Posted on 09/04/2019 1:06:55 PM PDT by Red Badger
This letter to the editor in Arizona is real — Trump Derangement Winner Cheryl Boyles ==============================================================================
If you think Cheryl Boyles is curled up in a corner somewhere sucking her thumb, think again.
Boyles is the Green Valley woman whose letter to the editor last Sunday launched an avalanche of criticism. And since this is the opinion page, I guess I can say it: She deserved every word of it.
I told her as much when we talked after Wednesday’s paper came out. We printed 24 letters to the editor, all destroying her overwrought description of a visit to Trader Joe’s in Tucson where she was reduced to, well, snowflake status by the sight of a man in a Trump 2020 T-shirt.
Boyles told me she writes screenplays for a living but this wasn’t one of them. This was the real deal, she said.
“He had a whole look about him and an air about him. It was way more than a shirt… it felt different,” she said. (No more letters, please — we’ve piled on enough.)
I received about 50 letters (and they’re still arriving), lots of phone calls and a few personal visits — including one really rude man who called me a “can’t-use-the-word-in-a-family-newspaper-but-it-starts-with-an-F liberal” before stomping out the door. For shame…
I told Cheryl I printed nothing in support of her position because I received nothing. Zero.
The good news was that only two people canceled their subscriptions because we printed Cheryl’s letter, and we gained one new subscriber: Cheryl Boyles. (I kid you not.)
Why did I publish her letter? We fact-check facts, we don’t fact-check experiences. She had as much right to share her experience as anybody. I had no right to dismiss it or to tell her how to feel.
But, sure, I knew she’d get blown out of the water. Green Valley has a way of taking care of these things and I had no desire to rescue Cheryl from herself.
Congratulations for publishing the lunatic’s letter. It’s important to allow critters like this to expose themselves. My apologies to our local four legged and legless critters.
Sounded like she wanted to kick off her knickers, lol. Of course, I never could read women.
She has a husband. Imagine that beta pajama male’s life with her...I can’t.
Completely confirms that liberals are mentally ill and belong in hospitals for the insane.
My first thought was that a FReeper wrote the letter as a joke. Further proof that “you can’t make this shit up.”™
Read in an Arnold/Conan the Barbarian accent.
How weak and puny you must be that a mere t-shirt can hurt you so.
“What is best in life?”
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women! .....................
/spit.
I’ve no desire to save her from herself.
I’ll be heading to my winter home in Green Valley next month. I want to find out more about this imbecile! I imagine she’s the talk of the town these days. And not in a good way. A perfect example of Trump Derangement Syndrome being a real mental illness.
the nasty frunt was soooo terrified of him that she wanted to run after hm and accost him over his shirt... right
He sucked as governor, but I like his movies. Yours is one of his most quotable lines.
How mentally disturbed must a person be that they panic at the mere sight of a piece of clothing or headwear. It’s no different from when a gangbanger shoots a guy for “looking” at him. I wonder how this basket case would react to a real threat like a burglar, rattler on the trail or the store running out of bottled water.....now those can be life threatening.
Funny how folks like Cheryl want to call *us* this- that-
& th’other- “phobics” when *they* are the ones with the irrational fears.
OTOH, I’m tickled pink she finds me so terrifying.
Run! Little whiny girl! RUN AWAAAAYYY!
BOO!
I can understand being afraid of snakes, spiders, bears, wolves, big dogs and mountain lions, but a SHIRT?????????.................
And even that line has been attributed to Genghis Khan!..................
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