Confusing Shaw

Robert McArthur damns radio host Michael Jackson as a South African Westside liberal (Saturday Letters, Jan. 16), saying Jackson reminds him “of a line George Bernard Shaw wrote to describe a character in ‘Pygmalion’: ‘oozing charm from every pore, he oiled his way around the floor.’ ” The lines are, of course, actually from a song in “My Fair Lady.”

I’m not surprised McArthur doesn’t like Jackson’s show, since it’s really not intended for people who confuse Shaw with Alan Jay Lerner.

JERRY BRADLEY

Santa Barbara