Letters to the Editor
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Good article Gary!
Great article in fact. I am so sick of this knee-jerk patriotism bull. It's so fake and phony. My good father has been a Bush supporter for many years, but he recently switched over and is supporting Obama. He called me up and said that he didn't get this Wright controversey - he also said that he believed, as you did, that Wright was largely correct in what he said! If my father thinks that, than so do many many people not on TV haranguing the guy (who is, by the way, a veteran of the military).
You indicate on the first page that the worst excesses are over, but are they? Remember how Obama took heat for not wearing a stupid flag pin?
Remember, that guy from the University of Colorado lost tenure because he said 9/11 was the chickens coming home to roost. Sure, it took the Colorado administration and right wing nuts, who are nuttier in Colorado than any state save California I think, years to drum up a good reason to fire him, but they did it. If the phony patriotism never died down, he would've kept his job.