Submitted to the Rocky Mountain News
Not published

HARDLY A CHOICE POLITICALLY WHEN
COMPETING PAPERS EMBRACE LIBERALISM

I do not know how publisher John Temple expects the Rocky Mountain News to continue to be known as the loyal opposition newspaper when he allows his opinion pages to reflect the same anti-conservatism as that of The Denver Post. Some examples from the Rocky’s opinion pages, Saturday (2/14/09) combined edition:

--“Presidents on a pedestal.” Many of us who lived in the FDR era know he was not a great president. One of the biggest liars ever, he promised to never send American boys overseas to fight on foreign soil, only to see 292,131 Americans die in battle. The authors’ list of bad presidents omitted the only two who were ever impeached: Democrats Andrew Johnson and William Clinton, then they fawn over liberal icon Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. who, with Eleanor Roosevelt, helped found Americans for Democratic Action.

--Garrison Keillor. A talented entertainer he is, but the anti-conservative bigotry he so deftly weaves into his writing should either be edited out or the column itself dropped.

--Mike Littwin. The reigning liberals will apparently escape his mad-dog style of writing; he has ignored several juicy opportunities. To be fair, Mr. Temple should now hire a replacement to write slash-to-the-bone commentaries about the Democrats.
P.