To my mind she is too mild. Recall the days of H.L. Mencken. Recall the vitriol that Sam Clemens pumped onto 'letters to the editor' pages.
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Once I wrote a letter to the editor of a local paper referring to a local Dem pol, Ruth Galanter, as 'odious and porcine'. [Yes, I know, it fits Rep. Waxman also]. The editor wrote back: "You know I can't let you describe her as smelly and pig-like."
I replied, "But she is...and those are her good points." I invoked Mencken and pointed out that letters pages are meant for free-wheeling mud-slinging and name calling, which is great fun. He replied that he (the editor) was "probably the only person in this newsroom who knows who Mencken was."
"Of that, I have no doubt. It shows."
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On several other occasions, I referred to local city councilman Mike Feuer with the comment ('rhymes with Der Fuherer'). In one letter, about his (successful) attempt to force ammo buyers to provide a thumbprint, I said, "I refuse to give Mr. Feuer a thumbprint but I do reserve the right to use a different finger." The editor pulled both lines. I asked him why: "I was having so much fun!"
"We thought you were having a little too much fun," he responded.
--Boris