My LTE About a Reid-Bashing Cartoon

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Monday June 05, 2006 · 8:13 AM PDT

2006/06/05 · 08:13

(My LTE I am sending to the Columbus Dispatch, at letters(at)dispatch.com, and info to editor bmarrison(at)dispatch.com.)

Editors:

Monday you published a Michael Ramirez political cartoon showing Senator Harry Reid knocked out on a carpet labeled "Culture of Corruption" while a referee counts out $1,400.

So much for repeating a Republican talking point--now how about a little journalism?

Specifically, how about reporting:

- Has Reid done anything illegal? No, he has not.

- Has Reid done anything inappropriate? No. In fact he has consistently advocate the creation of a federal boxing commission--the opposite of any quid pro quo.

- How relevant is $1,400 (even if Reid had done something wrong--which he has NOT). Well, let's compare it to some Republican REAL corruption and incompetence.

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Compare $1,400 to the $2.4 million in bribes paid to Congressman Duke Cunningham, and Reid could go to the fights 1,714 times.

Compare $1,400 to the $8.8 billion missing in Baghdad--which Congress refuses to investigate--and Reid could go to the fights every night for 17,000 years.

Compare $1,400 to the $10 trillion in GOP-Bush debt, and Reid could watch the fights for the next 7 billion years--approximately half the age of the universe.

To put it another way, just considering these cases above, for a balanced presentation, I hope and expect to see a few hundred billion cartoons on Republican real corruption.

You may have to hire a few extra cartoonists.

Sincerely...

(DKOSers: Did your paper print this cartoon? Maybe write your own LTE's.)

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