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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Published Letters: 2
I really don't think the accents on True Blood are so bad, and I'm someone who's usually really bothered by that sort of thing. For example, Kira Segewick speaks in an accent used by no known human on the Closer, and that really drives me nuts.
But mostly I think the accents are pretty good on True Blood. Jason and Sam really speak like plenty of people I've known, and so do the smaller, peripheral characters. Bill uses a stilted cadence because he's supposed to have been a gentleman soldier in the Civil War, so that actually makes sense. Anna Paquin's accent is probably the worst--she doesn't exactly sound like Scarlett O'Hara, much more realistic than that. I'm prepared to give her a pass. Really, the only accent that sticks out for me is Tara's. I've never known of a African American girl from the south (or anywhere else for that matter) who spoke that way.
I understand that Glenn despises Bill Clinton and all associated with him and is generally ready to believe any vile story floated about either Bill or Hillary without question, but shouldn't a piece like this have at least a modicum of balance to it? Did the Clinton administration make any sort of explanation of the Rich pardon that might counter the charges of blatant influence peddling?
In fact, they did. Now Glenn might not buy that explanation, but shouldn't he at least raise it and dismiss it?
Bill Clinton made it clear that his main reason for issuing this pardon was to allow the many many civil suits against Rich to go forward. As long as the criminal action was ongoing (which it would be forever since Rich refused to return to the country) the civil actions could not even begin. There were many entities in this country that were eager to sue Rich for many millions of dollars. As a result of Clinton's pardon, those suits were able to go forward.
Now, the fact that a Deputy Attorney General received an average of one phone call or email every two and a half months from from some powerful and well connected lawyers certainly is damning evidence of something, but I don't know what. Sadly, Mother Theressa and Jesus Christ are both dead, so Obama was forced to name a mere human as his Attorney General. How ever will the nation survive?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
