Reality TV, reality are worlds apart and more letters to the editors

Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor

Reality TV, reality are worlds apart

For more than a decade, between 2004 and 2015, Donald Trump bullied and berated his eager contestants on The Apprentice, inevitably ending the conversation with his scowling, trademark catchphrase, "You're fired!"

On The Apprentice, Trump carefully and meticulously cultivated his image as a demanding, decisive, confident, assertive authority figure. Viewers of the program adored and admired the strength of his realty television persona.

Realty and reality television, however, are quite different as Donald Trump recently demonstrated with the firing of James Comey, director of the FBI. Protocol, if nothing else, demanded a face-to-face meeting for a termination of this magnitude.

Donald Trump, however, chose to obscure the facts about the termination, claiming that it was based on the recommendation of the Justice Department.

This episode reveals a petulant, peevish, insecure, cowardly president totally lacking integrity, motivated by self-interest and ignorant of or oblivious to the implications of this unilateral action that reeks.

Though Donald Trump may well become infamous, he will not make America great.

T. William Alexander

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Electoral College bellyache persists

Republicans gerrymander and campaign for the electoral vote, while the Democrats win the popular vote.

So the former wins when they lose, and the latter loses when they win.

Mike Bodine

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Save cardio-rehab facility, and lives

Doesn't Memorial Hospital management care about its patients' welfare? For 12 years since her heart surgery, my wife and I have used the cardio-rehab facility at Memorial Northpark Hospital in Hixson.

We elected to use it for its location, reasonable price and kind, well-trained staff. We thought it was great Memorial cared enough to provide these facilities.

Due to our experience with coronary problems, we need to exercise in a facility that can provide immediate medical services should they be needed.

Apparently, management has decided the hospital needs to utilize the space to make more money as it has announced the facility's closure. Current users have been "invited" to travel to the inconvenient main Memorial Hospital, which will overcrowd the limited parking, staff and exercise facilities.

It should be expected many (if not most) of the participants at Hixson will not make the transfer. Many will no longer participate in any type of cardio-rehab program and may suffer an early death.

CHI Memorial management needs to review - and reverse - this planned closure. Indeed, if management really cares about patient welfare, it would continue the operation, expand it and save more lives in the process.

Richard Lance, Hixson

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