Apology demand is ridiculous 

by Bill Jones, Stevensville

Perhaps the poster boy example of the restricted source information gathering practiced by so many voters nowadays could be the Nov. 20 LTE titled “Will Tester apologize.” The author categorizes the 18 years experienced Senator’s re-election ads as “audacious,” “falsehoods,” “ugly,” “lies,” “from “out-of-state,” etc.

Either Mr. Kalkofen wrote his letter to perform as an influencer, knowing full well that Tester campaign flyers were citing Sheehy flaws and disqualifying, incontrovertibly documented business activities, or Mr. Kalkofen simply has not researched the accusations of either of the candidates.

Had he googled ‘fact checking websites’ he would have been enabled to discover that the Sheehy ad and rally statements that, for one example, “Tester supported a farm bill” where assistance for white farmers was excluded was totally misconstrued and really nothing but an  underhanded, vicious falsehood. Kalkofen had every opportunity to compare all Sheehy ad content, his air-attack contracting company, his law enforcement issues, his embarrassing failures with the Gallatin County bond issue he sweet-talked into profiting from. Sheehy repeatedly told us that Tester “ignores vets.” Fact check that BS!  

I’m not going to cite any more of the unapologized-for lies of Sheehy here, though I certainly could.

I do feel obligated to point out that it is abundantly clear that far-right MAGA adherents deride fact-checking sites as wellsprings of liberal propaganda, and inherently untrustworthy. As these folks are usually owners of the very oxen often gored by these sites, such criticism is to be expected. But Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org and others list in detail numerous unimpeachable sources of proof. 

18,600 plus voters in this county were duped and/or negligibly inattentive and jumped on the wrong bus. Honest Abe is turning in his grave.