Ms Streisand Regrets

little green footballs ^ | december 06, 2005 | Silhouette

[george76]

Ms Streisand is dropping her subscription to the Los Angeles Times, out of loyalty to Robert Scheer and revulsion at Jonah Goldberg.

You can’t make this stuff up...

[MJY1288]

I wish Ms Streisand would drop her citizenship and move to Cuba

[Gordongekko909]

YES! It is on like Donkey Kong! I have been waiting for a leftist boycott of the Lying *******s Times, and this just might get the ball rolling!

So, once again, have fun with your lack of newspapers, Brokey McNojob!

[george76]

"It seems that your new leadership, especially Publisher Jeff Johnson, is entirely out of touch with your readers and their desire to be exposed to views that stretch them beyond their own paradigms..."

"So although the number of contributors to your Op-Ed pages may have increased, in firing Scheer and hiring columnists such as Jonah Goldberg, the gamut of voices has undeniably been diluted."

BARBRA STREISAND

Santa Monica

http://www.barbrastreisand.com/statements.html

[Randy Larsen]

This is great news!

[Fielding]

She sings like a bird. She should stick to singing.

[Begin]

She sings like a bird.

And she's got the brain of one, to boot.

[Bender]

I didn't know she could read. Amazing the things you learn...

[george76]

[MilleniumBug]

Babs new song:

Well I lay my head on the railroad track
Waiting on the Double E
But the train don't run by here no more
Poor poor pitiful me
Poor poor pitiful me
Poor poor pitiful me
Oh these boys won't let me be
Lord have mercy on me
Woe woe is me

[fabriclady]

She can't spell, I doubt she can read.
I agree, she should move out of this country.
Cuba would be OK, or she could go to Venezuela

[bybybill]

BS is right on, the LA TIMES is out of touch and has been for a long time.
I do hope that the Times listens to Babs and moves even more to the left. Then the only people reading it will be BS and her two friends

[DennisR]

From the L.A. Times website:

Scheer said he thought The Times had grown tired of his liberal politics. "I've been a punching bag for Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh for years and I think the paper finally collapsed," he said. He said he and Ramirez "both had strong opinions and [I think] the owners think they can improve circulation by making the paper bland and safer."

Note to Mr. Scheer: Robert, "bland and safer" is not quite the right phrase. How about "not quite so anti-American, Bush-hating, neurotic, schizophrenic, and conservative bashing?"

[Feiny]

Every sentence of her letter is hilarious. She even signs off with a lie about her location. She lives in Malibu, but writes that she is in Santa Monica.

She actually believed the LA TImes was unbiased? That is proof positive that she is delusional. Even with the new ownership & minor changes in staff, the LA Times is still leaning left. The only reason they are trying to "right" themselves is due to the tens of thousands of subscribers they lost.

[LostInBayport]

I've always liked Jonah Goldberg...brilliant writing in National Review.

I now have greater respect for him. He's made Babs out herself as the intolerant, narrow-minded limousine liberal we've always known her to be.

Conservatives can disagree and remain united...liberals, self-absorbed as they are, cannot.

[cmotormac44]

and take the flake Brolin with her---

[ItsForTheChildren]

She might be able to read but she sure as hell can't write:

"...on the myriad of internet sites I've visited..."

[al baby]

So what is Brolin going to do from 605 ro 607 in the morning ?

[ArmstedFragg]

views that stretch them beyond their own paradigms..."

A set up that could spark a hundred punch lines.

[Rocky]

This is hilarious. Leftists protesting Hillary and boycotting the LA Times. Can it get any better?

[A6M3]

Babs is a typical marxist. When forced to choose between communist propaganda and enlightenment, they'll choose propaganda every time.

[BradyLS]

Scheer said he thought The Times had grown tired of his liberal politics. "I've been a punching bag for Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh for years and I think the paper finally collapsed," he said. He said he and Ramirez "both had strong opinions and [I think] the owners think they can improve circulation by making the paper bland and safer."

Might I instead suggest instead that your remaining customer base would probably prefer a paper printed in Spanish?

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

views that stretch them beyond their own paradigms...

columnists such as Jonah Goldberg

Babs clearly doesn't see the irony here: she's the one that doesn't want to stretch beyond her own paradigm. If she had any real interest in paradigm-stretching, she'd read Goldberg's column religiously, just to see what the other side thinks. Instead, she cancels her subscription.

[lawnorder]

Streisand dropping her subscription to the Los Angeles Times is probably the best advert for the Times!

Nothing makes me more reluctant to buy the Times than knowing that people like Streisand and her ilk read the paper.

I don't want to buy a paper that is subscribed to by liberal democrats. With all her millions (or billions?) why doesn't she buy her own newspaper where she can hire Robert Scheer to write more anti-American, pro-Fundamental Islamist hate pieces?

Hey, she could probably get Mrs. Kerry, George Sorryass and Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) to pump some of their cash into the venture.

Oh, but wait a minute. I forgot. These limousine liberals are the first to open their fat mouths, but the last to open their fatter wallets. They live off our backs – we carry them. We fight and die for their right to vent their hatred of our values, but they run and hide when push comes to shove.

God bless America, Merry Christmas to all.

[MikeHu]

She's just trying to save money.

But that's a good excuse.

[GeronL]

does this crazy old bat know that she is dropping one of the most rabid left-wing papers in the country because of an editorial cartoonist and a single token conservative columnist???

Or is she completely senile??

[Loyal Buckeye]

What a letter. I needed that. LOL.

[Oztrich Boy]

She may have a point about the LA Times - they can't even print her letter correctly

They published

So although the number of contributors to your Op-Ed pages may have increased, in firing Scheer and hiring columnists such as Jonah Goldberg, the gamut of voices has undeniably been diluted.

When she was objecting to them "firing Robert Sheer"

[katana]

I realize I'm in a minority, but I've never cared much for her voice (a nasal whine). Of course, with the elephant seal proboscis at the front of her cross eyed fugly face, it can hardly be helped.

[freema]

I wish Ms. Streisand would bend over.

[Chode]

high school graduates... is there anything they don't know???

[bubman]

Who gives a RAT's a$$ what Yentl has to say. What a self-important moron.

[ozzymandus]

I would bet a sizeable amount that babs has never read a newspaper in her life.

[Fruit of the Spirit]

What's this? A Jew protesting another Jew? What has the world come to?

[dfwgator]

"YAY! No more Barbra Streisand, EVER!".

[Torie]

That wasn't necessary.

[Fruit of the Spirit]

You're entitled to your opinion...but just so you know...I'm entitled to my opinion, too.

[Torie]

Of course.

[the lone wolf]

It says volumes that B.S. is dropping the LA Times because she thinks it is too right wing for her, at the same time that their subscription numbers are collapsing because the public thinks they are too far to the Left.

We are winning....

[Lancey Howard]

On Barbra's site she posts her original letter to the LA Times and then follows it with the edited version which the LA Times actually published. I got the impression that she was not happy about the editing job, though I could be wrong.

[springfieldillinoishunk]

Who says she can't make movies out of Vancouver? Let's ship her to Canada.

[skinkinthegrass]

She sings like a bird... And she's got the brain of one, to boot.

Why insult the birds? ...our fine-feathered friend, entertained you, for dinner a few weeks ago. :D

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

It seems, however, an aptly designated epithet, representing the feeling among many of your readers that your new leadership, especially that of Jeff Johnson, is entirely out of touch with them and their desire to be exposed to views that stretch them beyond their own paradigms.

Well, we can only hope that in stretching "beyond her own paradigms" through
the Twilight Zone that Babs establishes contact with the Klingon or Romulan
Federation or maybe even the Reptilians, Mantisoids, or Grays of Zeta Reticuli.
Then again...maybe she already has.

[highlander_UW]

Bill O'Reilly suggested she should hire this guy to work on her political website if she likes him so much.

[daddypatriot]

This woman may be able to sing, but she is a functional illiterate, if that is the correct terminology. I saw her on television one evening a while back and wondered what she looks like early in the morning. God forbid, and protect the one who has to endure that sight. A friend told me his name is Broling, or something like that, and he used to be an actor. My condolences to him.

[KosmicKitty]

Wow -

Barbra can read!!

You learn something new every day!

[LtKerst]

Ms Streisand is dropping her subscription to the Los Angeles Times

She can read?