Letters to the Editor
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First of all, kudos on having it
It's good to know, as a matter of course, that Salon will always have what the assholes are trying to silence.
Now, regardless of the cowardice in silencing anything "anti-war", Fox actually did Field a favor. That was an embarrassing, airheaded, clich'e-ridden rant on her part. Please. Maggie Thatcher is a mother. Think we'd have no wars with her in charge? Bitch is probably cheering Dumbo as we speak. "good show, George old boy. Not wobbly like daddy, ey?"
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Sally Field muzzles Sally Field
I thought Sally Field was completely inarticulate. Fox didn't have much to do with it. I personally didn't need the potty mouth, either. Guess she's a better actress than speaker.
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Unitaryexecutive, here is my response, in plain American
You, sir or madam, responded politically correctly, intelligently and sensibly to Sally's comments. I responded emotionally. As Sally did with her comments. Don't you understand? Do you like war? Do you agree with my president that my country (USA) should have invaded Iraq? What about the 2 and 1/2 million refugees and the nearly million killed? For what? War, what is it good for? Good god, y'all.
Thank you for your kind consideration, ue
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I don't like her; I really don't like her.
Look, if you want to use an awards show to protest the war (something I wish there'd been more of), then have a brain about it. Sally Field should know what Fox is; she should also have calculated that saying "goddam" would provide the network with the perfect excuse to bleep her. (I have no idea if they would have bleeped her without it, and now none of us will ever know; the point is that she is politically dumb as a tack.)
At any rate, with or without the "goddam," she came off as off her nut,out of control, and silly as hell (reference the other letters pointing out some pretty aggressive female leaders past and present).
But my biggest beef is that she's a so-so actress who should have handed her Emmy to Edie Falco.
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Fox Did Sally Fields a Favor
Sally Fields embarrassed herself last night with her incoherent and profanity-laced tirade. Drug-induced, perhaps?
By the way, the real gutless cowards are the ones who are not talking about Norman "Hillraiser" Hsu, Hitlery Klinton's Abramoff, and his buying power among Democrat candidates. Dirty Chinese money still goes a long way with the Clintons. Remember Charlie Trie and John Huang? I know you do.
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Not gutless
They have all the nerve in the world and they blatantly try to alter reality and censor messages that aren't pro-administration and pro-Republican. Orwell's 1984 is a textbook for these people.
I got home the other day just as the Bush speech was ending, and flipped through the channels. All of the network channels in a row - 2,4,7,8,9, and PBS - all showing the Democratic response, just like the networks have always shown the minority party response after every presidential speech ever broadcast during my lifetime. Channel 12 (FOX, here), though, was showing some reporter paraphrasing what the President had said, adoringly, and then returned to some game show in progress.
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Quiet type, Hitlery, ae
You all will never understand, will you? Opposition to war does not require your approval of its methods. Or your so sanctimonious approach and comments. War sucks. This war sucks. Sally Field's words and actions are so superior to our commander-in-chief's words and actions that your comments rank below hers, in my humble opinion. I mean that.
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Fox is a bunch of jackassess that should be treated like Paris and O.J.
Don't mention Fox on this site. Their time has come and gone. Only idiots, only people who still believe Sadaam was responsible for 911, don't know they've totally been discredited. They've actually been discredited by themselves to the entire world, no less.
Salon should be a Fox free zone. Seriously, who in the world has time for antics that always arrive under the pretense of just the opposite?
Try it.
Just like this site bannned mentioning Paris because it got fed up with being dupped by her circus via an aristocrat, Salon should not pay any attention to Fox's crying wolf with a bullhorn. Nor should it grant any attention to the outlandish attacks they make on progress anytime it benefits more than just a tiny few.
As for any indication that this suggestion smacks of censorship, to that, there is only one response. Claiming ignoring Fox is censorship is to mix categories and lead to a belief that they have actually dumbed down more than we might think.
Somebody needs to put their foot down with respect to Fox.
The hope is that ignoring them will be a way of squashing them like the bugs they really are!
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@Funme2
"You all will never understand, will you? Opposition to war does not require your approval of its methods. Or your so sanctimonious approach and comments. War sucks. This war sucks. Sally Field's words and actions are so superior to our commander-in-chief's words and actions that your comments rank below hers, in my humble opinion. I mean that."
Uh, Funme? You DO realize the viewers never even heard her superior words, don't you? Pretty wise method, huh.
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Emmy voters must think Gandolfini and Falco are actually New Jersy mobsters
That's the only way to explain Fields and Spader (Spader!) knocking them off to win the acting awards. My god, those two shows don't belong in the same universe as the Sopranos. I'm still trying to figure out why Mariska Hargitay of Law & Order: Volume 22 or whatever it is, beat Falco a few years ago. But her character was raped, so you know how it goes, Emmy voters love that (same for Oscar).
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Quiet type
I guess I thought I might be corresponding with someone who cound rejoinder in kind. Sorry.
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could, not cound, sorry
Smile....
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Muze01 and the other disappointed viewers:
I have seen nothing on TV in terms of series in 30 years (I don't watch series) although I do read about movies and TV and my suspicions would be that the voters were responding to something that tickles their soul and happy 'id' and not to something that intellectually seems superior but presents the sad and negative side of life. And I am not saying I support this view. But maybe I do. What do you think?
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Sally Fields, Cindy Sheehan and FUNME2 ...
... have the constitutional right to speak but there is no constitutional right to be heard. You can be as unpatriotic and anti-American as you want to in the privacy of your own communist home. Enjoy your government cheese.