Letter to the editor: Are you a political fool?

Are your sources of news making you a political fool?

I hate liars, and news sites are the biggest liars of today. I read 10 or so different websites of news per week, some that I know are opposite of my politics. If I read “anonymous sources say,” I disregard what it has to say. If the news item does give a reference that I am not familiar with, I investigate it to see if it’s creditable.

Comparing a news story on two different sites can lead you to two different outcomes. The first site I read every day is this newspaper, but I only read the local stories, obituaries and comics. I have read this paper for 60-plus years. I disregard anything by the Associated Press. I can imagine a headline by AP, “The Downside of the Coming of Christ.”

So many people shut down a conversation when I bring up politics, and I always say to them, “You do realize that everything in your life depends on politics?” and they just shrug. There are so many people who are just totally ignorant of what is going on in our country and the world.

I have lived a life with a science background and have always tried to come to a logical conclusion on every decision. There are two basic kinds of people who search the internet: the ones who look for the truth and the ones who search to support their bias. The latter are “political fools.”

Howard L. McHenry

East Vandergrift