Letter: Column choices are disappointing

Thursday, April 19, 2001 | 8:40 a.m.

I'd like to register my disappointment with the Sun's policy on its opinion pages. Specifically, I disagree with the Sun's policy of attempting to balance its selection of usually moderate and thoughtful commentary with columns of the most extreme conservative bent. In particular, I'm referring to George Will, William Safire and Jeff Jacoby.

George Will's obsessive, pathological hatred of President Clinton has been an absolute disgrace and has severely damaged the reputation of ABC, which continually allowed his insane anti-Clinton tirades. Behind his pompous verbosity and ponderous columns lies a remarkably banal intellect. His mindless and intellectually dishonest rants belie a thoroughly amoral political philosophy. Compared to Will, former President Clinton is Saint Francis.

And what can I say about William Safire, the former attack dog for Spiro Agnew. A professional slanderer, and a thoroughly bitter and cynical man with a truckload of axes to grind.

Most vile of all, however, is Jeff Jacoby. I would say he's intellectually dishonest, however, unfortunately I've yet to discern an intellect. His columns are little more then primordial grunting and snarling. His bizarre, dishonest and morally bankrupt fulminations would make Josef Goebbels blush.

Publishing these columnists to add "balance" is a little like inviting a proponent of the flat earth theory to an astronomer's convention to give it "balance." Don't worry about "balance." That corporate front paper, the Review-Journal, will continue its unrelenting rabid right-wing tripe.

KELLY KRIEG