Regarding Sid Schwab’s Dec. 15 column, “Direct criticism at those who OK’d torture”: Really, what is torture? Is it waking to an alarm clock at 5:30 a.m. to trudge, year after year, to a hated job and paying a “fair share” in taxes? Is it working at a loved desk job but having to sit next to a rabid leftist co-worker? Is it an innocent mother watching her innocent children blown to smithereens by an Obama drone? Is it seeing a Sid Schwab column where Larry Simoneaux’s used to be?
Schwab wrote, “Fox “news” and the rest of right wing media are united in their outrage. Not at the torture. At the fact it was revealed.” That is a flat-out lie. I know it’s a lie because — have your defibrillator at the ready, Sid — when I want fair and balanced news and debates from all sides of an issue, my TV is on Fox News. I heard from both pro-release and anti-release of the report by pundits on Fox News.
I have no problem with the release of the Senate report on torture as long as the people understand that only Democrats signed off on making it public and that the report contained zero interviews with anyone from the CIA. I think I smell a kangaroo court.
I don’t think Sid Schwab hates Fox News. I think he hates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Charles Simmons
Everett
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