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Published: Nov 10, 2010

SO, YOU'RE DENYING BECK'S DICKBAGNESS?

Sorry to learn that a website user made the unfortunate characterization of you as a "biased, far-left, socialist Jew media hack" [A Million Stories, Nov. 4, 2010]. Unsophisticated name-callers can be found in any political wing; why, just this week City Paper's editors allowed someone writing the A Million Stories column to publish the phrases "Republican overlords, tea-baggers, fucking fuck Pat Toomey, batshit crazy, incoherent, dickbag Glenn Beck, GOP carnage, Meehan's vomitorium, etc." I suppose there's nothing like a well-crafted riposte to combat crude invective, so congratulations CP on your subtlety and wit!

Substantively, your column is less well-thought-out. The notion that "there are more of us [presumably, liberals] than there are of them [conservatives]" is plausible only to someone who believes that civilization ceases at the western borders of Manhattan, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Self-described liberals comprise no more than 20 percent of the U.S. population. The explanation for the November 2010 loss of Obama's Senate seat to Mark Kirk, the GOP gain of 60-plus House seats and six-plus Senate seats, Republican pickup of 680 seats in state legislatures, GOP majority gains in 14 states, and the largest party switch in 70 years is simple: Candidate Obama carefully avoided concrete discussion of his political agenda, was shielded from media scrutiny, charmed his way into office, and enjoyed a 76 percent approval rating once inaugurated. Only as he forced down the throats of Americans his failed stimulus, auto company bailouts, unexplained healthcare package, $3 trillion deficits, cap-and-trade energy taxes, takeover of private industry, EU-style expansion of government power — after only 21 months —an alarmed America sobered up and overwhelmingly put a stop to it. Republicans are under no illusion that they are loved; but they understand they were elected to put the brakes on a far-left administration and Congress, whose policies are appreciated only by social-history professors and the French Parliament.

Or maybe the Democratic Party disaster in this election is all really just dickbag Glenn Beck's fault!

PEOPLE DON'T BUY OUR PAPER

You should be ashamed of yourself for running such a biased picture and statement telling people not to vote for Pat Toomey [Cover Story, "66 Reasons Not to Vote for Pat Toomey," Jeffrey C. Billman, Oct. 28, 2010]. You are supposed to report news, not try to tell people what to think. That is the problem with the liberal-biased media and why educated people will no longer buy your paper. Grow up and do your job.

Kristene Snakard
Via e-mail

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

It has come to our attention that, in the Oct. 28 edition of A Million Stories, we referred to Pat Toomey as a "virulent puss." We meant to call him a "virulent pus," referring to a discharge, as from a sore, rather than a virus-spreading vagina or kitty-cat. City Paper regrets any confusion.

Liar, Liar