Faux Writer/Vogue Editor Slams Randi, oh yeah? How about

[lala_rawraw]

One back? I have no problem with sophisticated musings, but this is just badly written and catty, so here is Ms. Buck and below is me:

When Air America was unrolled over New Mexico I rejoiced. I would hear news and the opinions of my own tribe in the tones of my tribe: measured cadences, husky perhaps with regret, imparting facts and figures as transparent and painful as the truth. Instead, there is the voice of Randi Rhodes: screaming, squawking, screeching, selling, alas, what appear to be the same two or three ideas of what is called the left by the right. She too has the end-of-auction shipwreck voice, but instead of defensive, its mode is aggressive.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/joan-juliet-buck/talk-radios-endofaucti_4532.html

Take that:

I assume that you are a most gifted writer and that your radio voice is charming and soft, cooing even. I frankly don’t know.

Perhaps you read Anaïs Nin’s Little Birds by candlelight while tugging on your stockings and batting your eyelashes, draped over the radio listening to the news – politics slips in, unannounced, slowly taking over your "tribal" tones – or something equally as out of place in a political discussion.

Whatever the reason, I find your critique of Randi Rhodes a bit too pointed, out of context, and out of genre even.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/larisa-alexandrovna/comment-diton-awtfa-_4554.html

Go tell Ms. Buck what you think:)

[Rich Hunt]

1. hilarious

That reply was hilarious.

[murielkane]

2. Can anybody explain who this woman thinks she is?

I mean, yeah, I read her bio at the site, and I was sufficiently bemused by the fact that someone who went to work for Rupert Murdoch at the age of 21 would think that Air America would have anything to do with "her" tribe that I looked up the reviews of her novels at Amazon.

There Publisher's Weekly is quoted as saying, "This disappointingly executed novel deals with the empty, licentious lives of the well-to-do . . . The cumbersome plot contains too many unbelievable twists, and Buck's numerous attempts at cryptic wit are weak and strained." And Library Journal adds, "The novel is erotic; scenes abound of irresponsible sex among the decadent and dying of European and New York high society."

So I think I have a pretty good idea of who she is -- some sort of holdover from the 1960's, when we all watched far too many Italian movies and thought that identifying with doomed European aristocrats was a viable way of cutting loose from Main Street America.

But I still really want to know who she *thinks* she is -- and how she can presume for one moment to speak for the angry, engaged, effective political left of today?

[lala_rawraw]

3. I don't know, but now I am getting slammed

LOL... go help me damn it.

[lala_rawraw]

4. Wow, Randi wrote an amazing response

That is really honest and motivating... go fucking READ IT!!!!!!!!