O’Reilly was outraged by Sirota’s point that the government’s response would be very different–more costly, potentially more violent–if the perpetrators fit a certain profile. This is ironic, because O’Reilly had, the night of the attacks, basically made Sirota’s point. … Read More
We’re updating our sign in and registration system
We’re happy to announce that we are revitalizing the Salon community with great features like a new Salon profile, a much-needed complete comments overhaul, and improvements to the sign in and registration process. We’ve started by updating the sign in and registration pop-up with a less buggy interface and more clear messaging. We hope this makes signing into Salon much easier.Users with a current Salon account can still log in via their Google, Facebook or legacy Salon accounts. You may have to re-authenticate with Facebook and Google, but you will be signed in to the correct comments accounts that your social network login has already been associated with. New users can also create an account by using Facebook or Google .Please bear with us while we take the time to improve the overall user experience. If you are experiencing issues or have any questions, feel free to check the comments FAQ or email commentshelp@salon.com. We’ll be happy to help you through this transition.Happy commenting!Continue Reading… … Read More
How ‘Unlikely’ Is Mark Sanford’s Comeback Really?
The journalists amazed by Mark Sanford’s comeback make the mistake of assuming that since the GOP spends so much time preaching “family values” and “social conservatism,” Republican pols who violate these preachments must pay a greater price than less moralistic Democrats. … Read More
Hair salon owner accused of only hiring “overweight, gay hairdressers”
A British hair stylist has filed a discrimination suit against the owner of a beauty salon, alleging Funky Divas salon proprietor Andrew Rodgers is a “sexist bully” who said he would only hire overweight and gay hairdressers because “they wouldn’t get pregnant and go on maternity leave.”According to the Daily Mail:Mr Rodgers, who is gay, allegedly resented employing women at his Funky Divas salon chain, which has three branches in Sheffield. Witnesses said he was ‘very sexist’ and picked on those who became pregnant because he did not want them to take maternity leave. Nail technician Kirsty Diver, 32, said she was reprimanded for taking time off to have a baby. She said: ‘He stated that in future he will be employing only fat, gay and lesbian members of staff as no one would want to have a baby with a fat person and gays and lesbians would not need to be off for maternity or paternity leave.’ Tracey Everatt said that she quit because of her boss’s ‘poor’ attitude towards women. She said: ‘Andrew used to say “I’m sick of these women draining the resources, I am going to make their life hell”.While the allegations stand as a reversal of far-more-common cases of anti-gay employment discrimination, they’re still completely serious and awful. No woman should be made to feel that having a child will jeopardize her career. And fat-phobic garbage (and bizarre ideas about who can and can’t have babies) has no place, well, anywhere, really.When asked by reporters if he made the discriminatory comments, Rodgers replied: “I don’t speak like that. It is ludicrous to think that. It is not my nature.” ;Continue Reading… … Read More
Bro-gressives’ love affair with Rand Paul
There’s a certain breed of progressive dude who, when told that the object of his latest man-crush is, say, a bit racist (or misogynist, or is stoking the fears of right-wing preppers), gets really mad. Unable to refute the fact of his worship of the racist, misogynist, prepper-stoker, he resorts to falsifying the intention of the person who pointed out the inconvenient facts. In his latest Salon column, David Sirota proves himself to be just such a dude.Continue Reading… … Read More
O’Reilly’s JFK assassination fib
Bill O’Reilly’s best selling book on the JFK assassination, Killing Kennedy, partly follows the travails of O’Reilly himself as a young reporter trying to uncover the truth behind the president’s death. As author and former Salon politics editor Jeff Morley highlighted this week, however, O’Reilly’s firsthand accounts appear lacking in the truth department.
In an incident detailed in the book (and flagged by media outlets including USA Today) O’Reilly claims he was tracking down an interview with George de Mohrenschildt, a Russian expat with possible CIA connections who was friends with Lee Harvey Oswald. Investigators looking in to the JFK assassination were seeking information for de Mohnrenschildt when he reportedly committed suicide in 1977. According to Killing Kennedy, O’Reilly was on the Russian’s doorstep when he heard “the shotgun blast that marked the suicide.”
But as Morley pointed out this week, this was pretty much dramatic baloney:
Key West man writes ‘F*ck Obama’ on will and then kills himself
A tanning salon owner in Key West who blamed the president for his personal problems has killed himself after writing “Fuck Obama” on his will. Michael Cossey told police that his partner, 64-year-old Henry Hamilton, had promised that “if Barack gets re-elected, I’m not…
