I disagree with Vaughn on winners and losers
TO THE EDITOR:
I want to disagree vehemently with my friend Thomas Vaughn, whom I have great respect for and almost always agree with.
His ?My Turn? column in Sunday?s paper entitled ?Israeli-Hezbollah conflict has winners and losers? is a column on a subject he should have waited a few months or more to write. I will qualify my disagreement by saying it?s too early after the first round to declare winners and losers.
I disagree with all of the column?s opinions. His winners are losers in my opinion, and vice versa on the losers. Without a knockout punch in the first round of this fight, it?s premature to declare a winner or loser. I will remind the citizens that my fighter, Israel, is undefeated, winning all previous fights by knockouts.
This same defeatist rhetoric was amplified on the WCPI radio show ?Viewpoints.? The panel agreed Hezbollah was the winner in this conflict. M y conception of winners and losers is completely different from these intelligent people.
I have to say I was stunned, and staggered to puking when special correspondent (whatever that means) Steve Roller compared our sitting Republican president with Hitler and the Nazi Party. This is unacceptable, over-the-top, left-wing hatred for our president being spewed out to many thousands of Warren County citizens over our public radio. I don?t think this personal hatred for our president by an individual should be delivered by our public radio. Steve and ?Viewpoints? will be persona non grata at my house from now on.
What kind of qualifications does one need to be a ?special correspondent? for WCPI? Does the station require journalistic background and training with field experience or can anyone show up, hang out at the station and then be invited to set on the ?Viewpoints? panel? I understand this was Roller?s route to becoming a ?special correspondent.?
Roller owes President George W. Bush, myself, and the majority of Americans who voted for President Bush an apology.
Sam Allen
Hickory Blvd.
McMinnville