I just wanted to say, I'm only up to page ten or so, but I've read a couple of your responses in this thread, and I'm liking the new Joan. I remember when you were a lot more tactful and diplomatic, even when faced with idjits. Glad you decided to speak your mind, and thanks for the laughs!

By the way, as long as I'm not banned from posting here, I will continue to ridicule the Wingnut, unmercifully. Hope you understand.

I would love to see Bill O'Reilly actually discuss issues in a neutral forum that he cannot control.

How about Franken vs Billo?

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOAYI6Qnl6E&feature=related

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMM7NRdwrnc&feature=related

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjFbRYVFmlk&feature=related

Just don't call me a leprechaun because I'm Irish and that's offensive.

I've never understood Letterman's appeal. He's always struck me as just kinda nasty.

Well that's enough about Sarah for me. I think I'll jump out here. Thanks for the lift!

I'm super grateful to virtue001 for his sweet, sweet fan boy suck-up to ABreitbart. I was ready to say it wasn't virt's Celebrity Andrew Breitbart, but...I'm just not sure, it could be.

But whatever, my real point is that it's so sweet to see Virt run around like my own adorable puppy on her papers at the news that maybe A/Andrew/Another A/Breitbart might possibly be posting on Salon.

We see so much cynicism from virt, we rarely see the hyperactive right-wing approval seeking Fan Boy! I just loved it. Thanks, virt. I do have a whole different view of you thanks to that loving window on Breitbart.

Another report from Sin City. Just spent a couple of hours sitting in a private lounge visiting with some old friends. Two TV scenes were on, but the sound was low. One was tuned to FOX and the other was tuned to CNN. Over and over again, there would flash Sarah Palin's face, alternating with the Michael Jackson memorial. No one seemed to be paying attention to either one, but when CNN showed video of a squirrel popping out of a woman's cleavage, folks around us reacted with stunned comments and/or outright laughing. Just goes to show you how much people are concerned with Sarah's weekend-long drama (and also that they're tired of the Jackson saga). Here's a link to the squirrel video: http://news.aol.com/article/squirrel-in-cleavage/555485

Omigod! I just realized that Palin's attorney might send a threatening letter to that little squirrel for taking the focus off Sarah!!

Be careful, Joan. "Virtue" has a crayon, and he'll write circles and circles and circles around you!

What is most astonishing is that anyone could say or imply that miss pitbull with lipstick isn't a mean girl.

Why "Sarah Barracuda" would want the victim or bullied label, is the bigger mystery, but it will stick.

Couldn't hack it, so she turned tail and fled.

Yeah, that's the way to show Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey; instead of standing up strong and facing down their "pad throwing", QUIT.

Caribou Barbie may have a pad stuck to her face, but she's bailing on her home and her people of Alaska to pursue... The Presidency.

Go Bailin Palin, show them that you're... a Quitter.

"The governor of Alaska's compelling narrative - athlete, beauty queen, wife, mother, hunter, successful politician - shows adherents of narrow leftist dogma that, perhaps, women really can have it all."

Yeah, nothing says success like quitting, and nothing gets you "it all" like quitting.

Or should I say quittin?

I think you should consider the source. Click on virtue's other letters, and you will see that he debuted in the letters threads at Salon by calling Joan Walsh - in his first sentence - "dogface."

Two years and many thousands of posts later, he is speaking out against misogyny and also admonishing other letter writers to keep the discussion civil (this was in the previous thread).

Has he had a change of heart? Possibly. Frankly, I can't be bothered to read through those thousands of posts to find out.

But I suspect he is merely using the misogynist argument to further his misoJOANist agenda.

"Paul Krugman? That brilliant economist?

Okay, let me see if I have this straight: Paul Krugman, a former economist so brilliant that he once predicted the Bush's economic policies would produce a total economic disaster, when they have, in fact, brought Americans..."

virtue001 on Monday, October 15, 2007 12:36 PM

Total Economic Disaster

To go through virtue001 letters is a journey through conservative/Republican psychosis, paranoid delusions, and denial.

virtue001 has literally seen the American Conservative political world collapse, and yet he sticks with his beliefs.

Admirably he is not a rat fleeing a sinking ship, but he is determine to rest in a watery grave with the rest of his conservative kin that remain faithful to a political philosophy dedicated to ignoring its own disaster.

Will people like virtue001 get over their addiction to a failed political agenda and movement?

I hope for their sake they do, because if not the rest of the world will just leave them behind.

As I remind people, after WWII Hitler still had a 25% approval rating among Germans, so for how much longer will American conservatives maintain their same addicted allegiance to the equally failed current Republican Party?

No matter which end you start examining first, Sarah Palin turns out to be the same: a low-intellect narcissist. But she fits disturbingly into the picture of the Republican Party: which evokes fear that they may actually continue trying to field just such candidates as former governor (soon to be nobody) Sarah Palin.

The only good thing about Palin is that she's a magnet for morons who also have a penchant for voting. Let her gather her followers in one grand rally... and we can nuke them.

She always refers to herself as we, why is that? How many people does she have in that head?