Ms Streisand Regrets

little green footballs ^ | december 06, 2005 | Silhouette

[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.