My column in the LA Times (reprinted here in slightly different form) seems to have offended some folks. This was sent to the LAT and yours truly from a reader in North Hollywood (if you read the column you’ll get some of the references):

Subject: GOLDBERG’S VIRULENCE Goldberg’s last column proves beyond question he is one of the most truth-challenged, “liberal bashing” hate mongers out there. His venomous diatribe will certainly be applauded by every hate monger blogger on the Internet and his fellow hate mongering “polarization entrepreneurs” in the mainstream media. But why should such lies and sleaze be printed by a paper that aspires to truthfully inform its readers on political issues? Only a hatred-warped extremist would describe the Connecticut Democrats opposing the reelection of Lieberman because he’s pro-war and also pro-Bush, as “anti-Joe JIHADISTS”! Most Democrats strongly oppose all of Bush’s ultraconservative domestic policies as well as “his” Iraq land war, and to Goldberg that must mean we are not just intense political opponents. WE ARE EVIL “ANTI-BUSH JIHADISTS”! Two quick corrections. First, we do have many Big Ideas, namely, we are going to undo all the Big Ideas of the Bush Ultraconservatives, such as: the numerous Big Corruptions,; the Big Giveaways to Bush Supporters; the Big Takeaways from the poor, the middle classes, and our future generations of America; the constant daily Big Lies and Orwellian Newspeak; the false Big Scares to hide their many really Big Failures, and; the Big Takeover of American democracy by the Biggest Big Lie that our founding fathers intended wartime Presidents should rule as Military Dictators. Secondly, we truly do not hate Bush. We hate the fact that his Presidency has “wreaked enormous damage on the political, [economic], and social fabric” of America and the world, and so much needless death, injury, and destruction as well. We hate the libels that he and his minions have falsely foisted on Liberalism and Liberals whose Big Ideas (which Bush’s forebears always fought against) are what made America great and esteemed. We hate the dysfunctional electoral processes (and corruptions) that enabled someone as untalented , unlearned, unskilled, and essentially unfit as Bush to become President and to carry out his destructive and detrimental policies. Both Bush and those policies are as inappropriate for America as “Calvinism is at a porn studio”.