Letters to the Editor
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A few moments of contemplation for a great woman.
What a harsh world - we need more people like her.
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Our culture is so mean
Weary of feminine train-wreck tales (Lohan, Spears, pick your poison),
You want a nicer world, as long as you don't have to be the nice one.
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What I find especially sad
Sadly, there aren't that many news stories about women like this. Or men, for that matter.
But it's also sad that you couldn't just do a straight story on her.
Instead you had to pimp your story out by using the names of these women you hate.
You had a choice of how to start your story, and you decided that Ingrid Betancourt wasn't good enough by herself.
It says a lot about what's become of feminism in the new millennium.
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What's a shame is that radicals throw Hosannahs at FARC no matter who they kill
Rest assured that if FARC kills this woman, a third of Salon readers will jump up to defend FARC.
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Something I've learned at Broadsheet
You can't be a feminist and a humanist at the same time.
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And another point for Carol to absorb
The political rabble rouser, rumored to be near death, merits more column inches than all the bad girls of Hollywood combined.
Ingrid Betancourt is a hard news story, not a celebrity gossip story.
Therefore her real competition for column inches is other legitimate news, like the campaign for president, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and problems in the economy.
Betancourt is not competing with Hollywood bad girls for column inches in celebrity gossip publications like the National Enquirer or TMZ.
Those publications will never cover her story, ever, because she's hard news, not gossip.
If Betancourt is not getting the hard news coverage she deserves, then you should complain about the other hard news that has been crowding her story out of the hard news section where her story rightly belongs.
In fact, I think one person Carol should complain to is Joan Walsh.
Why is this story being pink-ghettoized in Broadsheet, when it's not so much about feminism, but about terrorism and justice in general?
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Colombia, not Columbia
in the book title. Glad and heartbroken to learn about Betancourt.
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And Bette Davis...what about Bette Davis?
How is it that Broadsheet didn't do a would-have-been-100-years-old tribute to one of the great feminist actresses of the 20th Century? We gripe and groan about today's Hollywood lightweights but fail to appreciate the tough gals who helped pave the way for positive female images in our popular culture!
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You can't be a feminist and a humanist at the same time.
Amen, Silenced.
This is my new motto.
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RE: "ass-kicking female politicians (aka Clinton)"
Are you just kissing Joan's butt or does she make you put that in there? What about all of her various "mis-statements" (aka lies)? Her pro-war whoring? And her middle-of-the-raod sell-out stance on most liberal issues like abortion?
Or, as long as she doesn't have a penis, she is the best candidate?
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Feminist and Humanist
Very good!
Of course one can't be a humanist and a feminist at the same time - feminity is only 50% humanity.
As for the topic of the story - Hugo Chavez could have arranged the release of I.B. any time. Chavez, himself a marxist, has been supporting FARC not just with money but also with international politicking, for instance recently he has been pressuring the EU to remove FARC from the list of terrorist organizations.
I wonder why this angle was not presented in the article?
OK, now back to discussing is it sexual harassment to make remarks about the color of a woman's skirt at the workplace..
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Bush Nixed Betanourt's rescue
With the agreement of Betancourt's family, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was on the verge of negotiating her rescue a few weeks ago. French president Sarkozy expressed an interest in personally escorting her home.
Instead, the U.S. backed Colombian government attacked the FARC camp at the center of negotiations and killed FARC commander Raul Reyes. The FARC camp was located in Ecuador and all three governments, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, were aware of negotiations and Colombia claimed to be in support of them. Bush thought it more important to embarass Chavez and strengthen the Colombian government than to rescue Betancourt.
Betancourt is still in captivity because of George W. Bush, who stops at nothing to cause trouble for Chavez. Bush's actions nearly brought three countries to the brink of war.
If you want to talk about Betancourt, you have to talk about Bush and how he prevented her freedom. You also have to talk about how both Clinton and Obama backed Bush to the letter.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=555&Itemid=34
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I can't even imagine...
...the type of hell this woman must have gone through for the past several years and what she is going through now. She may have had a child by rape. She might have Hepetitis B.
The prisoners exchange didn't happen, probably because of the surprise assualt and death of one of the FARC's commander in chiefs by some other paramilitary organisation. Really, she has dual citizenship, should be released.
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Por Favor
Liberar Ingrid Bétancourt.
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It would indeed be nice to have more reporting on this story. Particularly, more reporting on the FARC-Hugo Chavez connection, and Chavez's contributions to the general malignancy of this FARC outrage..
You fans of Ingrid Betancourt could probably learn more about her plight by reading the Wall Street Journal and the National Review, than Salon.
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Real female heroes
One more thing: what Betancourt is, is a 'real hero.' No qualifier required.
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Typo - it´s COLOMBIA not COLUMBIA
Even the link at amazon shows COLOMBIA. Feel free to delete this post, just wanted to point out the typo-spelling mistake.