January 15, 2012


In reference to the Cal Thomas article, “GOP should avoid biased media”.

Times Picayune, Saturday, January 14, 2012.

Cal Thomas asserts that what he calls the “liberal media” ask questions of the Republican candidates that are designed “to trap the GOP candidates into delivering sound bites that the Obama re-election campaign could use against the eventual nominee and the party at large”.

Thomas sees Liberals as underhanded opportunists who will perpetrate despicable acts of moral depravity in order to embarrass any Conservative running for political office. As usual his moral compass is pointing in the wrong direction again.

The most recent example of this was the Republican claim back in November 2011 that President Obama stated, “If we keep talking about the economy we are going to loose”. What President Obama actually said was taken from a statement made by an aid to John McCain. The full quote as spoken by President Obama reads, “Senator McCain’s campaign actually said, and I quote, ’If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to loose’”. This statement, with a very different meaning, was used by Republicans to slander the President of the United States.

The Republicans even use these tactics on their own people. The most recent example of this is the constant running of sound bites from Mitt Romney’s own Republican opponents of the candidate saying, “I like to fire people”. This statement is clearly taken out of context.

The game is easy to play. Here is an example of taking a statement out of context that we can do with Mr. Thomas’s own article. He writes, “Republicans are pigheaded and unwilling to compromise with a Democratic president”. That sounds about right to me. Then in the next sentence he says, “Democrats want what is best for “real Americans”. I couldn’t agree more.

These tactics appeal to those in the public who are not paying close attention and are called “useful idiots” by unscrupulous men seeking office or their own political gain.

I can always depend on Mr. Thomas for a check of my moral compass. If he says to go south, I can always be sure that the correct direction to head is north.


Denis Dwyer

Fayard is just being honest.

Letter to the Editor
In response to the article in the Times Picayune 3-29-2011
GOP: Fayard should apologize
Bullies remark upsets Republicans
　
　
State Republican leaders take offense at Caroline Fayard calling Republicans “bullies” who are “cruel and destructive” and now they want her to apologize.
Did they not anticipate that one day a strong intelligent Democrat would have the guts to step forward and call them out for what they really are?
Did they think that they would be able to continue forever with their hypocritical assaults on progressive policies and ideas that are designed to protect average Americans?
Of course, they are going to counter with remarks from the likes of Roger Villere who states that Democrats like Fayard are “driven by hate and unfit for public office”. That’s what Republicans do. They take an honest person, speaking the truth, and spin their words in their own diabolical way. They turn black to white and good to bad all to perpetuate their self-serving agenda.
What we need are more honest, intelligent, progressive candidates like Caroline Fayard who are willing to step forward and say what needs to be said and put the bullies in their place.

The New Axis Of Evil

     Forget about Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. The real axis of evil threatening the American people is comprised of the Health Insurance Companies that control our health care, the banks that control our money, and the conservative Republicans that control our government.
     The banks and insurance companies have conspired with the conservative Republicans to suck every dollar of profit from the American people no matter how much harm it does to the national economy. Even with liberal Democrats controlling the White House, Senate, and Congress, the back room deals and underhanded tacticts perpetrated by the Republicans, continue to force their agenda on the citizens of our country.
     Until the Democratic leadership, that was elected by a majority of US citizens, has the guts and the will to stand up to these tacticts, the American people may as well be back in the hands of George W. Bush.
     And you remember where that got us.