Newt Gingrich

Re “Gingrich Sees Broad Effort to ‘Destroy’ Him,” June 27:

House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) has come out of hiding! He admits that he has been “clearly damaged” in public opinion, and once again he attacks the media. In reality he is the victim of his own intemperate rhetoric.

The truth is that bombastic Newt is an articulate spokesperson for positions that most voters abhor. There is exquisite irony when he pleads that his enemies are out to “destroy the messenger.” The representative from Georgia began his own campaign of annihilating the messengers immediately upon assuming the House speakership.

WILLIAM TIERNEY

Hermosa Beach

* Regarding “Gingrich’s Politics Got Boost From Nonprofits” (June 25) and the June 27 article: It absolutely continues to amaze me that there exists still in America such a vicious, concerted campaign to slander, malign, demonize and indeed destroy Gingrich.

Leading Democrats like David Bonior, George Miller, Harry Johnston and Barney Frank, among others, are still so bitter and hate-filled at the Republicans for thrashing them in November 1994 that they think that only by slandering the leader of the revolution can they win. Because for them, a substantive debate of the issues will end with conservatives carrying the day. But tear apart the speaker personally and every lord and baron of the liberal media will swim any sea, cross any desert and climb any mountain to make it their focal point.

ALEX A. BURROLA

L.A. County Republican

Central Committee, Montebello

* “House Republicans Vote Cover-Up” should have been a front-page headline on June 28. Instead you buried the story (“Bid to Widen Probe of Gingrich Rejected”) inside.

What is more important to Americans, a “driverless freeway” experiment, feminism in Japan, or a speaker who is corrupt and unchecked? If you are going to fill your paper with innuendo, hearsay and the unfounded allegations by this country’s two most morally challenged politicians (Alfonse and Newt), how about some equal treatment of Newt’s “rubber stamp” hordes on Capitol Hill.

JOE L. HIRSCH