May 29, 2013
Brad Ashwell
Media & Democracy
@The Sun Sentinel

RE: What’s that smell? Some comments on your Jeremiad column about the end of Western Civilization as we know it…and worse… if the Brothers Koch, Bubonic and his vile sibling Whiplash, buy the Sun Sentinel.

Mr. Ashwell,

One of the distinguishing characteristics of modern American Liberals is that they, and they alone, possess the knowledge to know what is good for everybody. Further, they consider it their sacred duty to tell it to the untermenschen and so guide them because, as you say, “they don’t necessarily know how the ownership of a news outlet may be affecting coverage”.

I am glad to see that the du jour deity of the church of secular humanism has consecrated you, doubtless through a Damascene moment, to guide us through our “dark wood of error”.

Another characteristic of modern American Liberals is “non-malodorous fecal matter syndrome”. Since your head is so far up your ass there is a possibility that you don’t know what it means. If that is the case send a SASE.

You accuse them of financing many dastardly deeds. One of them is “discriminatory voting ID laws”.

3 things:

#1 – It took me one hour and forty seven minutes to vote last November. Does that make a prima facie case against Broward County for racism, ageism, sexism, or any other ism that may have fallen through the cracks?

#2 – Have you ever tried to get on an airplane, open a bank account, make an appointment with a physician, or, in Broward County, get a library card without a photo id? Please tell me what that is proof of.

#3 – I went to my daughter’s grammar school two weeks ago to have lunch with her. I left my photo id license in my car. Dawn would have gotten past a rooster before I got into that school. Does that make the Board of Education guilty of anything?

“Will they respect a firewall between owners and the newsroom”? Would you cite the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post as “good” examples of that fuzzy firewall?

You say that we must be protected from “partisan ideologues”. Do you mean people like Victor Navasky? How about Walter Duranty? James Wechsler? Would you say that William F. Buckley or Whittaker Chambers were “partisan ideologues”?

I know that your affinity for private property is akin to Dracula’s for the sun but a basic question remains.

Who in the name of James Madison and Milton Friedman are you to say what should or should not be sold? What divine power gives you the right to say who can or cannot buy something or can or cannot sell something? Here’s a thought that must be like finger nails on the blackboard to you and your ilk. When free men voluntarily enter into a contract to buy and sell something, when the terms are acceptable to both parties, why, other than the latent Fascism that lurks deep in the heart of all modern American Liberals, do you think you can interfere with it?

If the Koch Brothers decide not to buy the Sun Sentinel would you become journalistically tumescent if good billionaire George Soros were to show up with his check book?

There is some good news here.

You have won a most distinguished prize. And considering it is the first time I have read you you should be very proud.

By the powers vested in me I hereby declare you to be a

POMPOUS FART OF THE MONTH



KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET



PS – I’ll save you a stamp. The “non-malodorous fecal matter” I refer to is bullshit