Letters to the Editor
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Give Van Souther a break
I'm a Democrat and I agreed with his post. I didn't watch Fox News last night (because I can't stand to watch it) but I don't know what everyone expected them to do. Burst into tears on air because they lost? Admit they were wrong and should have been plugging for the Democrats all along? Start hurling accusations of election fraud? (Oh wait, that's what we do.)
This is a bit off-topic, but I think we should try to understand why Republicans believe what they do rather than mocking them (and gloating when we win). I thought the whole red state / blue state thing was summed up nicely the other night on Studio 60. I'm paraphrasing, but Matthew Perry's character said, explaining the differences to his conservative Christian ex-girlfriend, "you don't like us because you think we think you're stupid, and we don't like you because we think you're stupid."
I thought O'Hehir's piece was very mean-spirited and gloating, and call me idealistic, but I like to think we're above that kind fo thing.
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I (do not always) Love Salon
It is this sort of article that turns off many of Salon's intelligent (if slightly right-leaning), considerate (if sometimes arrogant), geographically challenged (who are, no sarcasm intended, sorry they can not live in San Francisco) readers. Please leave the gloating to Fox; I'll take optimism that things will get better.
Matt Kelley
Takoma Park, MD
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Why McCain looks like he does.
It's not just that he sold his soul to the Bush Inc radical right, and they were the same people that ran nasty attacks saying his adopted was his illegitimate child. That a man, who once was tortured, watched as moments after Bush Inc. signed the anti torture bill he said he didn't have to follow it.
It's that he did all of that and more in order to move farther to the right and get his turn to run for President, and the country moved to the left, and now he's screwed.
I truly feel sorry for the man.
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Good subject matter, mangled and betraying what we don't want next
"Proustian", "piss-elegant"? sheesh, try writing less. You write for Salon, we already know you're smart, but how you English say, inelegant.
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Talking Heads Lose Combs
What a great article! The ironic, perceptive wit in this piece hits the "bulls-eye" in showing the Fox ideology for what it really is. When the commentators finally allude to, in their own obscure manner, a perception that Bush has been performing in office like an idiot, that admission is surely also an implicit description of Fox's own level of political acuity.
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Great piece!
I watched Fox for a while, and I agree that they didn't really provide nearly enough schadenfreude for the likes of you and me. And I agree that Malkin's visit to the "blogosphere" was bizarre. But hey - it must be hard to keep your game face on while your entire house of cards is collapsing before your very eyes.
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strange gyrations
why anyone would bother to tweak o'hehir's nose about this article is beyond me. did you people have your sense of humour removed? are you suffering from amnesia? did you forget that ,for years now, the pundits and commentators dragged over the coals in this article have been apologists for murderers, torture-enablers, serial character assassins and generally all around nasty people that have essentially led the way in killing off anything resembling what journalism once was. so whats with the crocodile tears or are so you anxious to tell yourselves that you are soooo much the better person that a little payback for people like us too too far below you.
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Lame-Brain McCain
The article of Andrew OHehir was excellent; however, as a resident of Arizona, I can account for the McCain's lack of facial color. Senator McCain has spent the last few months kissing up to Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, et.al. attempting to further ingratiate himself with the far-far-right wing of his party. That's bad enough.
But our illustrious Senator suggested sending another 100,000 U.S. soldiers into the Iraqi civil war (created by his good buddy W.), and it seems the country (as indicated by the elections) is moving in the exact opposite direction. Poor John!!! As a Vietnam veteran myself, I have zero sympathy for him BUT I understand why he look's like, well, the living dead. As many know, our illustrious Senator has an overweaning desire to be President and, gee, chasing after all those fundamentalist fruitloops, that looked like the right thing to do just a few weeks ago.
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sure right wingers have to be understood but what we don't owe them is respect
for their opinion that anyone who disagrees with them about anything is a tool of satan and deserves to be treated as such. And make no mistake, that is what many/most of the believe and we can't spend our time begging for their love and approval.
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John McCain
Never ever feel sorry for this guy. Never ever vote for this guy. Never ever entertain ideas about his so called 'independent streak'. He was an old school Goldwater Republican, you know the type: spend less on government, keep government out of the bedrooms and personal lives of Americans, be fiscally conservative and vote mostly in favor of corporate interests. Besides a brief flirtation with atomic warfare, not a bad sort really. Then he went off to pander and supplicate at the Bob Jones School of Infinite Hypocrisy. That is a slope so coated with graphite particles that you slip so fast you dont even see what is around you on the way down. And the lizard look last night? He is simply thinking how he can best profit from a new inconvenient truth: A. Bush and his treasonous lot are total f---ups. B. Now the whole country seems to understand A., and C. Where does this leave me?
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McCain, Cheap Hooker
McLame long ago used up the karma he gained through his brave service and prisoner of war endurance. since 2000, he has been bush's buttboy. He's no maverick; he's a two dollar whore.
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Pinch me (to make sure I'm not dreaming)
Here in Houston we have a number of right wing radio programs to choose from 24/7. Today, like fox news, they were falling all over themselves trying to figure out how to spin the Democrat's takeover. My husband got such a kick out of it he was afraid it was all a dream. We are still pinching ourselves as I was convinced the election would be stolen once again.
As for John McCain, read what Wayne Madsen of waynemadsenreport.com has to say about him being blackmailed and his about face might come into focus. I once admired him and now despise him. Also the book 'Confessions of an economic hit man' touches on the type of dirty tricks that our government uses to keep people in the public eye in line. I just hope none of the newly elected Democrats get in a plane that decides to mysteriously fall out of the sky a la Paul Wellstone.
Peace.