I, too, noted the "admirers" description included in the Associated Press
story.  Being dominated by liberal metro newspapers, The AP has tilted
increasingly Left and PC in its reportage in recent years, permits opinion
and editorializing within hard news reports.  "Admirers" was the newswriter's
opinion, included to poison the well of public opinion relative to the
Commission's findings.  If one should be cautious relative to the
pronouncements of Professional Historians, one should be doubly so as to the
reports in the News Media.

John Scott Davenport
Holmdel, NJ

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