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I was amazed to read the comments that Joe Heim made about country music before getting around to reviewing Brad Paisley's new album ["A Lively Mix of Honky-Tonk, Heart," Style, June 30].
"Immigrant-trashing, gay-bashing, race-baiting, women-hating songs aren't hard to find in the country catalogue. Heck, sometimes you can find them all on a single album," he wrote in the first paragraph.
Really? Which album? I assume that he has examples of these songs to cite or he would never have made such a statement.
Try to say that about any other form of music, and he would be labeled worse than his own lousy comments.
-- Parrish Osborn
Rockville
FDR's Detention Policy
Benjamin Wittes and Jack Goldsmith compared apples to oranges in their June 29 op-ed, "Will Obama Follow Bush or FDR?" In early 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that interned more than 100,000 Japanese, over half of them U.S. citizens, for the duration of the war (more than 3 1/2 years).
FDR bypassed not only the legislature but common sense and decency. But Wittes and Goldsmith could not compare Bush's detention to FDR's internment order because then they would have no argument and no article.
