Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (107185)	4/1/2005 6:24:40 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Respond to of 793838

Vanity Fair has fixed their "cover" problems with their latest issue. nypost.com March 7, 2005 -- Must be spring fever. Bikinis and beaches are popping up all over magazine covers, just when the rest of us are ready to shed our winter blahs. Say this about Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter: He pays attention to what sells and what has been ailing his magazine. During the second half of 2004, when single-copy sales were as weak as Martha Stewart's defense, dropping an eye-opening 23 percent, Carter knew something had to change. Wham! Carter orders up April's cover of three bikini-clad Russian supermodels standing in the surf getting their thighs wet. Why should sports weeklies have all the fun, Carter must have been thinking.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (107185)	4/2/2005 1:25:46 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

IMO, this is spot on...and until the Dems really realize that most Americans are not amused by calling the President names, nor by having their Representatives be as totally unresponsive and totally uncivil to the people of the US...this will continue to be the Dem fate. Where are people like Henry M. Jackson, and several other notable Democrats of yesterday? Most of the vocal ones today, like Kennedy, Pelosi, Byrd, Dean, Reid, and all the ETCs....just simply turn off not only the members of their own party, but turn off others who might be inclined to vote for one or two of them along the line as well. After the election, a little stunned by their own lack of influence, some seemed afraid that hordes of red-staters were about to descend and impound them for treason, but the truth was much more crushing: Nobody hated them, nobody feared them, and nobody cared what they thought. "Elites . . . believe that their underappreciated political insight is a natural byproduct of their own proven artistic genius, education, talent or capital," says Victor Davis Hanson, who does not sing or dance, but knows a great deal of history. "It is apparently a terrible thing to be sensitive, glib, smart, educated, or chic--and not be listened to."