Opinion: In Thursday’s Letters to the editor
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In Thursday’s letters, writers respond to First Lady Maria Shriver’s op-ed deriding the ‘R-word’ -- retard -- which has come into the spotlight courtesy of Dreamworks’ ’Tropic Thunder.’
James Roman, of Los Angeles, doesn’t think she has a leg to stand on:
If California’s First Lady is so pained by labels, where was her moral outcry each time her husband disrepected our officials as so many ‘girlie-men’? More importantly, where were her published opinions that defended the downtrodden when the governor chose to demean state employees with minimum-wage paychecks? Or when he vetoed legislation, not once but twice, that would have granted equal rights to gay and lesbian couples in California? Or his empty promise of health-care reform? The real words and deeds of out First Lady’s spouse elicit far more pain than the gags in that fictional movie.
Sticking up for a nude beach, same-sex marriage, and who owns the rights to Mickey Mouse, too.
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