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• Monday, May 12, 2008 05:12 AM

  The noise has overcome the signal here

  As Hillary's chances diminish, the volume of hate speech from Hillary supporters goes up here. And now, it's so loud and plentiful that there's little point in reading these letters as it's upsetting and doesn't lead any of us to a better place. Talk about bitter.

  I read the entire letters thread for the piece "What does Hillary Want?" and I just wanted to let CeliaInSF know that she's great. She can speak for me any time. Her posts, even while defending herself against some pretty loud and hateful yelling, are beautiful and represent the best part of human nature. My wife is also a fan of yours Celia.

  But, what a waste of time it was to wade through all of that bile as this letters thread will certainly be as well.

  Salon, under Joan Walsh, is failing to take the conversation to a higher place, and so are most of you.

  As various people have proposed, I recommend that those of us who want to keep the conversation civil avoid the known trolls and avoid anyone on either side who YELLS or who seems like either a representative of Operation Chaos or on the Obama side, someone who's out to just poke Hillary supporters in the eye, even when they deserve it.

  Don't provoke, even when provoked. No one's keeping score here people.

  There are a number of people doing this already and I admire you for your efforts in this shitstorm of yelling. In the same way that Obama is organizing we all need to organize and leave the hate speech behind. It's not going to get anyone elected except John McCain.

  —rwanderman Read rwanderman's other letters
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