Re: Letter entitled, "Dishonest coverage" (The Citizen, Aug. 23).
A seemingly favoured approach in the rhetoric of denial - whether that be of human-caused climate change or the reprehensibility of the mean-minded dunce in the White House - is to scatter around so much detail, all in seemingly reasonable point form, that the big picture is obscured.
Fortunately, in the case of the president's discreditable remarks in the aftermath of Charlottesville, there were some undeniable tests to make it all inescapably clear. On one side you have the torrents of opproprium that landed on Trump - not just from progressives or "leftist brownshirt thugs" (whatever that means) - but from a wide swath of corporate leaders, conservative journalists, and Republican politicians.
On the other you have indisputable white supremacists such as David Duke (and many others) taking heart from, indeed thanking Trump for the his shameful equivocation.
One does not change these crystal clear indicators of the big picture with a cherry-picking "rebuttal" to the commentary of an editorial writer in P.G.
Norman Dale
Prince George
