Pitts getting desperate with attack on Limbaugh

I write to comment on Leonard Pitts’ article, “Rush Limbaugh finds out he’s not normal.” Let’s say a commentator gets a job writing editorials for a big-city newspaper. What a thrill. Then he gets syndicated and has his column printed in many papers. Bigger thrill! But now suddenly he plateaus. No more thrills. He even sits in a restaurant, eating breakfast, and to his horror, he sees a reader at another table pass right over his words of wisdom to get to the obits or the funnies.

What does he do? He decides he’s got to go over some big name person on the other side. After all, Pitts has seen Kathleen Parker excoriate Sarah Palin and win a Pulitzer prize, and even get her own show on CNN! All 12 of the people who watch it thought it was a hoot! If Kathleen can do it, why can’t Leonard?

So he keeps at it, going after Limbaugh, Fox News, and hoping — hoping! — that one day they will rise to the bait. But they just keep ignoring him.

Poor Leonard. You have to hand it to him for hanging in there. (Yawn.)

— Stephen Owen

Kannapolis

Your last breath

This is in response to some of the views in Friday’s Salisbury Post on the editorial page.

Gay people will be giving their breath to God, if they die before the Lord returns. Our last breath returns to God, just as our first breath came from God.

God put the first man, Adam, into a deep sleep and then breathed life into him, and then when we finish our last breath, it returns to God. After that last breath, it will be decided if we live in happiness or live in a life of suffering. The earth will not always be here. We choose our own destiny by the way we live our lives. In the 19th chapter of the Book of Genesis, it tells about two cities being destroyed because of homosexuality.

– Carolyn Osian

Salisbury

Look to Proverbs

Reading recent letters to the Post concerning commissioners’ right to pray before meetings, it is clear that a misunderstanding exists.

Most likely, our commissioners realize that they are only flesh and know they need help from God, who gives wisdom to leaders that humble themselves and go to Him in prayer. Those of us who understand the power of prayer appreciate that our leaders also know this.

So don’t waste time rationalizing why it is not the right thing to do. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.”

— Donna Kesler

Cleveland