Letters to the editor: Rip Van Wineke Wake up!

Rip Van Wineke, wake up 7/10/04 WIS ST. JOURNAL Bill Wineke's column, "The left now has its entertaining demogogue" was a classic example of a lefty not able to recognize his own leftward bias or that of the mass media that dominant the airwaves. Rip Van Wineke has somehow slept through or ignored all of the media and all of the left's Bush-hating Web sites like Moveon.org. He states that the "ever-increasing number of voices on the right (is) dominating the electronic media." That would be the recently arrived Fox News and talk radio's long-running Rush Limbaugh. Reality check, Bill: Fox/O'Reilly have been a voice of the right for only a few years. We have all been paying taxes for years to support the far-left reporting and commentary of NPR and PBS. Michael Moore's movies have deliberate and documented lies, half-truths and editing tricks. -- William Richardson, Madison