Letters to the Editor
AncientAssyrian
Published Letters: 753 Editor's Choice: 54
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*** FACT CORRECTION ON ERRORS IN THIS ARTICLE ***
[Read the article: Barack Obama and his mama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In case anyone is reading new to old responses, be advised that this article has a MAJOR inaccuracy. The writer, Carol Lloyd, has been informed, and numerous posts here have pointed it out. There has been no correction or retraction, which indicates that Salon's policy is to knowingly let this inaccuracy stand.
Carol Lloyd wrote:
Would Michelle Obama be the country's most liberated first lady? Not unless she can keep the finger-pointing under control. In the Vanity Fair profile and elsewhere, she has taken potshots at Hillary Clinton, implying that her husband's extramarital affairs somehow disqualify her for the presidency. "If you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House," she told a Chicago crowd. That's the sort of feminism we can do without.
-- Carol Lloyd
Michelle Obama has not taken potshots at Hillary Clinton or mentioned extramarital affairs anywhere in public or print, and Carol Lloyd should be well aware of that, as anyone with the capability to Google easily is.
The ACTUAL, ORIGINAL QUOTE from Michelle Obama...
So 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 the girls know that I was gone somewhere, but they don’t care.
-- Michelle Obama
As is obvious, this does not mention or even suggest Hillary Clinton, extramarital affairs, or other candidate's marital issues. Lloyd has deliberately taken the quote out of context -- even after it had been done so in the past by inexperienced and partisan reporters -- and proven to be incorrect!
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@Persia
[Read the article: The baby I turned away]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the clarification. I had heard, but didn't remember specifics, that at least some countries require you to sign on to the adoption, and once you are approved, only then do they assign a child.
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And the Salon Hillary Adoration Continues Unabated...
[Read the article: Andrea Mitchell's strange attack against Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We've already got Broadsheet's self-hating feminist Carol Lloyd dredging up old quotes from Michelle Obama in order to misinterpret them, Swiftboat-style, to try to bolster Hillary. And of course, Joan Walsh's breathless "shock" -- along with her other fellow Hillary supporters -- at Obama's success.
I'm still waiting for Cary Tennis advice letter to the poor Hillary-supporter whose boyfriend is driving her crazy by volunteering for Obama, Heather Havrilesky's critique of Obama's TV appearances in Iowa, Farhad Manjoo's outlining the deficiencies of the Obama blog, and Patrick the Pilot's attack on the Obama presidential campaign jet.
Oh, and while you're at it, can't we also have a special article from Sidney Blumenthal on how a 3rd place finish is actually a win for Hillary Clinton, oh, and maybe let's find Debra Dickerson and ask her to tell us again about how Obama isn't really African-American, and see if Michael Scherer will tell us again about how in the Obama vs. Hillary race, Obama's the "woman."
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And the Passive-Aggressive Hillary-Shillfest Continues
[Read the article: Barack delivers, Hillary disappoints]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks Joe Conason, for continuing the passive-aggressive Salon-wide campaign coverage... So far, our take-home themes, thanks to Salon...
- Obama and his wife were MEAN to Hillary! How DARE they? (See Carol Lloyd/Broadsheet) (Not even true, but hey, Swiftboating works, right?)
- Obama's win was a total shock, because who would have thought HE would possibly win, when Hillary was his opponent? (see Joan Walsh)
- Obama isn't even African-American, anyway (see Debra Dickerson)
- Obama is really a woman (see Michael Scherer)
- The media were really really MEAN to Hillary! And THAT'S NOT HER FAULT!! (See Glenn Greenwald, Joe Conason)
- Obama won only because Hillary fumbled, but THAT'S NOT HER FAULT!! (See Joe Conason)
- Obama won only because Hillary has an unlikeable personality and lack of vision, but THAT'S NOT HER FAULT!!(See Joe Conason)
- Obama won only because Hillary is weighed down by her advisors, but THAT'S NOT HER FAULT!! (See Joe Conason)
I've come to the conclusion that if Obama wins the Democratic nomination, Salon's headline article will read "Hillary Clinton Narrowly Loses Democratic Nomination."