Insane, rambling, incoherent letter in local paper.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the physically-challenged, under Communistic terms, or cripple, in American English, was a virtual dictator for 12 years with his Communist-filled administration.

This and other bizzare musings:

http://newsandsentinel.com/letters/story/014202004_letfletcher.asp

It made me laugh for about 45 minutes straight. How is this PUBLISHED in a newspaper?

I don't want to read the rest. People who think in such terms really set my teeth on edge. Compassionate conservatism? Yeah, right.

If this isn't a joke, I pity this person.

The person who wrote this has a time and space challenge that leads me to believe that there is an underlying mental issue there.

Google "Word Salad" sometime. Because that is just about what that letter is. A word salad.

How COULD the editor have published this?

Parkersburg, WV is an Ann Coulter reading, 80% Bush voting, unbelievably conservative area. I'm sure the editor published it because it's what the readers want. There is usually one of these published a month in this rag of a newspaper.

just like he said - MENTALLY ILL

of that google search before I got anything useful.

The phrase is just too evocative for people to have left it alone.

Sent this to the editorial staff:

"I happened upon your paper's web site and read Harry Fletchers demented rambling rant in your letter's section. Why in the name of all that is decent would you publish something like this? Do you publish pictures of the disfigured and disabled in your rag, just for giggles? To draw attention to someone as obviously insane as Mr. Fletcher is just as odious. Mr. Fletcher obviously can't stop the voices in his head, but you should be able to stop yourself from humiliating him by publishing them."

Unless of course you share his delusional system....

it is quite indecent what they did; Mr. Fletcher obviously has serious mental problems.

Here's what I'm sending:

Good Day,

I would like to thank you for publishing Mr. Fletcher's bizzare, rambling, incoherent, word salad of a rant in this Sunday's Parkersburg News. It gave me the opportunity to show people all over the world just how insane some of the people in my hometown are. What I must ask is why in the devil would you publish such an unintelligible diatribe? Do you publish pictures of the disfigured and disabled in your paper just for giggles? To draw attention to someone with a case of residual schizophrenia such as Mr. Fletcher is just as odious. Mr. Fletcher obviously can't stop the voices in his head, but you should be able to stop yourself from humiliating him by publishing them.

Respectfully,
Michael Frazier - Parkersburg

Im trying to make this funny and condescending without offending too greatly - any further suggestions?

If you want to send in your own:

editorial@newsandsentinel.com

looking for an editorial position and looks like this paper sure could use a new editor...and it's just a couple of hours away too.

that is far past rabid right - wow. so we refused to help communist fighting france in Vietnam - and instead handed vietnam over to the communists and helped them rebuild it. Guess losing all those GIs in the war, and participating in a long and bloody war which left Vietnam in very poor shape - is now "rebuilding".

Hey - maybe this guy is a speech writer for *?