To the editor:

I read in “Monday Meter” on Feb. 13 titled “Game blame.”

Although it was briefly thought-provoking, I wonder if the piece was worth the valuable column inches devoted to it.

I read it not as a little homily reminding us to act like adults, rather I read it as an opportunity to take a cheap shot at talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. What Rush has to do with siblings disagreements or the New England Patriots simply escapes me.

Rush Limbaugh never portrayed himself as anything other than an entertainer, and an extremely successful one at that, of which he will remind you often.

When drawing examples to show the blame game, you omitted someone who isn’t an entertainer, and whose actions affect every aspect of all of our lives all the time. That would be Barack Obama, current president for the moment.

Barack, after three long years, can’t stop blaming George Bush for the economy, Congress for failure to pass a budget, Fox News for not acting as his messenger, the public for being too dumb to “ get” the brilliant nuance of his policy plan.

Now there is a great example of finger-pointing and otherwise acting in a childish manner.

I don’t think that the theme of the “Game blame” was about finger pointing at all. I think it was a subtle signal that your newspaper was prepared to join the lame stream media to help to open the propaganda flood gates to try to influence the pending election result to steer left.

Your boy is in trouble and they’re coming after him. “Hope and Change” turned out to be nothing but hot air.

Thomas Jefferson said that “a well informed public can be trusted to govern themselves effectively.”

Media today works overtime to confuse, spin, lie and omit. Do you, too, really believe the public is that naive or stupid?

As the Fourth Estate, you have a responsibility to the public. Act like an adult and fulfill it. Please, just stick to objective reporting and leave the entertainment to the talking heads.

Peter Oceretko,
West Bath

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