Letters to the Editor
AncientAssyrian
Published Letters: 697 Editor's Choice: 53
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@ Winkandanod
[Read the article: CNN, MSNBC: Obama wins Iowa]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apparently, you're not in on the biggest non-secret in town... Salon hates Obama.
That is why they pick the most unflattering photo they can find.
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Joan, you are so very predictable...
[Read the article: On to New Hampshire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And as other posters have suggested, isn't it time for a bit of soul-searching, an editorial meeting, and a decision to at least publicly make an endorsement of Hillary?
Trying to continue selling the fantasy that Salon is somehow impartial is utterly absurd.
You are truly in Fox News "We're Fair and Balanced" territory. But you need to make a decision, and show some integrity.
This sort of passive-aggressive coverage is unprofessional and insulting to your readership.
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More Obama Bashing...
[Read the article: Barack Obama and his mama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does ANYONE doubt that Salon has a concerted, site-wide effort to trash Obama?
Carol, good grief, ever heard of Google?
Michelle Obama explained exactly what she meant about her "If you can't run your own house" comment, quite clearly, and it had nothing to do with Hillary Clinton.
And just in case you haven't read any of that, here is the FULL quote, in context.
"Our view was that, if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House. So, so we've adjusted our schedules to make sure that our girls are first, so while he's traveling around, I do day trips. That means I get up in the morning, I get the girls ready, I get them off, I go and do trips, I'm home before bedtime."
So thanks for doing your part today as part in Salon's ongoing campaign to trash Obama.
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@Totoro - You BET there's an agenda -- it's All Hillary Shilling, All the Time
[Read the article: Barack Obama and his mama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yup...she has an agenda. Just like Joan Walsh, and Shapiro, and Farhad Manjoo, and Debra Dickerson, et. al., ad nauseum.
They like Hillary, they don't like Obama or the other candidates, and they want you to know it. But they want to maintain the fiction of impartiality, so they've adopted a passive-aggressive style of communicating it.
EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE that mentions anything about Obama is passive aggressive.
From Debra Dickerson's Obama is not black enough article, to Michael Scherer's "Hillary is from Mars, Obama is from Venus" which suggested that Obama was the "woman" in that matchup, to Joan Walsh's steady drumbeat of Hillary-worship thinly disguised as political coverage, it all comes together to paint a very clear portrait of an online magazine that, try as it might to pretend that it is covering the political race from an unbiased "liberal" perspective, is actually shilling for Hillary.
My theory: I think Joan Walsh wants to follow a Stephanopolous trajectory -- if Hillary is elected, she sees herself in a West Wing job, and after that, TV pundit.
If not that direct, I think Joan favors Hillary, and feels that she can't come right out and say it -- why, I don't know, as an editorial endorsement would be more intellectually honest than all this dissembling and pretending to be impartial.
I'm just mystified -- mystified that a magazine that purports to be providing political coverage can have such an obvious, distorted bias in favor of one candidate, and yet continues to deny it, despite article after article after article of obvious evidence.
They must think we're stupid, or we can't read, and that too tells you what they really think of us, their readers.
As for Salon, I still read here sometimes, but I did not ante up this year, for the first time, after years of being a paid subscriber since they first started subscriptions. I wrote to Salon to explain why -- drivel from Dickerson, the illiberal horror that is Paglia, and most importantly, the continuing anti-Obama/pro-Hillary drumbeat. I kept getting the same "why haven't you renewed" letter -- I kept sending the same response explaining why...but no real person ever bothered to respond -- which tells you all you need to know. They'll must all off figuring out the next article to trash Obama and glorify Hillary.
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Anyone Doubting that Salon Has it Out for Obama?
[Read the article: Barack Obama's breakthrough victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They're going at it from all directions.
Go check out Broadsheet's research-impaired Carol Lloyd, who has resurrected a misappropriated quote from Michelle Obama that was debunked long ago, in order to to trash her this morning.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/01/04/obama/index.html
I fully expect to see an "everything that's wrong with Obama's website" feature from Farhad Manjoo, Heather Havrilesky's scathing critique of Obama's TV presence during his victory speech in Iowa, a Since You Asked letter to Cary from a Hillary supporter saying that she can't bear to live with her Obama-supporting boyfriend one minute longer, and next week, Patrick the airline pilot will probably compare presidential campaign planes and find Obama's wanting.
It's all in a day's work at Salon...