Gee whiz! As a gun-toting life member of the National Rifle Association and
someone who voted for Bush once -- one time was all I could take -- I'm
surprised that just because I poked a bit of fun at Rupert's silly news network
I seem to have been mistaken for a liberal Democrat. I hate Republicans and
Democrats equally, and I am neither. I'm a Murkin, dammit, and proud as hell
to be one.
Walt, Murkin by birth and Southern by the grace of God
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
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From: "Bob Whitmire" <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >> Of course, the folks who watch Fox probably don't notice.
> >
> > See the smiley! :-) "Smiley" rhymes with "O'Reilly." Oh, really?
> > Factor that in.
>
> I take exception to that remark and offer this e-mail as the virtual
> equivalent of a drink thrown in your smug, sanctimonious face. You think you
> can append a smiley to your cheap shot and that makes it okay? As we said
> down South, not hardly. Now, I know the individual targeted here is a
> long-time, popular member of this list, and I am new to it, and thus likely
> to be excoriated and perhaps even banished for my temerity--but I'm 56
> goddamn years old and I refuse to sit by quietly while while people who
> believe and vote the way I do are ridiculed in such a supercilious manner.
> If I have earned banishment, then so be it.
>
> There's plenty of ignorance and stupidity on all sides of any political
> argument--in the United States and anywhere else in the world where people
> actually are allowed to argue about politics. I'm damned if I can see a
> reason why a mailing list about Olympus cameras should be a launch pad for
> petty political barbs--of any flavor. Lord knows there are a gracious plenty
> of places on the internet to vent one's political spleen. You just don't
> need to do it here. And while I know there's always a temptation to sling a
> cheap shot when the opportunity arises (even cheap shots have their appeal)
> but resisting temptation is a mark of maturity.
>
> Alas, I have failed to follow my own admonition, and so I offer my abject
> apology to members of the list who are offended--and, now that I've said my
> piece I'll even offer to buy a drink for the target of this oppositional
> screed to return the in-the-face favor if the opportunity should ever arise.
>
>
> Humbly submitted,
>
>
> Bob Whitmire
>
>
>
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