Cleveland Plain Dealer's Double Dealing

The CPD refuses to endorse a Presidential candidate this year after endorsing George Bush in 2000. While they were professing their high moral standards of non-endorsement, they managed to convey that their editorial board IS in fact for Kerry, and that "Bush has damaged the Nation".

What an arrogant bunch of morons. I guess they think Ohioans are pretty stupid.

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Here's the Letter to the Editor of the CPD that I wrote, hope a bunch of others have written as well:

I read online of the CPD decision to not endorse a candidate for election this year. I salute CPD's decision to refrain from making an endorsement that America's press (and world press outlets for that matter) have no business making. I think many Americans believe that media influence on politics, and in particular liberal media influence, is a large part of what is wrong with our political system and Old Media today. Unfortunately, if you were planning on a glorious moral stand with your "Americans can make up their own minds" comments, you immediately dashed it by first confirming that your board has a majority for Kerry, and next by your comment "We will never feel obliged to defend a president whose blunders and misjudgments have hurt the nation."

What kind of 'non-endorsement' is that?! Do you really believe Ohioans are that stupid? Your attempt to hold both the moral high ground of a 'no endorsement' policy AND bash the President at the same time is like Kerry's promise that he supports the troops, but that 'it's the wrong war, wrong place, at the wrong time.'

President Bush's policies have rescued this nation from the radical liberal hell of a Clinton/Kennedy (and almost Gore) imposed descent into impotent socialism.

So if you're going to keep your opinions to yourself, do a better job next time.

Signed,
Me

Adios MF,

Doug