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Vacuous cheerleading

Sat., Nov. 11, 2017

The Spokesman-Review is one of a very few decent newspapers left in the Pacific Northwest, so why would you run Jay Ambrose’s cheerleading opinion on President Trump (“President offering sound remedies,” — Oct. 29)?

It was a vacuous puff-piece that offered not one single fact defending Trump, while attacking Barack Obama with lies and distortions.

You might as well have run Lou Dobb’s recent Fox News interview with Donald Trump. Dobbs all but rolled over and piddled on himself in obsequious submission. Conservative journalists like Ambrose and Dobbs are desperately trying to counter the growing anti-Trump resistance, without any regard for truth or fairness.

Please, Spokesman-Review, pick conservative opinion pieces grounded in fact.

Paul Oman

Clarkston

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