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Seriously, that's what this photo looks like. Does this similarity mean anything?
No. It's odd, however.
But, conceivably, far in the future, some historian may quote us, to help prove that all Americans were not simple-minded murderous creeps, back in the first decade of the twenty-first century CE. That is one reason to watch your spelling, grammar, and punctuation here in Salon.
You're delusional. Absolutely delusional.
1. History will little note nor long remember anything said on Salon. When the people who pump money into this failed venture finally give up, within ten years it'll be an answer to a trivia question. If anything at all is remembered, it'll be a few of the articles. These comment threads won't even be a footnote.
2. Your self-righteous hysteria is amusing, but not really informative. Like a lot of Salonistas, you suffer from the Manichean delusion that you are Good and that those who disagree with you are Evil.
3. Salon has its share of creeps. You're one of them.
Just don't need your type of rants. Advances nothing.
Editor-in-Chief where are you?
Like a lot of Salon readers, I'm getting a bit tired of "all Palin all the time," but there are at least three good reasons why articles like this one continue to be useful:
- As other readers have pointed out, the MSM isn't doing any real dirt-digging at all on Palin (or McCain, for that matter.) Getting the word out about just how corrupt she is gives Salon readers ammunition for the proverbial water-cooler discussions, and that may just possibly change some low-information voters' minds between now and November.
- Salon readership is mostly Democratic, but, as the letters sections continue to demonstrate, not entirely. At least a few Republican readers might learn something they didn't know about their candidate, and since pretty much everything that's come about Palin's performance as a mayor and governor is negative, that can't hurt. The right-wing trolls will never change their minds, of course, but is it too much to hope for that there still a few thoughtful, principled conservatives out there?
- There is a very good chance that Palin is running for President. McCain is old and sick; he is more likely to die in office than any major-party candidate in living memory (yes, including Reagan in 1984; Reagan was older then than McCain is now, but he didn't have anything like McCain's terrible health history.) If he wins, and then dies and leaves us with President Palin, at least we'll have a little more information to help us anticipate the actions of the stunningly incompetent and corrupt regime which will inevitably follow.
Most of the letters from self-proclaimed PUMAs here are pretty clearly from right-wing trolls reciting Republican talking points; the authors are people who would never have voted for any Democrat, Obama or Clinton or anyone else. But it is possible that there are still a few Clinton supporters here who are inclined to vote for Palin out of a combination of frustration at the Democratic nomination process and a desire to see a woman, any woman, on the winning ticket. If articles like this one manage to persuade even a few such readers of what a terrible mistake it would be to vote for McCain/Palin on that basis, then they've served their purpose.
Here you go.
http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/schanberg09182008pt1
I'm doing my best to make sure my fellow vets get the word on this one.
Strangely uncovered in this mess is that in the religious world she occupies her husband is her boss and she is duty bound to obey him ... as she surely has demonstrated that she does. A heartbeat away from the presidency is really the husband of the one who can field dress a moose.
America ... land of the free to be emotional and very unwise
I've lived in Anchorage almost all my adult life - since 1967, to be exact.
Sarah Palin has succeeded because people underestimated her - not a problem this year - and because she appeals to the fantasies of the great unwashed (if that doesn't get me banned I don't know what will)
Sarah Palin appeals to those who object to freedom of choice more than anything else (anecdotal evidence: my 1960 high school e-mail group - it was a small, red state town) Once they learn that she is anti-choice her lying, cheating - all that - doesn't matter - she is anti-choice, and that is ALL that counts
IT DOESN'T MATTER that everything Talbot and others say is true - she is against abortion, and that's it - school is out - everything else like budget deficits, foreign policy, ANYTHING - doesn't matter. Of my high school classmates - which represents the fair average (I would guess) in the red states - they all stop listening once they learn that Palin (who is NOT the presidential candidate, but they don't know/care/understand that her power as VP depends on the mental vacancy of the president) is anti-choice
We have lost, good people.
It's almost like America isn't paying attention to the facts. We are voting for a homecoming queen... right?
Oh.
Are you familiar with the concept of opportunity cost? By devoting so much obsessive attention and editorial space to Palin, you are tacitly suggesting that she's the most important issue of the race. (As opposed to say, the economy, health care, etc. etc. etc.) Because Salon is an avowedly partisan outlet ("the Fox News of the left", as you and Gary like to say), you are implying that liberal Obama supporters have nothing better to talk about than anti-Palin diatribes which only appeal to the converted. That's the kind of logic which loses elections.
Yes, stories about Palin garner Salon huge page views. Besides that, what's the possible editorial justification for so much focus on her, as opposed to all the myriad issues you claim to care about?
Your post should have been directed to the Editor-in-Chief, Joan Walsh, not David Talbot.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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