SALON IS WORSE

“Your comments in the dish today claiming that Salon and other supposedly nonpartisan publications are no less blindly leftwing than the Weekly Standard is blindly rightwing happened to get posted just after I’d read Fred Barnes’ article “A Democratic Senate?” on weeklystandard.com. Reading Barnes’ article, I was struck by the fact that I couldn’t imagine a leftwing magazine publishing anything that sunny and fair about the political opposition’s strong slate of candidates. If there were a chance that a Democratic-controlled Senate was about to switch to the Republicans, snide essays about the moronic and evil Republican candidates (and the ignorant Midwestern electorate) would have flooded the usual venues. This is no doubt one of the reasons I and other gay and quasi-leftish thinkers still vote Republican quite often: the mainstream left is the domain of the braindead and those who argue in bad faith. Goofy arguments by conservative authors against gay marriage might disguise this somewhat, but it’s true.’ – more feedback on the Letters Page.