Letters to the Editor
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Cheney the mensch?
The sidebar about Cheney that is most revealing is that his comment about not speaking to Libby, if the truth, is furthered by Suskind's book "The Price of Loyalty." Dicky boy didn't go and see Paul O'neil, a long time freind and fire him for the cowardly president, in person. Rather he told O'Neil over the phone. A real mensch our VP is.
Now Cheney may be lieing, something he constantly does so as not to make himself look to buddy buddy with Libby viz the coming pardon.
Rdabrams
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nasty place to work
I'm with you on Cheney's reaction, Joan. It was really quite striking. I expect everyone in the White House knows that this is cover-your-butt time, and devil-take-the-hindmost.
That White House has never been a very nice place to work...and right about now it must be hell-on-wheels.
I ask everyone: imagine Gonzalez on the Supreme Court. There was a very good chance of him ending up there. Not now, of course. But imagine it. He'd make Clarence Thomas look like Oliver Wendell Holmes...
I also suspect things have not hit rock-bottom for the boys and girls in the West Wing yet. More congressional oversight will likely turn up some very smelly stuff. It's just a matter of time.
I also happen to think Cheney is a genuinely evil human being..and I don't use that word lightly. He's a dangerous, vengeful geek, and I just hope his fangs get pulled before he does something really crazy..
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You selfish, rude person. Shame on you, Joan Walsh.
"My blogging today got delayed by the Virginia Tech tragedy, and coincidentally, so will Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' Senate testimony, which was postponed from tomorrow to Thursday. At first I thought the delay might help Gonzales."
The worst of this type of tragedy to strike America. Ever. And your first sentence makes it sound like, "How dare those victims and their families and everyone who cares get in the way of your blogging." Have you no shame?
Look, I'm hoping Gonzales winds up in prison for his crimes against my country, not just forced to resign. But honestly, postponing his testimony was the only decent response to this horrific tragedy. I hope the entire Bush regime rots in jail then in hell, but my thoughts today weren't along the lines of, "Gee, this national tragedy is really going to muck up my online diary and it might just somehow convince the entire US Senate to ignore all the evidence against Gonzales."
I ask again, have you no shame?
You have driven this website straight into the ground and now toppoed it off with a giant cartoon of yourself. How appropriate. You have saddened and disgusted me for the last time.
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From Joan Walsh
You know, michael sullivan, thank you, because you reminded me I don't have this blogging thing -- or blogging tone, more to the point -- down very well. I spent my day working as Salon editor, on our Virginia Tech coverage as well as early Gonzales coverage and several other things we have going on. That's what I was trying to say in the introduction to this post. In my haste, I may have been tone-deaf with that first sentence, even as I called it a tragedy. I apologize it I offended anyone beyond mr. sullivan.
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re: You selfish, rude person
Eh, I took her statement at face value--like everyone else in the media, and especially as an editor, she was confronted with a sudden unexpected tragic event that merited coverage--it's her job--and thus kept her from her daily blogging. Seems reasonable.
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re: You selfish, rude person
Plus, the VA Tech story is mostly sensational precisely because it is not something that happens every day. Where I'm from, Philadelphia, 113 people have been murdered so far this year--just over one per day--and I'm not so sure how that isn't as tragic. One's an everyday occurrence, the other an anomaly.
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Re "giant cartoon"
This must be your first time reading "this website"; otherwise, you'd know that the writings of Salon's columnists are (and, to my knowledge, always have been) accompanied by a stylized caricature of the author.
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Sympathy for the Devil
You feel sorry for Libby, Walsh? That makes you a fine example of the chief problem facing journalism in America: so privileged yourself, you have sympathy for the felons who have used their own power and privilege to debase this nation, to destroy the lives of others, and to murder innocents in the pursuit of their self-righteousness. You've made it abundantly clear that your own identification with these prep school white boys has colored your editorial judgment. You're clearly incapable of anything remotely approaching objectivity. You are, quite simply, a waste of time.
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What kind of wuss
would put up with a boss who nicknamed him Fredo?
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Is It Time Yet ?
That old comedy section from the righteous selfless flagellation corner checking in already ? Good on ya' boys and girls from the doomsday clock tithes , we will irreducibly move your entertainment frisson to the its vanishing point after this fang cleaning promotion . As for the cretinous Joan Walsh well maybe she can be forgiven , if upon her transformation into an suitable Siddhartha of pious moaning being achieved , more after this pause for our new program " Thought Control , The Emotion Cleanser ! " . Thanks for your contributions and never forget the flagellation you forget is the flagellation you missed .
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Devilish Joan
After reading some of these comments I AM SHOCKED--SHOCKED I SAY!! Why didn't you tell us before that it was you Joan who started the Iraq War--you who flooded New Orleans--You who--well You get the drift!At least be more forthcoming with us before you spring your next tragedy on the world!!!!! Tommie27
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"the lie"
"...by spreading the lie that his Niger trip was arranged by his CIA wife." Except every objective review of the matter shows that she indeed influenced the decision to send him. You can't write your own history, Joan. Facts can get in the way.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39834-2004Jul9.html
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Two if by Sea
So as Americans we are responsible as part of the "Organisation" of these United States for the crimes of the bush family ? So that makes Mrs Wilson culpable because as a funtioning covert agent performing her job she was associated with the machine that made it possible for cheneys request for information to be processed . Ah yes so clear and direct , I feel like jr was in the room and asking me if I would attack a country that had never threatened or possessed a credible or imaginary potential to threaten us . How I imaginarily responded to the mighty jr's rigorous jesting , I am afraid that it is a state secret . For the curious , as to how I responded to the mighty jr , let it rest that we were suitably prepared to party . He he