Re: “,” July 15 editorial.
Once again, The Denver Post editorial board has rushed to rescue of the Republican Party by warning it away from the allure of Donald Trump’s Tom Tancredo-like outbursts against the abysmal absence of border security.
Since last November, Colorado Republicans have been wondering if we can ever repay our debt to The Post for steadfastly warning of the electoral defeat the Republican Party would surely suffer in the 2014 governor’s race if Republicans did not shun the right-wing fanaticism of Tancredo and stick with the winning voice of middle-of-the-road moderation. We all remember that President John McCain and President Mitt Romney also benefitted from similar advice.
For The Post’s edification, that last paragraph is an example of sarcasm, defined as the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really mean to say in order to insult someone, or to show irritation or ironic amusement.
Apparently, based on the absurd misreading of a light-hearted conversation I had with reporter Lynn Bartels, sarcasm is not a concept understood by Post editors.
You then add to your journalistic transgressions by taking my past comments out of context in order to prove that you don’t like what I say — as if there was ever any doubt of that. Why do you go through the trouble of concocting an interpretation of your own reporter’s story about which you can then feign outrage?
Do you think no one actually read Bartel’s or that, if they did, they didn’t pay attention to the words, “Tancredo said, cracking himself up,” in reference to the obvious fact that I am the least subtle communicator on the planet?
Why go through the ordeal of twisting and fabricating just to restate the obvious: that you hate the fact that Trump has placed the problem of illegal immigration on the national stage and is leading the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls. You can always add how much you despise the concept of border security and all those who espouse it.
So much simpler, and so much more truthful.
Tom Tancredo is a former congressman from Colorado.
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