Letters to the Editor
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Coverage of Colbert - what makes Salon great!
While I periodically get annoyed with Salon's delight in whipping up the mommy wars, your coverage of the l'affaire de Colbert is exactly what makes this online magazine worth every penny of its membership costs! Not funny?! Of course it was not ha! ha! funny - the truth is never funny. No one gets satire anymore. He said what needs to be said and what the majority of the American people - not to mention the rest of the world - want to say, and having been handed an opportunity and a venue he rose to the occassion in a way that no Washington journalist has the guts to do! That we are spoon fed ridiculous garbage from our govenment is to be expected, but that the powerful are "offended" when we refuse to swallow it is outrageous. The case of John McCain is the best illustrative example. Does McCain need to court the religious right in order to get the Republication nomination which he so desperately wants? Probably. But are we really supposed be silent and nod our heads when he packages it as his evolving understanding of the positive impact this goup of ideologues has had on policy? Is he serious? How stupid do our govenment leaders think we are? Like the famous New Yorker cartoon, Colbert stood up and essentially said "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it." It makes you proud to be an American.