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Hello, Clarice? What does it mean that Donald Trump repeatedly extols “the late, great Hannibal Lecter” (a fictional killer and cannibal), paired with the claim that “they’re emptying out their insane asylums” and “we have them coming into the country”? Connect the dots to Trump’s grisly allegations that certain people are eating cats and dogs. And not just any people are eating family pets, but according to Trump, this horror is being perpetrated by a Black immigrant community in Ohio! Sadly, this evidences a sick, frightened, twisted mind. His desperation and depravity seem bottomless.
He needs mental health care and sending him back to the Oval Office (with access to the nuclear codes) will not help him. But it can spell disaster for the rest of us. Ann Guill Winston-Salem People are also reading.
.. A pit of vipers For many years, I have felt that one of the things most endangering to democracy in America (it’s not Trump!) is the almost complete lack of objectivity and the extreme leftward bias of the so-called “legacy or mainstream” media.
This system brought us Barack Obama’s eight dangerous years of socialism, hid Joe Biden in his basement to get him elected and then tried to hide his mental and physical decline for another four years. Now they are in the process of reinventing a hapless and useless vice president and a far-left San Francisco liberal into the second coming of Mother Teresa, a process accurately dubbed by The Wall Street Journal as “The Transfiguration of Kamala Harris.” I am further saddened by our local Winston-Salem Journal’s decline into that same pit of vipers.
We are treated to bias and racism from the likes of Eugene Robinson, numerous columns from the far-left Associated Press and others from “mainstream” newspapers and retired liberal preachers who don’t know what they don’t know. All this is topped off by the daily barrage of Kool-Aid-drinking Trump haters in the Readers’ Forum (see the Sunday, Sept. 15 edition for two great examples), and by regular left-leaning, Trump-hating, and state legislature-hating from the opinion editor.
My point is this: Unless objective and honest journalism is somehow reborn in America, we will quite likely not survive as a free republic. I hate to bet against that happening but ..
. Bill Sides Jr. Clemmons Who’s to blame? I’m confused.
Donald Trump and JD Vance are trying to blame Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for the atmosphere of violence surrounding the assassination attempts on Trump. I thought that it was Trump who, on Jan. 6, after being told that the mob he called together was armed, encouraged them to go to the Capitol and “fight.
” And that it was Trump who offered to pay the legal bills of any of his supporters who attacked any of his rivals. And Trump who made jokes about the almost fatal attack that one of his supporters made on Nancy Pelosi’s husband. And it was Trump who just recently decided to broadcast that he “HATED” a prominent personality only because she endorsed his opponent.
Trump has belittled, lied about and bullied just about everyone who has opposed him. I think that maybe it is Trump who has brought violence to the forefront of our nation’s politics and, now that the chickens are coming home to roost, as usual he is trying to blame someone else. Hugh M.
Parker Winston Salem The worst Well, dagnabbit, you have gone and done it now! Changing your comics page was a blast from the past. I realize retro is popular and my almost 98-year-old mama would be thrilled but me ..
. not so much. I have read the paper since I was a kid and endured many changes but this is the worst.
I understand times are hard for newspapers but cheaper is not always better and I feel these were the cheapest comics available. While I am complaining, I might as well ask that you bring back the Daily Jumble and the L.A.
Times crossword. That is my favorite way to start my day and get my brain in gear. If you are going to make a change, do something about how the puzzle prints.
It would be helpful to be able to move the puzzle on the page and enlarge the print before printing. Thank you for leaving Sudoku but I would love it to be adjustable also. Jan P.
Neas Advance What are you thinking? I am at a loss as to how anyone could consider the comics page improved. Saturday’s crossword is usually challenging. Today, a smart third grader likely could complete it in five minutes.
And “Wuzzles”? What a joke. What are you thinking? I do not want to go to your website for puzzles. I can get New York Times puzzles online.
I will tell you what I am thinking and that is that I should cancel my subscription. I enjoy sitting with my cup of coffee in the morning and doing the puzzles. I am willing to bet that a lot of your subscribers are, like me, senior citizens and do that same thing.
Having to go to the computer and work on a website is vastly different. Nothing challenging is on the puzzle page now, and there is not a lot of local news. Cancellation looks better and better.
I hope you get enough complaints to make a change back. If not, I’m out. Romaine Poindexter Kernersville Get opinion pieces, letters and editorials sent directly to your inbox weekly!.
