My Reply

The Editor:

I am happy to see that the Waycross Journal Herald has dropped all pretense at journalism and has embraced its role as a humor publication. Lord knows this town could use a good laugh.

I refer of course to the proliferation of jocundity set forth by one Harrison D. Watts in his letter of November 14th, 2009. I will confess to being slow to get the joke. Such is the subtlety of the man that I assumed, naively perhaps, that Mr. Watts is mentally ill and that you, Mr. Editor, were cruelly exploiting his delusions for your own aggrandizement. I apologize for my error. It is now clear to me, upon reading Mr. Watt’s most recent screed, that Mr. Watts is a sublime humorist and that you, Mr. Editor, are a supreme judge of applied wit. Imagine my chagrin.

Nonetheless, I feel compelled to respond to the hilarious points that Mr. Watts made. Let us begin with the spelling of Barak (sic) Hussein Obama’s name. I can only surmise that either Mr. Watts thinks that misspelling someone’s name is funny and that you, Mr. Editor, agree or that someone (oops!) failed to use that pesky spell-check.

Let us, for the sake of brevity (alas, not one of Mr. Watts virtues), ignore the logical inconsistencies of the first two paragraphs. Let us also, in the spirit of Mr. Watts, feel free to USE CAPITAL LETTERS for EMPHASIS!!! (I threw in the exclamation points for free). I will address these points numerically, just as Mr. Watts has done.

1) Is there any proof that B. Hussein Obama is NOT a secret Mohammedan?
YES! It’s called OBJECTIVE REALITY. Claiming that one’s crazy aunt’s assertion to the contrary is proof is NOT proof. Who doesn’t have a crazy aunt or two?

2) Is there any PROOF (again with the caps) of B. Hussein Obama’s actual birthplace? Yes. Again, it’s called OBJECTIVE REALITY. Ho hum. More loopy relatives. Who ain’t got a barn full of those?

3) NON SEQUITOR!

5) Once again, v-e-r-y slowly…NON SEQUITOR…

6) Huh?

7) Congresstwerps Rangel, Murtha and Dingell? That just sounds FUNNY! Ha! Ha!

8) As to Levi Johnson’s ‘stripped down, middle fingered centerfold salute to Sarah Palin’? While I can’t address your admittedly hot synopsis (I am fanning myself as I type this), when Mr. Watts’s medications wear off and his galloping senility has been conquered and your own TENUOUS SENSE OF REALITY has returned, please, please, please, let me know just what the good gentleman was TALKING ABOUT.

Lamar Deal
Waycross, Georgia