Stephen L. Goldstein, The Sun-Sentinel

May 4, 2011

Stephen L. Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316

RE: Bilious vitriol and modern American Liberals

My dear Professor,

In your column on Sunday last, the one where you varied from your formulaic rendition of how Cheney’s great grandfather caused Krakatoa to blow its top and how George Bush helped Pol Pot in his ambitious urban renewal plans, you called anyone who disagreed with you a “loudmouth”. Further, you said that perhaps “prior restraint” wasn’t that bad an idea as long as you were doing the restraining.

Comes now to the marketplace of ideas a really nice guy named Mike Malloy. I swear on the sacred Koran, the one I intend to burn wrapped in an American flag at noon on July 4th on the steps of the Federal Court House in Ft. Lauderdale, that one, that I never heard of him until about 30 minutes ago.

On his radio show he said “So when does Seal Unit 6, or whatever it’s called, drop in on George Bush”? He also said that he wanted to “strangle Rush Limbaugh”.

Would those statements qualify him as a “loudmouth”? Any chance that the dreaded Word Police would drop by and give him some Lefts as they read him his Rights? Incidentally, have the terms “slippery slope” and “chilling effect” gone down the modern American liberal memory hole?

CongressChickster Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and if there is a better example of a Hecate Ascendant I have neither seen nor have I heard of her, told us in January that “bile and vitriol are tearing us apart”.

Would a radio commentator suggesting on the air that some Navy Seals drop in on President Bush and “double tap him in the head” make him a “loudmouth filled with bile and vitriol”? Would his on air wish of “strangling Rush Limbaugh” make him a candidate for the Michael Moore Excellence in Broadcasting award? If you remember Fat Mikey was upset that more Republicans didn’t die on 9/11. Honest. You could look it up.

Can you think of any substitutes for friggin’ hypocrites? Get back to me ASAP.


Kevin Smith