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6.21.02 @ 12:01AM

THE ROAD TO HELL:
Re: George Neumayr's Mundy, Mundy:

Mr. Neumayr may have been thinking of Whittaker Chambers's line:
"Christianity without the crucifixion is liberalism."
-- Paul J. Heffernan
Boston, MA

CHARLESTON CRACK
Re: The Prowler's The Senate in Jeopardy:

Terry McAuliffe may have a pipe dream of a Democrat winning in the South Carolina Senate race to replace Strom Thurmond, but only if he's smoking crack could he actually believe it will happen. We already have one liberal Democrat from Charleston whom no one can understand -- we don't need two!
-- Warren Mowry

SIMON'S CHANCHES
Re: Peter Hannaford's The Pandora's Box Factor:

Great article by Peter Hannaford. I wish I could be as optimistic as he is. Unfortunately, the only time I see Simon is on the ad blaming him for the Savings and Loan business. California is a one issue state: Abortion. The people here would vote themselves into a gulag as long as it had legal abortions (preferably free -- BTW, I am pro choice). California could be rivaling Massachusetts as having the largest bloc of dumbest voters. Hopefully, most will be too dumb to make it to the polls and Simon will sneak in. I am not betting on that, though.
-- Ann Ellwood

KID STEPHANOPOULOS:
Re: Wlady Pleszczynski's George, Andrew, and William Jefferson:

Whatever makes you believe that the "brain trust" over at ABC News would feel any pressure or guilt if Steffi went (dare I say it!) liberal? They are the ones who elevated him to his position, knowing exactly who he is and what he represents. We conservatives could holler all we wanted, and it would fall on deaf ears. After all, didn't we holler when the rumor mill on this started? Did that slow them down?

ABC News could care less about conservative viewers. They are going after the "younger viewers" with this move, trying to entice them to watch by putting in a putative MTV-known celebrity, a pop-culture fellow. The fact that he is a shrieking liberal just makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside. A perfect choice for them. So what if conservatives holler; we'll just shuffle off to Fox News and leave them alone.

Nothing but wholesale changes to the entire management at ABC News would fix this situation. Since the mantra of TV programming is always "counterprogramming" then hopefully one day a network exec will wake up and say, "Hey! I've got an idea! Everybody else is Liberal! Let's go conservative!" Scorn and lots of free advertising would follow, along with a tremendous flood of new viewers!

Naah...
-- Robert Wood

NOT A PRAYER
Re: Jed Babbin's A Most Dispensable Ally:

In your reporting of the Saudis telling George Bush that he could not say a Thanksgiving prayer with our troops, I thought of the reported incident when Teddy Roosevelt was to appear before the English Throne.

He was advised that it was the "norm" for those leaders appearing before the throne to genuflect as he approached it. Teddy told them that "the President bows before no man," and to the horror of his hosts did not do so.

I get a feeling that had Teddy been told not to pray he would not have, like George, accepted that Saudi insult.

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