Alex Yawor – 5/24/09

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The right was quick to call others traitors; Alex Yawor; Beaver County Times; May 24, 2009. An editor’s note asserts, “The writer served in the Fourth Marine Division in the Pacific from 1942 to 1946.”

Mr. Yawor’s previous letters attempted to bash President Bush regarding Iraq and Iran, and VP Cheney regarding his hunting accident. In a July 2006 letter, Mr. Yawor implied if you support our action in Iraq, you are “eager to send our young to die in Iraq.” Two of Mr. Yawor’s letters tried to lift up Jimmy Carter (here and here).

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“I am responding to Tuesday’s letter to the editor ‘Terrorists are vicious killers’ in which Forrest Stolz wrote ‘President Barack Obama and his left-wing cohorts have decided that calling these killers terrorists is unfair.’

“At the end of his letter, he wrote, ‘I reject Obama’s style of government. However, I am not a terrorist.’”

[RWC] If Mr. Yawor had read the DHS “Rightwing Extremism” report, he would know Mr. Stolz was referring to comments made in that report. At least twice the report asserted the election of a black president was fueling rightwing extremism. To folks like Mr. Yawor, you’re an “extremist” simply by being on the right.

“Stolz said that he served in the Marine Corps from 1942 to 1946. I did, too.

“I ask Stolz to tell me if it was fair for President George Bush and his right-wing cohorts to call the people who did not agree with his invasion of Iraq before giving the inspectors more time ‘traitors.’

“Is it worse saying that it is unfair calling these killers terrorists or calling fellow Americans who fought for this country traitors because they do not agree with you?”

[RWC] When Mr. Yawor writes of accusations, we should pay attention.

Three years ago Mr. Yawor told us then-President Bush “wants to use nuclear weapons on Iran” (“Good reasons to question Bush,” 4/23/06). A couple of months later Mr. Yawor indicated those who supported the war in Iraq were “eager to send our young to die in Iraq” (“What will be the next excuse?,” 7/3/06).

Don’t hold your breath waiting for Mr. Yawor to tell us when and where Mr. Bush called “the people who did not agree with his invasion of Iraq before giving the inspectors more time ‘traitors.’” It simply didn’t happen.

Did some nut make that assertion? Probably, just as some nuts claim that those who didn’t vote for Mr. Obama are racists. As a reminder, Times reporter/pundit J. D. Prose (here and here) is one of those nuts. I noticed Mr. Yawor didn’t appear to complain about that mudslinging.

This is actually at least the second letter in which Mr. Yawor claimed he was called a traitor. In the previous letter Mr. Yawor asserted, “I am against some of the things that the president has done, so I am called a traitor” (“Santorum’s gimmick will work,” 9/21/06). As in this letter, Mr. Yawor cited no examples.

“The mistakes made by Bush and his right-wing cohorts have cost this country dearly, and it will take a miracle to put it back on the right track.”

[RWC] Consider the source. As noted above, Mr. Yawor thinks Jimmy Carter was a good president.

“It is a shame that the right-wingers were ready to hang Obama on his first day in office before giving him a chance. It took eight years to put this country in the hole that we are in, and now they want him to dig us out of it in a few months.”

[RWC] “[R]ight-wingers were ready to hang Obama on his first day in office?” As a reminder, it was lefties (Democrats) who lynched blacks.

“I rejected Bush’s style of government. However, I am not a traitor.”

[RWC] Who said you were? Heck, I didn’t agree with all of Mr. Bush’s policies and no one called me a traitor.