Comments on: I Think I Own This DVD: Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Is Under Attack By Lesbians http://guanabee.com/2009/02/alisa-valdes-rodriguez-lesbians/ Spicy Coverage: Gossip, media, culture and lifestyle for Latinos. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:05:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Alex Alvarez http://guanabee.com/2009/02/alisa-valdes-rodriguez-lesbians/#comment-21627 Alex Alvarez Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:24:07 +0000 http://guanabee.com/?p=13866#comment-21627 Thanks for responding, David. I'll keep an eye on your blog. Thanks for responding, David. I’ll keep an eye on your blog.

]]> By: Guest http://guanabee.com/2009/02/alisa-valdes-rodriguez-lesbians/#comment-21591 Guest Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:20:51 +0000 http://guanabee.com/?p=13866#comment-21591 Dear Alex, It may seem like my focus is on Alisa, and I understand why it seems that way, but really my focus in this instance, and generally in a few other posts on my blog, is that the problem of lack of accountability and lying is widespread. I only came across this issue with Alisa because I was trying to resolve why she was removing so many sourced statements from her Wikipedia article; otherwise, I knew nothing about her until recently. AVR happens to just be the latest, and was an example I hoped would be seen in a larger context in our society. To take a comment on on a response I made about the AVR issue: I read <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/02/graydon200902?currentPage=2" rel="nofollow">Graydon Carter's editor's letter in Vanity Fair</a>, and in it this stuck out to me: <blockquote> The absence of shame (and its corollary, accountability) appears to be a uniquely American problem.</blockquote> That really sums it up for me. Carter was talking about far greater problems from this issue than AVR that have plagued us these last eight years: <blockquote>When U.S. intelligence ignored warnings of 9/11 and incorrectly assessed the W.M.D. situation in pre-invasion Iraq, C.I.A. chief George Tenet was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a $4 million book contract from HarperCollins. By comparison, when terrorists stormed Mumbai in November, killing nearly 200 civilians, India’s home minister resigned, saying that he took “moral” responsibility for the massacre. After the Zurich-based investment bank UBS announced huge first-quarter losses last year, its chairman and four members of its board of directors tendered their resignations. The top three executives at France’s Caisse d’Epargne stepped down last year in the wake of steep losses. And the head of the Royal Bank of Scotland offered his resignation when its losses caused its stock to decline by 91 percent since 2007. Nowhere in all the malfeasance on Wall Street this past year has the senior officer of a major bank publicly accepted responsibility for his actions and tendered his resignation. Even the man who was the official Wall Street watchdog through these troubled times, Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox, still has his job.</blockquote> I see all of this, including AVR, connected into the bigger issue that was mentioned in Graydon Carter's first quote. David Shankbone Dear Alex,

It may seem like my focus is on Alisa, and I understand why it seems that way, but really my focus in this instance, and generally in a few other posts on my blog, is that the problem of lack of accountability and lying is widespread. I only came across this issue with Alisa because I was trying to resolve why she was removing so many sourced statements from her Wikipedia article; otherwise, I knew nothing about her until recently. AVR happens to just be the latest, and was an example I hoped would be seen in a larger context in our society. To take a comment on on a response I made about the AVR issue:

I read Graydon Carter’s editor’s letter in Vanity Fair, and in it this stuck out to me:

The absence of shame (and its corollary, accountability) appears to be a uniquely American problem.

That really sums it up for me. Carter was talking about far greater problems from this issue than AVR that have plagued us these last eight years:

When U.S. intelligence ignored warnings of 9/11 and incorrectly assessed the W.M.D. situation in pre-invasion Iraq, C.I.A. chief George Tenet was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a $4 million book contract from HarperCollins. By comparison, when terrorists stormed Mumbai in November, killing nearly 200 civilians, India’s home minister resigned, saying that he took “moral” responsibility for the massacre. After the Zurich-based investment bank UBS announced huge first-quarter losses last year, its chairman and four members of its board of directors tendered their resignations. The top three executives at France’s Caisse d’Epargne stepped down last year in the wake of steep losses. And the head of the Royal Bank of Scotland offered his resignation when its losses caused its stock to decline by 91 percent since 2007. Nowhere in all the malfeasance on Wall Street this past year has the senior officer of a major bank publicly accepted responsibility for his actions and tendered his resignation. Even the man who was the official Wall Street watchdog through these troubled times, Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox, still has his job.

I see all of this, including AVR, connected into the bigger issue that was mentioned in Graydon Carter’s first quote.

David Shankbone

]]> By: Guest http://guanabee.com/2009/02/alisa-valdes-rodriguez-lesbians/#comment-21590 Guest Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:15:36 +0000 http://guanabee.com/?p=13866#comment-21590 I found this via Shankbones article and I also found Alisa recent blog post retracting her retracted statements. But I cannot comment on hers (they are turned off) and I need to write somewhere! Hope you don't mind the bitching. I just don't see how Sarah Warn attacked her. She was merely trying to get the facts straight (pun intended). And she was trying to protect herself and her website, in which Alisa essentially was calling her (and them) liars, when all they did is write what she said. I understand if she needed to protect herself, but why didn't she take it up with AE (and get it changed) if she was trying to protect herself.. or do fascist Cuban not check out these sites (just as does Focus on Family and those types don't read The Advocate and then boycott whomever advertises in there)... Grr Arg I found this via Shankbones article and I also found Alisa recent blog post retracting her retracted statements. But I cannot comment on hers (they are turned off) and I need to write somewhere! Hope you don’t mind the bitching. I just don’t see how Sarah Warn attacked her. She was merely trying to get the facts straight (pun intended). And she was trying to protect herself and her website, in which Alisa essentially was calling her (and them) liars, when all they did is write what she said. I understand if she needed to protect herself, but why didn’t she take it up with AE (and get it changed) if she was trying to protect herself.. or do fascist Cuban not check out these sites (just as does Focus on Family and those types don’t read The Advocate and then boycott whomever advertises in there)… Grr Arg

]]> By: fuacata http://guanabee.com/2009/02/alisa-valdes-rodriguez-lesbians/#comment-21513 fuacata Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:38:59 +0000 http://guanabee.com/?p=13866#comment-21513 I started reading Alisa's entry until she starts going into details of her gay dalliances, and I stopped because I don't care, but then again, I'm neither a lesbian nor a fascist Cuban American who sends hate mail from Hialeah. I started reading Alisa’s entry until she starts going into details of her gay dalliances, and I stopped because I don’t care, but then again, I’m neither a lesbian nor a fascist Cuban American who sends hate mail from Hialeah.

]]> By: pazenlavida a.k.a. denise http://guanabee.com/2009/02/alisa-valdes-rodriguez-lesbians/#comment-21505 pazenlavida a.k.a. denise Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:14:18 +0000 http://guanabee.com/?p=13866#comment-21505 Dyke drama. Dyke drama.

]]> By: Fredo http://guanabee.com/2009/02/alisa-valdes-rodriguez-lesbians/#comment-21491 Fredo Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:31:30 +0000 http://guanabee.com/?p=13866#comment-21491 Chistosa, you crack me up. Chistosa, you crack me up.

]]> By: Alex Alvarez http://guanabee.com/2009/02/alisa-valdes-rodriguez-lesbians/#comment-21490 Alex Alvarez Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:28:14 +0000 http://guanabee.com/?p=13866#comment-21490 Jessica Alba? Jessica Alba! Jessica. Albaaaaaaaa. I had a dream that I was attacked by Jessica Alba, and that she was a lesbian fascist who wrote for Wikipedia. Jessica Alba? Jessica Alba! Jessica. Albaaaaaaaa.

I had a dream that I was attacked by Jessica Alba, and that she was a lesbian fascist who wrote for Wikipedia.

]]> By: Fredo http://guanabee.com/2009/02/alisa-valdes-rodriguez-lesbians/#comment-21489 Fredo Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:22:58 +0000 http://guanabee.com/?p=13866#comment-21489 You are obsessed with Jessica Alba! Alex, you couldn't even make it through this article without mentioning her name. You can try the cop out about how you are told to write about her but I know...I know. You are obsessed with Jessica Alba! Alex, you couldn’t even make it through this article without mentioning her name. You can try the cop out about how you are told to write about her but I know…I know.

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