I read with amusement Marilyn Beasley’s guest column in the Aug. 28 edition of the Globe — the same amusement that I have derived from Beasley’s earlier contributions to the paper.
I long for just one, brief fact or example to document her charges against President Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, liberals and anyone else who disagrees with her or shows even the slightest hint of serious thought.
It would be so nice to stumble over a documented fact or example of some kind to support her accusations and claims. Some questions I have for Ms. Beasley:
• Could we have an example of President Obama’s “sugarcoating”?
• Could she name an example of his “promises to certain demographics that he knows he can’t fulfill”?
• Could she specify which “demographics” she is referring to?
• Could she tell us how she knew that he knew he couldn’t fulfill them?
• Could she tell us how she knows that the president “caved” to the warnings about bin Laden rather than that he resisted them and fearlessly proceeded with his decision to take out Osama bin Laden?
• Could she give us an example of his “bowing down to foreign dignitaries”?
• Could she name three or four of those “foreign dignitaries”?
• Could she give us an example of his “apologizing for our great country”?
• Could she tell us to whom he made these apologies?
• Could she name three or four of the “numerous places that women can get contraceptives for little or nothing”?
• Could she tell us whether or not she is aware that one of the main places that women can get these contraceptives for little or nothing is Planned Parenthood, which her party is dead-set on driving out of business?
• Could she name a few of the businesses that she claims have been forced to go out of business because of EPA regulations?
• Could she tell us what evidence she has found that “All of these accusations” about Medicare, health care for women and poisoning the air “have been proven to be nothing but lies”?
• Could she tell us the ways in which Paul Ryan “can certainly run circles around the current VP”?
• Could she tell us why any serious reader should feel even the slightest obligation to pay any attention to her unsupported charges that represent only her opinions, which she is entirely privileged to utter, but which place no demand on anyone to take seriously?
I am reminded of Sir Walter Scott’s great lines:
“Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive.”
And of Dorothy Parker’s classic response:
“But when we’ve practiced for awhile,
How vastly we improve our style.”
Henry “Bud” Morgan, a retired Missouri Southern State University professor, lives in Joplin.
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