GETTING A RUSH

The Los Angeles Times really has a problem with journalistic integrity. Your newspaper is infested with reporters who have sunk to Enquirer-type slander instead of objective reporting.

Patrick Goldstein’s review of “The Way Things Ought to Be” was a classic example of personal slander, inaccurate reporting and just downright poor journalism. Instead of a book review, Mr. Goldstein has used his words to attempt to malign, disseminate and discredit author Limbaugh.

Goldstein refers to author Limbaugh as “the Round Mound of the Republican right,” but fails to note, as any reputable reviewer would, that author Limbaugh’s book was No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List for six straight weeks (only bumped off by Madonna’s book, which I’m sure Ghoulish Goldstein has perused).

I, as a woman, refute Mr. Goldstein’s position that “pushy women, homeless fakers and Hollywood poseurs have helped Rush achieve culture-hero status.” The “heavily male” audience (as Goldstein maintains) includes, besides myself, my 22-year-old daughter and my 75-year-old mother, along with the silent majority of Americans, hard-working men and women who have family values and great love and hope for this country. Rush Limbaugh does not speak for the likes of Patrick Goldstein, who are so intellectually sloppy that they can not even write a simple book review.

Come on, editor, do your job. A book review is a book review, not a character assassination on the author.

ANNE MARTIN, REDONDO BEACH