HART’S DIATRIBE NOT SUITED FOR PRINT
Ron Hart’s recent column on President Obama’s State of the Union address dragged the Free Press side of the opinion page to a new low. In the course of his article, Mr. Hart compared the president to Somali pirates, Mike Tyson and Chicago street gangs. Resorting to ugly stereotypes, he likened Democrats to drug dealers and street hustlers playing “Three-card Monte.”
It would seem that in Mr. Hart’s view, the president’s greatest sin is governing while black.
If the racial overtones of the column were intentional, Mr. Hart should be ashamed of himself. If he was so subliminal as to be inadvertent, then Mr. Hart needs counseling. In either case, his hate-filled diatribe should never have found its way into print.
DAVID B. COE, Sewanee, Tenn.
ARROGANCE FROM CONGRESS NOTHING NEW
David Cook’s column of Feb. 15 deserves praise for his continuing efforts to wrest from Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker a fuller and more credible explanation for their refusal to renominate Dr. Marilyn Brown to the TVA board. So far, he wrote recently that he’s written eight emails and made four telephone calls to Alexander’s office regarding the Brown matter, to no avail.