Editor,
I suppose I should applaud the Daily Lobo for running the gamut of radical fringe political viewpoints. After all, this is a paper that, on the day after the Sept. 11 attacks published a photo of a student writing "USA equals ignorance" on a banner on campus.
While this type of anti-American sentiment is hardly surprising on a campus as liberal as UNM, the timing of the photograph couldn't have been more offensive.
On the other end of the political spectrum, there are no less than three articles and columns in Wednesday's Lobo that are so right-wing they make Pat Buchanan look moderate.
First, there is yet another, tired editorial opposing slave reparations. Next, there's the column comparing the racially-motivated murder of James Byrd, with the negligence-motivated hit-and-run murder of a homeless man in Dallas last October.
But perhaps the worst example of political fringe reporting is the coverage the Daily Lobo gave David Horowitz and his asinine belief system. His remark "every leftist had to be jumping for joy when the World Trade Center blew up," is as insulting as it is idiotic. Just because someone opposes the World Trade Organization, which supports child labor and worldwide deforestation among other atrocities, he labels them less of an American.
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Beliefs of this kind are the real throw back to McCarthyism. I've got to hand it to the Daily Lobo, from anarchists to fascists, they've got the radical fringe covered.
M. Ryan Kious
UNM alumnus and perpetually disappointed Daily Lobo reader
