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Republican vs. Conservative

6.5.06 @ 12:01AM

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I live in Scotland and have just seen you on the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News. I have never heard of you and have no idea who you are but you spoke nonsense tonight about the BBC. The BBC is not a blind left-wing organization. I guess you have never heard it.
-- Catherine Gordon
Edinburgh, Scotland

A LEFTY GADFLY
Re: Clifton Briner's letter ("Selective Expertise") in Reader Mail's Less Than Honorable:

I'm sorry to disappoint Clifton Briner, but I grew up in England and New York, am generally apolitical, and don't claim to know much about a lot of things, so his labels don't really fit me.

I still maintain that W's accent is an embarrassment. He might be able to pull it off if he had diplomatic skills, in which case some people might consider it charming -- but he doesn't. The world is rightly baffled why someone with his silver-spooned pedigree would speak that way. By all rights he should sound more like William F. Buckley, reeking of elitist forebears, with a hint of noblesse oblige. If we're going to require immigrants to learn English, the President shouldn't be exempt.

I know many of you don't like what I have to say, but someone has to keep you from getting too clubby, though I don't think VFW members really have that much in common with bluebloods and their crafty spin masters. Now, at least, Ben Stein is willing to admit that Iraq was a mistake (of course less of a mistake than those made by Democrats in the last century).
-- Paul Dorell
Highland Park, Illinois

JIMMY'S LONE SUCCESS
Re: Gary D. Williamson's letter (under "Coogler Reviews") in Reader Mail's Less Than Honorable:

"... Just wanted to drop you a note to let you know how you disgust me."

The feeling, sir, is mutual. Any human with a milligram of intelligence and an ounce of memory, realizes that Jimmy Carter was and is a racist, hypocritical, opportunistic, dishonest political hack. Gas lines. Iran hostages. "Malaise." Inflation. Amnesty for deserters. Honorable Discharge for John F. Kerry. Appeasement. Disloyal ally.

I guess we do need to thank him for one thing: Ronald Reagan.
-- D.G. Richard, Esq.

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