Civility

TO THE EDITOR:

The jarring image of Kathy Griffin holding the severed head of Donald Trump makes one wonder where this mentality comes from. Well, maybe you should look no further than the editorial page of your local newspaper. On May 31st, the Gazette published an column by Dick Meyer, “The Five Worst Americans in History?” Now, who do you think made that top five, maybe Lee Harvey Oswald, the despicable Jeffrey Dahmer, or maybe the mass murderer who posed as an abortion doctor, Kermit Gosnell? Nope, they didn’t make it, but guess who did? None other than President Donald Trump! As a matter of fact, in Mr. Meyer’s list, Trump was tied for second with the founder of the Ku Klux Klan!

It is this kind of demonization of someone simply because they have a different political view that, we on the right, have been lectured to about for years but now it seems to be open season on anyone or anything that deviates from the liberal orthodoxy.

If the Gazette truly believes in “civility” it should remove this obviously deranged writer from its pages.

Shaun King Texarkana, Texas