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LETTERS
FOURTH INSTALLMENT
(Published December 2004)

Straight Eye For The Queer-Hating Guy

Knowing that homosexual acts are against God's law, then reading the article, "Straight Eye For The Queer Guy... and Gal", I now fully understand why God wrote...

Leviticus 20:13 - "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."

Romans 1:26 - "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that which is unseemly."

Rev. Don Spitz
Chesapeake, VA

Editor's Note: Why beat around the bush? Just bluntly state that gayness = evil, and you'll have won me over.

Miller Time

Re: "Dennis Miller Transformed" by Robert Furs:
Your piece hit the mark! I used to love Dennis Miller. Watching him now, I feel a member of my family has died. I cannot believe the words he pontificates come from the same lips I used to think "told things the way they were and should be".

Larry DuBois,
Loomis, CA
 

Ingraham Crackers

Re: "Laura Ingraham's Paranoid Stereotypes" by Frank Wallis:
I met Laura Ingraham in the fall of 2003 and found her bright, funny, insightful, and not altered by her sudden success in talk radio. She has written two successful books, God only knows how many right-on-target-columns, and a radio show that is growing faster than Rush's show when he first hit the airwaves. You have this stinking little website that features a bunch of no name, no talent, anti-Bush (which means anti-American) columnists and shallow thinkers. Methinks you're jealous of a gorgeous, successful, hot as hell woman.

John Chandler
Lenoir, NC
 

Swift Boat Vets Aren't Lying, No Way

As a Vietnam veteran myself, it saddens me to read comments by people like Mr. Smith who do not know their subject matter. Worse, despite being obviously ignorant of the known facts, Mr. smith continues to propagate outright distortions.

Firstly, contrary to the absurd comparison drawn in Mr. Smith's attack of the Swift Boat Veterans, many of these men (approximately 60) were within yards of Senator Kerry's boat during the incidents in question.
Quite the opposite of what Mr. Smith contends, most of the arguments coming from the Swift Boat Veterans are bolstered by official records and in some cases by the statements of Kerry, himself, as well as his crew members. Perhaps the most glaring example to date is the debunking of the ridiculous "Christmas in Cambodia" story, long told by the boy wonder. Not one to give up easily, however, the Kerry camp put out a "new and improved" version of those events. Surprisingly, the new story is even more unlikely than the first!
In the end, I'm not going to be at all surprised when folk's like Mr. Smith get that same, "kicked in the gut" feeling so many of Bill Clinton's friends felt when he finally admitted to the Lewinsky affair. They were all so sure that HE WASN'T LYING TOO!

Richard Montgomery
Palm Bay, FL

Re: Scott C. Smith's "The Company You Keep":

Yes, politics and smear tactics CAN get ugly, but then nobody better than the DNC would know that. Democrats think it's just fine to smear Bush's service record, but are quick to snivel when it's their boy getting smeared with the truth. How many times has Kerry had to recant his Cambodia story? How many times did he call his "Brothers in Arms" baby killers and accuse them of war atrocities? Traitor! When will he, like Jane Fonda, apologize for his criticism of our Vietnam vets?

The facts are there. Nobody, nobody can get three Purple Hearts in four months unless the wounds were insignificant slivers. Kerry was only in Vietnam four months and calls himself a veteran? Use your head and look at the facts. Here's what I see. Three Purple Hearts were his ticket home!!!

When will the far left give the Democratic Party back?

Charlie Swearingen
Idaho City, Idaho

Editor's Note: Your suggestion to "use your head" is a noble one -- we'd love to see implementation of such an idealistic proposition.

Rovian Schemes

Re: "Karl Rove: Rather Brilliant" by Robert Furs:
I suppose you have the documents, flown specially to you via a Black Helicopter, to support your theory? What a bunch of idiots!!

EARTH TO THE LIBERALS!!! WAKE UP! Not everything is a bloody conspiracy! Dan Rather got caught dirty, fair and square!! He had to be dumb, dumber and dumbest to even consider putting such trash on the air in the first place!! His "conspiracy" was old news, dating back to when he ran against Ann Richards for Governor of Texas. I'm sure Karl Rove gets a good chuckle and really wishes he WERE the source.

Dave Dodd,
Flagstaff, AZ

You must have been off your meds the day you wrote this hit piece. Sick.

Luigi Dodge,
Rodeo, CA

1) If Dan and the other folks CBS were duped so easily by Rove using such a patent forgery, doesn't that make them look dumber than dirt?

2 If Rove is the evil genius portrayed here, wouldn't he have come up with a better fake than the Killian memos?

3) "...the Swift Boat Veterans for 'Truth,' a group many suspect of being a Rove creation." This "many suspect" locution is a wonderful dodge.  For example: "Many suspect" that Dan Rather is paid by the DNC.

4)  Dan Rather "humanizing" Saddam? I wonder where the expression "Butcher of Baghdad" came from? I also wonder if the Kurds who survived the gas attacks truly appreciate Dan's "humanizing" work. And if Dan had been just a bit younger, maybe he could have "humanized" Hitler & Stalin as well.

Thomas Coffey,
Wytheville, VA

Best Editorial - Ever?

Re: "I Can Dream: Republicans After Fahrenheit 9/11" by Doug Griffin:
This has got to be the best editorial ever written. Very well done.

Clifford Ford
Indianapolis, IN

Counterbias, The Next 60 Minutes?

I think you may have several writers that are ready for CBS. They will easily meet Dan Rather's standards.

Paul West
Gainesville, TX

Gay Kerry

Re: "John Kerry: Gay, Homosexual, or Flip-Flopping Between The Two?":
This article was excellent. How is it that nothing has been maliciously said about Kerry's background. The only thing that is always put out there to keep the public off his gayness is the fuss being made about his Vietnam years. I believe that he and John Edwards are in love. Look at their wives and you will see. Edwards' wife is fat and ugly. Look at his good looks. Unlikely duo. John Kerry was divorced and we don't know the truth about that divorce; his wife now is the most unhappy woman. Her emotions are on her face. Subconsciously, she must want to ruin his chances of making it. If only more people on the right got on to this theory...Kerry would loose the election.

Cathy Cronin,
Brookville, NY

Editor's Note: Well, Kerry did lose the election, it turns out. Must've been his homosexuality that did him (and Edwards) in.
 

Finally

Re: "Michael Moore Versus Authority: The Media's Dual 'Propaganda' Thresholds" by Robert Furs:
Finally someone in the press has removed the scales from your eyes on the the government propaganda. I am a Canadian living in British Columbia and live 4 miles from Lynden, WA, and frequently visit my American brothers in the U.S.
Our government chose not to enter the illegal war based on falsehoods and felt the Bush juggernauts in trade retaliation. I'm 75 years old and lived through the totalitarian Hitler and Stalin propaganda years and recognize the Bush spin and the failure to speak up for fear of intimidation. Unfortunately you have lost much credibility in the world but hopefully the tide will turn as more of conscientious ones like yourself and Michael Moore speak up. Otherwise the next headline might read "the decline and and fall of the American Empire".

Don Smith
Aldergrove, British Columbia
 

Moore Loves Goebbels?

Re: "Michael Moore: Treacherous Traitor" by Scott C. Smith:
Cute article. Nicely written. With all due respect, allow me to present my review of Michael Moore’s movie: 1) Pro-terrorist propaganda; 2) Michael is currently America’s Minister of Mis-Information; and 3) Moore's mentor, Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister.
We should not let a creative piece of propaganda dictate our country’s future. After months of constant “Bash Bush”, I more than ever feel the current Administration is America’s best choice.

Chuck Tucker
Blissfield, Michigan

Discombobulation

Re: "The Thin Skin of Conservatives" by Scott C. Smith:
An opinion piece is obviously biased from the get-go. What's unfortunate is that you present your opinion to your readers while denying them the links to the full transcripts of the Hardball episode to which you refer. You also fail to provide a link to Ms. Malkin's response to the show. Why is that? Certainly, it's easy enough to provide these links to allow your readers to make their own judgments supplemented by your commentary. Looking at the transcript, it's quite obvious that both Thurlow and Malkin were cut off and interrupted more than they were allowed to finish their sentences. You justify this by your own perception of Hannity & Colmes and O'Reilly. I find it quite funny that you say that they "leave the liberal guest unable to respond". Not that they don't have the opportunity to respond, just that they CAN'T. Duh! Rather than engaging in actual debate, you pull a 'gotcha' and then call call it a thin skin? So, what's your point? To deny an opposing viewpoint is expressed as some kind of liberal or Democrat victory?  MATTHEWS WAS SO DISCOMBOBULATED BY MALKIN THAT HE KICKED HER OFF THE SHOW before her second segment. SO REALLY, who's the one with the thin skin?!? Mr. Matthews never read the Swift Boat book and could not speak to it - so he kicked her off early because of his own bias and ego. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Monique Shea-Nelson
Chicago, IL

Editor's Note: Using caps lock in such a manner suggests that you yourself have been discombobulated by this hugely horrifying event.