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4.13.07 @ 12:01AM

FAIRLY UNBALANCED
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Fear of Fox:

Mr. Tyrrell's depiction of Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama as "Chicken Democrats" needs refinement. As any graduate of Texas A&M's animal sciences programs could tell you, this trio is not comprised of chickens, but of a hen and two capons. (Well, at least you got the "Democrat" part right.)

In more serious timbre, our feathery fearers of Fox News should reevaluate their phobia The intrepid Democrats are not boycotting a news network as much as they are boycotting an audience of millions of Americans who will vote come November 2008.

Slightly weird, to say the least.
-- Doug Roll
Jacksonville, Texas

In your latest column, you imply that the Democrats who withdrew from the Fox News-sponsored debates are cowards and state that ''the liberals'" favorite debate is no debate unless the forum is totally dominated by them. Even then there will preferably be no argument, just the liberal point of view sedulously propounded in a forum shaped completely by them.

The latter part of that statement offers no supporting evidence that liberals, or even the Democrats in question, prefer to avoid debating against dissenting voices. The former part indicates that you believe a forum can be dominated by a particular group. If you are justified in being suspicious of their chosen forum (and you offer no compelling argument for why anyone ought to agree with you), then they may have equally valid concerns about your preferred forum.

Fox News is long on spin and short on journalistic ethics and integrity. They are the least qualified of all the major cable news networks to host a serious election debate. It is difficult to take your condemnation of the Democrats' withdrawal given that your column avoided making a coherent, fact-based argument and rapidly degenerated into childish mockery (invoking comparisons to the Nazis.) In support of Fox News you claim that they are widely viewed -- so was the 20th century European propaganda you mention. You give me no reason to believe you over the Democrats.

Of course, I would expect no less than such mindless drivel from The American Spectator.
-- Bart Trzynadlowski

I think this is so funny, the Democrat Party, no I will NOT use the term Democratic, can go overseas and talk to people that want to kill us, but not Fox News. They are so afraid they might be asked a question they have not approved. Has anyone watched the softball questions lobbed at Hillary?
-- Elaine Kyle

The description of Don Imus as a "surly vulgarian" is priceless.

I laughed for 2 minutes.
-- Doug Santo
Pasadena, California

LABOUR PAINS
Re: Hal G.P. Colebatch's Blair's Britain Turns Ten:

Hal G. P. Colebatch left out the bad news about the Blair government -- Gordon Brown is the hot favorite to be the next Prime Minister. If you think Britain (I left out the "Great" because it doesn't apply anymore to the British) has problems then you can hardly believe what is said about this guy. A former head of the civil service called him a Stalinist who treats his Cabinet colleagues with open contempt and a coward who runs away from making decisions. People who have worked with him describe him as having the interpersonal skills of a whelk.

He is routinely described as rude, arrogant, thin skinned, bad tempered, deceitful, secretive, surrounded by yes men, incapable of accepting criticism and incapable of making decisions. A Cabinet colleague openly wondered whether he was psychologically impaired. Gordon Brown has now increased taxes in Britain 100 times and he presided over an incompetent disaster called a tax credit that has inflicted fear and suffering on thousands of the lowest income earners in the country -- there are Members of Parliament who claim they spend the bulk of their time trying to intercede with the government on behalf of constituents who have had their lives turned into an absolute misery by this frightful scheme. That is on top of a massive and sustained tax grab on the British pension system that has destroyed the retirement prospects of large numbers of retirees well into the future.

Gordon Brown's ability to screw taxpayers and squander money that should never have been taken from their pockets is second to none. Only in a declining, decrepit, self righteous failure like Blair's Britain would this record be judged as competent.

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