Dear Deborah: A letter

[Nordmadr]

Deborah,

I have read your follow up reply regarding the whole Abramoff thing. Something I would like to very rationally point out to you is that neither your paper nor any other news service that I am aware of has provided any evidence that Abramoff DIRECTED funds to Democrats through his clients. Individuals that believe in honesty, integrity, and justice are simply trying to point out the following facts:


1) There is no evidence that Abramoff directly contributed to Democrats.


2) While it is clear that some Democrats received funds from Abramoff’s clients, there is no evidence that Abramoff directed his clients to fund Democrats. Furthermore, as has been widely analyzed on some sleuthing political blogs, evidence does seem to indicate that after Abramoff acquired these various clients, they in fact reduced the amount of money they had contributed to Democrats. If any inference could be made from this, it would be that Abramoff in fact directed his clients to reduce their contributions to Democrats; not the other way around.

Now if your paper contains evidence to the contrary, you would greatly serve your credibility by bringing it out in the open. If the Washington Post does not have such evidence, then it should take great care in how it phrases information it reports as news so as to avoid the appearance of bias.


Thank you.

Olafr

Emailed this to her this morning.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Good, rational email

thanks for posting it!

[Nordmadr]

2. Thanks. N/T