By the figures I can find today, there have been 31,141,034 cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. to date. There have been 564,806 deaths, for a fatality rate of 1.8%. If one-half of the U.S. population were to contract this disease that would be 2,720,500 deaths. That Mr. Balentine seems willing to sacrifice the lives […]
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Letter: Reader baffled by Balentine’s response to coronavirus measures
I have become quite inured to John Balentine’s hyperbolic rants that generally echo Fox News talking points and are usually so shallow and oversimplified that they can be easily dismissed. I was, however, stopped dead in my tracks when I read his March 25 column concerning the state of Maine’s response to the COVID pandemic […]
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Letter: Concerned letter-writers are dedicated to the truth
For a segment of loyal Forecaster Coastal Journal (FCJ) readers (i.e., the concerned writers, like myself), who pen letters to the editor over and over again (week after week, month after month and year after year), pointing out the lies, misinformation and disinformation displayed in John Balentine’s opinion pieces, BUT EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS (i.e., a […]
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Letter: Reader grateful for Balentine’s column
John Balentine: Thank God for you. You are such a breath of fresh air. Blind hatred has made complete fools of people and they don’t even realize it. Diane Robinson Wiscasset
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Letter: Balentine doesn’t recognize trade-offs in pandemic measures taken
In his column in the March 24 Forecaster, John Balentine excoriates Gov. Mills for the measures that she has taken to try to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and praises “so-called red states led by competent, brave Republican governors” for staying open (“Restore sanity, reject Mills, reopen Maine”). Mr. Balentine should at least have the grace […]
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Here’s Something: Restore sanity, reject Mills, reopen Maine
At this time last year Mainers were in the middle of a 15-day lockdown that Gov. Janet Mills had ordered to flatten the coronavirus infection curve in hopes of preventing hospitals from being overwhelmed. It’s more than ridiculous, and somewhat Orwellian, that in March 2021 we are still in an emergency state. A recently filed […]
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Letter: Does Balentine agree with anti-racist developments?
John Balentine’s obsession with the buzz term “cancel culture” plays well to his and Tucker Carlson’s base, who don’t want to be told that they can’t say or do whatever they want, regardless of how racist it may be. The award-winning college textbook “The Growth of the American Republic” (1930) opened its chapter on slavery […]
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Letter: Forecaster should be ashamed for printing hateful letter
It is a sad day when a letter to the editor delights in death and The Forecaster prints it (“Limbaugh and Trump – one down, one to go,” March 12). The writer of the letter celebrates Rush Limbaugh’s death because s/he dislikes Rush. What a disturbing new standard! Equally disturbing: The writer closes in gleeful […]
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Letter: Balentine suffers from political party syndrome
As a biomedical scientist who wrote the letter “Balentine no health expert, reader is,” Dec. 4, and having been exposed to John Balentine’s opinion for many years, I believe he suffers from an all-too-common malady, i.e., the political party syndrome, a component of which is “selective forgetfulness” (PPS-SF). Persons presenting with PPS-SF have difficulty in […]
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Letter: Don’t be like Rush, the ‘happy warrior’
I’m constantly surprised by some folks’ tendency to worship bullies. Take, for instance, Mr. Balentine’s worship of Rush Limbaugh, calling him a “happy warrior.” (“Be like Rush, a happy warrior,” Feb. 26.) Balentine’s “happy warrior” was a mean-spirited bully, “happiest” when insulting others. Amongst the many, many insults, he once said this about 12-year-old Chelsea […]