Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 260 Editor's Choice: 22
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Why?
[Read the article: How cancer survivors think about the Edwards scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why are you giving this ink Joan?
This is a private matter between The Edwards. I'm not interested in their marital problems and I'm gonna bet that the majority of Salonistas don't care either.
Whenever you swing at one of these piches into the dirt it just cheapens this magazine.
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Word count?
[Read the article: Accent the negative]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Editors,
Does Camille have a word count or does she have unfettered bloviation rights?
Just curious.
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Very Old News
[Read the article: Johnny, I hardly knew ye]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some of the greatest US Presidents as well as many of the most outstanding world leaders have had extramarital affairs. While I am not excusing any duplicitous behavior it goes without saying that this has been part and parcel of the political world since the beginning of written history.
It is a bizarre and uniquely American fetish to equate sexually morality with the ability to lead. I’m sure this is partially due to our puritan heritage and the weird fundamentalist zeitgeist of the country right now.
Whatever the reasons are, I don’t give a rat’s ass about Edward’s affair and neither do the vast majority of Salon’s readers. Why Salon is giving this non-story ink and swinging at pitches into the dirt is beyond me.
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Thanks for Moralizing
[Read the article: Johnny, I hardly knew ye]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remind me not to ever become friends with you Walter. The last thing a person wants when they're in the dog house is acquaintances and friends someone shaking their head saying, "Jeepers, I thought I know him better".
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Perspective
[Read the article: Johnny, I hardly knew ye]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In case the the staff at Salon hasn't realized, the economy is in the dumps, there's a war in Georgia, a genocide in the Sudan and the environment is going to hell in a handbasket.
But thanks for the handwringing commentary on what John Edwards has been doing with his dick!
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Prudes and Hyporcrites
[Read the article: Johnny, I hardly knew ye]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A good many letters in this thread seem genuinely shocked at the prospect that a former (and seemingly deeply moral) Pres. Candidate was caught in flagrant dilecto. My advice to those that are hurt and dismayed; get out more!
Then there are the letters prattling on about the fact that it’s not the sex; it’s the lie. To that I call bullshit. Ask yourself—honestly—what you would do if you had been unfaithful to someone and deeply ashamed of it and then cornered by the press. How many of you would have admitted it right off the bat. Ya, I thought so. And yet everyone expects Clinton or Edwards to do the same.
Yes, Clinton and Edwards lied at first. But they lied to questions— that in a rational country that wasn’t obsessed with every prurient detail of celebrities lives— should never have been asked in the first place.
We are a country of prudes and hypocrites. A pretty toxic combo if you ask me.
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Dear Salon Editors
[Read the article: Get Rielle]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Grow the fuck up and move on!
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@Clapham
[Read the article: Barack Obama's purpose-driven gamble]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You said: “Evangelicals are not fooled by Obama. We see his record, the fact that he sat under the teaching of a heretical (and racist) preacher for 20 years, and we see where his priorities lie.”
You are so right to see through Obama. You obviously see that he is not an ignorant rube that thinks the earth is only 6000 years old and that the Bible is the literal word of god. You clearly see that he doesn’t buy into that puerile rubbish about the rapture, the tribulation and that we (the US) have to protect Israel so that God can destroy it on his own good time.
Thanks for calling bullshit on Obama and painting him for the secularist that I know he really is.
Unfortunately, Obama seems to loose sight of his secularist roots and spends way too much time pandering to the ignorant and deeply anti-intellectual evangelical community.
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hurrry!
[Read the article: Bush officials sneak-attack nation's wildlife]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hurry Bush, you only have a few more months in office and yet there are so many progressive and hard won intitiatives to gut before you go!
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Not News!
[Read the article: Oops]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who bloody cares! Have you ever done any public speaking Alex? simple mixups and gaffes are are pretty damn common. I think it's pretty weird that you spent three paragraphes covering this silly crap.
I know this is asking a lot of some of Salon's writers, but please, keep your eye on the ball and don't get so distracted by stupid, irrelevant shit!
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Get over it Rebecca!
[Read the article: Should Obama have picked Hillary?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cut the crap--its done!
I'm so sick of Salon with it's wierd pathological Hillary fetish. I liked her too but guess what kittens-- we've moved on and we have an election to win now. So keep your eye on the god damned ball and quit the stupid fucking hand wringing over Hillary.
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I couldn't agree more with the thesis of this book
[Read the article: The dark history of burned flesh]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just yesterday I was grilling some meat that I had seasoned with my favorite Montreal marinade and I all of a sudden felt the insatiable urge to burn a cross on someone's lawn.
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@sirphred...and other Hillary stallwarts
[Read the article: Should Obama have picked Hillary?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You said: "The biggest mistake Obama has made was not to choose Hillary. He couldn't lose with her. He can't win without her. She'll be getting my vote by write-in. I suspect she'll get many."
My advice is to take a deep breath and think hard about this. However, I know that's going to be hard to do when your head is so far up your ass and you lack the critical faculties to actually think.
Hillary boosters that don't vote for Obama because of differences in political philosophy are completely within their rights. But any Hillary fans that don't vote for Obama because he hasn't properly kowtowed to her 'base' should be sterilized and treated like the monomaniacal braindead morons they are.
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Mitt Romney = Unbuttered bread
[Read the article: Who said politics was on hold?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Romney is just a suit and a haircut. Nobody of substance should give anything he says a second thought.
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@NYShooter
[Read the article: Who said politics was on hold?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good grades, marital fidelity and some business accumen do not make you a man of substance. I didn't say he wasn't a good 'yes man', pencil pusher or events manager. He's got that in spades!.