Left doesn’t
control the media
In a recent column in The Daily Sentinel, Mike Rosen again, as he has many times, belabored the point that the news media is supposedly dominated and controlled by liberal types.
Not that anyone could tell that if they listened to Rosen himself and his Denver buddies Peter Boyles or Dan Caplis or the syndicated columnists and radio and TV hosts Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Joe Scarborough, Ann Coulter, George Will, Robert Novak, Charles Krauthammer, Bill O’Reilly, Cal Thomas, Kathleen Parker, Oliver North, Michael Reagan, Michelle Malkin, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and many others, including just about everybody on Fox News.
But if something is repeated enough times, some people believe it, which, of course, is Rosen’s goal. He also tells us that if a fairness doctrine was practiced in the reporting of news, it would have dire consequences and A.M. radio, where many conservative types ply their trade, would expire and A.M. licenses would become worthless. That never happened when such a doctrine was in effect, before it was done away with during the Reagan administration.
But what has happened to A.M. radio without a doctrine? Has it become like the kind of deteriorating neighborhood that attracts pawn shops and porn shops and not much else? It is in real decline, and talk radio sure hasn’t helped improve its reputation, with the ugliness of its product. But maybe Rosen thinks that is a good thing, because it allows him to endlessly spread his message, which is basically: Conservative is good, liberal is bad and liberal thinkers are crazy, which sure does nothing good for public discourse.
M.E. JOHNSON
Eckert
Sarah Palin is a
breath of fresh air
At 68 years old, I am in love again, yes, with Sarah Palin. What a breath of fresh air is this intelligent, strong-willed lady of high morals. Is it possible two mavericks, both like Reagan but one older and one younger, just might make inroads into the Washington good ol’ boy gridlock?
The trouble with Washington is legislators, mostly attorneys, glued to their cushy jobs, seek to protect them and do nothing that might lose them one vote come the next election.
We don’t need inexperienced, fancy attorney talk. We need outside-the-box thinking by a straight-talking, young, family-oriented, accomplished lady and a straight-talking, not eloquent, proven independent thinker.
R.M. SHERMAN
Grand Junction

Is Palin good for more than sniping opponents?
In her acceptance speech last week at the Republican National Convention, vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said, “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.”
Nominally, her words were an assault on Barack Obama’s early career as a community organizer on Chicago’s South Side. But the impact reaches further than that and is a direct affront to the thousands who have dedicated their lives to making America great.
Is this the type of person we want for a vice president? So far, all she has shown me is that she is good at making disparaging remarks about hard-working people. Does she have anything to say about how she is going to solve the problems facing Joe Public or does she only want to bad-mouth Democrats?
WAYNE FLICK
Grand Junction

Republicans are
trying on new hats
With regards to the GOP elite calling their party to, “remove their Republican hats, and put on their American hats,” it’s more like:

“Remove our past, miserable failure hats,” and put on our, “Let’s see if we can dupe people into electing us again hats!”
TOM BUICK
Grand Junction

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