Sir,
I looked forward to your show this evening Nov. 14th but was soon disappointed to hear you adopt a Harris campaign tactic of character assassination. In defending Trump’s appointment of RFK, Jr. as Director of HHS, you called those questioning that selection “crazies.”
I wrote a blog titled “Trump! Beware the Ides of RFK, Jr.! Will RFK, Jr. be Trump’s Fauci?” on November 9, 2024 (see www.LigonClanLaw.com). I was unaware of an article in Roll Call dated February 23, 2024 titled “Never mind the Ides of March, beware of all March” by Jason Dick until deciding to respond to your slander this evening. In my blog, read by a comparatively miniscule readership of about 100,000 monthly, I repeated information I found on open source networks that RFK, Jr. was anti-vaccine and had often supported and promulgated false anti-vaccine information including that of the scientifically disproven claim that vaccines cause autism. I specifically mentioned RFK, Jr. and others who furthered that false claim were noted by eminently qualified members of the British Medical Association as having caused more deaths than the Black Plague that killed a quarter of Europe’s population in the Middle Ages. I asked if RFK, Jr. would, as he stated, ban such scientifically proven vaccines as measles and mumps. You ridiculed that question.
I used to joke that I was “a little to the Right of Attila the Hun” in my youth – back when Carter was conducting more of the State Department’s Disney Diplomacy resulting in our hostages in Tehran. As a confused Marine returning from Vietnam, I began questioning my GOP after reading The Pentagon Papers discovering Nixon “lied to us all on TV” as Merle Haggard so eloquently sang. But I stayed in the GOP during the Clinton’s treasonous administration because I don’t run from a fight.
I retired from the army as a Green Beret Captain in 1996.
I seriously considered leaving the GOP after Bush, Jr.’s debacles in Afghanistan and Iraq. I stayed in the Party because my three sons were serving under that Yale cheerleader and I was supporting them and their comrades. But I was infuriated such an idiot was conducting such FUBAR wars. (read: The Afghanistan Papers by Craig Whitlock).
Bush, Jr. (R) has as much blood on his head as Johnson (D) – and for the same reason.
I left the GOP in 2008 after discovering the Arizona GOP secretly gave substantial campaign donations to the southern Arizona Democrat candidate for Congress because the GOP candidate was “too harsh” on border issues. I was an Immigration Inspector then and experiencing the worst 11 years of my life trying to enforce immigration law at the most corrupt Port of Entry in the United States – Douglas, Arizona (see: 10 Years on the Line: My War on the Border). As an Immigration Inspector “on the Line,” I learned that both Parties strenuously corrupted immigration law to satisfy their own monetary agendas.
After so much betrayal to my and my sons’ fallen comrades – not to mention to the citizens of my country- from both Parties of my government, I admit to harboring a bit of resentment. After so much betrayal I may be a little “crazy.” Who wouldn’t be?
Having read de Tocqueville, and since my decision to be a registered Independent, I’ve dedicated myself to discovering facts about issues, analyzing information for the Truth and vetting politicians’ for their worthiness to deserve my vote. Yes, I still vote.
It was as an informed voter that I questioned the wisdom of Trump nominating a Liberal Democrat with a record only slightly less “progressive” than Bernie Sanders as HHS Director.
Labeling me and others as “crazies” for exercising our First Amendment right to free speech, offering an opinion for free and open discussion, sincerely questioning the credibility of RFK, Jr. – who appears to have learned the fine art of flip flopping on his record as a Democrat – is not only personally insulting, but reminiscent of Kamallah Harris‘ campaign of character assassination. Why is RFK, Jr. being given a pass on his flip flopping from his long activist record by the supposedly “conservative” media? Just because Trump is paying back a political debt?
This creates a question in my mind whether – like the two Political Parties – there really is no difference between the Liberal media and the facade of the Right’s “fair and balanced.” The one thing both spectrums of media have in common is your insanely inflated salaries considering your lack of life experience in most cases.
Talk about “price gouging!”
If you and yours who claim to be “Fair and Balanced” on the Right want to obtain street cred with the America who has both eyes open – rather than the blatantly partisan propaganda machine for the Right, I advise you to do two things: read the Bezos’ memo to his Washington Post subscribers; and, read The Journalists’ Creed on a brass plaque attached to the wall of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
I also encourage you to read Will and Ariel Durant’s 11-Volume The Story of Civilization in which you will find the greatest threat to the Trump agenda is not the Deep State or Iran, but the tendency for those who rebel against oppression to adopt the same measures of those they replaced. In doing so, if you actually become “Fair and Balanced,” you may avert a reactionary and resounding Blue Wave in 2026.
Because, as Lord Acton wrote in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887: “Power tends to corrupt absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
I am as euphoric at Trump’s victorious revolution as any other real patriot. But I won’t be blinded to facts by mass adulation.
Finally, I don’t want or need your thanks for doing my duty to my country. But I will accept your apology for you not doing yours.
