Criticism by imitation

Leonard Pitts’ opinion (“Beck’s Bible would be unrecognizable,” March 22) is self-contradictory and self-defeating. He vilified Glenn Beck’s opinion with the adjective “visceral” and noun “egocentricity,” but blatantly demonstrated these qualities.

He established (rather disproved) himself by thinking and acting with the view that his self, the Bible and Martin Luther King Jr. are the center, object and norm of all experience; and in this belief he put his rationale one step above what he conveyed by being individualistic and selfish in itself. Hmmm. Pitts can express himself with something real or valid as perceived or conceived in his individualized mind and Glenn Beck cannot?

Beck presented his attitude, or gut-level feelings pertaining to a situation which affected his viscera, and was intensely emotional in accordance with Leonard Pitts, but Pitts’ discourse was presented void of the semblance of the same qualities. Right? Wrong!

Pitts’ essay is vitro in form because he is self-absorbed in his biased opinion and a “Me, myself, and I problem.” Suggesting, “I think you should flee the one that does not,” is a weak argument in that merely implying it reinforces it in one to come right back to it. The power of words is twofold.

David J. Rosenbeck

Medical Lake