Climb Out of Liberal Mire
As it is clear from some of the advertising you people seem proud to present (this seems to represent “the Charlotte of today”), I feel I am lowering myself to write. However, all the media need to be brought up out of the gutter and the mire where they seem to love to grovel like pigs in a sty. “Claims vs. Facts” (by David Sirota, Christy Harvey and Judd Legum of The Progress Report, Feb. 11) runs the gamut of liberal nonsense quotes from the Washington Post to Time to Akron Beacon Journal and finally, to the Boston Globe, of all fish wraps. How did y’all miss the Des Moines Register?
We truly enjoyed hearing that scuzzball light, and I do mean light kernel Burkett, who noted that 18-year-olds fought the war — in F-102s? Next time, interview some Lieutenants who served at the same time in the Guard in the same capacity as our President or perhaps ask the draft board of that great American patriot Michael Moore or Terry McAuliffe, or Bill Clin . . . ah, well.
— Richard J. Flanigan, former USAF officer, Davidson, NC
Passionate For The Passion
Many take a great deal of personal baggage into a screening of The Passion of the Christ. It is obvious that Mr. Brunson, and his liberal brethren who view this film, have packed steamer trunks (“Far from Heaven,” Mar. 3).
Had Mel Gibson made a film which supposed that Christ had fled the cross to become involved in a homosexual relationship with Peter, Mr. Brunson and others of his ilk would be praising Mel’s courage. As it is, since Mr. Gibson did not come to the proper P.C. conclusions, those who fail to see any absolutes in life are crying foul.
I came away from the theater confident that I had seen a film which was the direct result of the hand and spirit of God being placed upon a man’s heart. In this film I found no sexism, no anti-Semitism and no excessive violence. The message is loud and clear that we all, even those of us alive today, betrayed the Son of God, and we were all in his prayers and heart as he surrendered his spirit to God.
The film closes with the Resurrection. In that one moment we see the hope for all mankind and salvation itself. The movie is a hard pill for Christians who value political correctness and a hybrid faith over the truth of the Gospels. Indeed, some churches that present themselves as liberal, my own Myers Park Baptist included, have tripped over themselves to apologize to any and all offended. I applaud Mel Gibson and pray that every man, woman and child will spend 2 hours and 15 minutes of their lives seeing this telling of the Greatest Story Ever Told.
— Kelly Boatright, Charlotte
Walters Is Wrong
David Walters’ statements about Ralph Nader in last week’s column (“The Fool on the Hill,” Mar. 3) were just plain wrong. According to exit polls by Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, 25 percent of people who voted for Nader in the last election would have otherwise voted for Bush, 38 percent for Gore, and the other 37 percent would not have voted at all. As for his assumptions that any Democratic president would be better than Bush, maybe he should take a closer look at the actions of Clinton and Gore during the last Democratic tenure. Large areas of Northern Alaska were opened for oil and gas drilling, auto manufacturers were given an eight-year holiday from higher fuel efficiency standards, and just like our current administration, they bombed the #$@& out of Iraq.
–Kyle Lisenby, Charlotte
Walters Is Right
Three cheers to David Walters for speaking the truth! At the time of this writing, Ralph Nader’s potential voters are at 6 percent, a margin that, although seemingly minuscule, is very likely to have an impact — just as Nader’s voters did in 2000.
It’s refreshing to hear a Brit’s take on all of this. Mr. Walters is not off-the-mark by comparing us to the schoolyard bully. But he really hits the nail on the head with his summation of George W. Bush, whose “callow smirk has become the symbol of American smugness and greed the world over.” I was elated to finally read in print what I’ve been thinking all along: that Bush is one of the worst chief executives in American history. He is not only a disgrace on the international stage but on his home turf as well. He and John Ashcroft have been intent on trampling the Constitution and subverting the democratic process from Day One. It makes me wonder how long it will be before a column such as Mr. Walters’ will be relegated to one of Bush’s infamous “free-speech zones.”
Enough is enough, people. It’s time for us to take America back from these hijackers. Election 2004 is just the means to do so.
— Paul Justice, Kannapolis
This article appears in Mar 10-16, 2004.
