Letters

READER CALLS PANCHAK HYPOCRITE

Although I regularly receive INDUSTRYWEEK, I will admit that I am not a regular reader. Having said that, your Editor's Page headline, "State Of Disunion," [Page 9, March 2006] caught my eye, so I read it.

It was easy to discern your hypocrisy very early

on in your article. I find it disturbing that you blast President Bush by stating "Bush dashed all hope that he would keep that pledge." And you then proceed to be as "guilty" as you claim President Bush is. It is quite clear that your politics are leftleaning, and I don't care to be able to determine the political leanings of an editor-in-chief of a supposedly non-political magazine. How can I say that? Let's examine some of the words you chose to use in your article: "ruthlessly quick," "disappointing," "baseless charges," "sometimes hostile response," "such rhetoric hijacks the debate," "the loaded words are meant to stifle."

Loaded words? You, I'm sure, carefully chose some very "loaded words" yourself in your article, and it is clear to me you have an agenda, and I don't trust that it is an objective agenda, one meant to help industries such as mine. I don't believe the facts support the loaded words you used, and what's more, your use of those loaded words is just what you are criticizing President Bush of!