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• Monday, April 7, 2008 09:50 PM

  I concur.

  If you disagree, and you'd like to argue on behalf of calling female politicians "fucking whores," please marshal your best arguments in my comments section.

  Calling a female politician - or a male one - a fucking whore is just wrong.

  It's redundant.

  Those who feel the need to spice up whore with an adjective should consider using the term lying instead of fucking.

  Regardless of gender, whoredom is a prerequisite for the job, which is why lobbyists, celebrities and high-dollar contributors have access to elected officials while less affluent constituents are left to scream into the wind to make themselves feel better.

  But also, if you feel that way, please feel free to stop reading Salon. I passionately want to grow our audience, and I'm proud to have tripled it in the three years I've been editor-in-chief. But truly, some readers we can can live without.

  So that's how the riff-raff got in.

  Salon has some writers I can live without (Manjoo, Wilentz, Paglia, Shapiro and, of course, yourself), but - as you well know - everybody loves a good train wreck, even if it's not something people generally cop to.

  I laughed out loud when The Professor recently referred to Salon as a click-bait rag, but he really nailed it. And you (http://tinyurl.com/5htt3d).

  There must be someplace where people who want to call female leaders "fucking whores" will feel welcomed and at home, but this isn't it.

  I'm sure there's no shortage of such someplace's, but one of them is surely Limbaugh's joint, he with the big audience you're so proud of reaching.

  P.S. Your lame-ass case for misogyny doesn't cut the mustard no matter how many times you catapult the propaganda in an attempt to make victimization work for your candidate. I'm not saying misogyny is nonexistent - far from it - but declaring it a more pervasive problem for Clinton than racism is for Obama is either ignorant or insincere. Considering your tendency toward patronizing obfuscation and absolute refusal to directly answer my crystal clear question as to whether or not you would consider a position with a Clinton Administration - (see http://tinyurl.com/3dnyk7), I'm gonna have to go with insincere.

  P.S. II: You and Limbaugh have more in common than some might think, Joan. Wouldn't be surprised if you scored 700 letters on this one. Nice! That's some first class trolling.

  P.S. III: Should any of the Clinton fire-breathers light into me, don't make the mistake of assuming I'm in the Obama camp - or anyone else's. I suspect he's no less of a lying whore than Hillary, but, as The Entitled One has proclaimed many, many times, she's the one with all the experience.

  —Arvin Hill Read Arvin Hill's other letters
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