To the editor:

Perhaps this is an oxymoron. Let’s look.

Now that the GOP nominees for president are being declared, it has signaled the start, by the media, to begin to parse their lives and comments starting from their moment of conception.

We shall bear witness to their actions throughout their academic careers and their political offerings to the present day. It may come as no surprise from these reports that they will make no attempt to be completely accurate but rather composed to shock and awe the sensibilities of the electorate.

Being a GOP candidate enables those reporting on them, to illuminate their minor missteps in life. And to make the trivial highly significant. The mere selection of words is a most powerful tool in the hands of those calling themselves journalists. These attacks by the media will not limit themselves to the germane, but rather attempt to tweak all the possible evil implications therein contained.

The more worthy target of political and personal investigation is waiting in the wings: safe with the knowledge that her misgivings will not be subjected to any intense scrutiny. Her blatant disregard for rules and regulations and conduct of integrity is draped on her like a misty fog, wrapping her in a presumed shroud of invincibility.

A short exploring journey, into Hillary Clinton’s political beginnings, reveal that her seeds of political deception were planted during her tenure with the investigation of Watergate. Those seedlings of unethical behavior were nurtured further. Missing files are nothing new as the fruit of those seeds. Today we witness the erasure of several thousands of emails issued by her during her appointment as Secretary of State.

But what difference does it make?

Whatever would possess someone to think that this was acceptable behavior? To discard emails that may have significant historical bearing is beyond the ability of someone with good judgement to possess. But, we are not speaking of good judgment; we are not speaking of ethical conduct, we are speaking of Hillary Clinton.

But this need not be the case. Perhaps there is also roaming the scene, a journalist with integrity, ethics and intuitive discovery of buried bodies in the offing. Is that important ingredient of an ethical journalist a part of an organization that is committed to the telling of the truth? Is this even possible given the plethora of misinformation that has permeated the media in the last 40 years?

Scandals real or imagined regarding any GOP nominee is raw meat for the sharks of the Democratic Party and their cooperating journalists.

Is Hillary Clinton the best that the Democratic Party has to offer?

The journalists in her corner will try to make you believe that she is.

Joseph L. Kibitlewski

Cape Coral