[cross-posted from
Blue Mass. Group]
Here is the letter that I sent to the Boston Globe's editor and ombudsman today.
To the editor:
I was shocked to see that you allowed James C. Dobson's op-ed ("Vote 'em up or down") to appear in the Boston Globe. The lies and misrepresentations it contains are too numerous to list, although several of them are debunked in the editorial ("A Plot Against the Senate") on the facing page. Suffice it to say that the op-ed's scurrilous accusation against a United States Senator (Charles Schumer of New York) - that he undertook "a barely concealed attack on [nominee William] Pryor's Catholic faith" - should have been more than enough to keep this garbage out of the newspaper. That is not "opinion." It is character assassination.
I have cancelled my subscription to the Globe today. I would bet that I am not the only one.
And that, as they say, is that.