File Name: email_to_gary_langer20041107.txt Subject: "... they represent personal characteristics far more than a discrete political issue..." From: Larry Blakeley Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 10:44:41 -0600 To: Gary Langer , Gary Langer ".... The point, instead, is that this hot-button catch phrase had no place alongside defined political issues on the list of most important concerns in the 2004 vote. Its presence there created a deep distortion - one that threatens to misinform the political discourse for years to come.... - "A Question of Values," Gary Langer, ABCNews, New York Times article, Published: November 6, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/06/opinion/06langer.html I agree totally with you, Mr. Langer; however, in my opinion, the fact that what you speak about is published from a "profit-motive" corporation limits your efforts to speak to many of the people that are just sick and tired of the "media bias" (regardless of whether the bias is unfairly perceived - the stakes are becoming too high, today, to trust a journalist's interpretation of facts) that has underscored our ability to just "read the facts" and make an intelligent decision - as an ordinary common American. I realize folks need to make a living - and, working for corporations seems to have been the only course of feeding your family, but the things you have to give up from your soul - is it really worth it? For me, if was not. Larry Blakeley Dallas, Texas http://www.royblakeley.name - a web site devoted to the goodness of the soul as the rock of a man's reason to be.