Maron, question - I have not found this new information referenced in your opening article anywhere else on the web.  Would these allegations be based on statements from the blackmailer’s attorney?

Would you like me to deconstruct sentence by sentence? 

"a$$’ for starters, followed by, for heaven’s sake, the ‘video’, as you call the clip, is on utube, no one is hiding it from you.  Then you seque into "your precious POTUS" etc (you don’t realize that sort of nastiness is offensive?) and you finish up with this -

"can’t wait until someone screams that Obama should stand behind his black heritage and that black stick together".

Holy Lord.

Tape?  Being purposely offensive breaks the rule every time.  I am hoping you just had too much coffee this morning.

Agreed, Jamie, but she is sick.  She is dying.  It can change the brain.

Central Park West

Yes, it was kind of odd many people did not get this.  So jumping on the PC bandwagon, you didn’t know Margo is Jewish (or didn’t bother to think) and apparently never read, or heard, the play.  Or maybe did not understand it.  Shylock is a perfect analogy, please educate yourselves before you post opinions.  There was no anti-Semitic slur at all, by either Shakespeare (if you actually read it) or Margo.  it was a spot on literary reference, by a very smart woman.

Oh, Roberta, Roberta … “the charming president of the ‘I Made It on Talent Alone’ club” ? … and you accuse others of ‘cattiness’? Do up the meds, dear.

And I have decided to be the next Nora Ryan and Roberta Wickham, and when I become them, I will go jump in a lake -

I find it absurd that anyone would criticize Margo Howard for defending her mother’s copyrighted name … also rather interesting that said commentators continually use phrases such as, “cattiness”, “petulant’, ‘middle school’, etc. Sounds like terms used to denigrate strong women, and used by misogynist members of either sex. This is both a legal and ethical issue - wonder if they would have the same attitude towards a man in a similar position … or would they admire him for standing up for his rights?

When we lived in Florida, we called the cleaning ladies ‘The Hacienda’s”, when we moved back to NYC, our house cleaner was a woman my own age who ran her own cleaning business, she always referred to herself as, “Karen the Cleaning Lady’. Some people most definately do not want to be addressed by their first names, some insist on it … just ask!