Keiper’s double folly

Oh my, oh my. We’re not going to get into any argument over whether my mind is being swayed from one end of the political spectrum to the other or not by watching whatever news source is blaring on my TV at the time. (It is not.)

However, I take great exception to the “facts” you quoted in your most recent letter. Once again, it appears you are making statements without bothering to check for support or factual authenticity. This may be because of the source from which you seem to gain such aberrant data—the very source you tout as being the “true” news, and yet that which seems to be leading you astray as well as ending up at the lowest end of independent national polls.

In your response to Mr. Romolor, you indicated that you have been told that other news channels (described as “liberal”) actually tell their listeners not to watch Fox News. Since I watch many different news reports and have never been told not to watch Fox News, I’d like to know who told you that preposterous thing? You must be getting this from some whiz kid, hotshot, ultra-conservative radio talk show host hell-bent on one thing: getting you to rally to his/her “cause.”

You also claim your “fuzzy” math caused you to type trillion instead of billion. Even if you had typed billion, you still would have been way off the mark. I don’t believe it was “fuzzy” math at all—just mis-informed.

You stated that Obama and the Dems called the tea party and Republicans “terrorists” for making them cut spending. Obama actually proposed to cut spending by four trillion dollars, yet the “tea” party loyalists were the ones who refused to go for the bigger number because of a mis-guided concept on taxation (which they now say will probably be needed anyway) and reduced Obama’s proposed cuts all the way to below one trillion dollars! How ridiculous can you get?

Your rather pitiful attempts to paint the current administration as inept are nothing more than the repeated rhetoric of hard-line ultra-conservatives—a mere handful of extremists who have, of recent, been “downgraded” themselves to an approval rating of less than 12 percent, with over 85 percent disapproving of their actions even from within the Republican Party! As far as current events leading to a one-term president, well, the next election will tell. But it seems to me that there may well be a huge backlash against your pedestal worshippers that may actually sweep Obama and the Democrats to the biggest majority yet. Good luck—and leave Mr. Romolor alone too!
[B] Dr. Thomas D. Arkle Jr.[/B] [I]Winter Haven, FL[/I]