Dear Editor:
A recent letter to your paper started off "Liars...make outrageous statements and then repeat those statements without ever providing a shred of documentation or proof." The author then goes on to make numerous outrageous statements without ever providing a shred of documentation or proof. Never let facts get in the way of good smear.
Contemporary American culture will tolerate anything but intolerance or dissent from liberal world views. There is probably no more serious charges that can be lodged today than that someone or some organization is a racist, homophobic, or violent. The author maliciously charges, tries, and convicts Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement without a shred of documentation or proof.
He warmed up by accusing Palin of highlighting specific Democrat member of Congress "...using the cross-hairs of a rifle-scope." A common surveyor symbol found on maps is a cross superimposed over a circle with the lines extending beyond the circle. This is what is found on Palin's map and numerous Democrat maps. Cross hairs in rifle scopes, by comparison do not extend beyond the circle and have gradients for both windage and elevation. Governor Palin has repeatedly denounced violence despite having eggs and tomatoes thrown at her and having had her church in Wasilla set on fire with women and children inside.
He really goes over the top and loses all credibility when he proclaims the "...Tea Party movement has also been marked by racially inflammatory rhetoric and violent outbursts since its inception last year." Nothing could be farther from the truth, but that is the leftist talking point. He then cites allegations of the use of "...the 'N-word', gay slurs, and in one case, a lawmaker was spat upon" as absolute fact. There is no innocent until proven guilty process to this invective.
There were numerous media film crews, the ubiquitous cell phone cameras, and Jesse Jackson, Jr. filming throughout the alleged incidents. Not a single one of them recorded any of the above charges nor were there any arrests! Had there been any documented evidence of a single one of these charges, it would have been looped endlessly on MSNBC. Instead, they must resort to repeating the allegations as fact. There has been a reward of $10,000 offered to anyone who has documentation of any of these incidents. The reward is still unclaimed.
Tea Party patriots are everyday citizens exercising their Constitutional right to disagree with the path this country is following. Despite your constant repetition, they are not racist, homophobic, or violent. This irresponsible and infantile name calling is a blatant example of the lack of civility the author decries and disingenuously says he desires. I would say this is a classic case of "the pot calling the kettle black" but you know how that would be distorted!
William L. Garvin
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