He, of course, was referring to the morning s editorial, Gay veterans merit monument. The rest of the details of the conversation aren t important. Suffice it to say, it deteriorated. And he, of course, was anonymous. They usually are.
Angry callers are a staple of being in the opinion business.
They come with the territory. Almost part of the job description. But this was so much more than anger. He was spewing hate, a venom that has laced numerous, sometimes unpublishable, letters and calls with a disturbing frequency. One letter writer blamed the election fiasco in Florida on illiterate people who couldn t read a ballot.