{"id":16954,"date":"2025-08-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/exasperated-by-journal-folks-opinion-piece\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:38:42","slug":"exasperated-by-journal-folks-opinion-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/exasperated-by-journal-folks-opinion-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"Exasperated by Journal folks\u2019 opinion piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The reason, <em id=\"emphasis-d2c8af0189cdb752bee326d7484a5034\">Journal <\/em>people, we get exasperated with you is that you are deceptive and very biased in your reporting. For example, your statement that Republican members of Congress \u201cbend the knee\u201d to President Trump to accede to his will (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-journal.com\/articles\/our-view-bending-the-knee-to-trump-not-constituents\/\" id=\"link-7ffbc49d957018fc4330963cdec16834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opinion<\/a>, <em id=\"emphasis-e5a55d87d1cd08731ec05364d103fdd2\">Journal<\/em>, July 25). That implication is typical hyperbole and just not true. When Democrats passed the Green New Deal and when they passed the Affordable Care Act, were they \u201cbending the knee\u201d to Obama, Biden and Pelosi?<\/p>\n<p>You also just say stuff and expect people to believe you even though you are desperately short on details. Like \u201cAccording to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office \u2026\u201d Classic obfuscation. That office has been a propaganda branch of the Democrats for decades and <em id=\"emphasis-0f3074c62c9d50f1f3b1511c92da1716\">always<\/em> inaccurate. And, that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has \u201chad bipartisan support for 50 years.\u201d What? \u2026 One or two Republicans in those last 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>If those radio stations you mentioned had anything interesting to report, they would have listeners and get the commercial support they needed. But, they do not. And what news they have is inaccurate and often tainted with strong liberal bias \u2026 just like this opinion piece you just wrote. And, with satellite technology, anyone anywhere can get information.<\/p>\n<p>And, the border wall is a waste of money? Combined with available technology, it is doing a good job. And <em id=\"emphasis-ed7549f081d1006cb3172902f4375d49\">Journal <\/em>folks, it would not have cost so much now if Biden hadn\u2019t sold most of what was left after Trump\u2019s first term for pennies on the dollar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charles W. Thompson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-4404bfc2be5547cfa54e9017277796f3\">Lewis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason, Journal people, we get exasperated with you is that you are deceptive and very biased in your reporting. For example, your statement that Republican members of Congress \u201cbend the knee\u201d to President Trump to accede to his will (Opinion, Journal, July 25). That implication is typical hyperbole and just not true. 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