Article from small town conservative rag bashing Clinton

[pdx_prog]

My favorite editor slipped one by me in August. I missed this one when it was published. This guy has it made...he lives in a town of about 20,000....his is the only paper in town, so he prints exactly what he wants. I write him constantly, but for some reason he never posts my letters in the editorial column...:)

How these people think that the Clinton years were worse than the 12 before, or the 3 since is beyond me.

Enjoy...:)



The Clinton library knick-knack globe
08/27/03
Chris Rimel
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Call it a bane or a perk, but those of us in the news business are deluged with propaganda and public relations items almost every day. Some are worthwhile, but by and large it’s junk.


Companies spend millions on pretty envelopes and plastic thingamajigs to gain your attention. And you know, it works. When I get something shiny and bright I give it to someone I know with children who would enjoy it. I’m not sure that’s what the PR firm was aiming for, but at least someone is paying attention.


This week in the mail I received a cardboard box, about half the size of a shoe box, with a couple stickers on it. The first read: “Arkansas, the Natural State.” The second: “Clinton Presidential Center, Opening Fall 2004 Little Rock River Marker.”


Now, readers, you know I am no fan of Bill Clinton. And it’s laughable that this liar will have a library dedicated to the memory of the disgraceful eight years he soiled during his terms as president. Does anyone think that as much hiding, obfuscation and flat-out lying that occurred during that time, the Clintons would allow a library containing the truth? After all, libraries are a place or learning and the truth is a wee bit essential for learning.

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Chris Rimel is publisher of the Dyersburg News and co-publisher and editor of the State Gazette. He may be reached at [e-mail]

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[annak110]

1. I wrote to your editor

just now. It wasn't a nice letter.

[pdx_prog]

2. Great!

He will be happy.....I know he is always happy to get my letters....lol

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Where is Dyersburg?? I'm sitting in Arkansas and I'm

fuming!!

[pdx_prog]

4. It's about..

70 miles north of Memphis. Cross over from Missouri on I 55, take you right to it.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. I know it's silly to retailiate, but here's what I wrote to your editor...

Please do not consider yourself in anyway special for having received a ‘gift’ from the Clinton Presidential Center, to open in Little Rock in 2004. The invitation was sent to all third-rate newspapers in attempt to get press coverage of the opening. I find it very creative to recycle old Arkansas road maps, since unlike Tennessee; we have made considerable road improvements and therefore, have a need to update the highway maps.

I can see by your ranting, that you would not recognize an era of prosperity, growth, jobs, and relative peace as being desirous. I am sure you are much happier now that America has engaged in endless war based entirely on lies, has turned world opinion against her, and is being bankrupted so that a few of your fellow Republicans can add millions of dollars to their bank accounts and those of their good friends, the Saudis.

Please, please stay in Dyersburg and do not come across the state line into Arkansas.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Sorry, I don't mean to start a flame war about the states...

just that I wanted to 'hank his chain' and felt he insulted Arkansas.

[Grins]

7. Did he happen to mention...

Did he happen to mention similar disgust with the Nixon library, or was he one of those hundreds of republican hypocrites that went there to eulogize “Tricky” on his death after his subverting the Constitution, running an illegal war, turning loose the CIA, FBI, and IRS against citizens for political purposes – then fled rather than face impeachment (with the encouragement of his own party no less)?

Did he happen to mention similar feeling for the Reagan library, or the Bush library after the revelations about Iran-Contra?

Any comment from him about Bush I and his pardons of those Constitutional felons?

What will he say about the ‘Dubya’ library after his treason is revealed, or his destruction of the American economy (actually, it may become the world economy), his destruction of the Army, his theft of elections, and his re-districting of congressional districts?

Oh. Waitaminute. Are you entitled to have a library at all after admitting that you NEVER FRIGGIN’ READ ANYTHING and depend on others to do your reading (and thinking) for you?

It will be a small library.