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still_one

(92,325 posts)
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 11:53 AM Mar 2016

Honest and Unmerciful: An Open Letter to Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone Magazine

"I've been a follower of yours for some time now. This past Wednesday, when your boss Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone published his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, I knew that you'd have a response in defense of your own personal candidate of choice, Bernie Sanders. To your credit, you were able to respectfully disagree with your boss' endorsement (the respectful part is key) and lay out the reasons why you feel young people are not fully supporting the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. As a millennial who is supporting Hillary Clinton, I found your reasoning to be so unconvincing, uninformed, and untruthful that I felt compelled to respond to you in an effort to correct the record. As you did in your response piece, I too will do my best to present my argument in an enlightening, yet respectful, tone."


http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/26/honest-and-unmerciful-an-open-letter-to-matt-taibbi-of-rolling-stone-magazine


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Honest and Unmerciful: An Open Letter to Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone Magazine (Original Post) still_one Mar 2016 OP
K&R! stonecutter357 Mar 2016 #1
K&R Firebrand Gary Mar 2016 #2
Thanks for this. Both for... LAS14 Mar 2016 #3
That too. eom BlueMTexpat Mar 2016 #5
This is a wonderful letter, still_one! BlueMTexpat Mar 2016 #4
This plays out every day riversedge Mar 2016 #6
Maddening, isn't it? BlueMTexpat Mar 2016 #7

LAS14

(13,783 posts)
3. Thanks for this. Both for...
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 12:05 PM
Mar 2016

... sharing this worthwhile article, but also because it praises and models civilized discourse. DUers on both sides should take heed.

BlueMTexpat

(15,370 posts)
4. This is a wonderful letter, still_one!
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 12:08 PM
Mar 2016

K&R for posting!

This from the conclusion:

But you can't see that, Matt, because it doesn't fit your worldview. You see Hillary Clinton as being part of a system you see as inherently corrupt. What you fail to see is that she has been fighting against this system for forty-five years. From enforcing school integration in the south to fighting for health care reform in the mid-1990s to helping pass legislation that got 7 million children health insurance to being a co-sponsor of the Dream Act in the Senate to becoming a worldwide inspiration for women in saying that "human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights," Hillary Clinton has been a voice for the voiceless. This is not a person who is "part of the problem" as you claim, Matt, but rather the only person who can be part of the solution that helps keep an extreme Republican out of the White House in 2016. You were correct in your article when you said that millennials were thinking about Hillary Clinton. However, their thinking, much like your own, is not based on facts but rather a false narrative constructed solely to discredit a leading presidential candidate.

If you were a true journalist, Matt, you'd be able to tell the difference.


riversedge

(70,271 posts)
6. This plays out every day
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 12:32 PM
Mar 2016

here on DU. So sad.

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But you can't see that, Matt, because it doesn't fit your worldview. You see Hillary Clinton as being part of a system you see as inherently corrupt. What you fail to see is that she has been fighting against this system for forty-five years. ....
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