As the title implies, the following reads like a section of a longer piece, except that it really isn't. It's simply a rhetorical device I invented for this particular article, which jumps headlong into the heart of the matter.


EXCERPT FROM EXPOSE

Chief among the live-and-breathe-politics brand of journalists is Chris Matthews, MSNBC’s sustainer of other broadcasts, who pays lip service to his humble origins while demonstrating on virtually every edition of his “Hardball” program the extent to which he has abandoned them.

Beauty pageants can be murder

So the news bomb drops on the Friday before a holiday weekend and what is the first response from the silly talking heads at CNN? Why, they personalize it. Of course. “Oh, no, she had to announce it now, not last Monday, not a week from now. I know what I’LL be doing on the fourth,” giggles one of the female announcers, indistinguishable from the others so I can’t remember which one. “Yeah,” ad libs another, “Sandra Day O’Connor is spiting the women she inspired by becoming the first…”yada yada yada. “Hope my husband understands about my working instead of having that barbeque.”

This letter appeared Sunday, January 09, 2005
in the State Journal Register, Springfield, IL

My response follows.

Prays those who favor abortion will change

This month it will be 22 years since the Supreme Court made a terrible decision of letting a woman destroy her baby. Since then there have been more than 45 million abortions.

Just think, these babies would be in their teens, twenties and thirties. They would all be taxpayers and billions would have been paid into Social Security.

How many of these babies may have been a priest, nun, rabbi, governor, mayor or even president of the United States? If we want to be blessed by God abortion must stop now. I pray that the pro-abortionists will open their hearts and change their minds about abortions.

Then God will bless our country once again.

Danny Faulkner
Springfield


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Here is a scan of a letter from a fan who
doesn't seem to like my opinions


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LETTER TO THE EDITOR                SUN  10  24  04
 
Channel 20 is to Sinclair as the SJ-R is to Copley
 
Confronted with the headline “Bush worthy of reelection,” I knew I had two options.  I could be angry or I could be amused.  Very, very amused.
 
Early into the article, I came upon this little gem:  “When al-Qaida terrorists struck, the president went on the offensive in aggressive fashion.  He perceived immediately…”  This would be the same president, I presume, who, warned of an imminent domestic attack via the infamous August 6, 2001 memo, continued to vacation on his Texas ranch.  The same president who, having been notified an attack had indeed occurred, froze for fully seven minutes to digest the information before he could begin to act upon it.
 
That’s downright hysterical.
 
Readers can be certain this editorial was not a local production, but dispatched from headquarters of the parent organization.  Seems TV Channel 20 is to Sinclair as The State Journal-Register is to the Copley press: held hostage.
 
Thanks for my laugh of the day.
 
 
Note to MM:  I don’t envy the avalanche of responses awaiting you.  Sorry to have contributed to it.
 

Ah, the loony left.  Ah, “language that even liberals can understand.” 
 
In phraseology eerily derivative of Ann Coulter’s new book title, Mr. Robert Huck attempts to persuade readers that the Duelfer report is not devastating to the Bush administration, particularly just weeks before a presidential election.  While Republican congresspersons privately admit it effectively kills the rationale for invading Iraq, and the White House itself harbors no illusions that it doesn’t, Mr. Huck buys the bogus interpretation favorable to George Bush then regurgitates it to the State Journal-Register in the form of his own original conclusions.

A letter writer to ash's home paper had an agenda for asserting abortion is a moral issue. It allowed her to argue against the fact that government "permission" is relevant to one's position. ash challenges the premise: