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Palin on a Pedestal

9.11.08 @ 12:01AM

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Great reporting! How much did each "child" "earn"?
-- Kay Williams
Beaumont, Texas

A GOOSEGIRL, THAT'S WHO
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Who is Sally Quinn? and Reader Mail's Silly Sally:

In speaking of, er, persons like Sally Quinn, Dorothy Parker said it best:

"A goosegirl in ermine is a goosegirl still, and geese will gabble everywhere she goes."
-- Kate Shaw
Toronto, Ontario

Bravo! On publishing the article about "Who is Sally Quinn?" by Jeffrey Lord.

Keep it up!
-- Beth
Cincinnati

I have thought for quite awhile that Dan Quayle's most apt reply to Lloyd Bentsen's cheeky admonition: "...and you are no John Kennedy" was: "That's right bucko, and the more we learn about him, the happier I am."
-- J.C. Eaton
Wisconsin

Unfortunately, somewhat forgotten in the present debacle with Sally Quinn and her husband, an idea of from whence all of this attitude emanated:

Said Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post at the Smithsonian Institute, as reported by David Brooks in the Wall Street Journal (10/5/89): "To hell with news! I'm no longer interested in news. I'm interested in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's true."

Which, I guess, pretty much says it all.
-- frost

ANGRY, ANGRY BARACK
Re: Patrick O'Hannigan's The New Playbook:

What the Democrats have failed to realize in this campaign is that, if the Republicans can just keep angry Barack sound bites on TV, Middle America is going wake up one morning in October and say to themselves, "My gosh, the Democrats are running Al Sharpton for President."
-- John Hockert

WHO WAS THAT MAN?
Re: Peter Hannaford's False Free Speech:

A further thought on anonymity and online behavior. When I saw footage of some of the protesters at the conventions these past couple of weeks, I noticed a lot of the most violent wore masks of one kind or other.

That, more than the violence they were committing, said what kind of people they were.
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida

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