Former Editor-in-Chief Joan Walsh Slams Salon for ‘Idiotic’ Anti-Hillary Piece

[MrWendel]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/former-editor-in-chief-joan-walsh-slams-salon-for-idiotic-anti-hillary-piece/

by Alex Griswold



Former Salon editor-in-chief Joan Walsh took to Twitter Wednesday to slam her old outlet for publishing an anti-Hillary Clinton column she argued was “idiotic.”

At issue was a piece titled “Please, FBI — you’re our last hope: The Democratic Party’s future rests upon your probe of Hillary Clinton’s emails,” republished from the Huffington Post and written by columnist and Bernie Sanders supporter H. A. Goodman. In his column, Goodman argues that the FBI should speed up its investigation so it ends before primary season.

At this point, Bernie Sanders is the only Democratic candidate not linked to an FBI investigation, yet Clinton is leading in delegates. This dynamic would never take place in any other leading democracy. If David Cameron had been investigated by MI5, rest assured the British would never have allowed him to become leader of his political party, and eventually Prime Minister.

No doubt, you must perform your investigation without political pressure, but the reality is that millions of Bernie Sanders supporters are awaiting your verdict. Millions of independent voters, and millions of Democrats who aren’t voting for Clinton, need to hear your verdict. Needless to say, the Republicans are waiting as well.

…

Whether or not you recommend indictment, and whether or not you’ve found criminal wrongdoing pertaining to Clinton, should be known before the end of the Democratic Primary. Democrats can’t nominate a person who could potentially face indictment on November 7, 2016.

Needless to say, Walsh was not amused, jokingly threatening to excise Salon from her resume.

I think it's time for me to take @salon off my resume. I'm not linking to that idiotic piece, but y'all know what I'm talking about.
https://twitter.com/joanwalsh/status/725385214600581121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Does a 17-year gap in your journalism career hurt your resume? Asking for a friend @salon.
https://twitter.com/joanwalsh/status/725385365549371392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[tonyt53]

1. Desperation

Bernie and his followers have gone from naive to naive and desperate. The bad part is, many of his followers are repeating that same line about the FBI. Sad, desperate, pathetic? Take your pick of any and all.

[mcar]

2. Salon has gone completely down the tubes

[IamMab]

15. Yep, now just an outlet for LWNJs.

Even their culture and entertainment articles suck. They hired some former goth girl as their media critic, which means The Leftovers is the "greatest show ever" and everything else sucks.

They've also been shitting on Trevor Noah non-stop during his first year on The Daily Show. Give the guy a chance to find his voice, maybe?

[Cha]

3. Shame on Salon.. thank you, MrWendel.

I like Joan Walsh's writing.

[workinclasszero]

4. Salon is the digital version of fish-wrap now

Use to visit their site all the time. I will leave them to the Sanders dead enders and other nut jobs now.

[SharonClark]

5. Salon has been trash since Walsh left

Too many articles are reprints from leftist blogs, they brought back noted nut-job and woman-hating Camille Paglia, and their political writers seem to come directly from Hillary-hate Nation. I am disappointed because it used to enjoy reading it.

It used to be a pro-woman site but it's now been taken over by Sanders bros and a couple of their little sisters.

[yallerdawg]

6. Joan Walsh didn't drink the kool-aid.

Not for Salon, not for MSNBC, not at The Nation.

She is a wonderful staunch advocate for Hillary today!

[bluestateguy]

7. Waiting for the indictment fairy

Of course, H.A.G. doesn't seem to grasp that the FBI can't indict anyone.

[MrWendel]

9. Sorry...

but I had to steal "Indictment fairy" for a response in the GD: P section. It was too good.

[bluestateguy]

10. I didn't make it up

I just heard it from someone.

[SunSeeker]

20. Nor does HAG get that Hillary is not personally the target of the FBI investigation. nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Does H.A. stand for horses ass?

As for Salon I used to be a paying subscriber till they started publishing Glenn Greenwald's "Obama's no better than Bush" bullshit.

[Haveadream]

11. Love Joan and truly appreciate this call out

Salon's journalistic integrity has really declined both during this election and for their attacks on Obama.

[NastyRiffraff]

12. I've ditched Salon months ago

when they started this anti-Hillary bullshit, much of which were demented rants with nothing backing them up.

Besides, Salon kept crashing my browser. For more reasons than one, it was unreadable.

[Thinkingabout]

13. Whenever I want to hear lies or know the lies about Hillary, I can always google H A Goodman,

never lets me down, I would hope some would want more out of life than to be recognized for providing false information.

Good for Joan, I will take what she says as truth.

[sheshe2]

14. Good for you Joan.

I have always loved ya.

Salon

[riversedge]

16. Less than 3 hours ago I asked all of you to help me #BlockSalon and we are trending HARD! Thank you

I just got home and saw this vile article---Thanks for the post--and this is from Twitter.



Robert Sandy ?@frodofied 45m45 minutes ago

Less than 3 hours ago I asked all of you to help me #BlockSalon and we are trending HARD! Thank you!







Progressive Man ?@WeNeedHillary 3h3 hours ago

*RT -BLOCK Salon @salon & @Salon_politics - use #BlockSalon tag - PLEASE. They published pc begging FBI 2 indict HRC







While you were away...

Damon Bethea ?@damonbethea1 3h3 hours ago Pennsylvania, USA

I stop following @salon months ago after they started releasing more anti-Hillary pieces. Today's mess is beyond ridiculous. #BlockSalon

[riversedge]

17. Great job everyone! #BlockSalon is officially trending! Let's keep it going!

Robert Sandy ?@frodofied 2h2 hours ago

Great job everyone! #BlockSalon is officially trending! Let's keep it going!

@Salon @Salon_politics

[misterhighwasted]

18. Trending: #BlockSalon

Robert Sandy– ?@frodofied

The #BlockSalon movement is not about censorship. They're free to publish what they want, but I'm also free to deny @Salon access to me.

12:50 PM - 27 Apr 2016

https://mobile.twitter.com/frodofied/status/725411713655386112


https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/BlockSalon?src=hash

[MattP]

19. Is it a Huffington piece or salon?

[fred v]

21. H.A. Goodman is Aptly Named

HA! What a joke he is!