Salon’s campaign coverage has been very disappointing lately; there’s been a strong undercurrent of Hillary-worship, a tendency to ignore everyone but Obama and Clinton (just like the mainstream media), and in the last week, a remarkably lame bit of bandwagon-shifting from “We <heart> Hillary” to “We loved Obama all along.” But this little snippet might just be the thing that makes me decide not to renew my subscription. Not just because I’m an Edwards supporter, but because I don’t need to pay money to read this kind of trivia-obsessed non-journalism. I have the entire rest of the fucking media for that.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/01/07/john_edwards/index.html
(Note the obligatory, oh-so-original comment about Edwards’s hair.) And seriously, did anyone fall for Hillary’s carefully constructed attempt to make herself look more human? The choked-back sob, the little catch in her voice—it was a fine performance, but nothing more. Not to mention that she’s said far, far worse about her opponents.
Addendum: I never write letters to the editor, but this piece made me so mad that I actually posted a comment—but it’s not the one signed by someone with my name and initial; I used an alias, as I always do nowadays whenever I post in public places.