Paging all Charlies from Oxford! Step forward, sir, and identify yourself!

I find it ironic that just a few weeks after the Daily Local News did a week-long series on bullying, for which it will no doubt win industry awards, they allowed this to get into print after a letter I'd written appeared in the paper:

"In reference to Tuesday, September 6, editorial page, (sic) once again as in numerous times before, a letter to the editor written by Jamie McVickar. (sic) I resent his anti-American comments and his slurs on Republicans and especially conservative Republicans. As a conservative Republican, I would challenge McVickar to stand up and be a man and make his comments to my face. I doubt he has got the guts to do that. he hides behind his pen and paper as most cowards do."

 - Charlie of Oxford

What a tough guy. Challenging me without letting me know how to get in touch with him. Probably as tough as the Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld chickenhawks who like sending our kids to war when they have never been there themselves. If I could get in touch with him, I would...and I'd challenge him ight back...to have lunch with me sometime.

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  1. Joe WallsOctober 16, 2011 at 1:31 AM

    Hey Jamie,

    I think it's funny how people consider hiding behind a pen and paper as being "A Coward" because don't you think that when our founding fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, the British thought they were hiding behind a pen (or at that time a feather :p) and paper? Yet this man (that might be debated, depending on your definition of a man.) attacks you for your anti-American views when he too is having anti-American views without even having the mental capacity to notice. lol. And another thing, isn't he hiding behind a pen and paper while he is calling you a coward for the same damn thing? In turn calling himself a coward? haha

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