More readers react to Blackwell attacks

Reaction to Ken Blackwell's comments at Monday night's debate and his release Tuesday of Athens Police reports related to a 1994 arrest of a former congressional aide to Ted Strickland have drawn many responses from readers. Here are more of them sent via electronic mail, and online. They were used with their permission:

John K. Alexander of Cincinnati wrote: "You and the headline writer for The Cincinnati Enquirer seem to have forgotten how Sen. Joe McCarthy used the press as he developed McCarthyism. Blackwell and the Ohio GOP are using you and your paper in the same way. Have you no sense, no understanding of the history of McCarthyism?"

Robert M. Reddicks of Covington, Ky., wrote: "It may have been worthwhile to state just what the congressional resolution was as opposed to putting so much emphasis on the 'NAMBLA' connection in the last three paragraphs of your article."

"Methinks that you are more interested in perpetuating the Blackwell
charges rather than reporting on some ungodly reprehensible Republican
'news.' The real story here is the Rovian use of innuendo (though this
far surpasses innuendo) and smear tactics."

"Desperate people do desperate things in desperate situations. And for
Blackwell - and with hope, the Rovian Republicans - these are desperate
times."

"Sincerely, from a person who cannot even vote for or against a candidate
in Ohio," Reddicks said. "I am amazed that the Blackwell camp could bring up something as despicable as NAMBLA and not be relegated to the ashbin of history. Perhaps the election will do just that."





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