Letters to the Editor
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Troll in Chief
Joan Walsh is obviously trolling again. It's time to start an online petition demanding that some one more esteemed and balanced take over as Salon's editor, such as bringing back David Talbot or promoting Glen Greenwald.
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Read Glenn Greenwald
It's ironic that you claim that your opinions are the same as those of "most people" on the very day that Glenn Greenwald criticized David Brooks and other media establishment figures for making the same completely unsubstantiated assertions. I can't presume to speak for "most people," but most people I know were a lot more irritated than Senator Obama about the tabloid nature of the questions. They weren't tough: they were vapid.
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joanie phony missed it, again
Every significant poll show that, not only did last week's jive "bitter" gate not get any traction, the main outcome of Wednesday's farces was ABC eating it. Hillary is losing ground. Not every day, but the trend has been undeniable- except to you, Joanie Phony. If she has any dignity remaining, she will tuck her two point win in Penn under her tail and leave. Or, she can wait until the next week, when she loses NC by 15 points. Losta darkies in NC, right Joanie? How thick can you be? Brick thick, it would seem. It is not her time. It's over. That has apparent for two months, minimum. Whine sexism, media bias, stages of the moon, the fact that we're not winner take all rethugs- whatever. One piss and moan excuse after another. The women I know and love can take it like a man. Or better, in many instances. Hillary wants it both ways, but her campaign is only going one way: down and out. May she have the grace and the sense on national obligation to unite us and defeat the fascists in November. That would show the class she showed so many signs of when the wind was blowing her way. Sunshine patriot? Where's you lapel pin? Get over yourself.
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"Most people?"
Are you even tuned into 1/10 of what most people have on their minds?
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Please step down and give Salon an opening for a real editor...
Most of America agrees that the real stumble came from the two idiot "moderators" and ABC News generally. The fact that you choose to reiterate the tired and erroneous Clinton party line is-- aside from clear and convincing evidence of your absurd bias-- simply lazy and sloppy journalism. Much like we've come to expect from the likes of, well, ABC News.
Please resign and allow Salon to find someone of greater energy, originality and journalistic integrity. Best of luck in your future endeavors.
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Tough questions?
What "tough questions"? Especially in the first fiddy minutes or so? "Gotcha questions" come with the territory?
Gee Joan Walsh, really "tough" or "gotcha" questions, aimed at Obama, would have been asking him about his relationship with Tony Rezko. A really "tough" or "gotcha" question would have been asking him about how effective does his think he'll really be in deaing with Congress, as president, when he hasn't established a long relationship with its members? Does his advocacy of biofuels undercut his green agenda? What interests does he represent in Illinois and what are there claims on him? Did he really make a public campaign pledge and does he intend to keep it?
Instead, you and your media colleagues seem to think that by asking the same inconsequential questions that have been debated for the past few months ad nauseum , basic talking points of the GOP, that the media was really doing him a favord by getting him ready for the fall.
I don't think it was his best "performance" but I don't think he "stumbled." I think his greatest weakness was not going after the media—your colleagues—for wasting people's time by not asking more fundamentally important questions. This was really the same simpled minded crap posing as journalism.
Case in point: Gibson prattling on about capital gains tax, citing that "history" showed when lowered the economy benefited. Never cited one study or economist. Just "history" ? No facts; all assertion. Real journalism.
The flag? Does Rev. Wright love America as you do? Come on, Joan, is this real journalism? Are these the sort of kind of questions you would ask?
It's been reported that Stephanopoulos was getting his Ayers questions from Sean Hannity! If this doesn't prove Greenwwald's central thesis about the corrupt pratices of the MSM's punditry, then nothing will.
This was merely a showcase for GOP talking points against Obama should he win, asked by a compliant press that thinks its operating it own while its been beaten down so much by the very people who contempt for it—and the truth.
Are these your standards of real journalism?
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Joan, Joan, Joan
"His irritation was irritating. "Gotcha" questions come with the territory."
Your complacency is demoralizing.
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Joan really needs to go back to school
Tough questions? Joan, you've got to be kidding. Do you think we're that dumb?
You've been on the air and around the stupid pundits that you claim to disdain. You're becoming more and more like Steffuck and Gibgoober. Those debate questions weren't intellectual in that they didn't stimulate any discussion/analysis. It was all vapid crap. The anti-intellectual strain in American discourse strikes again. No wonder the Europeans think we're all idiots.
Maybe you should apply for a job as editor at People. That's about the level of what your analysis is.
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Time for a new editor -- but Joan you have prospects
News corporation has a bunch of openings for hack editors, and your views would coincide with the readers, so no more angry postings. To make an application you start here:
http://careers.newscorp.com/
Seriously, why not go somewhere you would fit in.
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Joan is very brave
to face down these savage Obamabots shrieking for her blood.
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Do not listen to these whining toads
They couldn't produce an e-mag if their miserable little rat-fucking lives depended on it. They are whiners and scum, one and all.
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Stumble? Huh?
Obama didn't stumble. Three people tried to trip him. And failed. Newsweek says Obama moved to a 20% lead nationally over H. Clinton. Sometimes the people aren't fooled all of the time. Just soulless pundits remained fooled.
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Obama fell on his face, he was destroyed
and it was a glory to witness!
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Glass house, sweaty palms
Obama lives in a glass house, and his sweaty palms from the debate left strike marks all over it.