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The Dum-Guyz apologize for Masterson or Giyz?! This is the same editorial page that remained strangely mute when their handpicked school board candidates Rose and Brock got their ass kicked by the voters; the same ones who think ABC's movie about 9-11 was totally factual despite solid proof against such; the same writers who think Robert E. Lee is some saint who somehow managed to betray his country by citing family and honor.
ARMedia nailed Gitz (and many other DOG opinion writers) so many times that I became a fan of hers. I bet she has enough for a book about the bad logic, poor writing, and factual errors committed by this inept staff.
Gitz, like Masterson et al, fail ARMedia's basic tenet:

Think harder, write better.

When writers don't do this you see the typical fare that Gitz and Masterson put out. It makes me wonder how Greenberg can sleep at night, knowing he hired such incompetents.

More US Marines earned the Medal of Honor on Iwo Jima than in any other battle in US History.

In 36 days of fighting there were 25,851 US casualties (1 in 3 were killed or wounded).

Of these, 6,825 American boys were killed. Virtually all 22,000 Japanese perished.

You Said -- We don't read Brad Gitz. Life is too short. But Snafu did and chews up the "facts" posited by the eminent Lyon College doctor

I say -- I couldn't agree with you more. Haven't read him in over two years that I can recall.

Don't mind opinions when based on some reliable facts but I don't waste my time when opinions are obviously unsubstatiated and politically motivated.

Makes my skin crawl just to think of the unregulated impact he's making on uneducated kids.

For my opinion of the D-G for printing his political garbage -- what else can we expect from such a partisan ragggggg.

I figure right winger Gitz fiddled with some other figures also when he and his spouse filed for bankruptcy in 2005.

Lyon is a good school, and for the life of me I can't see why they keep this idiot on the payroll.

I read everything on those two pages every day to be sure I know what the latest Rove-Mehlman talking points are (odd how the same stuff shows up on Powerline and Little Green Footballs). But Gitz's column today took me aback. What he's saying is that hey, what's everybody bitching about? These kid soliders today, hell, they got it good compared to what others went through. I suppose he composed these words in the comfort of his home, near a cozy fireplace and warm bed. And when he finished the column, he could walk the streets of Batesville and not have to wonder which car is going to explode as he strolls by.

I've always thought of Gitz as a lightweight, a topwater, an easily dismissed goof who defaulted into his job through academic kiss-ass and pure luck. Turns out he's also a cold, mean bloodsucker. His column today was the work of an extremely cruel man who has no regard for the truth and no compassion for humankind.

Dr. Gitz, I assume you're too old to enlist, but there are civilian volunteer and NGO jobs going begging in Iraq and Afghanistan. Surely you have the qualifications to be a truck driver. You could drive a supply truck or a gasoline tanker between Baghdad and Basra. I suggest you take the job and experience war face to face before writing another column on this subject.

Wanda, You are so right on. I plan to flood Lyon tomorrow with calls to Gitz encouraging him to enlist NOW. Can others on the blog join me in the effort?

"I figure right winger Gitz fiddled with some other figures also when he and his spouse filed for bankruptcy in 2005."'

Glad you brought this up Cato. Back 3 years ago when I read Gitzinshit
he kept exclaiming that Clinton's economy was purely a result of the policies of Ronnie. I sent a letter to ed of DoG (never published) and asked Gitzinshit if Clinton did so well under Reagan's policies what the hell happened to George W. Bush I ?

Ah well then, since everything regarding the Iraq War must be compared to WW2, from Pearl Harbor to VJ day was 1348 days. We've been in Iraq 1308 days. Are Iraqi insurgents, the Taliban and al Qaeda more formidable foes than Japan and Germany? Are we 40 days from victory? Will more deaths (ours or theirs) bring about a speedier or more desirable outcome? Is there something we can nuke to send a message?

I doubt it.

I can't believe that Bradley R. Gitzzz is on any academic payroll...

The DOG on the other hand, well...

Admittedly, Bradley Gitz is several enchiladas short of a combination plate.

But what's really pathetic is the Dem-Gaz's overall stable of columnists. There is not a decent writer among them. And those who are bad (Gitz, Mike Masterson, Wally Hall, and Jay Grelen come immediately to mind) aren't just bad--they stink worse than a cow manure truck jacknifed on I-630.

It's not just the right-wingers, either. Gene Lyons is taken seriously by no one because he is such a Democratic Party lapdog. Pat Lynch's rants come off like Andy Rooney on meth.

Seriously, Ernie Dumas, Bob McCord and John Brummett at least make an effort to have original thoughts, and they don't hesitate to slap Democrats around when they do something stupid.

"Arkansas' Newspaper" needs to put some more money in the budget to recruit some quality columnists, because right now, just about any decent college newspaper in the nation has a better columnist lineup.

I am going to agree with you about Masterson. I never paid much attention to him til lately and I guess that goof ball just escaped my scanning eyes. He reminds me of Rona Barrett of political assertions. It truly is a weak bunch at the DOG but that old saying of being identified by who you associate with is quite telling on Hussman.