Letters to the Editor
Timelagged
Published Letters: 244 Editor's Choice: 12
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So, to summarize
[Read the article: I was wrong about Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Does Reverend Wright love America as much as Barack Obama does?"
I think anyone would have to agree that this is a pretty fair summary of what Joan Walsh is saying here, as well as in the many other columns on this issue lately.
So when ABC asks this question during a debate, a majority from all over the spectrum, left, right, and center, jump all over them for asking a sensationalist race-baiting right wing tabloid non-issue question disguised as a serious topic that should take up valuable debate time.
When Salon.com trumpets the same question for DAYS, over and over in columns by the editor in chief, political columnists, and so on, they expect to have a different response, and rabid Clinton supporters in the letters column ferociously defend them, not to mention many who are openly racist Clinton partisans and say as much.
It's an easy thought experiment: Would Salon run a similar series of non-stop articles about Hillary Clinton's pastor? Would Glenn Greenwald and Tom Tomorrow do anything but roundly ridicule such behavior were it coming from the "right"? I put that in quotation marks because at this point I'm really not sure of the distinction between what I read here and the worst kind of right wing tabloids. I guess we should just stop using quotations, my keyboard's about to run out of them anyway.
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I was just contemplating writing a comment
[Read the article: Why the Jeremiah Wright story deserves more attention]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to Glenn about how next he should take on his own publishing site's absurd recent concern troll obsession, but I found myself unable to think of exactly how to say it, knowing the conflicts of interest or perhaps just awkwardness the whole idea would involve for him.
This bit of tongue in cheek understatement by him was the perfect solution to my unspoken request.
After reading one of Glenn's columns earlier, I was thinking that all he had to do was glance over a few inches from his perch there on the front page to see a glaring example of exactly what he was expertely ridiculing in the news media at large. Salon is not the only one of course but it's joined the ranks of the worst, IMO recently.
When I see the "all Hagee all the time" craze take hold like this one did or "The Family" becoming an obsessive hand-wriging topic ("Oh my, how can we EVER imagine that Hillary will live down her connection to such wackos! Oh my oh my!!") on Salon day in and day out as this has, then I'll rethink the whole thing.
Not holding my breath.
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@Bill_H
[Read the article: Why the Jeremiah Wright story deserves more attention]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Last time I checked I don't think McCain was a member of Hagee's church for 20 years...
Yeah but Hagee is an active supporter of McCain's campaign, and McCain has openly and avidly accepted the support, praising the insane and rabid Hagee as he did so.
You just saw Obama by contrast do exactly the opposite, disavowing the crazy parts of what the preacher said, which are after all exactly the parts that people are concerned about.
McCain accepted the crazy along with the rest and had nothing but praise for Hagee along the way.
You're right, it's not the same in the case of McCain and Hagee.
It's far worse.
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Clinton's comments were appalling
[Read the article: Iran complains about Clinton comments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I heard BBC radio the next day and it was one of the headlines, right there with major events in the world. "Next up, American candidate Hillary Clinton says that the US would "obliterate" Iran if..."
Great.
Hillary Clinton has actually caused more damage to the reputation of the US instead of the much-needed repair we'd hoped a Democratic President would undertake.
And she's done it already while only running for the nomination, out of her sheer frantic and shameless pandering to the right.
I lived overseas for the most of the Bush years and I know that our image is far worse than most people at home in the US even know. Believe me, this is not who we want in the Oval Office for the next four years.
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So much for the post "anonymous" letters section
[Read the article: Iran complains about Clinton comments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyway if Liberals want to protect Iran so badly,
Then I recommend the human shield approach for you.
-- Electro Robot
So now no one can post using anonymous as the nickname, but anyone is still free to write things like this as long as some entirely fictitious nickname is used, and despite everyone being appalled the troll-like behavior will go on without consequence.
Without some sort of peer-rating or control function, the decision to not allow anonymous posts hasn't changed a thing.
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@Elephantman
[Read the article: Dem candidates weigh in on "Mission Accomplished"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama's done a lot of things "that have served him well with Democratic voters this year."
So how's that working out now?
-- Elephantman
Well, let's see, he contiunued the meteoric rise, coming up from 20 percent down in PA to gain 11 or 12 percentage points, will win NC by a big margin as expected, Clinton still can't possibly catch up--- I'd say pretty good, overall.
If you buy the media spin, you'll see it differently of course but all I can say to that is: Living in a fantasy world will only get you dissapointment.