Simpson versus Bush

I was going to post something on the Ashlee Simpson brouhaha and its paralleles to the Bush "earpiece" story. Then a reader sent this "open letter" to my mailbox. Maybe I should share it (in pertinent part; I've clipped some bits which talk about Bill O'Reilly) with you folks...

An Open letter to Keith Oberman of MSNBC.

...the thing I would really take you to task for is you long and caustic attach on Ashlee Simpson. I don't like her style much either but she's a child. Is it really appropriate to launch such a caustic attack on a child when you have given the President of the United States a free ride on his Mili-Vanilli act?

If you want to show me what you are really made of, let's give that much acid and airtime to George W's wearing of a wire in the Presidential debates.

Dear God. We are comparing a adolescent's sore throat (or stage fright) to the future of the world as we know it with a President's badly tailored shirt (or inability to answer the opposition when competing for the trust of the world's most powerful nation...

If there has ever been a true case of "so what" it's a young woman lip syncing on SNL.

If there has ever been an appalling situation, it has to be a media that winks and giggles when the President of the United States lip syncs in the Presidential debates.

If you have balls to kick a kid, please show me that you can act like a real journalist with a (sort of) full grown President...

Every media outlet that trashes Ashlee Simpson while giving our "President" a pass should scrape themselves out of the gutter and flush themselves into permanent obscurity.