I just sent this to the Los Angeles Times. I think it's probably a bit long.
I have finally some to the conclusion that the liars, er, conservatives are correct. The Los Angeles Times does express a very pronounced and blatant liberal bias.I believe that the Los Angeles Times has wickedly and willfully conspired to specifically choose the worst conservative writers and thinkers to make conservatism look like a philospophy only an idiot would embrace. And the smoking gun is the conservative columns and the conservative cartoons printed in the Times.
Your conservative commentators are so lame. Max Boot has absolutely no respect for his readers or he wouldn't write such transparent garbage, so full of logical fallacies, lame rationalizations and distortions. And your new right-wing columnist, David Gerlernter, is just dumb. I am so glad I am not taking any computer science classes at Yale.
(At least you have spared us the pathetic blather of Bill O'Reilly. That poor pathetic man should be allowed to retire before he embarrasses himself and the conservative movement any further. It is shameful the way that Rupert Murdoch exploits the mental infirmities of this poor, senile oldr man!)
Then there is Michael Ramirez. Someone told me that Ramirez once did a cartoon that had a little basis in reality, but I would have to see it to believe it. I got so sick of the stock Ramirez image of a stereotypical Arab terrorist with a "Vote Kerry" button on his chest, I wanted to scream. Every rational person knows that Osama bin Laden rose from his death bed and did a cartwheel when he heard Bush had "won" another election.
If there were truth in advertising for comic strips, "Mallard Fillmore" would be called "Straw Man Theater" as the writer continuously makes up contrived situations and attacks liberal viewpoints that no liberal that I know has ever expressed. It is so lame that I am certain that it is the work of a disguised liberal who is making fun of conservatives and their beliefs by making them look stupider than they really are. I do not believe that any conservatives think that "Mallard Fillmore" is funny. They just can not be that deluded, and I wish the Times would stop running "Mallard Fillmore." The continuing use of this strip makes liberals look like mean bullies when the Times tries to pass this off as the conservative answer to "Doonesbury."
Although I am a liberal, I am sure that a newspaper really dedicated to presenting all sides of an argument could find some well-written, well-researched conservative commentary and it is a little shameful that the Los Angeles Times seems to be making no effort to do so. I mean there's, uh, well, no, uh, how about, um, no, he's pretty awful, lies even more than the typical conservative, so that leaves, uh, well ...
OK, now I see the problem. Carry on!
Tony Seybert