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LETTERS, Page 6Atwater's Smear
Even more offensive than the cowardly act of Republican
National Committee Chairman Lee Atwater and his cronies' implying
that Speaker of the House Thomas Foley is a homosexual (NATION,
June 19) is the fact that on Capitol Hill this is considered an
effective smear.
Larry Merritt
New York City
I would like it to be understood that I did not threaten to
publicly name gay Republicans in general. There is no list. I
referred only to those gay people who shamefully use the fact or
accusation of homosexuality as a weapon against others. It is this
smaller subset of people who seem to me deserving of exposure, not
for their sexuality but for their hypocrisy.
Barney Frank, U.S. Representative
Fourth District, Massachusetts
Washington
News reporting should be free of editorial comment.
Accompanying your main story was a brief commentary describing
R.N.C. Chairman Atwater as a "muck maven" and calling on President
Bush to "sack" him. This should have been identified as editorial
opinion.
Rick Carson
Frenchtown, N.J.