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A Rochester resident had a good letter to the New York Times today slapping down neocon David Brooks for Brooks’ recent dishonest piece defending the Republicans’ southern strategy:
The truth is more complicated than David Brooks’s version. If the Nashoba County Fair had been the unique example of Ronald Reagan’s saying the shameful thing , it might be excusable. But there was also the Bitburg, Germany, visit, where he spoke at a Nazi SS burial ground.
To use the phrase “states’ rights†at the site where civil rights workers were martyred is more than a careless slip. It was blasphemy. It was profoundly unpatriotic. It belittled the sacrifices not only of the Philadelphia Three but of those called by Lincoln our honored dead.
It was a dishonorable act. It cannot be excused by staff incompetence.
Sam Abrams
Rochester, Nov. 9, 2007
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