A letter from the National Republican Congressional Committee you simply must read

It's a missive twice received from the National Republican Congressional Committee within 24 hours. Its warm, personal salutation — "Friend" — opens with some reassuring therapy: "It’s ok" for me "to be angry. In fact, [I] should be angry." That alone inspired me to read on, now that I knew even the NRCC understood my intense hatred of its presidential nominee.

But damn, it turned I had misread the Republican committee's opening intent. What they wanted instead was for me to be super pissed at ABC. Because what it did to their man "was nothing short of ELECTION INTERFERENCE," as written in their man's style.

The term "election interference" was once known for what it clearly conveys — that which Trump deployed for months, before and after Election Day 2020. But there's no plain English word or set of words that he and his henchmen cannot manipulate, abuse and turn on its head. In their lexigraphic epidemic of bullshit, the term now means any act that works against Trump's election.   

From there, the NRCC asked me to sign an unFriendly letter to ABC, which the boys at Bullshit Central, its east right wing, thoughtfully included in their urgent alert.

I confess I didn't sign it, not least because these GOP hotshots need a lot of work on the art and logic of letter writing — or any form of writing. They begin by expressing their "outrage" not at the network but at the disgraceful debate itself. So, Trump was 50% of the disgrace? Rewrite!

Next they get down to a more intended gripe, but one they should have given more stylistic thought to: The moderators are Very Bad People who were "completely" unfair, the adverb used, I guess, for the benefit of those who misunderstand just how unfair unfair can be?

Then comes their molestation of "election interference," followed by two demands: that ABC "discipline" these Very Bad People, whatever that means, and that the network apologize to Trump and "the millions of voters like me who [sic] you disrespected so viciously." We've all seen vicious, and Tuesday night wasn't it.

I'll pass over the rather extended twaddle about never watching ABC News again, in which case ABC News would have no reason to give a damn about the letter writers and its signers. I'll also skip the next passage, which reads as though an affected schoolmarm wrote it. 

The NRCC saved its best ineptitude for last. And it's a beaut. The Republican scribblers declare that nothing can stop Trump's reelection — and "in a landslide!" no less. That line rendered all else in the letter punchless, pointless and thoughtless (completely).

If his reelection is inevitable, why bother with outrage? Why slam the moderators? Why demand an apology? After all, the felon's re-ascendence is in the bag. 

Comments

[Anne J]

Let me guess: after you add your name, they ask for money?

[PM]

I'm sure of that, Anne. I didn't click "sign here," not least because of my fear of receiving 10X more personal, friendly letters from NRCC.