Logic, shame both missing

Most of us receive anonymous e-mails that are devoid of a factual basis. Those who don’t recognize this phenomenon have become zombies who absorbed so many wing-nut fabrications that logic no longer guides their thought processes.

All of the manufactured hysteria about death panels, President Obama’s birth certificate and his speech indoctrinating schoolchildren are in the same vein. In the past, authors of this kind of trash were ashamed and hid themselves behind the dupes who passed along their e-mails. Now, these lies are no longer faceless. They are being orchestrated.

However, many national news sources fail to report this fact. Their “neutral” or even approving coverage is similar to looking at a deadly fire from the arsonist’s point of view. Furthermore, some GOP representatives proudly step into the spotlight and advance these mindless allegations, unchallenged by their fellow Republicans.

If anyone thinks this is the kind of debate that will advance and improve the governmental process, they must be smoking those e-mails.

Frank A. Malone

Spokane