A few notes from the front lines of political perception.
At first, a local reader responded to a brief mention in a recent story of mine about the GOP's George Bush problem for candidates in 2008...my mention was to the emerging fired attorney's bruhaha and a reader responded with a cannon telling me I didn't know what I was talking about, "Clinton did it" and just the sort of stale talking points you'd find from a Fox News commentator or the Republican National Committee.
It didn't matter that I had my facts right and that the reader wasn't interested in figuring out what might lay behinds the Bush administrations ineptness. No the problem was me -- and my ilk. In short, "Michael McCord and his ignorant liberal bias ilk" were, well, I'm not sure what but me and my ilk are clearly dangerous.
And then, an Oregon reader, perhaps a hyper sensitive liberal ilk type, responded to my March 25 column about Sen. Sam Brownback, the conservative Republican from Kansas. This critic took me to task for, ah, being a Fox News stooge...which was news to me, my girlfriend and my endless supply of right-wing fans.
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