Thanks for one of the funniest posts I've seen yet on Salon. Which is saying a lot. Among the many hilarious segments, this stands out:

and she can pronounce it the way she wants to. But she shouldn't be surprised if people get her name wrong. We didn't sign up for a class in Spanish pronunciation, y'know.

I love how your rant somehow ended up with the conclusion that this all came up because Sonia was up there on TV lecturing people about her name being mispronounced. It fits right into the whole right wing talking point series that "she's a big fascio-commie-liberal-rightist-leftist who wants to enslave us and take away our rights, I mean now she's coming after the way we SPEAK, for Pete's sake!"

I could almost see the spittle on your screen. Carry on. Good stuff.

@captcrisis

I beg to differ. I listen to the Yankees game on a Spanish station and they absolutely pronounce Nick Swisher's or Derek Jeter's name as this born and raised Hoosier would. I also watch alot of soccer on Univision and Telemundo, and once again, they will pronounce Landon Donovan as any American would.

As someone who watches French TV daily I can confirm that captcrisis hasn't the slightest clue about what he or she is posting about.

Letters actually posted by readers in Salon:

"Ronald Reagan was a criminal, a tragedy for the country, he carried out illegal operations causing the deaths of thousands in South America from death squads he funded, and he started the deregulation that made the rich richer and now has finally destroyed our economy:"

Letter supposedly sent by Salon reader cited in the column each week:

"Dear Wingnut: Ronald Reagan may have been a great man, but gosh he died a long time ago, shouldn't we perhaps move on?"

Conclusion; This whole feature is a sham.

Has to be.

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I can't imagine a multi-monitor setup without it.

No, I don't work for them. Just love it, perhaps even my favorite app ever, oddly.

One click sends the window from one monitor to another. For one thing. Many more.

I heartily second everything you wrote.

To me Keillor's article about torture wasn't offensive because it took a political stance, everyone has a right to an opinion. It went much farther than that however, lecturing people that they "were all responsible" for the torture. Speak for yourself, Keillor.

To tell that to people who went to jail protesting Bush wars is the height of pompous arrogance if you ask me. Or if the assumption is that Keillor doesn't know that such people even exist, then the arrogance of writing an article from such ignorance only seems worse.

This is only echoed by the really sort of amusing "No one has a right to express an opinion here except the one I approve of" arrogance displayed by some of the comments here.

The other arrogant assumption is that anything less than fawning admiration for his style of writing can only be coming from a silly torture-obsessed hater.

I beg to differ.

Most of the small percentage of Obama hatred is from the die hard extreme right, all those millions who listen to the Becklimbreilly triumvirate, but still manage to amount to only a tiny percentage of actual voters in the larger picture, a fact borne out by the just about 70 percent approval ratings for the President.

It's therefore interesting to come here and find a vein of rabid anti-Obamaism that's more the old PUMA variety. I don't mean to say that's all there is, clearly they're joined and egged on by a lot of just garden variety right wingers, drawn here largely by Paglia via Drudge.

Glenn Greenwald is not of this mindset by the way, whoever it was who was trying to claim him as one of your own. His criticisms are entirely from the left and balanced by his admitting positive achievements when they exist. The PUMA sentiment on the other hand is easy to spot, marked as it is by the sense of "See? I told you so!" running through it. I think one comment used almost those exact words.

Obama has disappointed some of us in some of his moves, but the fantasy that anyone else who stood a chance of getting elected could have done better is fantasy indeed. Might be time to let it go, but that's just a suggestion.

"the same people who are here defending Obama for doing the pragmatic thing instead of the principled thing as president, are the same people whose stated sole reason for voting against Clinton in the primaries was that she had done the pragmatic thing instead of the principled thing in voting to authorize the war in Iraq.

Apparently principles only count when they serve you,"

I think what's most amusing about this thread is the examples of conservtive Republicans writing in to say "I'm a conservative Republican, but I have to say, I agree with this flaming liberal's ideas!"

It's the same thing that happens all the time with Paglia, and I'm starting to think it's what Salon is here for basically, to give right wing Republicans a place to read and say "Gosh, you know I'm a right wing Republican, but I agree with this "liberal"!

Just a little clue to all these right wingers: Look at the post I quote above. That's who's filling this thread with Obama-hatred: dissapointed Hillary Clinton supporters, still at it after all this time. After, most amazingly, Clinton herself has left it all far, far behind.

I mean there's all sorts of irrational over the top Obama hating going on in the country, but really very few places where lingering primary battles are the motivating factor.

That's some badge of honor for Salon, yes indeed.

Don't get me wrong, I think that there are reasonable criticisms of Barack Obama's first four months of being President. "See I told that you Hillary should have been given the nomination!" isn't one of them.