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Phil has as much concept about reality as a stray dog knows his father. Phil should be awadred the biggest trophy for being a idiot.

And, one of the major reasons I could not read nor support The Tennessean any longer. I appreciate the "Pith" for keeping me informed about my good decision.

Phil Valentine is a coward. If seen in public Phil acts so very timid unlike the loud mouth goof ball propaganda he spreads on his show.

Bruce, you are exactly right about the Wilson County suit. You might have added that the whole premise of yesterday's column, ie., that the First Amendment applies only to Congress but not to the states, is also incorrect. As the Supreme Court has repeatedly held (for perhaps a century?), the First Amendment applies to the states through operation of the "priviledges and immunities" clause of the 14th Amendment. I wonder if the paper's policy on correcting errors applies to Valentine's column? Someone should ask.

Valentine knows the facts of the case and lied anyway because he knows his fans can't be bothered to look them up on their own.

Telling conservatives what they want to hear instead of the truth has been the modus operandi of conservative talk radio since at least 1998. Where the hell have you been, Bruce?

The Tennessean is terrified that right-wingers won't read their paper, that is why Valentine is even writing a column. And editorial columnists (especially talk radio con artists) routinely make stuff up, so I don't think the Tennessean is going to fact check before-hand. They knew what they were getting. An even more grievous example is the City Paper running syndicated columns by Michael Reagan. His columns were so ridiculous and outright distorted that it just strained credulity that he could continue to make money writing columns. Of course, he is also a talk radio guy (and the son of St. Ronnie, of course). The most famous recent example was the NYT running William Kristol op-eds. All of these papers just want to advertise to conservatives that they are conservative friendly. And conservatives don't want intelligent conservatism from David Brooks or George Will, they want red meat faux conservative populism. Until Valentine screws up with a "Barack the Magic Negro" type moment, he will continue to get free reign, because the Tennessean has no journalistic balls.

Don't get me wrong - Phil Valentine is nauseating enough, but I guess we should all thank our lucky stars that Michael Delgiorno (WWTN 99.7, 9a - 12n), doesn't write a column!