Eugene Robinson The Washington Post

August 11, 2009

Eugene Robinson
The Washington Post
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Washington, DC 20071

RE: “Cool down, and focus” – The title of your eclectically interesting column on health care in today’s Miami Herald.

Mr. Robinson,

You mention “paranoid fantasists” as being the “crazies in the town hall mobs”. Further, they are “directed from the wings” by “cynical political operatives, following a script written by Washington lobbyists”.

Would you include in your ever expanding list of “paranoid fantasists” those who believe the events of 9/11 were orchestrated by the White House?

Would you include in your ever expanding list of “paranoid fantasists” those who believe that Jews were warned not to go to the WTC on 9/11? You can substitute Zionists for Jews for convenience purposes.

Would you include in your ever expanding list of “paranoid fantasists” those who believe that this country went to war, a Congressionally approved war, so that the Bush family could secure a gas transmission line through Kafiristan?

Since lobbying is a practice specifically allowed by the First Amendment, an Amendment beloved of modern American Liberals when it comes to crucifixes suspended in urine and naked homosexuals masturbating in front of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, could you send me copies of the lists you keep in camera of good lobbyists and bad lobbyists? I promise to keep them confidential.

Finally, should you encounter James Carville and Mary Matalin at a social function which would you denounce as a “cynical political operative”? Which oen should get the CPO brand on their forehead?




Full disclosure requires that I tell you that I stood in front of the Clinton White House in the summer of 1998. I was wearing my prized “Right-Wing Conspirator” ball cap. I held my first grandchild in one arm. I raised my other arm, fist clenched, and shouted “Come out with your hands up, you son of a bitch. We have the place surrounded”.

The lesson of

“FREE MEN SPEAK WITH FREE TONGUES”

is not lost on me.


Kevin Smith


PS – If it is “outlandish and false” for Sarah Palin to rail against “death panels” is it not equally “outlandish and false” for Nancy Pelosi to label Obama health care dissenters as Nazis? If not, why not?