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Shameful
You know, it's one thing for a stand-up comic to mock Barbara Walters' distinctive manner of speaking.
But for an ostensibly professional critic to mock a person's speech impediment in the course of a review of that person's autobiography - well, that's just tasteless.
I stopped reading right there. Certainly I can find another review where the critic actually has respect for not only the subject matter of the review, but also the form itself.
A comedian going for cheap laughs is part of the job. A critic going for cheap laughs is a writer who has little of consequence to say. "Tawdry" is the word which springs to mind.
What the hell has happened to Salon? Every day it's more and more like a bastardly combination of Drudge and the E! channel.