[Toespi]

Has anyone noticed the "Editor's Letter" section of Vanity Fair this month? Instead of letters, Vanity Fair chose to list the names, ages and hometowns of 502 American soldiers who have died in Iraq. It is titled, "SYMPHONY for the DEAD." It reads, " The invasion of Iraq was launched a year ago this March. On these pages are the names, ages and hometowns of the 502 American men and women in uniform who, as of January 21, 2004, had lost their lives in the war and it's bloody aftermath. This list of the war dead has been compiled with the help of U.S. military sources and Army Times." I wrote them and suggested that to trully honor these heros, they should list all of the Israels slaughtered by suicide bombers, all of the Iraqi people murdered by Hussein's tyranny, the numerous victims of the Taliban and then I suggested that if they had any pages left to fill, they could get a list of the 3200+ murdered on our own shores on September 11th, 2004.

[tomball]

Bravo. Somebody else noticed. As a subscriber, for the past few years every month the editor (Graydon Carter) gets up on a soap box and goes on an anti-Bush diatribe. He has been making biased political statements EVERY MONTH since Bush was elected to office. The editor's "Editor's Letters" read like the rantings of a political wannabe stumping for the left.

A whole lot of people who subscribe to magazines like this usually go to the article they are interested in or the table of contents, and seldom notice the small typed propaganda contents of Editor's Letters.