Comments on: Style Editor Ned Martel Refuses to Comment on Horrible Sally Quinn Column

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By: sprite

sprite — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:10:39 +0000

Is that Martel's picture featured? Hard-charging Style editor? Just curious. Not a bad looking guy. Not a journalist but not a bad looking guy.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:43:24 +0000

Does anyone remember the etiquette book that Ms. Quinn published in 1996?
Pardon me BUT is Pary Williamson's ( the bride-to-be) slightly suspect?

By: cminus

cminus — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:05:59 +0000

Quinn's article is an abomination unto the Lord and a fit rival to the previous worst thing she's ever written, that "village" piece during the Clinton impeachment kerfluffle in which she summed up everything that's wrong about Washington -- and revelled in it. But, fellow commenters, is it really necessary for so many of you to cast aspersions on her personal life? Mercifully, I've never had to move in her social circle, so I have no idea whether there's any truth to the slams, but you know what? I don't care. I'd rather read an interesting and well-written piece by someone whose personal life would horrify me than tripe by someone of unimpeachable probity, which is why I own the complete Hunter S. Thompson but will never buy the works of George F. Will. Just say her journalism sucks; stop dwelling on what else might suck as well.

By: Wassup

Wassup — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:30:03 +0000

On politico they are comparing Sally Quinn to Elena Ceaucescu, others say Quinn to Magda Goebbels.

I tend to agree with those who suggest Blanche Dubois (or Devereaux, take your pick) and Norma Desmond.
Ceaucescu had actual power and Goebbels some class albeit very twisted (until she too, cannibalized her own children).

By: The Donkey

The Donkey — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:47:43 +0000

I knew you were trolling these sites Sally, like a moth to a flame. Keep it up WCP!

By: Amos Humiston

Amos Humiston — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:28:09 +0000

Wow... talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. Way to sock it to 'em, City Paper! Maybe you'll get a Pulitzer out of this hard-hitting report.

Yawn.

By: Hemingway

Hemingway — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:11:23 +0000

With Sally Quinn as his caregiver Ben Bradlee will be lucky to end up as well as Brooke Astor.

Erik you will follow up on this story on Monday, please!

By: Ca

Ca — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:51:34 +0000

Do us all a favor and sleep with Katherine Weymouth. Consider it a "charity f'k"!

By: sprite

sprite — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:30:54 +0000

Appreciate your attempt to get a comment from WP Style editor but, as you know, they are timorous folk over there when it comes to all things Bradlee/Quinn. In event Mr. Martel deigns to respond to your queries, could you ask him for me just who do I have to sleep with to get my own column at the Post?

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:50:06 +0000

Years ago, I went to a local astrologer named Svetlana, who was Russian and mysterious and who also saw Sally Quinn. (Svetlana died in the 80s, but she'd had a column in the WaPo., thanks to Sally.)

Anyway, Svetlana was kind of a drinker, and we used to go to the bar at the Mayflower. She told me once that Sally had an ideal chart for the perfect life, up until a certain point, and then something would go terribly wrong. Sally always thought Quinn's disabilities were a punishment for having lured Ben away from Mrs. Bradlee, and she went whole-hog for religion, karma, whatever would absolve her.

Quinn's a nice enough guy, but I'm rather shocked he's reproducing, given the odds of his passing on his genetically-linked disability.

By: Columbiana

Columbiana — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:47:38 +0000

Her whole gimmick was that she would swallow in a day when most women wouldn't even nibble and she was really easy. Shes a 68 year old hag now.

She has apparently cast some kind of spell over the Graham family or has something on someone. You're right though, she is mentally ill. All that hate for all those years has caught up with her. She really hates the Grahams, they are, after all, the Grahams and she is after all, not.

Now her family must really hate her. She may have met her match in the Baby Mama. The yoga instructor must be a Mossad plant or something.

At any rate the only way to save face now, even a little, is to sneak off quietly to the country and just get married then attend the niece's wedding. Of course Ol' Sally would have us believe that the bride's father did not invite his brother to the wedding. Its simply that no one wants Sally Quinn at their wedding. Who would?

By: mitchell owens

mitchell owens — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:33:49 +0000

And my spelling is atrocious.

By: mitchell owens

mitchell owens — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:32:29 +0000

This entire brouhaha has me shaking my head. The Post has gone from better to worse and the Quinn coluimn's exoistancve only proves the paper has ceased to a force for the better. What is the paper thinking? This should be Quinn's swansong. She has gone off the deep end.

By: Linda Blair

Linda Blair — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:31:53 +0000

Ben Bradlee's funeral is sure shaping up to be a family lovefest. After changing his diapers all these years (and happily, she thinks it is "a kick") Sally envisions herself as Nancy Reagan in that movie. Of course, thats not fair to Nancy Reagan. By all accounts she has found compassion and humility through her exeprience with President Reagan's decline and, oh, her children speak to her. Oh, and she actually was REALLY, IN REAL LIFE SALLY, First Lady.