Gary Stein, The Sun Sentinel

November 1, 2008

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

RE: The pot is calling the kettle…what?

Mr. Stein,

Until a complete anal probe can be done it appears that you are suffering from an amnesia most common to modern American Liberals; i.e., eclectic indignation.

You mention Willie Horton, Michael Dukakis, and the 1988 Presidential campaign. You connect them with the term race-baiting. Such term is, of course, race-baiting. I have it on reliable sources, all of whom will remain anonymous under the aegis of the First Amendment, that you Damn near bit through your lower lip trying to get Lee Atwater’s name into your story.

Some things are owed to the ledger.

Willie Horton has become the bête-noire of holier than thou, head up their ass, my favorite color is plaid, neddy dunces who make up the media. They consider it their God given duty and obligation to hector those who don’t buy the Kumbaya myth of if only Willie had the benefit of “Midnight Basketball” and good community organizations and, perhaps, some Ritalin he would have turned out, you know what I’m saying, not half bad.

One of the constants of modern American Liberalism is that they do not believe in the existence of evil.

Willie Horton was in prison in Massachusetts for rape and murder. Governor Michael Dukakis allowed a furlough plan to flourish on his watch. Under this plan Willie Horton was given a weekend pass. He went to Maryland where – Can you believe this? – he raped and murdered again. Relatives of the Maryland victims went to Massachusetts to find out how a convicted rapist and murderer was allowed out of prison on a furlough. They never found out. Willie Horton is Black.

Be so kind as to point out any “race-baiting” in the above paragraph.

Here’s the key part. Here’s the part you left out. Here’s the part that, by your omission of it, makes you liable for civil fraud under the Securities Act of 1934.

The first person to connect Willie Horton and Michael Dukakis, presumptively in a ‘race-baiting’ manner, was that notorious race-baiter Senator Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. He did it over and over and over and over in the New York Democratic primary in March, 1988.

No one called it ‘race-baiting” then. In fact, none of the other candidates, none of the media, none of the tablet keepers of all revealed things that if not true should be true, said anything about it.

If the adage “Qui tacet consitere” – “Silence gives consent” – is still valid can we assume that all the 1988 Democratic candidate candidates, their supporters, and all those venomous toads who carry their water in the media, are “race-baiters”?

What were you doing in the Spring of 1988? I’ll be shocked, shocked if you were “race-baiting”.

If you want to learn about mud slinging, back biting, ad hominem campaigns I suggest that you learn about what Adams and Jefferson did in 1800. Compared to then today is pure beanbag.


What is Willie Horton doing these days?