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Don R. Sherwood of Boulder writes:

Mr. Stein, I’m looking for some of your clever cartoons criticizing secular progressive’s conducting AMBUSH INTERVIEWS. I don’t recall seeing any, but, being the fair minded individual that you are, surely it is that I’ve just not looked closely enough, since you find AMBUSH INTERVIEWS so distasteful, you must have called out such when you saw it.
60 Minutes, that long running secular progressive program, so adored by secular progressives like yourself, comes to mind as a prime candidate for your wicked funny pen.
As I recall, Joanne Ostrow called Bill O’Reilly, a racist - that debate ending secular progressive epithet of which secular progressive are so fond - then refused an interview to defend her position, until providing her pathetic comments in the “ambush interview”. Helayne Jones hides under her desk when asked for an interview. At the last BVSD Board meeting on the subject, her conclusion was “mistakes were made”.
Certainly, no one was responsible, just “mistakes were made”. When it is discovered there are damaging emails between BVSD School Board members, a lawsuit is required to pry access to elected official’s communications, which are OPEN by Colorado law.
Ms. Ostrow and Ms. Jones dress up like a soccer balls, then they (and you) whine when they get kicked.
It is so much fun to hear the squeal of SP’s when they get a dose of their favorite tactics.
As usually, you are so far off base, it is hardly worth printing or commenting on, but I couldn’t resist.
The RMN might do well to emulate the Denver Post’s dismissal of Spencer and Carmen: a little subtraction to increase the RMN’s “balance”. I can envision the headline now: “Stein Secular Progressive Platform GONE; He’s Unemployed”. Sounds good to me.

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READER COMMENTS

The opposite of secular progressive is religious regressive.

Religion can`t progress, it is carved in stone tablets, oddly missing, from a bunch of sheep and goat herders in the Middle East 4,000 years ago.

Stein will criticize a lefty when I am elected the Pope.

Donnie sounds like a fundie regressive indeed. Poor little pinhead...

Wow, so progressive......

Man, it must really suck having someone holding a gun to your head, forcing you to read a comic.

You know, 'cause otherwise, you could just choose not to read it if it offends your delicate sensabilities so...

Why not try addressing the merits of the letter instead of engaging in sophmoric invective?

Sharon B.
The only people, in my mind, who call themselves progressives, can't tell forward from backward.

If you think that religion can't progress, you simply don't know much about religion.

Most of us religious types admire people who work hard regardless of their employment. You apparently have a some unstated problem with people who work in animal husbandry.

Good morning Yaakov.

Your right , the Pope just apologized to, Galileo, was it? Religion progresses because people on the outside either ignore it or force it to with laws.

Like churches can`t discriminate against homosexuals in hiring. Churches didn`t evolve on their own on that one.

Good try though Yaak.

Well, knowing how I feel about people who work in animal husbandry, maybe I shouldn`t call you Yaak. (as in yak the animal).

thank you for the early morning laugh.

[reader],

You want us to "address the merits of the letter". Perhaps you will be kind enough to tell us what they are.

As to "sophomoric invective", the letter writer's imagination concerning what he calls "secular progressives" is sufficiently sophomoric itself - one might even say, "juvenile" - that answering it in kind is, more or less, dealing with it on its "merits".

Hi Sharon,

I was surprised that Ratzinger even got around to Galileo. After all, it's only been some 6 centuries, or so, since Galileo and his work was condemned. And one usually can't expect to find the infallible successor of one infallible Pontifex Maximus infallibly changing his mind about what his infallible predecessor did before him in that short a period of time.

And then, of course, we have what happened over in that wonderfully democratic, peace loving, and shining example of freedom State of Israel; where its most regressive religious sectarians called upon their Witch Doctors (known as Rabbis over there) to curse the participants in a Gay Pride parade, and then came shambling down out of their caves to throw stones at them. Great progress in religion there. Nu!

This forum shure is shaping up to be a fun holiday weekend.

Hey OG, I love the way the posts have me laughing one minute, and streaming with righteous rage the next.

For a bi-polar mad woman like me, this is Heaven.

Thank you Brian Stuckey: Were it not for you and your ilk brave enough to submit a letter, us, we, posters would not be accorded the opportunity to post our illustrious comment and dazzle the world with our brilliance and for some provide an orgasmic arousal to the psyche when fish and his ilk click on post (one time, folks) to register their "discourse" convinced that they are entitled to freedom of speech but not the “morons.”

Brian Stuckey draws his inspiration from the "Good Book" one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined and Brian Stuckey strikes again with everyone scratching their head: Stucky again: Grimes again: Spare me. Brian Stuckey strikes again June 30 (Denver Post) blaming the gay lobby for Merry Christmas and Easter omission from the Rocky and Post’s front page.

What [is] Christmas but a celebration by the Pagans in thanks for Winter Solstice when ol’ Sol, the Sun, returned and the Pope couldn’t wipe out the Pagans even by declaring them in league with the devil, ol’ Satan a creation of Jehovah, Allah, and Jesus coming from the “loins of David” and “fruit of the womb” from a 12 to 14 year-old Jewish virgin whom the pope claims is levitated into heaven to preserve her virginity in spite of her children: James, Josas, Simon and daughters, Mk.6:3, except in the Catholic Bible, with “fruit of the womb” suggesting in Jn.13 when Judas busts Jesus with a man on his “breast,” a gay purpose. It is no problem for me if Jesus is born left-handed. And the pope stole the celebration festivities from the Pagans and called it Christmas.

What [is] Easter but a day in which the “fruit of the womb” from the “loins of David” transmogrified into an anti-Semitic God destined for assisted suicide by mandating that Roman soldiers nail him to a cross that he never carries Mt.27, Mk.15, Lk.27 in which Simon the Cyrene is forced to shoulder every step of the way. The much-maligned Jew by his fan club, all Jewish, contend he orders them in Luke 19:27 to kill all who “should not accept that he should reign over them,” in parable but true assassination. Friday evening, the Jew is nailed to the cross and about 36 hours later on Sunday morning, he like the Mormon Moroni, is resurrected and in Zombi fashion plans a holy genocide on his 2nd Coming to be achieved within a generation if not sooner.

I violate the subject matter rule and will say ten Hail Mary and ten Our Father and make an act of contrition. Why would the Rocky want to illustrate on its front page such utter nonsense?

"Secular progressives" "pinheads" Wow, I wonder what media personality the letter-writer and one of the respondants follow. Oh, who could it beeee? (sarcasm).

The fact is, the kind of ambush interviews that O'Reily's staff did in Boulder (he didn't even have the guts to do them himself; instead he sends his underlings to do the dirty work) are disgusting and nowhere near journalism.

Anymore, O'Reilly turns down interviews and walks out of interviews when things aren't going his way. Hence, his hypocrisy knows no bounds. I wonder how cool O'Reilly or his followers would find those ambush interviews if he were the subject of one after he settled his sexual harassment lawsuit with his former employee, or after his controversial "hubcap" statement.

There's an old saw about glass houses, but I guess it doesn't apply when you're a "T Warrior."

Testnumber 3 for a couple of words, then for a couple more words.

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