Many kudos to Andrew J. Pridgen’s opinion response to Mr. Al Fonzi (“Self-ownership,” Oct. 28)! I have wanted many times to respond to Mr. Fonzi because he gets me so triggered! The thing is, everybody has an opinion, right? But how much credibility can someone have when they are never wrong or won’t admit they are wrong? As Mr. Pridgen admirably points out, with just a sample of the misinformation in his “opinions,” his articles usually have scant traces of factual information in them, and they’ve been published for years now. It is the same tired themes that Fox News, Glenn Beck, Donald Trump, and Rush Limbaugh have spouted endlessly for decades. How can they be right 100 percent of the time? You can’t value anything someone like that says, because the truth is something they never have to deal with! Trump gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Limbaugh, Devin Nunes, and Jim Jordan for God’s sake. WTF? So-called “patriots,” bah!
Gary Benites
Atascadero
This article appears in Nov 4-14, 2021.
I’ll expect conservative commentators to start admitting to error about the same time that liberal commentators do the same. I won’t hold my breath waiting for the left to abandon their sacred dogma, as that might require that they give up cancelling people with opinions they dislike, and admit that, just perhaps, they’re the ones in the wrong. Just looking out at the sea of bitter, hate-filled faces at the usual leftist demonstation, it seems likely any sort of introspection will be a long time coming.
How does one become a regular contributor to the mainstream media
as well as the alternative media like the New Times?
Certainly, it is not by opposing the status quo in any significant way.
It’s fine to rant and rave about the flaws of the opposition
but not to actually offer workable free market solutions.
I am quite sure I am not alone in advocating for the free market
yet I rarely see those views expressed in these pages.
There are to many free market solutions to list here
but you can find them in the publications of
CATO.org
or the
Foundation for Economic Education, FEE.org.