Gene Lyons - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/gene_lyons/?source=rss&aim=gene_lyons en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST Palin, Prejean: Beastly treatment for beauties By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/25/beauty/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/25/beauty/index.html?source=rss The governor turned author must fight what the pageant queen learned: Politics and hotness make strange bedfellows The war industry's drums are beating By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/18/war_industry/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/18/war_industry/index.html?source=rss The pressure is on President Obama to act quickly in Afghanistan. But why? What were the Republicans smoking? By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/11/republican_crazies/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/11/republican_crazies/index.html?source=rss After the disastrous Bush presidency the GOP had the option to go crazy or rethink. Guess which one they chose The Keyboard Commandos want Obama to be tough By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/04/obama/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/04/obama/index.html?source=rss Dick Cheney, David Brooks and others urge the president to man up. Why is foreign policy always about machismo? Don't be surprised the media elite sided with Fox By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/28/fox_versus_obama/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/28/fox_versus_obama/index.html?source=rss Washington reporters know that Democrats complain, but Republicans get even Why are we still in Afghanistan? By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/21/afghanistan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/21/afghanistan/index.html?source=rss The country poses no threat to the U.S., but the war costs lives, drains the treasury and makes enemies Fox News isn't even pretending anymore By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/15/fox_news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/15/fox_news/index.html?source=rss Want proof that journalism has devolved into entertainment? Watch "the communications arm of the Republican Party" There's a special place in hell for Roman Polanski By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/08/sex_scandals/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/08/sex_scandals/index.html?source=rss Adultery, even that of celebs like Letterman and Edwards, is a commonplace. But sex with underage girls is a crime Is Obama man or mouse? By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/01/iran/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/01/iran/index.html?source=rss Asks the Beltway punditocracy, which treats foreign policy like a theater of machismo The public knows the GOP is fibbing By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/24/healthcare/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/24/healthcare/index.html?source=rss Only Republicans really buy the anti-healthcare reform lies. So why are some Dems settling for such an awful bill? Obama gets the Clinton treatment By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/17/clinton/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/17/clinton/index.html?source=rss Anybody shocked by nasty GOP attacks on Obama must have forgotten what happened to the last Democratic president Is the GOP a cult? By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/10/overreacting_to_obama/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/10/overreacting_to_obama/index.html?source=rss Even some Republicans said their party had gone overboard in criticizing Obama for giving a speech to schoolkids A cake knife is useless in a gunfight By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/03/cake_knife/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/03/cake_knife/index.html?source=rss President Obama has only himself to blame for the healthcare reform quagmire The media can't handle the truth By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/27/lyons/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/27/lyons/index.html?source=rss Media sheep facing truth-hungry Internet wolves You won't win the healthcare debate by calling people stupid racists By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/20/town_halls/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/20/town_halls/index.html?source=rss Elite right-wing foes of healthcare reform are telling lies. The folks listening to them are mostly just scared Lunacy goes mainstream By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/13/lyons/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/13/lyons/index.html?source=rss Conservatives may be acting crazy, but by yelling louder than anyone else, they're making sure they are heard The Gates-Crowley public sitcom By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/06/gates_crowley/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/06/gates_crowley/index.html?source=rss While Americans screamed insults at one another, Obama lost two weeks in the effort to pass healthcare reform Black men, white cops and media mind readers By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/30/gates/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/30/gates/index.html?source=rss There's one person to blame for Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s arrest: Henry Louis Gates Jr. We won't see Cronkite's like again By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/23/cronkite/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/23/cronkite/index.html?source=rss The journalistic standards that Walter Cronkite and his contemporaries established have nearly disappeared Sarah Palin should just go home By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/16/lyons/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/16/lyons/index.html?source=rss The Alaska governor embodies America's obsession with made-up facts, self-pity and celebrity Media elite vs. blogger peasants By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/09/lyons/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/09/lyons/index.html?source=rss The White House allowed a mere commoner among the Beltway peerage -- how indecorous! Sex scandals are bipartisan By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/02/lyons/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/02/lyons/index.html?source=rss But it's Republicans who are prone to preaching about other people's intimate lives Iran's in turmoil. Good thing McCain's not president By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/25/iran_lyons/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/25/iran_lyons/index.html?source=rss Instead of belligerence, President Obama offers carefully chosen words to Iranians and quotes Martin Luther King Sickly talk about fixing healthcare By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/18/lyons/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/18/lyons/index.html?source=rss President Obama, ditch the rhetoric about bipartisanship and enact reform with or without the GOP and the AMA Why is Tiller's alleged killer doing press conferences? By Gene Lyons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/11/scott_roeder/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/11/scott_roeder/index.html?source=rss Listen instead to the people giving testimonials to the doctor: His family, his patients, his colleagues.