[Vision2020] No Way, Jose!

[Art Deco]

Joseph, et al,

Re: Daily News

In the last year, the Daily News has refused to print several of my letters dealing with the Christ Church Cult, although the other newspapers the letters were sent to printed them without change.

In the last case, the Daily News asked that I produce verification for several statements all of which were short paraphrases of items first reported in the Daily News itself.  Can you say "Chickenshit!"?

Perhaps Nathan needs to see about getting a testosterone patch and needs to read the daily international news that reflect all the problems in the world caused by religious zealots.  

Why wasn't Iverson just added to the "Town Criers" to appear periodically in rotation with the other "Town Criers"?

Given Murf's dotage and personal views which he seems not able to keep out of his management of the OP/ED page, perhaps his reassignment to something less harmful like pet news should be considered.

Unlike Rosemary, I will not cancel my subscription because of Iverson (and some recent atrociously slanted and/or inept news reporting) because I think Iverson paints an accurate picture of the cult's views.  

I think it wonderful that the cult is quite unaware of the negative effect of Iverson's bigoted writings -- look how many responded with letters to the editor to his first asinine column where he asserted in the name of tolerance that he and his cult kin were the only ones to hold "THE ONLY TRUE RELIGION".  Such statements, in my opinion, are symptoms of serious mental health problems. 

Iverson is to the Daily News what Costello is to the LMT.  Both do more damage to their cause than good by their maladroit arguments and extreme positions.  The more Iverson writes, the more the majority of the community will see the threat posed by the egotism and megalomania of Cultmaster Douglas Wilson and his ovine followers.  Iverson will certainly recruit more soldiers for the opposition in the cultural war which Wilson initiated.

Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
deco at moscow.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Campbell" <josephc at wsu.edu>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 3:13 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] No Way, Jose!


> Jose,
> 
> I don't know you and I hope that you don't find the heading of this posting
> offensive in any way. But your posting was so off-base that I could not
> resist. (In the event that you do not even exist, then I am REALLY sorry for
> writing this.)
> 
> I respect Ed Iverson's right to hold his own opinions -- as ridiculous,
> ill-formed, and offensive as they may be -- but the fact that he is given a
> WEEKLY column to express them shows just how jaded our newspaper has become.
> (Rose Huskey has already noted this in her 8/27 posting, "Daily News
> Cancellation Letter.")
> 
> To say that, in granting this privilege to Iverson, the Daily News is merely
> allowing "disparate (desperate?) views to be expressed" suggests that there
> is equal space given to alternative views. But I'll give you $100 if you can
> find even one local opinion essay printed in the Daily News within the last
> week dealing with an alternative theory of the nature of morality. And I can
> tell you of no fewer than 10 folks in the area who are more qualified and
> able to speak to the subject than Iverson.
> 
> Furthermore, to my knowledge, there has been exactly one op/ed essay against
> NSA/Christ Church printed during the summer, the beautiful piece by Huskey
> and Lund. That was soon followed by a rebuttal op/ed piece by Wilson
> himself, revealing a common policy of the Daily News, to allow rebuttals on
> this issue only when NSA/Christ Church is under attack.
> 
> In addition to Iverson's weekly column we are subject to the occasional but
> slanted views of Murf Raquet, who, in his latest rant, felt the need to note
> the turbulent atmosphere of a zoning meeting that HE DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO
> ATTEND. (I know because I WAS there.)
> 
> I'll-let-you-know Joe
> 
>> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:10:50 -0700
>> From: "Jose Naranjo" <naranjo843 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: [Vision2020] Grateful to Nate Alfred
>> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>> Message-ID: <BAY22-F26B58C6552BEBAADF0B84087AC0 at phx.gbl>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
>> 
>> Moscow,
>> 
>> On behalf of Ed Iverson, the Christ Church elders, and the grater Christian
>> community in Moscow and Pullman, I want to express my gratitude to Nate
>> Alfred of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News for selecting Ed Iverson as a
>> regular editorial contributor. Nate, thank you for your fair and balanced
>> approach to allowing disperate views to be expressed. Your are truely a
>> leader in promoting fruitful discourse in a community that has become more
>> and more polarized.
>> 
>> Nate, it was also nice to have you visit our church this morning. I wish
>> others who have prejudged us would take the time to actually come and see
>> how we live, how we worship.
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> Jose Naranjo
> 
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