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Silly Sally

9.10.08 @ 12:01AM

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Re: Jeffrey Lord's Who Is Sally Quinn?:

Excellent job. Exposing arrogant, pompous [folk] like Sally Quinn is the one thing these elitists can't stand. Indeed, they react to the light of truth as a vampire does to sunlight.

And thanks to magazines and blogs like The American Spectator's, the light is shining brighter than ever.
-- Peter Skurkiss
Stow, Ohio

Somehow this essay on Sally Quinn must be read and understood by the American public. This piece, while using Sally Quinn as a foil, details the sleazy liberal media and the dangerous agenda of a free press run amok. Absolutely critical to be read and understood by all.
-- John C. Sivie

Sally Quinn is the daughter of General Quinn and his wife. I don't think that they are still alive.

General Quinn and his wife were best friends of Sen. Barry Goldwater and his wife. They traveled together and were close in their politics too. I will be willing to bet that Sally Quinn came to Washington as a Republican and once she started to socialize with the rich and powerful had a political conversion as well.

Keep up the good work.
-- Roger Davidson

I heard her comments and was repelled. I would NEVER have voted for McCain if he had not chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate. She may not have the same -- very same -- religious beliefs that I hold, but she tries and she is genuine.

How many years has it been since we have had Politicians about whom we could say that? Far too many.

And, I would vote for a ticket with her whether or not she happens to be a female. Enough of that already!
-- Sterling W. B. Homan, Ph.D., J.D.
Birmingham, Alabama

I just read your article on Sally Quinn and it has motivated me to send my first email to an editor.

How can some people forget their own personal biographies, don altogether fictitious personae to cover their questionable resumes, and then step forward from their forgotten pasts to speak on any subject, let alone to insult others who have reached their position in life honestly, with integrity and through their own efforts? To be more blunt, here we have another woman who is in a position in life that is attributable, in whole or in part, through a liaison while single with a powerful married man and who has now taken on his achievements as her own. Here I am also reminded of two other women, Teresa Heinz and Arianna Huffington, who became rich through marriage and who both sometimes speak as if they were hard-working career women who just happened to make marriage their career of choice.

Thanks to American Spectator for shedding light on the back stories of some who would rather have their lives remain the stuff of legend rather than the human story that we all share.
-- Walter Benni
Milford, Connecticut

Thank you for a fantastic article!
-- Gayle Robertson
Avon Lake, Ohio

That Sally Quinn is vacuous was apparent when she first made her national name in the seventies. That she was the mistress/girlfriend of Ben Bradlee was also known, and that she achieved her journalist bona fides from her relationship with him was no secret. Her opinions were and are straight out of the drawing rooms of America's aristocracy: the politicians, moneyed-power brokers and media titans whose lives have never touched the daily concerns and values held by the rest of those whose hard work and decency made and continues to make this country great. To explain Ms. Quinn's representation of moral matters is laughable. She is a recipient of all wisdom revealed by the ruling class and explains why the alternative press (Fox, NRO, WSJ, talk readio) in a span of twenty years captured the audience it has, and now propels the national conversation.

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