The Anti-Americans Among Us
I
caused quite a stir when I wrote "Are You A Democrat Or An American"
several weeks ago. A couple of local Democrats who took umbrage at
my remarks responded with letters to the editor, and I enjoyed responding
to them in turn.
Other Democrats responded to me directly by email. The emails they
sent, while equally contrived, were not as civil as those who responded
with signed letters in the newspaper. Big surprise there! One email
came with a return email address and we engaged in some tortured discourse
back and forth. The other email was sent anonymously so it was not
possible to respond to the diatribe it contained.
In addition, I have intercepted more email viruses in the two weeks
after my article than in all my previous years of email combined.
Kind of gives you a sense of where viruses come from.
It is hard to duplicate the content of those emails in a letter to
the editor, but I will try. Keep in mind; the following misspellings
are as they came to me. I have turned my spell checker off and edited
the offensive stuff. The first is from someone who gave a last name
of Moloney, who wrote:
"Wow, just read your article…looks like something that came
out of a Klu Klux Clan speech or something written by Adolph Hitler.
…Republicans …run our economy in the ground first Reagan
now what's his name…When Clinton administration left office they
left a huge surplus. Thanks to the republicans we are now in economic
turmoil PS surprise I am a demarcate and guess what I believe in God…"
How do you respond to such colossal ignorance and knee-jerk emotionalism?
I wrote back and among other things invited the writer to factually
dispute anything that I had written in "Are You A Democrat Or
An American". The first anonymous emailer wrote back "…I
deem this discussion over." The other so lacked the courage of
their conviction; they disguised their email address so that a response
was not possible.
It is painful to observe how utterly and completely brainwashed so
many of our neighbors have become. I mean you can still, to this day,
hear people like Mario Cuomo on National Public Radio saying things
like; Reagan's idea of tax reform is like dieting by cutting off an
arm or a leg.
The good news is that Americans now have alternatives to the extreme
left-wing spin that has for years dominated mainstream media news.
If you are having trouble swallowing the junk journalism that poses
as news on TV, you can tune in to reality on Fox News Sunday where
you can get more truth in one hour than in a week of CNN. While the
newspapers are still dominated by anti-republicans, there are several
terrific pro-American magazines that can be counted on to restore
your faith in capitalism; The Weekly Standard and The American Spectator
are two of my favorites (and The Advertiser of course). Then there
is the Internet. Try NewsMax.com if you think you can handle hearing
the other side of the story. Lastly, there is talk radio where nobody
beats Rush Limbaugh for getting you behind the wizard's curtain. Or
for a very entertaining change, you can tune in to Glenn Beck weekday
mornings on radio 810 WGY.
You don't have to be brainwashed anymore.
-DRC
