Update: I printed this letter because Charles is correct. I would have worded it differently and not thrown so much into one letter, but then the Pantagraph only allows one letter every 30 days. The response from Mark Pickering shows what relying on Associated Press for information means: the information has been censored. Worse, the Pantagraph doesn’t realize it.
Diane Benjamin
Original letter:
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:37 PM
To: Pantagraph Letters; Mark Pickering
Subject: Pantagraph – Letter to the Editor
Pantagraph response:
To: ‘Charles Nicholson’ <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 7:25 AM
Subject: RE: Pantagraph – Letter to the Editor
Writer’s response:
To: Mark Pickering <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: Pantagraph – Letter to the Editor
You say 35 MOA training camps in U.S then you put a question mark, well here is the film footage truth as it ran on FOX News:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByAAEOqVDXMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebg6AFylioshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjML6FN8yjo
Then you say Ramadan being celebrated in our WH question mark, well Mark here is the information from Fox News on that:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/fox-friends-infuriated-president-obama-proclamation-honoring-ramadan-article-1.945858
Then you say Pat Robertson question mark and here is Pat warning that the Obama government is building up through their DHS to attack the American people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrzyYquy48k&feature=player_embedded
Then you say it’s inflammatory and full of innuendo, speculation and unverified information which I have now given you the proof, you who heads the newsroom at our Pantagraphthe. Yes Mark you may not have time to track it down so I supplied it for you. When I have submitted letters before you have ask for proof and I have always given it to you and you have printed it. This time you just rejected it as nonsense. Then you say that I am taking shots at Obama, well if you call “truth” taking shots and exposing a President that I believe is the biggest traitor to my Constitution and has proven to be an American hating, pro-Muslim connected to terrorists then yes I guess I am. I, on the other hand am shocked at you building a hedge around Obama in an Orwellian fashion to keep the public from knowing the clear and present danger of Obama to our nation. I hope that you will reconsider and print this letter now that I have supplied you with the proof. Thank you for your time.
In most cases the Pantagraph is a waste of time. With readership way down in recent years, it is obvious that many people feel the same way.
Yea, I guess that is why many have nicknamed it the Slantagraph because it is becoming more and more left-wing slanted!