Michael Gerson column in Sunday Minneapolis Star Trib

This piece o garbage made my head explode

Hi Kossacks.........I'm hoping you can help me out here.

Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson - whose past columns that get reprinted in the Minneapolis Star Tribune have led me to believe that he is a total right wing tool - had this dandy up today in the Sunday Star Trib.

http://www.startribune.com/...

My BP is in the stratosphere just reading the thing. "They just want to be loved" meaning Democrats.

The whole premise here is that maybe it's not so bad that the whole world hates the US because of the Bush Crime Family's plundering of the rest of the world.

Sample quote:

And we have seen a good example in our time. The January 2007 decision to surge American troops in Iraq was clearly at odds with world opinion. But retreating from Iraq in failure would have earned global contempt for American weakness instead of global popularity. And the turnaround in Iraq has restored at least some of our standing and leverage in the Middle East.

There is so much that's wrong with this article that I can't even wrap my mind around it. But this is what passes for "news" in the Sunday Star Trib. Boy, way gone are the days when it was a "liberal" newspaper.........the editorial pages these days are littered with war shills and right wing tools. And letters cherry picked to support those viewpoints.

My problem is.........I write a passionate letter to the editor, it gets ignored and not printed. I can only rage and fume and threaten to cancel my weekend subscription. I'd like to call them out a little more publicly, and I think a good place to do it would be here.

So if you were me.....what would you say in an LTE to them in response to a piece of **** like this? I could really use some advice, I'm sick and tired of my hometown paper publishing garbage that propagandizes for these people.

Haha, they used to call this newspaper "The Star and Sickle" a snarky reference to its "liberal" leanings. Haven't heard that term applied to them in a long time. Maybe a better term these days would be "The Whip and Taser"...since they seem to be all in favor of that sort of thing these days.