March 8, 2011

Steven L. Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
200 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316

RE: “You’ve been had”

My dear Professor,

I know I said that I was giving you up for Lent. As a card carrying modern American Liberal, and a secular humanist to boot, I can’t expect you to be up on the Christian Liturgical Calendar. Ash Wednesday isn’t that big a deal. Compared to Ramadan it’s small potatoes. As I write this it still isn’t Lent.

Not two weeks ago your column said “You’ve been had”. In your formulaic presentation of how the Bush family, and if there are a bigger set of trolls anywhere I don’t know of them, caused Global Warming sufficient to end the last Ice Age – they are an ancient family – by having all their retainers and sycophants fill the sky with synchronized eructations sufficient to reverse the tides and, perforce, melt the ice. Or maybe not. Either way it was “another lash on the backs of the poor”.

I think maybe, and it pains me to say this, you’ve been had.

When Lord Barack the Beneficent told us that Camp Gitmo, America’s first adult sleepaway camp in the Caribbean, was being used as a recruiting tool by the disadvantaged youth who listened to the siren song of al Qaeda, he said the answer was simple: Shut it down. Further, the plan to hold military tribunals there would be like the Moscow show trials. [That may be a bad example. Modern American Liberals never had much to say about them. Just like they didn’t have much to say when Hitler and Stalin got together in 1939. Auden was right, as only a poet can be, about that decade] His race crazed nit wit Clinton pardon seller, Attorney General Eric Holder, said, Let’s try them in New York City. How about Battery Park? The Statue of Liberty? If not there how about Arlington National Cemetery? Any place but Gitmo.

This charlatan, this fraud is starting to make LBJ look good. Remember “I will never send American boys to fight in an Asian war”? If you don’t there’s a wall in DC that may shake your memory.

What was the bring the boys and girls home, you should excuse the expression, drop dead date from Iraq? Afghanistan?






All right thinking people know that the run up in oil and gas prices in 2007 was caused by Darth Cheney, Bush’s evil puppet master. Is he still around? Which acceptable modern American Liberal boogeyman caused this year’s spike? George Soros is in the oil business, isn’t he? That’s the Chicago Way. In spades.

Other than getting the hospital at the University of Chicago a $1,000,000 earmark – that’s one million dollars - to cover his wife’s $200,000 annual pay raise – that’s four thousand dollars a week – when he was elected to the United States Senate what the Hell did he ever do before he got to the White House?

Let me amend that.

He did one thing very well.

He made plaid his favorite color.

Then he snookered you.

Stevie, it pains me to tell you this but You’ve been had.





Kevin Smith


PS – Because we are within hours of the holy season of Lent I will not use one of my favorite movie lines. It’s from My Favorite Year. “What a putz!”