Letters to the Editor
BryanS
Published Letters: 365 Editor's Choice: 1
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@ KStone
[Read the article: Thank you, Rush Limbaugh!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, I'm not sure about the "significant portion" part. Most of these letters are multiple postings from the same batch of usual suspects.
True, true. But each time they refresh the page, that's a page view, and websites live and die as a result of the ad revenue generated by page views. And considering that a lot of the Hillary supporters seem to be one-post drive-bys, I'd think that Salon might want to try and not alienate their repeat readers.
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*ahem*
[Read the article: Cashing in on the Clinton campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like Mark Penn, I've also been working my butt off to make sure that Obama beats Hillary in the primary. Where's my big-ass check?
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Welcome back, Alex
[Read the article: Examining the reaction to Clinton's hospital story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After several days' worth of insightful War Room updates that focused on issues that many Salon readers can come together on, here comes Alex's first piece this week, a whiny bit of propaganda in which he valiantly leaps to the defense of Hillary Clinton and chides lefty journalists and bloggers for believing that the lady who gets caught lying a lot was lying about yet another thing. (In actuality, she wasn't exactly lying; she just wasn't interested in getting the full story before turning it into a talking point for her stump speech.)
Of course, this article is probably going to get more comments and page views than anything else in the War Room today, and it falls right in lockstep with the journalistic biases of the site's editorial staff, so I guess I should give up any hope of Steve Benen taking over the War Room anytime soon.
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ba-dum-bum
[Read the article: Larry Craig has David Vitter's back]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Best headline of the week so far.
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It's not that sexism doesn't exist...
[Read the article: My last word (for now) on sexism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... and it's not that the vast majority of us wish it didn't, regardless of our level of support for Hillary Clinton.
It's that every time this point is made in the campaign, it sounds like Hillary's supporters are blaming a sexist culture for their candidate's failings in the primary. (Ironically, many of these same supporters holler at Obama supporters whenever we point out that our "lucky" candidate's ethnicity has been used as a weapon to brand him as "other" and unelectable.)
And Joan, while I appreciate that you began this piece by correctly pointing out that sexism is not the only thing holding Hillary back, and that many of her wounds are self-inflicted, this meme has been repeated so many times without that caveat that even your very carefully worded article still sounds whiny by association.
Hillary's taken a lot of unfair hits solely because she's not a man. Obama's suffered political damage for not being lily-white. McCain's age is certainly more of a hindrance than a help for him. They've each got an uphill battle to fight against societal discrimination, and until someone comes up with an objective unit of measurement for quantifying precise amounts of bias, there's no point in trying to argue who has the toughest row to hoe.
Finally, including a link to a viral video that was assembled specifically by and for Hillary supporters doesn't do much to protect you against charges of bias. I don't look to Sean Hannity for an objective assessment of how the Iraq war is going, and it's more than a little unsettling to see campaign propaganda being cited as a primary source to buttress the arguments of the EIC of a news site that I've had great respect for over the years (although that has certainly slipped in recent months).
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"You can keep your Tiger Woods..."
[Read the article: The problem with comparing Obama to Tiger Woods]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...because we've got a whole party full of Fuzzy Zoellers!"
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Credibility gap
[Read the article: Debating the debate, complaining about complaining]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It certainly doesn't help Hillary's growing untrustworthiness problem when her campaign tries to miscategorize Obama's legitimate beef with the style of ABC's debate. Complaints with the debate certainly haven't been limited to Obama supporters, and I thought that Obama's pick-yourself-up-and-dust-yourself-off response was entirely appropriate and not at all whiny. Of course, as an Obama supporter, I'm biased, but when the outrage over the debate was so significant that even ABC had to address it in their nightly newscast, it seems to me that this is yet another issue that Hillary's on the wrong side of.
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I'll do you one better...
[Read the article: Debating the debate, complaining about complaining]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He certainly can handle the criticism. In fact, he is currently leading in the race for the Dem nomination, over a candidate who had a huge advantage and lead early in the process.
Not only is Obama winning the primary against Hillary, he's also holding his own in polls against the Republican nominee, who's using many of the same lines of attack against him that the Clinton campaign is. I don't know how anyone could see Obama as being "unelectable" when he's successfully withstanding the assault of two very experienced, very well-known candidates from opposite ends of the mainstream political spectrum.
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@ AKA Smith
[Read the article: Debating the debate, complaining about complaining]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me put it this way: You are in a room and someone you don't like is being gang-raped but you don't complain or call the police just because you don't like that person. Then the same thing starts happening to your best friend. Or you? Guess what? You should have complained in the first instance. You are complicit in both rapes.
So, let me get this straight: Getting asked a bunch of tough or unfair questions in a debate is akin to being gang raped? And not intervening to stop someone else from being raped means that you had it coming if you yourself wind up being raped in a similar fashion?
If you could somehow manage to compare Obama to Hitler, I'd be happy to nominate you for the insane hyperbole award for the day.
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@ Smith
[Read the article: Debating the debate, complaining about complaining]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please look up the meaning of the word "hyperbole," and then tell me which one of us is guilty of it.
Next, please speak to someone who actually has been raped, and see if they'd agree that it's at all similar to having people say mean things about you in the press during a run for political office that you volunteered for.
Above all, definitely keep posting. You are the sort of Clinton supporter that we Obamabots pray for. I wish we had a million more like you.