J.D. Prose – 9/26/10

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Random thoughts and not-so-random hypocrisy; J.D. Prose; Beaver County Times; September 26, 2010.

As you read this opinion column, keep in mind Mr. Prose wears at least one other hat for the Times. In addition to being an entertainer/pundit, Mr. Prose is a part-time reporter covering political stories. Ask yourself this. When a pundit gives his political opinions in one part of the paper, can he be trusted to report politics objectively elsewhere in the paper? After all, would a person whose opinion is 1+1 equals 3 report 1+1 really equals 2? Does he have a “Chinese wall” in his head to keep his opinions from bleeding into his reporting? If it can get worse than that, Mr. Prose has made name-calling and personal attacks a foundation of his columns. If pushed, I’d be willing to bet Mr. Prose would try to excuse his writing by claiming he’s paid to be controversial and stir debate. The problem is, you don’t need to get into name-calling and personal attacks to accomplish those goals.

You can find the archive of my Prose column critiques here.

This column is yet another exercise in name-calling and anonymous sources.

Mr. Prose’s reference to Christine O’Donnell is a hoot. It’s all about diverting attention away from Miss O’Donnell’s opponent, Chris Coons, and President Obama.

First, if you are a tea partier, Mr. Prose assumes you believe Mr. Obama is a Muslim. Does Mr. Prose believe there’s something wrong with being a Muslim? Personally, I don’t care if Mr. Obama is a Muslim or a believer in Jeremiah Wright’s brand of Christianity, and unless you know what’s in a person’s heart you don’t know what he really believes regardless of which pew he sits in. I’m far more concerned about the fact Mr. Obama has been surrounded and influenced by communists, Marxists, et cetera his entire life. For example, Mr. Obama’s father (BHO, Sr.) was a communist. In his book “Dreams From My Father,” BHO, Jr., wrote, “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”

As for Miss O’Donnell’s “dabbling” in witchcraft over 20 years ago during high school, who cares? Did Miss O’Donnell do anything illegal? Did Miss O’Donnell harm anyone or anything? Have witches flown planes into buildings and killed thousands in the name of witchcraft? Mr. Prose didn’t seem to care about Mr. Obama’s admission he used cocaine during high school (“Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow [cocaine] when you could afford it. Not smack, though.”; Dreams From My Father), and yet Mr. Prose writes of hypocrisy? As mentioned above, Mr. Obama has been involved with communists, Marxists, et cetera his entire life and these varieties of leftism killed millions during the 20th century. Miss O’Donnell’s opponent, Chris Coons, once wrote an autobiographical piece entitled “Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist” for his college newspaper and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) referred to Mr. Coons as “my pet.” The Coons campaign website says “Chris Coons will be a strong, progressive voice.” It’s not too difficult to understand why folks like Mr. Prose would like deflect attention away from the Marxist influences on Messrs. Obama and Coons.

Finally, Mr. Prose complains of another person’s “clunky sentence structure?” Does Mr. Prose read his own work? Yes, that was a cheap shot.