WaPo Letter to Editor: Bush Doesn't Deserve to Throw Out First Pitch

If you were editor of a major American newspaper, would you publish letters to your department tremendously disrespectful of the President?

After all, you probably have hundreds nay thousands to choose from on a daily basis. Why bother with ones defaming the most powerful man on the planet?

Sadly, such decency didn't seem present at the Washington Post Saturday which actually published the following (emphasis added):

Honor Where Due

Saturday, March 29, 2008; A14

Why is President Bush, and not an Iraq war veteran, throwing out the first pitch at Nationals Park [Sports, March 28]?

The veteran is far more deserving of the first-pitch honor than the president is.

ERIC LEIFER

Rockville

I'm surprised the editors didn't answer their reader by adding that it should be a veteran highly-critical of the war and the Administration.