THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

A respectable conservative would cheerfully allow liberals to rape his children if he needed to do that to keep his "respectable" label. As the Wal-Mart example shows, anybody who is declared unrespectable by liberals is not just suppressed, they are ruined. Respectable conservatives make their living by pleasing liberals.

I hate leftists, but respectable conservatives make me sick. It turns my stomach to see a respectable conservative acting brave.

The last straw for me was when a bunch of respectable Fox News conservatives told the world how brave they were about free speech.

A few weeks back, Wal-Mart decided to withdraw two semi-pornographic magazines from its stands. Liberals went ballistic. Conservatives wanted to show liberals they were just as outraged at this suppression of free speech as liberals were.

Fox has a program called "Fox News Watch" that is supposed to criticize news coverage. They started talking about Wal-Mart's "boycott" of Maxim Magazine and the other one. They never mentioned the Bessinger boycott.

I wrote News Watch about Bessinger, but naturally I didn't get a word back.

As usual, I am willing to bet I was the only person who made the connection between Wal-Mart and Bessinger in a letter. Their address is

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