Letters to the Editor
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I keep giving Salon the benefit of the doubt...
But the articles with headlines designed to take potshots at Obama keep on coming. The last time I wrote a letter was to Alex Koppelman's War Room article about Obama "pandering" by promising to go after profiteering gas stations. The sad thing on that posting was that the quote Koppelman cited to support his argument actually undermined it.
This article follows along the same vein - it conveniently ignores that the reason most economists don't think the federal gas tax holiday will translate to a real benefit to consumers is because (UNLIKE the Illinois tax) it is not charged at the pump.
It would be one thing if one writer made an honest mistake while writing a blog post, but this article was written with the explicit purpose of bolstering Clinton's wrongheaded idea and validating it, all sane arguments be damned.
It is a lot harder to give this article the benefit of the doubt. It makes me wonder if there is some truth to the accusations from hardcore Obama supporters that Salon is biased towards Clinton when they publish opinion pieces such as this one.
Is it possible that in the zeal to appear as "tough" on Obama as it purportedly has been on Clinton, the media is swinging too far out the other way?
Where is Salon's objectivity? Is it too much to ask for Salon to take their writers to task when they write opinion pieces unsubstantiated by nuanced facts?
I must clarify that I am not a US Citizen, just a Legal Permanent Resident of this country. As such, I cannot vote. But I do support Obama because he exhibits the qualities I value in great leadership: vision, passion and the courage to confront situations on their merits rather than what s/he thinks people want to hear.