The N&R indeed fact checks a letter to the editor, the lack of which has been an issue around here lately.
Honestly, I don’t have the time or the smarts to fact-check LTEs. What bothers me more is when the N&R publishes blatant whackjobbery like this:
The way I was raised, if I had spoken with the deceit and disdain that Sarah Palin did recently, my mother would have slapped my face and washed my mouth out with soap.
Her performance at the Republican convention reminded me of a vigilante mob straight from an old western. These are dangerous people who respect neither the laws of man nor God; who hearken only to their own self-interest and are willing to sacrifice both truth and common decency on their altar of power.
What we watched was the transformation of a political party into a lynch mob. A mob with hired guns at the lead — out to rid the range of all those who challenge their twisted, self-serving view of reality.
May God have mercy on them.
I’ve stated my issues with Palin’s conduct at the RNC, but somehow the lynch mob mentality passed me by.
