Letter: Columnist gets it right on Democrats

To the editor:

Well, finally! Syndicated columnist Jay Ambrose’s “To Get President, Anything Goes'” piece, on the opinion page of the Feb. 15 Daily Journal, painted an apt summary of the Democrat revenge and “deep state” disinformation campaigns in place against President Trump since his election to office Nov. 8, 2016.

I was mildly surprised the oped piece even saw the light of day in our local newspaper, given the ongoing, liberal-slanted viewpoints of Franklin College colleagues David Carlson and John Krull, on previous opinion pages. Here, truth finally prevailed.

Just wish Ambrose had shied away from referring to President Trump as the “…man with a roulette wheel for a mouth…” That metaphor, for me, doesn’t pass the so-called Mother Test, i.e. ‘Would his mother be mortified to read or see what her son wrote?’ But then, in today’s free-wheeling, trash-talking world, maybe it would … sad.

In any event, I did enjoy a minor but encouraging epiphany recently while reading Joel C. Rosenberg’s exciting novel, “Without Warning.” As I’ve watched the lines between news reporting, punditry and oped column writing blur during the past 12-plus months, I’ve fretted over the near demise of traditional journalism.

Well, this remark by the main character in the novel, a journalist, reassured me: “…I wasn’t a columnist. I wasn’t a pundit. I was a news reporter. My personal views were supposed to be irrelevant.” (Page 83) Ah, that more news pros would believe and write that way!

George Allen

Indianapolis