Letters to the Editor
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Correction
Ms. Marsden received a conditional discharge, not a "provisional discharge". There is no such thing as a provisional discharge.
I don't have much sympathy for a Coulter-wannabe, but the nastier the article the more disconcerting it is to see such a basic factual error.
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Great article, scary woman
Rebecca has officially redeemed herself for the Demi Moore fiasco.
I feel all warm and tickly inside wondering which big Fox honcho is going to have to call the cops on her first. I want to know how this story ends.
Seriously, are the people who hired her nuts? Stalkers like this don't get better on their own!
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These Frat House Flowers wilt in daylight
Women don't like blond coquettish Ann Coulter. They can't identify with her. She's always flirting with their men. Women don't like doe-eyed sex kitten Michele Malkin. What woman would want to emulate an Olongapo Hostess in a slit skirt? Ingram? Strictly for male foot fetishists with an Electra complex, but I doubt women would identify with that.
These frat house flowers bloom only in the fertile imaginations of Republican men and boys. So their act is self-limiting. Half of all Republicans are women. Those women don't want their husbands and boyfriends daydreaming about some Right Wing tarts like Coulter, Marsden or Malkin singing a chorus of "Don't you wish your girlfriend was a FREAK like me?"
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Something we liberals don't understand
It absolutely doesn't matter that this woman may be a whack job and whatever else.....right wing types don't have a sense of intellectual consistency....the concept of hypocrasy is foreign to them.....you know, Rush Limbaugh, third world sex tourist is the pinnacle of male virtue, Newt Gingrich can have an affair while trying to crucify Bill Clinton for his, their religions leaders can have little gay boy-toys..............as long as you wrap yourself in the flag and stand on their side......
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CATFIGHT!
Meeeyaaaaaw!
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Life on Planet Marsden
I moved to Vancouver shortly before the Marsden case broke out -- or perhaps I should say, broke over, under, sideways, and down. Oleanna is certainly an apt reference here, as it was fascinating, in a scary kind of way, to see how the press (and public) first identified with her pain, then started to wonder about her concoctions, and eventually began to realize that she was as crazy, and destructive, as a bughouse rat.
She, like the Coultergeist and Malkintent et al, populates a newly created meta-zone in which bizarre psychopathologies attach themselves to half-formed ideologies and sideshow venues, so woe betide any man or woman who gets in her path; it's all show-biz now, baby, and someone has to pay for the plastic surgery!
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Conditional discharge
Thanks Nathan,
"Provisional discharge" was a mistake and I'm so glad you caught it. I fixed it tonight and there should be a correction posted sometime tomorrow.
Best, Rebecca
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why should facts and logic have any influence over the expression of instinct and emotion in this particular case on FOX
when they never have anywhere on the network before?
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Our apologies
Sorry guys, us Canadians try to export only our best like Steve Nash, but it's an open border and people will find their own level. Steve is one level, Rachel is another.
Anyone with access to Frank Magazine, our homegrown "Private Eye" now at frank.ca can find even more wonderful detail.
Call me Ismael.
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and she really is a FREAK, any woman that hot who would take being TURNED DOWN
that hard, has got to be interest, especailly to a certain segment of the fox audience, even if, actually ESPECIALLY if, they know all about her.
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Has anyone ever watched "Red Eye"?
What a crappy show. The host, (Gutfeld), was a regular flamethrower over at Huffington Post where his main posts involved put downs of liberal bloggers for their trendy anti-patriotism and hypocrisy,- you know, the usual charges of the terminally irony-deficient conservative. Sometimes he was clever and sometimes he hit his target even though his humor generally seemed to be rather scathingly mean-spirited and in retrospect, coming from that same uber-bravado that masked the fear of so many born-again republicans of the post 911 years.
I was interested in seeing what kind of show he'd end up hosting. I gotta admit that I came across it by accident late one evening. At it's best it's like a bad Bill Maher show where the guests seem to be inarticulate and none too bright and meander around topics flailing for meaning, originality and humor but substitute snideness and gall. Rachel Marsden is one of the worst offenders. I've since seen the show 5 or 6 times and I've yet to hear anything remotely articulate from any of the panel let alone her. (This show is so hard up for "talent" that it's producer sits on the panel every night). I was wondering what "quality" it was that Ms Marsden brought to this show other than being one more leggy, short-skirted conservachick-(it's already a cliche). But there she is every time. But then again, so is the same group of morons giving lip service to exciting topics like Anna Nicole and celebrity snatch shots. One night she claimed to have some affinity with some other female pundit because she too, didn't "get" Jon Stewart. She actually said something akin to, "I sit there and watch and go, "huh?" This is pretty much like admitting outright that you are stupid. If "red Eye" approached even one iota of the wit of TDS at it's worst, least inspired it would be worth watching because it might actually have an original point of view about something. I was wondering where/ who Rachel Marsden was. Now I know. Boy, it seems the more and more like indeed the most vocal of the born-again republican, self-promoting nimrods all have some weird pathology that motivates them onward. Like I said, I've never heard anything articulate come out of her mouth and correcting the rest of the intellectually vacuous crew about the Gulf of Tonkin doesn't cut it. Compared to her Coulter is a true wit.
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From the same University as Terry Fox . . .
I am absolutely embarrassed that an attendee of my alma matter would be a "journalist/editorialist" for Fox News. I remember walking past the Terry Fox (voted as one of the ten greatest Canadians as polled by the CBC) monument at Simon Fraser University, and being so proud that I was attending the same school as a national hero whom I have been hearing about since elementary school. I guess having a graduate on Fox News evens things out.
As far as Jack Webster goes, he would be turning in his grave if he saw the kind of journalism and editorialism the passes for news on Fox. Sure he leaned to the right and sometimes lost his temper, but he always went below the surface and offered intelligent discourse.
When did looks trump intelligence, integrity, journalistic and editorial experience (beyond spitting out vile in Canadian tabloids), and fairness in the Fox hiring process? I mean do you think Edward R. Murrow, HL Menken, and Walter Chronkite would make it through the hiring process of Fox or any other outlet that passes for a mainstream TV news outlet. No because they are rather homely, intelligent, fair, and just plain good journalists and editorialists. Why not just cut to the chase and have a bunch of scantily clad Maxim girls and Chippendales dancers reading the news and the latest Conservative talking points. This is Ironic because I saw Network last night and thought to myself, this is no longer a satire.