Your recent editorial opinion expressing your conviction that President Bush fails to recognize the importance of a free press or an independent Congress is quite remarkable — not because your assumption is accurate, but rather because it demonstrates, in a way I’m quite sure you never intended, that so much of the press in general, and your editorial staff in particular, has abdicated any pretense at impartiality or journalistic integrity. Your paranoid, victim mentality, shared by so many in your profession, is not justified by any objective evidence (never offered) to demonstrate this administration’s supposed crackdown on a free press. Quite the contrary occurs with most of the media who pursue a leftist, anti-American agenda in the same backhanded, sarcastic manner which you demonstrate in your editorial devoid of facts. Similarly, with respect to your snide intimation that this president doesn’t appreciate the historical role of the Congress and the separation of powers doctrine, I find this quite remarkable in view of this President’s unfortunate practice of never having vetoed a single bill (until last week) sent to his desk by Congress in some six years. I certainly am no fan of President Bush on many issues, but it saddens me to watch the press engage in this relentless attack on the presidency and the interests of the American people, all the more despicable in a time of war. You should be ashamed.

David Adler
Yorktown Heights