Not fooled by brainwashing

Upon reading today’s (Tuesday) opinion page, I was highly offended by the tirade that Mr Henney offered regarding those of us who are well-informed pertaining to local, national and world events and sometimes expound on it (“Columns worth reading,” Dec. 8).

Most of us who read, or watch the news media, have lived in this great country five to eight decades and we are well aware how the radical left has become the way they are through being brainwashed by academia over the last thirty years, or longer.

Then, Henney has the audacity to call us cerebrally challenged, unlettered yahoos in red caps is beyond belief. He lumps himself in with writers like Shawn Vestal and those of the Washington Post Writers Group that simply demonstrates the brainwashing that has occurred to otherwise intelligent minds.

I’m extremely pleased that The Spokesman provides space for exchange of ideas both left and right, unlike what is happening in most colleges and universities that ban speech which does not meet their radical left-leaning ideals. So sad.

Larry Goehner

Spokane