Posted on 03/28/2007 10:17:57 AM PDT by Froufrou
The 49-year-old newspaper columnist and conservative blogger, who had come from Manitoba, Canada, to become the sharp-tongued doyenne of the Los Angeles media scene, was only hours away from losing her years-long fight with cancer, leaving behind a 17-year-old daughter, a lifetime of work as a plucky and plain-speaking wordsmith, and the respect of colleagues from both sides of the political spectrum.
But what was supposed to have been a dignified end for a long-suffering single mom instead turned into what friends called a disgustingly public travesty, an example of the current Wild West atmosphere of Internet privacy issues, and a sordid showcase of just how far a beef can go.
Just hours before her death, “Cathy Seipp” suddenly seemed to undo decades of hard work with an oddly written letter posted on the Web site, www. cathyseipp.com. In what came off as more bizarre rant than heartfelt apology, her supposed “very last blog entry” called her years of journalism a “shoddy,” “despicable” and “irresponsible” career as a “fourth-rate hack.” Her political stance? All a mistake.
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He is a piece of scum.
He must not have ever thought about people who never heard of him having only this impression of him. Moron.
He’ll never rise to that level.
@sshat.
It's ok, the guy was a Democrat, and therefore not responsible for his actions.
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“It's not nice, but since when was the First Amendment nice to people?” he said.
Why does noone ever talk about the Second Amendment this way again?
Also, that man should be shot. Period.
Stein is a pig.
In this case, I hope her family sues the bugger for every penny he has, and for every penny he earns for the next 5 years.
There are some people who just need killin' ... and Eliot Stein sounds like he's trying to get on some list somewhere.
He's no doubt petty and vicious but both of them were taking their fight to the internet which seems kind of a waste of time to me.
Excuse me, but if you looked as much like Super Mario as this guy does, you'd be pretty pissed off at the world in general, I think.
A penny is just about how much he is going to earn.
Ahhhh . . . those good ol' compasionate liberals. Great, ain't they?
Is this some sort of rat talking point now?
This isn't the first time I've heard this idea.
Stein was accused (and I thought proved)by Seipp to be stalking Seipp's daughter, including calling her at home, discussing his unhappy marriage with her, and making inappropriate remarks to the teen. When it all came to a head, he appeared on her daughter's chat site and then on Seipp's site, and wrote terrible things about both mother and daughter-that's why he was reprimanded.
He's been a pig for years, and very obviously has a real problem with the daughter. With her mother's death, let's hope someone is watching out for her.
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