Insane letter to the editor in the Omaha World Herald

[TheFarseer]

This letter appeared in the paper yesterday. I couldn't find the letter again online so the intro is extremely rough paraphrasing, but I remember the bullet point:

People are talking about the Democrats raising taxes and ruining health care if they win the presidency, but we can fight for a better America right now. We need to stand up for what we believe in.

-Return your stimulus check

-Refuse Social Security and Medicare payments

-End farm subsidies

-Repeal the Minimum wage

-Repeal child labor laws

Stop socialism in all it’s forms!

Who is this person going around thinking, "Gee the United States would be great except 8 year olds aren't working in the coal mines!" Don't forget this is why we vote Democrat in Congressional elections because these are the psychos that populate the House of Representatives on the Republican side.

[LTR]

1. I'll see your insane and raise you one fundie with very low self esteem

Only some allowed to take offense

Every day, we hear stories of one group or another being offended, be it the gay community, African-Americans, Muslims or women. Recently, I turned on the television, and the first thing I saw was a gay event in San Francisco, held Easter Sunday, which mocked Christianity with a "hunky Jesus" contest. The next channel reported on a Baptist convention where the consensus was that a black minister's racist anti-white speech didn't go far enough. Another channel showed a presidential candidate calling children a punishment as a reason for supporting abortion, and one was showing a movie titled "White Men Can't Jump."

I almost became upset, but then I remembered that as a Catholic, conservative, heterosexual white male, I no longer have the right to be offended.

Kim Schmitt
Hartford

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=735641

:eyes:

[MuseRider]

5. I have been hearing this

more and more lately. Sure. :eyes: Poor guys. Jesus, where do these people come from?

[rurallib]

6. Poor sumbitch even has a name that could be either gender

[Toasterlad]

7. There Was a "Hunky Jesus" Contest, And I Wasn't Informed???

:grr:

[Firespirit]

2. I'd guess it was sarcasm

:shrug:

Without the actual letter, I can't say for sure, but that sounds like something similar to the mass-circulated piece allegedly to Dr. Laura about taking all the Old Testament commands literally instead of just those perceived to be about homosexuality.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. There has to be a website out there...

That generates these LTTE's. My local paper prints stuff that is like this, almost word for word, with great regularity. Always insane rants about the looming monster of Socialism.

I sure would like to know what websites are generating these letters. I could get a lot of these idjits disqualified from publishing this tripe. Newspapers hate astroturf and LTTE generators.

[LTR]

4. Here's the solution

Find the exact letter. Run one of the sentences in the exact phrase through Google. If there are multiple links, it's astroturf.