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br> Ocean City, MD /p> p> GO FINGER br> Re: Jeremy Lott's Pounding Ploughshares Into Swords : /p>

Jeremy:

Why is it that people like you believe you are somehow in a better position to describe and categorize what I do and what my staff does than I am or than they are?

I'll never understand that.

I'll also never understand why seemingly intelligent people are so eager to place people in convenient little ideological boxes -- even when those people lifelong journalists who have never sought to run for office, campaign for any candidate, nor even register for a political party.

I'll never understand why I, in particular, and WorldNetDaily, in general, is accused of being pro-Bush. The editor, founder and CEO of the company wrote more than one column explaining before the election that he could never vote for Bush -- even while faced with the terrible choice of a Gore victory as an alternative. You might be interested to know that we get more criticism on the other score -- that we are way too tough on Bush.

But of all the suggestions you made in your very offensive column, the most offensive one to me personally -- someone who, quite frankly, has more journalistic experience and integrity in his little finger than you are likely to accumulate in a lifetime -- is that WND reflects the opposite of the Wall Street Journal, a paper that is, as you suggest, "fair and balanced" in its news presentation and ideological on its editorial page.

It's ridiculous. No. 1, the Wall Street Journal's news pages are as biased as the Washington Post's, the New York Times' and the newscasts of CNN -- and they are biased in the same ways. The Journal is, thus, America's most schizophrenic paper -- socialist in its news pages and capitalist on its editorial pages. It will pay a price for this schizophrenia some day, just as our culture does every day.

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