I agree but does Adrianna have to be so Shrill

[JohnnyMo]

The more shrill, panic-like and accusatory sounding her writing becomes the less able she will be to change the minds of those. She is trying to reach.

While Adrianna was making the shift from a right-winger to a free-thinker. She was better able to communicate her ideas. Even those who disagreed with her would listen.

As time has progressed, unfortunately, her style has become more and more judgmental, combative and accusatory. If this continues, I'm afraid only those, who agree with everything she says, Will remain her fans

I bet more and more people are just tuning her out, and placing her in the far out in left field category. This is too bad. She has a lot to say and is right about 95% of the time.

I guess I'm posting this, because unlike many. Who oppose the far right agenda. I don't see them all as the same. Many are hard-working people, with little time to gather information to form opinions. So they fall prey to the sloganeering-type catch-phrases. That the far-right uses all too well to frame the important issues. Phrasing that goes down like candy. When compared to the stale pontificating style, so popular with the other side of the spectrum.

[halva]

It may be that Arianna Huffington will have to start looking more to Europe than to the United States as her main arena for political expression.

Attempts are being made to set up an all-European party of the Left. There should be something similar happening on the Right, but all the European centre-right parties are nationally-oriented.

Arianna could play a very important role in building an all-European party of the Right.

[teecegirl]

I personally like her style. Why hide from the facts? That's the problem with this whole "war." No one wants to stand up and say the truth. She is probably becoming more "shrill" because the Bush presidency keeps digging lower and lower in decency, the lies keep building, and free speech keeps getting squashed.

[halva]

Well, I live in Greece and I know Arianna only from her writing, but her style of intelligent conservatism is something I could imagine many finding attractive.

The new Greek government is trying to get itself an Arianna-style image.

Without wanting to sound too unrealistically optimistic, check out:

http://chem11.proboards2.com/index.cgi?board=politics&action=display&num=1083934387&start=0

[hellbent]

I would have to agree- being shrill doesn't win the hearts and minds of the people. Which I would have to say, I have found it hard standing up for her in Georgia (not that she needs it, but when I reference her, people look at my like, are you crazy?) and not because of the content of what she was saying, but more or less, how she says it. She's defiantely a bright person, who in my opinion, could win more hearts and minds, if she so desires.

[halva]

I'm doing all I can to make it possible for Arianna to be better known in her native Greece. She could help introduce an interesting new input, not only in Greece but in all of Europe.

[Sam Ayyam]

The putative Moltesanti bride
has a lot on her plate today.

Trying to live her life,
root for her team.
Defending her men and
Shining the Feds.

Who sez ain't nuthin' on the teevee?

Who says libs ain't cool?

[zeemike]

Hmmm…

“The more shrill, panic-like and accusatory sounding her writing becomes the less able she will be to change the minds of those. She is trying to reach.”
Would you say that this is true of Shaun Hannity or that skinny blond woman that calls people like me traitors for opposing war?

“While Adrianna was making the shift from a right-winger to a free-thinker.”

I have heard her deny that she was ever a right winger…Who knows the truth of that you or her?
Are you sure you have not been watching to much Fox News?

[halva]

I don't know all that much about her, but I know that if she lived in Greece she would be a member of the ruling centre-right New Democracy party. She was and is a right-winger.

[hellbent]

I don't know all that much about her, but I know that if she lived in Greece she would be a member of the ruling centre-right New Democracy party. She was and is a right-winger.



How does one go from saying, "I don't know much about her?" to "She was and is a right-winger." all in the same paragraph?

[halva]

I've been watching her, to the extent that she appears in the international media, for some years. I've read her latest book and some of what she has put up on this site. I haven't seen her in real-life or on American television.

[Kanne]

The more shrill, panic-like and accusatory sounding her writing becomes the less able she will be to change the minds of those. She is trying to reach.

Your post is so shrill, panic-like and accusatory sounding I doubt you will be able to change any of the minds of those. You are trying to reach.