Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 498 Editor's Choice: 17
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It's true, Joan. Pissing people off with vapid "articles" or posts meant only to illicit angry responses will get you clicks.
[Read the article: Thank you, Rush Limbaugh!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Congradulations.
You've discovered the lowest common demoninator. You may now take your place alongside that tool Pat O'Brien, Bill O'Reilly, Rupert Murdoch, and your new BF4Evar Rush Limbaugh.
What's that expression about the compnay you keep again?
Every once in a blue moon (less and less these days) your rag will publish astute political or social analysis worth reading, but I'm afraid people aren't interested in being challanged to think for themselves.
Anyway, Salon's new approach is a tried and true formula. You'll be reporting on missing white girls in no time. Good luck!
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WES, why bother with that out of context meme?
[Read the article: Thank you, Rush Limbaugh!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK. Wrong question. I know why you're doing it.
If I say that my granddad was racist, but that I still loved him dearly and considered him a great man, am I throwing him under the bus too?
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The Clintonista/Rush lovefest continues
[Read the article: Thank you, Rush Limbaugh!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At least they know where many of the Clinton votes are coming from. What? You don't think an endorsement from Rush Limbaugh carries any weight?
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Since this is Salon...
[Read the article: I'm a med student, but my boyfriend has just a high school education]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I advise you to dump him.
Oh, and I think you may have Asberger's.
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I don't know. I've had some harsh words for Camille in the past
[Read the article: Hillary's slick willies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But her assessment of the slick willies seems pretty dead on to me. Her point that Hillary herself may not even know who she is was also thought provoking.
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If there's any justice in the world
[Read the article: Don't blame YouTube, MySpace for teen beating video]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These bullies will accidentally look at another criminal "the wrong way" while they are in jail.
It's saddening to watch the cruelty that children are capable of. I saw this sort of thing a lot where I grew up (pre-Internet). The fights between girls were particularly savage, and could go on for weeks with a single girl being targeted repeatedly the whole time. If she fights back at any time, it only ends up worse for her.
Watching this stuff make me feel ill.
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I bowled last night
[Read the article: Spare votes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I never bowl. Can't stand the freaking game.
i kept sayin gto myself "Gotta beat Obama....gotta beat Obama..."
and I did. Woot.
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Life is for the living!
[Read the article: The dreaded septuagenarian issue]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, there are much better reason not to vote for McCain then his age.
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Yeeeeeeeesh.
[Read the article: From bowling to orange juice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everybody calm down. Take a deep breath. Use this opportunity to cover the important stuff (which I've noticed the War Room has done since Mr. Benen started writing for it).
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Oh lord....I'm am getting so sick of this
[Read the article: Quote of the day: It's a gynocracy!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am so exhausted with the media trying to tell me I'm either sexist or racist. Never both. Never neither. It's one or the other, and it's all contingent upon who I am voting for in the Democratic primary. How simple. I'm a sexist. Thank you!
Can we have a ticker on the corner of Salon's front page counting down to the Dem convention when all this can go back on the backburner? I understand that misogyny and racism is real. I get it.
Can we start talking about Iraq again now? The ceacefire is dissolving and the shit is about to hit the fan. Tons of our money and American lives are being flushed away over it, and all I'm seeing here is the latest (non) scandal du jour over the Democratic election!
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Here's an Irish Catholic idiom for you, Joan
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From one to another, Joan: Stop putting on a poor mouth.
You can no more speak for the working class then Obama could. Or Hillary and McCain for that matter.
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"Elitist" is one of those red flag words
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In most cases, it means the person using it is pandering to you. They are too cynical to admit to you (or themselves) that the "elitist" in question is using terms and concepts to a group that they believe is incapable of understanding them. They expect us to hear that word and repeat it, like dogs barking in a kennel.
After all, it worked well enough in 2000 and 2004 to get an incompetent son of a billionaire elected president, but we expect that sort of behavior from Republicans...right?
Let's cut through the bullshit, shall we? Which of the candidates do you believe understands firsthand what the working class lives through every day? Read a couple bios and get back to me on that one.
I'm working class and I believe Obama pretty much hit the nail on the head. If you allow election-year buzzwords like "elitist" effect you, you are the rube.
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Obama tearfully recounts how hard it has been for him
[Read the article: House Republican blasts Obama as "that boy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...polls surge as a result of his weapy press conference.
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Seems like the bitter ones are the Clinton supporters.
[Read the article: Did the "bitter" flap affect the race?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This so called "flap" was seen for what it was, despite the media's best efforts to make it the next big scandal (gotta get those clicks!)
There was nothing offensive in what Obama said, and he has gotten closer to the heart of voter apathy then most other politicians with his exposure.
All the crying you're hearing is more sour grapes from the Clinton crowd.
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You know, there are better reasons to oppose Whole Food's decision to discontinue plastic bags
[Read the article: Environmental advocacy at its finest]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For the record, I commend Whole Foods for doing this, but it does take more energy to move those paper bags around.
Of course that's peanuts compared to the damage plastic bags do to our environment. If you have looked up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it's worth a look, though it's pretty depressing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
As for his complaints that paper bags make it easier for cockroaches, there's a simple answer to that. USE A REUSABLE BAG! Whole Foods is selling them for 99 cents! In fact, the use of these re-usable bags has increased so much lately Whole Foods found that eliminating plastic bags only led to a 10 percent increase in paper bag use (source Blogging Stocks).
This op-ed reeks to high heaven and it makes me wonder whose pocket the writer of the piece is in.
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"For all that, though, on the night before the election, not much had changed from when the candidates first landed here."
[Read the article: The epic battle for Pennsylvania]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Riiiiiiight. Unless you count Obama whittling Clinton's 20 point lead in Pennsylvania down to 6 points in less then 2 months "not much change."
Pssssst. Madden. Your spin is showing.
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Paging KArl Rove...you are needed at the Clinton campaign
[Read the article: Playing the bin Laden card?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh. You're there already. Nevermind.