Fox News ~ young women with too little clothing, too much makeup: Echo

Republicans must stand up to Donald Trump. He is destroying our democracy. In fact, there's a preponderance of evidence to support inappropriate communication with Russia before and during the 2016 political campaign.  This echo opinion letter was published in the Savannah Morning News in Georgia:

"...too much to bear, especially when news comes from eager young women, wearing too little fabric and too much makeup.."

Founding fathers are rolling in graves

President Abraham Lincoln said “we must appeal to the better angels of our nature” in order to bring the country together again after the terrible Civil War. His cabinet was composed of some who had opposed him in the election, so he had experience in using this type of leadership. Historians describe him as a great president.

Ralph Peters, a retired Army officer, was a commentator on Fox News for 10 years. He recently resigned. He was the one Fox person trained in Russian studies and Russian language and reportedly had been face to face with Russian intelligence in the Kremlin.

The Obama administration had ejected some Russian intelligence officers from the United States when it was discovered that they were beginning to meddle in the election technology. With his background and experience, Peters would be an excellent source for Fox to invite to describe how Vladimir Putin and his security services could mettle in our election technology and ensnare a person running for high political office. Consider a man with behavior patterns and evident weaknesses; such as financial entanglements, lack of self control and a sense of sexual entitlement.

For security reasons, all Americans, whatever their politics, should want to know if someone running for president had the personality and entanglements that would subject him or her to being entangled by Russian influence. However, Peters was not called on by Fox News to describe how the Russians worked. He simply was not called on for topics central to his experience.

“I was relegated,” he said, “to listening to political hacks, with no knowledge of things Russian, tell the vast Fox audience that the special counsel’s investigation was a witch hunt, while I could not respond. This became too much to bear, especially when it came from eager young women, wearing too little fabric and too much makeup, immersed in memorizing the indoctrinating talking points.” At least, CNN keeps everyone’s knees under the desk.

Fox News continues to parrot the president’s tweets, bringing down derision on the FBI and his own Justice Department. Immigrants and the other party are demonized in a way that brings out prejudices and sharply divides our country. It is sad and dangerous that we have a president that dwells on the worse. I do believe that if the founding fathers could return and see what happened in 2016, they would recommend changes.

Jimmie Snooks in Springfield Georgia