Another week and, voila, another hectoring and patronizing harangue from Ms. Confino. Right on cue.
Lord have mercy! Last week she intoned: “If you (Herald Courier) have any aspirations to be worth reading, please consider setting some standards for letters to the editor … I hope you will turn your attention to the content of letters … I believe in free speech but that does not obligate you to give room to some of the people whose submissions have no value … I think that by this time you realize that I write to educate as well as advocate … I am not saying that only progressive voices must be heard; however, nonsense is not worth wasting newsprint on.”
Nothing but special pleading and pretentious blather from a very small and closed mind radiating intolerance and self importance with a predictably relentless emphasis on the “I” word.
Cant of this sort has always been the hallmark of the sneering from the nose, know-it-all and self-absorbed left; since the era of Engels and Marx.
Per usual, Ms. Confino’s sanctimonious politics, the perennial safe haven of the shallow, is perpetually focused on the banal and inane. Ironically, were minimum standards of writing coherence imposed by the Herald Courier her weekly ax grinding canards would be instantly interred in an appropriate trash bin.
Tom Coffey,
Herricks
