Disagreeing With Liberal Ideology Is Not The Same As Racism

A Letter To The Editor, In Response To Newspaper Beaver County Times, Editor JD Prose (03/28/10), That To Disagree With Liberal Progressives and Barak Obama - Is The Same As Racism.

I was not surprised by J.D. Prose's most recent column that accused anyone of not agreeing with President Barack Obama's policies as being a racist. (Question: how would Prose explain conservatives Lynn Swann, Michael Steele, Clarence Thomas and Alan Keyes?)

With feigned concern, Prose demurs sanctimoniously that these same people virtually invented hate-speech. Notably, Prose conveniently ignores the endless vitriol aimed at conservatives, particularly by hate-speech purveyors and apostles Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann and Joy Bahar, and even organizations like MoveOn.org.

Prose's poisoned penned jabs are either irresponsibly uniformed and/or intellectually disingenuous to consistently leverage alleged (many unsubstantiated - abhorrent if true) comments and activities from the fringe (endemic to both political parties) to make his best argument, raising the question of whether he's an ideologically bound propagandist or thoughtful journalist?

Parroting talking points from far-left leaning websites resembles many of the journalistic practices of the former Soviet Union's media outlets: Pravda and Tass.

People can genuinely rejoice in the election of an African American (who ran as a moderate) and still reject without being racist the inexorable attempts at social re-engineering, wealth-redistribution, entitlement machinations, legislative violations and financial shell games from ardent liberals.

Rich Grassel

Ambridge

Wednesday March 31, 2010 02:25 AM