Letters to the Editor
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Salon...
sure knows how to go after somebody they don't like.
If this was the woman who was involved in the Duke case I don't the spin would be the same from Salon.
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most rape accusations are false?
obviously, marsden is a psycho, but if you have a brain, this acknowledgement does NOT IN ANY WAY lead to the conclusion that "see...like i have always said, most rape accusations are false. we should take them all with a grain of salt." um, right... way to use that cognitive thinking mr/miss too-cowardly-to-submit-your-name. i considered not even dignifying that comment with a response, but that's a really damaging, irresponsible comment to make. don't let one crazy woman scare true rape survivors into submission and silence. obviously, each case should be treated with equal prejudice and given a sound investigation. blanket generalizations/conclusions are never helpful. so, "no name given," think before you say stupid, harmful things.
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I really don't get how this reflects on Fox.
The opening paragraph made it clear the two hosts of the show were shocked and made every effort to distance themselves, and the network, from her statement. To which her past is utterly irrelevant, anyway.
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What a loon
Good article about yet another right-wing nutjob. As a journalist myself, I find it pathetic that broadcast news organizations continue to hire women because of their looks and not based on their experience and/or credentials. This happens on every network (including CNN), but Fox News went low hiring a loon like Marsden. My advice for the 50-plus year old men working at Fox New would be to be careful around Marsden.
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A Few Thoughts...
In Ms. Traister's excellent article she brings up the fact that the Left has no equivalent to Coulter and this Marsden person. I feel this speaks to a very basic difference between Right-wingers and the Left.
The Right has shown itself to be more concerned with appearances than with substance. This must be because they think this can occlude an appalling lack of depth. Ronald Reagan is a case in point; he couldn't express himself in a manner more complex than offensive slogans, or the kind of smarmy, creepy homilies one can find on plaques in the Hallmark store (or my granny's bathroom wall). Actual discourse--and a recognition of human beings and situations as complicated and poorly dealt with when one sees them as props to one's ego, or obstacles standing in the way of what one wants--requires more intelligence, consideration and courage than those on the Right seem capable of. Limbaugh speaks alone in the studio. O'Reilly screams "Shut up!" at anyone who shows themselves to be more informed than he is . Colmes only operates as Hannity's mousy stooge. Shemp had more dignity.
As for miniskirted hate-spewers, the Left doesn't need their equivalent! It wouldn't occur to those who value women such as Helen Thomas and Molly Ivins; just as the Left doesn't need the equivalent of Bob Jones University. Legitimate universities have always been looked upon with suspicion by right-wingers because they tend to stimulate critical thinking and determining truth through investigation. Dangerous stuff for those who want to keep people dumb and malleable...
The Right makes it pretty clear that the only "worthy" people are the rich, powerful or cute, white, and robotic,spewing only right-wing platitudes (the poor, the handicapped, the elderly--completely unimportant unless they can be used). It's no accident that right-wing notions flourish in the same places where beauty pageants--both adult and children's--are considered to be the best thing girls and women can be involved in. The Right never seem to get tired of countless denigrations toward the appearance of women and girls associated with liberals. Most likely the Dixie Chicks were on the receiving end of so much hatred because attractive female country musicians have a responsibility to be shallow Republicans. The betrayal! How could they! They broke a law of the universe! I doubt Ann Coulter has gotten death threats from liberals. Sad that so many people have such a simplistic Weltanshauung that one comment by Natalie Maines--nowhere near the hate-filled rhetoric of Coulter--could cause such rabid outrage, but right-wingers in power depend on fearful small-mindedness.
Time for the Werewolf to go to bed--Maybe I'll have a truly hilarious dream about Marsden and O'Reilly suing each other for harrassment, with loofahs and falafel as evidence...
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I hope she's not Jewish
If the Salonistas find out they'll literally march to her office and throw her out the window.
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Typical of Fox
I can't see why anyone would be surprised that Fox would hire someone like Marsden. They have hired Oliver North, paid G.Gordon Liddy and many others with pasts that might prevent them from getting on-air time anywhere else. How better to insure loyalty?
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And Cul-turd
What a lovely addition to the toilet bowl that is Fox News.
And for the record, Ann Cunturd is not good looking, she's a wrinkled, old, bad-dye job, harpy.
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Snicker
I'd love to see the looks on the faces of some of the Fox people quoted in the piece as they read it.
After all, one of them is her next potential stalking target...
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Conserva-babe?
Conserva-boob is more like it. She's got all the right baggage for Fox though and I do like the Coulter 2.0 jest. Just because you're potentially physically attractive (to somebody, personally I wouldn't touch her rake!) doesn't mean they won't bite you. Just asks her old bedfellows! This girl looks and sounds like a succubus for certain.
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Something to smile about now!
Sallythewerewolf, I suddenly found myself howling with laughter. It is very true that liberals don't have an Ann Coulter because we had Molly Ivins first.
I cannot even look at Ann Coulter's picture in the paper, she sickens me so. But now I have a buffer to her vile filth. I can just stop and think "oh the poor Far Right, having her instead of someone warm and funny and wise like Molly Ivins" and smile a suspiciously pitying, superior smile at the Neo-Cons for needing something as disgusting as Ann Coulter.
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The responses to this article....
are just pure joy.
I swear to you that real life is way funnier than fiction. A team of well paid Hollywood writers could not come up with anything better. And to the 22 year mental health professional that enlightened us with the very somber diagnosis: "That bitch is crazy", PRICELESS. Also for an earlier poster who advised us "to just keep flushing and maybe Marsden would end up in Mexico". Wow!
You guys make my day. Keep on being your same hilarious selves.