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What happened in 2001?; Edward J. Hum; Beaver County Times; November 30, 2012.
An editor’s note for a previous letter asserted, “The writer is a 1948 graduate of Geneva College.”
Mr. Hum has written more than 65 letters since mid-2004, including a 10-month hiatus from September 2007 to July 2008. Nearly three years after George W. Bush left office, most of Mr. Hum’s letters still are no more than exercises in bashing President Bush and/or other Republicans. Mr. Hum’s letters are also flame-throwing exercises. I don’t know if Mr. Hum actually believes what he writes, or if he simply likes to stir things up to call attention to himself.
Mr. Hum frequently includes “fellow Republicans” or something similar in his letters and is one of a group of local Republican impersonators (The group also includes Messrs. William A. Alexander, Arthur Brown, George Reese, and Oren M. Spiegler) who write claiming to be disgruntled Republicans. You have to give Mr. Hum “credit,” however, for going the extra mile to further his impersonation. As of September 2006, Mr. Hum was actually registered as a Republican despite the fact he’s no more a Republican than is Dennis Kucinich.
Given his body of work, for a while I wondered what Mr. Hum would use for subject matter now that Barack Obama is President. Mr. Hum wrote three letters in support of a government-run, taxpayer-funded healthcare monopoly (here, here, and here), then he reverted to his Bush-bashing habit, as in “Bush earns status as ‘most liberal.’” I guess some addictions are too tough to overcome. The last Hum letter I critiqued was entitled “Time to extend school years.”
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“Fellow Republicans, after we find the truth about Benghazi, let us find out what happened in the summer of 2001.
“National security people were worried, An [sic] FBI agent reported people were learning to fly planes, but not how to land them. Nine Eleven happened while Bush and other clowns were in charge. Followed by 11 years in Afghanistan, don’t forger [sic] Iraq. Find out who screwed up in 2001.”
[RWC] I would have thought Mr. Hum read “The 9/11 Commission Report” (published in July 2004) long ago.
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