About half-way through, I was finally overcome by Mr. Guthwiller's turgid prose and had to resort to skimming, but I would like to point out that we actually did let Mr. Hitler keep the Sudetenland for awhile, frumpy trousers notwithstanding.

As to Mr. Guthmiller's charge that "Not a soul has stood up and refuted Goldberg in any but a vague, ad hominem sense," I seem to recall a 15 minute segment on PBS's Newshour with Jim Lehrer, broadcast nationally, when Marvin Kalb did just that, and effectively, imo.

The best approach, if one is to judge at all, is to take each story on its own merits and base one's criticisms on that specific example.

Since there appears to be no universally acceptable definition of the releveant labels - liberal, conservative, left, right and so on - it's seems to me to be chancy, at best, to build theories such as this one on such a wobbly foundation.

In a greater sense, it is my belief that Americans should try to focus on that which unites us rather than nit-picking away at sore spots which have the potential to polarize or divide.

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