Matt Reed wrote: If the basic premise, as presented, is that America is being overrun by a liberal agenda such that "Usama Bin Laden" would be "the honorable ambassador from Afghanistan" then I'd have to say a) that's terribly insulting to assume that if Gore won instead of Bush, we'd not only be placating a terrorist who killed thousands, but allow him to be ambassador, and b) I don't know what America you're currently living in, with a two-term Republican president and both the Senate and the House run by a Republican majority...so why all the anger, bile and contempt for those who hold views that differ from your own?

I don’t mean to insult Gore or those that voted for him (although that is an unfortunate result of the series), In my storyline, he is only one of many more liberals follow him. (think more John Kerry here)

Do you really believe that if UBL were to make an appeal to the U.N. promising an end to world terrorism,  That Kofi would not leap at the offer?  (At any costs.)

But I think you make my point.  Yes, the republicans are in power, but had to fight against the overwhelming mainstream liberal media to do it, and still the Republicans won; this proves a strong conservative base in America.  So by now you would think some one would have at least recognized the interest in a book with an extremely conservative message.

Its possible. But considering the political state of NYC and California, the entertainment and media industry, I doubt it.

She claims she got dozens of angry letters.

Playgirl also apparently has a large gay following, which i believe to be more likley, probably by far to be liberal democrats.

Having once been reamed at a a job interview for being a Republican, and told by my career office never to put anything to do with Republican leanings when doing a resume, I am suspicious.*

*Especially since how people in the city just assume that you are a democrat, cause your a good guy, and ream into Republicans or Bush or whatever as if you are one of them.  And ifg they find out, the usual look of disgust on their face...

It is kind of off-putting-like when someone just assumes because you're are white, you will be receptive to racists jokes, comments, or comments about "those people." And when you stand up for other races and tell them their comments are wrong, they act like you have to be kidding.

Mike, let's take the the presidency since FDR.  How long have Republican's been in power?  How long have Democrats?  I have little to no sympathy for anyone that cries "We had to fight against the liberal media" (a tag that I also don't buy) and yet have seen their party in power and affecting the kind of change they desire far more than their opposition.  And yet you're now thinking or pursuing writing something to the effect that if there is a long-term succession of presidents who are liberal, that America will all-but-bend-over for a terrorist who killed thousands on our shores, not to mention run a school system that wants to tell you how to think in a world where the path less taken is to the right?  Please.  Spare me the absurd ideology.

BTW, I think it a ridiculous assumption on it's face that the UN and Kofi Anon would welcome anything that Bin Laden had to offer.  You're showing your extreme right wing bias and agenda even tossing out that notion.

Why she was fired is obvious,  she was a republican that dare speak her belief in the liberal dominated media.   Most republicans in editorial positions must remain “in the closet”

[QUOTE=Jacob P Secrest]
And what is so horrible about the UN? I've never gotten that, at all.

I'm not gonna protest this, I'm not gonna take away your Constitutional
right to freedom of the press, I'm not gonna arrest you if you show up at
a rally I organize, I'm not gonna call you "Un-American" or "Un-Patriotic"
because you disagree with me.

If I did, I would become far to close to the enemy.

QUOTE]

Your second comment is pretty insulting and just ignorant.

Your first comment?  Well, it's interesting how Kofi Annan feels that the UN needs a major reorganizing, especially its human rights commission with Libya, Cuba the Sudan and other wonderful nations that protect human rights.

The UN in a large way has lost a lot of its purpose.

Mike Mackey wrote:   Most republicans in editorial positions must remain “in the closet”

Interesting articles in the paper around the election about how many professional New Yorkers face the question of when to "come out" to a date that they a Republican, and how horrified the date usually is.

I would imagine the reverse may be true in other extreme parts of the country, I don't know.

Rob and Mike ... you guys know nothing about the Playgirl debacle. Nothing.

I am a media hound and I am gay and this EIC decided to up the content with such useful things as less nudity and more recipes.  Yes, recipes like "Mamie Eisenhower's Million Dollar Fudge."  In Playgirl.  Sales plummeted, subscriptions were canceled. Then she comes out and says Republican men are better in bed and Republicans weren't afraid to fight in VietNam while Democrats protested.  Never mind that the VietNam War did not carefully go down party lines (LBJ).  Readers fled. The woman said stupid things but more importantly made a business decisiopn about a magazine that was so bad, it almost caused it to fold.  She's the one whining to the media now, but the circumstances I am sure were not so cut and dried.

I'd get rid of an idiot like that too.

She was joking.  Obviously, you didn;t get the joke. Sales may have gone down, but interestingly, only when she outed herself did she get fired.

I said, could be a coincidence. But based on my experience, I find it unlikely.