Letters to the Editor
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Meet Gerry From Gibsonton!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibsonton,_Florida
I doubt even William has ever been to Gibsonton, cultured, witty and urbane as he is. Elitist!
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@ Dean Booth
How odd we haven't heard any concern from the right about the millions of children being indoctrinated in Christian churchs to hate homosexuals, to reject science, and generally to think of themselves as sinful wretches. I, for one, will be glad to start labelling this indoctrination as child abuse.
Speaking as someone who went through that -- as a non-het science-minded child -- I wouldn't call it child abuse. But your point is well-taken. The difference, of course, is that the targets of anger in many white churches tend to be more acceptable to the majority and to those in power.
(Oh, and as a side note: While I don't see much evidence that AIDS was actually targeted, it's worth noting that the make-up of the first significantly at-risk populations certainly guaranteed a very slow initial response. It's also worth noting that there is a history of blacks in this country being used as STD guinea pigs. So the AIDS conspiracy theories may sound wacky to most people -- and I don't think much of the theories myself -- it's not like there isn't similar precedent.)
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@ Gerry
Point taken. You didn't grow up in Tallahassee, but your lapel pin still has the Stars and Bars on it. Why would that be?
As for Reverend Wright's speech, I was absolutely not offended by it, not in the way that you insist that I must be. Why? Because I understand the context in which his points arose. If you don't, maybe you aren't as good a citizen of Tallahassee as you think you are.
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@Jebbie
What you're seeing is the beginning of a snark bubble. Instead of asset price hyperinflation it's just ass ... but then, you knew that was coming ... :>
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headline
I found it interesting that - at least when I first saw this story - the main spotlighted topics on the Salon front page were Joan Walsh and Alex Koppleman's pieces about Jeremiah Wright (vis a vis Obama's denunciation).
This piece, posted about the same time, was not included in the Top Story section with the others. Even though it's about the same subject (though taking a decidedly different tack).
Hmmmm....
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I think Gibsonton would be the ideal place
For The Bush Library and a perfect place for chimpy to retire to.
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@William Timberman
Oh, here we go with the Stars and Bars now.
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@ -- Kryptik 12:01 PM
Home from work, and catching up on the comments:
Bravo! Kudos! Hallelujiah! Amen!
PS: I haven't a scintilla of interest in looking a gift Glenn in the mouth regarding the contrast between his incisive and lucid writing and most of what else is on Salon.
But I do have to say that every time I see Ms. Walsh's goofy-grinning caricature, the somber opening piano riff to "Ballad of a Thin Man" plays in my head.
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Yeah, well....
Just don't get me started on what Southern irredentism has already cost us. Quickstrategy, as you can probably guess, I have mixed emotions about the South, but I'm in no way down with GWB's cracker apotheosis either, especially when saluted by people who have no f'ing idea what they're signing up for.
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@TG Chicago
I also find it odd that -- last time I checked -- Greenwald's story on the same topic doesn't get frontpaged. It's like he's the uncool kid at Salon who the cool kids keep around because, every now and then, he helps them cheat on math tests.
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@Bill_H
Last time I checked I don't think McCain was a member of Hagee's church for 20 years...
Yeah but Hagee is an active supporter of McCain's campaign, and McCain has openly and avidly accepted the support, praising the insane and rabid Hagee as he did so.
You just saw Obama by contrast do exactly the opposite, disavowing the crazy parts of what the preacher said, which are after all exactly the parts that people are concerned about.
McCain accepted the crazy along with the rest and had nothing but praise for Hagee along the way.
You're right, it's not the same in the case of McCain and Hagee.
It's far worse.
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Thanks!
As a long time reader and constant admirer of the courage demonstrated daily in your writing, your research, and your care to almost never form an opinion you can't back up with factual citations, Glenn, all I can say is thank you!
I keep hoping the day will come when the entire American public decides our MSM has jumped the shark with a story like this, but, alas, I fear you're right... Seven more months of Obama never being mentioned without Wright in the same sentence.
If, as I fear might be the case, that others at Salon reach the point where they can no longer stand the contrast between your carefully-researched columns and the increasingly fluffy, "Weasel News"-type tripe they're currently writing ("Weasel News" is from a wonderful parody radio station on Grand Theft Auto IV), rather than going to the trouble of upgrading the quality of their own work, solve the "problem" that contrast represents by "shuffling you off to Buffalo," PLEASE consider launching a web site of your own in which you gather together a group of writers of equal integrity (if they can even be found in this country).
I've never been a member of Salon and am far less likely to become one now considering the direction toward Weasel News that Salon is currently taking, but considering the way National Public Radio and Minnesota Public Radio (of which I am a member) are skewing their coverage in their own Weaselly direction in order to try to win greater monetary support from certain conservative politicians, I'd be more than willing to become a member of any web site you were to launch.
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Finally.
So very awesome and far classier than any of the rants I've written here.
Well played, Greenwald. A perfect takedown without total trolling.
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so, William Timberman
You honestly think the brains of black people and white people are different? And you call me a racist?
And LWM, who turned over your rock?