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Friday, October 9, 2009

10/09/09 Former Greenwich Time Editor Is Afraid To Share Reader Comments With Newspaper's Readers

Carter column causes contention - Bernie Yudain former Greenwich Time editor

Purging my e-mail basket from the flurry of letters responding to the column I did about Jimmy Carter , I counted the replies: 10 thumbs up, 10 thumbs down.

Most were thoughtful, literate letters. A few were downright nasty. Of the latter, I looked up the names of six respondents and discovered none of them had a listing in the Greenwich phone book.

I also noticed that while there was a lot of hot invective, not one addressed the gravamen of that column: Carter's irresponsible statement that Americans are basically racist and that's why so many oppose President Obama's policies. They just expressed outrage that I should dare to indict poor Mr. Carter....

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