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Regarding the opinion page in March 24 edition, I couldn’t help but shake my head at the letter referring to John Kerry’s “photo op with Jane Fonda.”

One of the two photos presumably being referred to has long since been verified as a hoax, and the other is a long stretch to say the least (details can be found at http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/kerry2.asp and http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/kerry.asp, respectively).

Why it is still taken seriously in the opinion page and by lunatics like Ann Coulter is beyond me.

As long as we’re talking about what birds the candidates were flocking with at the time, I wonder exactly how the hard-core conservatives would react to President Bush attending a Super Bowl party in 1974 hosted by Hunter S. Thompson (who later remembered the president as “the sort of person I would have thrown out of the room, a rich beer-drunk yahoo with a big allowance who passes out in your bathtub.”)

Matt Sides

Aberdeen