Good Golly, Miss Molly

I'm thankful that writers like Molly provide at least a token balance against the plethora of right-wing bashers and trashers dominating your pages. We NEED Molly and more like her to offset columnists like Thomas Sowell, William Safire, Mona Charen, Robert Novak and others. Liberal bias in the media? Quite the contrary, I'd say there's a far-right foaming-at-the-mouth conservative bias dominating your media.

By golly, Miss Molly, we NEED you and your down-home humor to leaven a constant ad hominem barrage from the extreme right. Perhaps you ARE a bit abrasive on those tender right-wing sensitivities; most of us probably would not have called Newt Gingrich a "dope-smoking, draft-dodging, dead-beat dad who divorced his sick wife and climbed the greasy pole of politics by spreading fear, smear and sludge through the land," but most probably would agree that that kind of verbal effluvium belongs right back in the political camp from which it emanated. You send it back so well, Molly! The Gingrichs and Limbaughs of the land love to dish out that kind of venom, but isn't it touching how quickly they develop an appreciation of that disdained liberal word, "fairness", when they're on the receiving end of their own bombast?

It would be nice if there were no need for such exchanges -- if there were a bit more civility in the world. There is a Chinese saying: "Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause." When we are attacked so constantly and bitterly in public (and by "we", I mean democrats, liberals, moderates, and moderate republicans and conservatives; in a word, the majority) by a tiny right-wing minority, and then chastised for daring to defend ourselves ... well, it just doesn't seem "fair", does it?