That knuckle-dragging, right-wing Richmond Times-Dispatch is at it again. They’ve added a new feature to their op-ed page: profiles of letter to the editor writers. Now they can highlight editorial page editor Ross Mackenzie’s most extreme accolytes breathlessly parroting his wing-nut nostrums.
Ah, but Mackenzie is crafty and calculating.
Today’s first profile is of Jerilyn Fay Collier Kelle whose pet peeve about Richmond is “anti-democratic elitism.” You might expect Ms. Fay Collier Kelle (may I call you Jerilyn? I’m not sure where your last name begins)to discuss education in her letter to the editor, for her career is “Teaching teachers.” Indeed, if she were Governor or Mayor, she would “Not attract businesses whose sole imperative was short-term profit, but provide for the education of our people at any cost.” Can’t tax those short-term profits, can we?
But no. Jerilyn’s jeremiad attacks the very foundation of Mackenzie’s belief system: capitalism. Responding to an obviously Mackenzie-inspired editorial cartoon of the Ten Commandments being hauled off in a trash truck, she writes:
Capitalism, when allowed to become “savage,” trashes the esteemed values both of our democratic public and private lives. When left unbridled, capitalism gives rise to greed and the need to gain ever more by any means necessary, at the expense and impoverishment of others and of our own spirits.
Moreover, it corrupts government decision-making, which destroys the people’s faith in our ability to govern ourselves.
Wow. Mackenzie and the conservative cabal have set this profile feature up magnificently for their own nefarious conspiracy purposes.
The Richmond Times-Disgrace. You need to rant about stuff.
