the mouthpiece for the Clintons. His recent columns are so Clinton apologist as to make one wonder how he can keep a straight face as he sends them in.
The same people who decried the scorched earth campaign tactics of Republicans are now in love with Hillary's use of them. Obama closed Hillary's 20 point lead without saying a single negative thing about Hillary. Seeing she would lose, she began a slime campaign that Lee Atwater and Karl Rove would admire.
No need to list them here, but her " No Obama is not a Muslim, NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE... shows how slimy she can be. And why exactly should we think Hillary should answer that ringing phone? Because she slept in the White House with her husband?
Salon sits back and watches this slime but does not dare to be critical of the CLINTONS. Oh, we might make some women angry if we point out Hillary's shameful tactics.
Democrats may be fools but in the general election, a soft-spoken war hero who does not slime anyone running against an angry woman spewing slime- whose ONLY credentials are the coat-tails of her husband will NOT play in America.
Men are not going to vote for her, African-Americans will be furious at her sliming Obama, and at least half the women in America are not voting for Hillary simply because she is a woman.
So Democrats will manage to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory. Personally, I loved Bill Clinton and what he did for this country. But this idea of his wife riding his coat-tails into the Senate and then doing ANYTHING to get into the White House is disgusting.
And for all the women out there blinded by the fact that Hillary is a woman, Nancy Pelosi is a woman who EARNED her position and who demonstrates grace and intelligence every day. SHE is the woman who should be in the White House.
Let's hope John McCain is not as unstable as his enemies say he is.
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damn you people are dumb
[Read the article: Was Obama's skin darkened for Clinton ad?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For people too dumb to think for themselves... in video, it is difficult to change a single image (e.g. Obama's face) because there are so many frames. But the simple solution is to simply darken EVERY frame (easy to do) and you get the result you want.
Everyone looks darker, but Obama, with his African-American lineage will look much darker than a light skinned caucasian. So you get the desired result. You make Obama look MORE African-American (to scare the bigots).
Is FactCheck so stupid they can't figure that out?
And is there anyone who - at the point - doubts that Hillary would do ANYTHING to win?
(she wants the delegates from Michigan when she was the only candidate on the ballot- and at the time said it did not matter that she was on the ballot since the ballots would not count).