The Editor, The Sun-Sentinel

August 26, 2008

The Editor
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301

RE: Who says newspapers can’t be fun or, as Nat Hentoff says, “Free speech for me but not for thee”

Sirs,

I was in Texas a few months ago when a Black Dallas County Commissioner accused a fellow Commissioner – Yes, he was White – of being a racist because he used the term “black hole” when describing the County budget.

A few years ago a Black District of Columbia Commissioner tried to have a city employee – Yes, he was White – fired because he used the word “niggardly”, a word that he used quite correctly.

A sitting United States Senator from Virginia uses the word “macaca” and was last seen orbiting one of Jupiter’s minor moons. [Apparently it is OK to use substitutes for “macaca” in Delaware]

Broward County is the “paradigmatic template” for modern American Liberalism. There are districts here that would elect O.J. Simpson. If he’s not available on Election Day the other Simpson, Homer, would do just as well. The mush brained modern American Liberals here would vote for Doctor Mengele because of his progressive views on abortion. The only way a RINO Republican gets to a county wide office is if his Democratic predecessor is dumber than a box of hammers [Oliphant] or is a confessed felon [Jenne or Cowan]

Political correctness even caused the nickname of Cardinal Gibbons High School to morph from Redskins to Chiefs. [The city of Plantation, Plantation High School, and its nickname, The Colonels is a subject for a different forum]

Thus, when I saw this morning’s headline

“HER TIME TO SHINE”

featuring a photo of Michelle Obama I was convinced that aliens had taken control of the Sentinel’s news room.

I know that hard times are here for the newspaper business. The idea of a business entity paying its own way is anathema to people in the business, particularly in the editorial offices. The Sun-Sentinel has a Big Boss Man in Chicago who knows, at the end of the day, that debits must equal credits. Exempt for a very, very long time from the rules governing gravity it must be sad for journalists to see the Gods of the Copy Book Headings sitting on the sidelines, tsk tsking with that “I told you so” attitude, keeping score.

I guess you thought

“HER TIME TO SHINE”

would pass unnoticed.

It didn’t.

I take the headline as further proof of “eclectic indignation”.

Jesse Jackson says he wants to “cut Senator B. Hussein’s nut out”. Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, a man whose resume includes a stint as a Junior Kleagle in the KuKluxKlan, goes on national TV and twice uses the “dreaded ‘N’ word”, a word that no White man dare say. His penalty for so saying it was …was…nothing. In fact he is regularly called a modern day Cicero. [Hopefully the reference is geographical, not historical] Senator Biden, proof positive that it is OK to cheat in college and in public life, called Senator B. Hussein Obama “clean and articulate”. Jimmy Carter, the worst President of the 20th century, this morning called Senator B. Hussein Obama a “black boy”. Imagine if Rush Limbaugh had said that? The press would have lynched him.

If it is a “dark and stormy night” when this year’s version of the Sermon on the Mount is given on Thursday night will that be proof of racism?

I imagine that your continuing disregard for language is further proof that, indeed, the jig is not up.