Conspiracies

Marcyl doesn't like it when Joe Biden and his family are being investigated by the Attorney General and the FBI. Where was her voice when president Trump was falsely accused and impeached by the partisan House for Russia collusion and . It is called free speech, those who can't accept different voices are the ones promoting resentment and creating additional polarization. The fact that Ms. Seidshcher doesn't like to acknowledge the Biden family corruption racket over the last 40 years, let's me know that she is a partisan who has no room in her life for the truth.

So you’re only for freedom of the press when there are conspiracy theories and hoaxes about our great President Trump? Sounds like you should just stick to reading the Journal for local news and ignore the Opinion section. Else, make sure you take your blood pressure pills before reading.

Tafhdydicus...

Hey, buddy. First, let me say "Merry Christmas!"

So, Marcyl wants the DJ to limit Matt's columns because she doesn't like what she describes as Matt's conspiracy theories? The answer is simple. Don't read the columns.

The left side of the aisle disagrees with the right and vice versa on a daily basis. But just because a conservative doesn't like what a liberal commentator says doesn't allow that conservative to call for silencing the liberal. And the same logic applies to Marcyl's LTE. Squelching the opposition's voice is wrong. If all it took was an LTE to get a columnist's words removed from the paper, Dorothy Dimitre's career would have been cut short a long, long time ago. (I don't know what Dorothy detested more... conservative ideology or football.)

We can trade conspiracy theories back and forth... or not. We have that choice. Here's another theory... the left leaning MSM has so vilified conservatives that everyday liberals... like Marcyl... have started calling for the silencing of right leaning speakers and writers. That would not have happened in Berkeley in 1964, but it did happen in Berkeley in 2017.

I may not get back to you until later today (if at all)... some medical stuff.

Two things the Daily Journal could do to perhaps raise the level and accuracy of discourse is to provide disclaimers about the veracity of op-eds and comments, and require the use of real names of commenters. So many fearful "patriots."

Meanwhile, on planet Earth (the round one) AG Barr undercuts President Trump's election conspiracy theories, saying he will not appoint a special counsel to investigate election fraud or Hunter Biden because there is no need.

Don't you love it when a writer starts out with saying that he/she has been a long-term reader or resident of this County? Does that somehow give the writer more gravitas? I pose that in some cases wisdom does not necessarily come with age. She is the poster child for this urban myth. This may change after sleepy Joe is inaugurated, but until January 20th we have a First Amendment right. I find Mr. Grocott's columns a refreshing counterpoint to the the other former politico who lathers her nonsense on us every Monday. But, she has, and should have, her rights as well.