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• Monday, June 5, 2006 07:50 AM

  This is Depressing

  If you want to pretty much call Farhad Manjoo a right-wing hack on this issue, maybe you should actually try reading some of his other work on the subject.

  http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/21/intimidation/print.html

  After reading that piece, one would have to believe that if anyone would be taking these clowns out to the woodshed for a substantive beating, it would be Manjoo. But he's looked at the evidence in Ohio and found it lacking.

  That's not to say that he believes there was no fraud, it's just that RFK's major accusations about instances of fraud and suppression in Ohio -- ones that could have turned the election -- are easily rebutted.

  Frankly, I think Manjoo is pretty well versed on this issue, and in this case, is simply dealing in factual errors, distortions and some fairly blatant omissions in Kennedy's piece. What in God's name is so damn awful about that?

  You people leap down the throats of the Republicans when they engage in less than truthful tactics, but it's okay for our side to engage in these shenanigans?

  Now do I think Kennedy is guilty of the same kind of execrable behavior that many Republicans commit on a daily basis? No, I don't. I think Kennedy is guilty here of nothing more than shoddy work. But that doesn't make him any less ripe for criticism.

  And wading through the drivel that makes up the vast majority of these letters, I see almost zero objective thinking or discussion of the facts. Only a few people seem to approach this issue rationally.

  So I have to say, the almost total lack of critical thinking that's rearing it's head here is not only embarrassing, it's pretty depressing.

  —Rob H. Read Rob H.'s other letters
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