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2006-02-03 Fifth Column

Left Wing Editorial: Israel Deserves To Be Nuked

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-03 08:34|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 To the Editor
Lexington Herald-Leader
Lexington, Kentucky

Dear Sir:

It appears from the content of your op-ed page today that someone has put LSD in your building's water supply. You may wish to get it tested.

Respectfully,
Mike

Posted by Mike 2006-02-03 09:50|| 2006-02-03 09:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Looks like Joe got a job with a computer that has a functional All Caps key.

Posted by Angong Crorong7029 2006-02-03 10:02|| 2006-02-03 10:02|| Front Page Top

#3 To the editor: (actually submitted)

I just read Mr. Larry Webster, esq.'s editorial ("Fifth is frying up Homeland Security bacon" 1/29/2006) on a website with an international audience. I would congratulate your newspaper, but unfortunately Mr. Webster's writings demonstrated such depths of ignorance as to confirm the sad stereotypes about Kentuckians held by the outside world. At least his spelling and grammar are faultless, but I've no doubt credit for that lies with your Op-Ed editor. As one small example, Mr. Webster does not seem to be aware that, despite having workable nuclear bombs since at least the 1970s, Israel has never used one. This compares to Iran, which has been pledged for decades to use theirs to wipe Israel off the map just as soon as they can be made functional, and in the meantime has financed and trained the terror groups Hizb'allah and Islamic Jihad in their attacks on Israeli civilians.

I do hope Mr. Webster, esq. better researches his clients' cases, rather than relying on the power of fact-free rhetoric.

Perhaps I oughtn't have written that, but such ignorant, bigotted nonsense made me feel a bit waspish.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-03 11:42|| 2006-02-03 11:42|| Front Page Top

#4 TW: That was pretty restrained, actually.

Posted by Mike 2006-02-03 12:42|| 2006-02-03 12:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Homeland Security was fresh off its success as a cumbersome bureaucracy in New Orleans when it was impolitely called the "new Gestapo" by one of the few Americans who are American enough to stand astride the abyss of fascism into which Osama bin Laden is about to plunge us and cry, "Halt!"

Geez, how many cliches, wrong ideas, and pathetic attempts at snark can you pack into one sentence?

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-02-03 12:54|| 2006-02-03 12:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Mike, I don't do invective well I'm afraid (unlike you lot!), and I did want the editors to take my comment seriously, even if (most likely) they don't publish it. In Kentucky they're rightfully very sensitive to the "hillbilly" label (especially Lexington, which is bluegrass horse country), and this kind of egregious nonsense only reinforces such labels.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-03 16:50|| 2006-02-03 16:50|| Front Page Top

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