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Runnin’ With The Big Dogs

4/11/2019

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Received my first piece of hate mail today! I’ve had more than a half-dozen letters printed in the Mail Tribune this past few years with little to no response. Frankly, I was beginning to feel a little left out. Then on Tuesday, the paper published my recent letter:

A few questions
I’m responding to right-wing complaints that we liberals should accept the fact that Trump won, and “get over it,” rather than express concern over the handling of the Mueller report by Attorney General Barr. While I understand that some of the more staunchly conservative voters would no sooner change their minds about us than the guy on the Garrison’s TV commercial* might possibly show us a piece of his furniture, I’d like to pose to them a few rhetorical questions:
Why did they condemn Obama throughout his eight-year presidency, calling him names such as “Lyin’ African,” and continue to support Trump’s “birther” campaign? An erstwhile Facebook friend even posted a picture of her Chihuahua relieving itself on a picture of Obama one day, to the delight of her conservative friends. When I complained to her, I was met with enough profane insults to cause Alex Jones to shake his head in disbelief. And let’s not forget the woman in West Virginia who eventually hosed herself with a despicable racial slur about Michelle Obama. (Go look it up. I refuse to quote her.)
Does this not constitute the very name-calling and whining they accuse us of?
L.J. Zinkand
Medford


When I got home yesterday, this was in the mail. I knew exactly what it was when I saw my name scrawled on the envelope with no return address:
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Yep—it's a Christian-themed hate letter! Ya just can’t make this stuff up. Even though it comes across as basic schoolyard nanny boo-boo, I must have touched a nerve. Someone actually took the time to look up my address, pick out a card and paste those pictures from the internet into it—and they spent a whole Forever stamp on me! The icing on the cake was that they responded exactly in the manner described in my letter.
I’m touched. I really am… I’m runnin’ with the big dogs now!

* There's a local TV commercial here where the guy just talks about his furniture and never shows a single piece. It reminded me of how people on the RR tend to accept things with little regard for the facts.
2 Comments
Harry
4/11/2019 11:50:26 am

You have a Republican pen-pal now — how lucky you are!

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T.Alan Gielow The T. is for Thomas link
5/25/2019 12:47:04 pm

Hi LJ. I too have submitted several letters to the M.T. Mostly skewering Our (un)stable Genius. Using known facts, I brought to light the Millions of wasted taxpayer dollars he has squandered on his MAGA lifestyle.
Not One Trumpy writer ever wrote a single retort. They must have " Alternate Facts" . but on May 15th my letter questioning why i don't see a lot of Red Hats drew 3 individual so called comments. And then i also received a letter in my mail box from a gent reminding me to read the first comment. His tone was not mean just Snitty. If you get ahold of me via email. I will send you copies of all my letters as well as 3 photos on what to do with a MAGA hat. You will chuckle.

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