Dear Editor:
Although ex-liberal Cynthia Walker hardly needs any defense by
ex-liberal me from your current-liberal columnist, I can’t resist
comment.
Dear Editor:
Although ex-liberal Cynthia Walker hardly needs any defense by ex-liberal me from your current-liberal columnist, I can’t resist comment. Hating to admit it, I agree with the gist of Dennis Taylor’s Nov. 6 column wanting effective politicians (yes, Dennis, I always read Wednesday’s edition).
Unfortunately, in the zeal to attack his “enemies,” suddenly out of the blue in the middle of his column, Dennis resorts to well-known liberal name-calling tradition and labels Cynthia the “diva of the Christian Right”. Continuity brushed aside while blathering about Cynthia being a right-wing political operative (huh?), the reader must meander a bit while finally discovering the column’s legitimate thread after this abrupt detour.
One could excuse the comments as having been written during emotional apoplectic flailing over the loss of the Senate to those barbarian Republicans – except the column would have been submitted before the election. Dennis, take my advice and throw your darts beyond your feet.
Oh heck, while I’m here I might as well mention that Dennis’ “mentor” must have changed the spelling of his name since his death in 1956 at 76. H.L. Mencken (with a “c”) must have been honored to have Dennis as a student. You know Dennis, your picture doesn’t even HINT at how old you must be, seeings as H.L. suffered a cerebral thrombosis in 1948. I find it curious that a liberal has chosen someone who could have been the original Libertarian as a “mentor”. Although primarily a journalist and successful social critic, H.L. was also quite the racist. Hardly a liberal.
Perhaps another Mencken quote for Dennis’ otherwise-very-good-column about politicians could have been, “… no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.” But then again, ol’ H.L. may have been thinking of liberals (did they have them back then?) when he said, “The psychologists and meta physicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not conditioned by overt facts.”
And two more that come to mind right now: “Nobody’s got the right to be a nuisance to his neighbor” and “Nature abhors a moron.”
Doug Marlitt, San Martin
Submitted Thursday, Nov. 7 to ed****@ga****.com
