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No vote for Romney; Lonzie Cox, Jr.; Beaver County Times; October 11, 2012.
Most of Mr. Cox’s at least 81 letters since 2004 are tinged with race, and all take leftist positions. The most recent previous Cox letter I critiqued was “Don’t suppress voters.” You can find more Cox letters in the archives (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004).
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“Racial bias most certainly fuels a lot of the resistance to President Obama. Remember the 2009 epidemic of teabaggerism that pictured Mr. Obama as Hitler and a witch doctor? There are many schools of thought as to who people chose to like or dislike and why. Race is one school. Religion is another.”
[RWC] This is an old, false claim by Mr. Cox. As I noted in that critique, the vast majority of people depicting President Obama as Hitler come from Lyndon LaRouche supporters, on Mr. Cox’s side of the aisle. During the Bush administration, folks on Mr. Cox’s side of the aisle routinely referred to Mr. Bush as Hitler. Let’s also not forget the books, movies, and plays that described the assassination of Mr. Bush.
As for “racial bias,” Mr. Cox is pretty tolerant if you share his ideology. Here’s part of what I wrote in my critique of Mr. Cox’s letter entitled “Byrd can’t be forgiven racist past:” “In his nearly 60 letters since 2004, Mr. Cox never mentioned fellow Democrat Robert Byrd’s ‘racist past’ until after Mr. Byrd’s death. Heck, Mr. Cox even ignored (denied?) Mr. Byrd’s existence in 2004 when he wrote, ‘[Zell] Miller is the last of the old segregationist Southern Democrats.’ Now, though, Mr. Cox dedicates most of a letter to Mr. Byrd’s racism. As long as Mr. Byrd was alive and able to cast votes for leftist policies, Mr. Cox said not a peep. It’s not like Mr. Cox didn’t have the opportunity. Readers familiar with Mr. Cox’s letter-writing body of work know he sees bigotry and racism everywhere he looks, even when it’s not there. Mr. Cox simply has double standards, one set for those who agree with his beliefs and another set for those who don’t.
Incredibly, just over two weeks after the above letter about Mr. Byrd, Mr. Cox wrote a letter praising him. In my critique of that letter, I wrote, “Based on the apparent change of heart in this letter, it appears Mr. Cox’s fellow travelers (aka ‘A friend’) ‘took him to the woodshed’ for bashing a fellow lefty for racism. Then again, perhaps Mr. Cox had second thoughts on his own and decided to be honest. That is, Mr. Cox can ignore the racism of political allies.”
“In 1960 there was much discussion as to whether John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, could or should be president. In desperation, even JFK courted the southern vote by indicating he thought President Eisenhower might have been a little off base by using troops for school desegregation.”
[RWC] For those who don’t know, some knuckleheads tried to sell the story that, if elected, Mr. Kennedy would take his marching orders from the Vatican and the Pope. Given my experience with Mr. Cox’s letters, I suggest you don’t trust his presentation of historical facts without doing your own fact-checking.
“Kennedy won in ‘60, but there remained an intense hatred for his religion which only increased when, as president, he promoted civil rights.”
[RWC] Mr. Cox appears to be reporting history the way he wishes it would have been. During this time, I attended St. Titus grade school, was an altar boy, and most of my friends were Protestants and still are. If “intense hatred for” Catholics existed, I missed it.
“I wonder how today’s hatemongers on AM radio would have handled that? I have never personally known a Mormon. All I know about Mormonism I learned in sixth-grade history. It went like this: ‘The Mormons went to Utah with their wives and kids and were saved from a scourge of grasshoppers by a geographically challenged flock of seagulls who were somehow thousands of miles from the nearest sea.’”
[RWC] “Today’s hatemongers [leftists like Mr. Cox] on AM radio” would probably act the same way their ideological ancestors did.
“I don’t possess the prejudice or ignorance to say I would never vote for a Mormon who made political sense to me. So with that I can say for sure I would never vote for the only Mormon running for president at this time ... and that’s Mitt Romney.”
[RWC] “I don’t possess the prejudice or ignorance …?” If you’re familiar with Mr. Cox’s letter-writing body of work, you’re probably rolling on the floor laughing. Further, the whole purpose of this letter was to stir up “prejudice or ignorance” against Mr. Romney.
Change “Mormon” to “black” in the previous two paragraphs. Can you imagine Mr. Cox’s reaction to letter like this?
Finally, are you as shocked as I that Mr. Cox will vote for the leftist? Who would have guessed? <g>
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