Peter Deutsch – 11/6/06

This page was last updated on November 6, 2006.

It was a joke, not a poke; Dr. Peter W. Deutsch; Beaver County Times; November 6, 2006.

Though Mr. Deutsch occasionally signs his letters “Dr. Deutsch,” he is not a medical doctor. Mr. Deutsch has a Ph.D. in physics. The last time I checked, Mr. Deutsch was a physics instructor at Penn State – Beaver Campus (Center Township). Mr. Deutsch is also involved with the Beaver County Coalition for Social Justice.

In his previous letters, Mr. Deutsch supported John Kerry in the 2004 campaign, wrote at least three letters dumping on voting machines, and wrote another saying to bring home the troops.

Before you read Mr. Deutsch’s letter, consider the following comment he made on the forum (August 23, 2005) for the Beaver County Coalition for Social Justice regarding the voting machine issue: “Perhaps provoking them [election officials] with stretched truths is an apporpriate [sic] tactic. But let’s see it for what it is … a tactic.” When do “stretched truths” become lies?

In this letter, Mr. Deutsch is merely an apologist for John Kerry’s comment about the military that, “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

Rather than repeat myself, please see my critique of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette attempt to provide cover for Mr. Kerry.