While I am ever grateful for the First Amendment and its guarantee of a free press, at the same time I always feel bad for the Utah journalists who must report on and print the details of Utah’s infamous Eagle Forum conference. The recent report in the Tribune of the Jan. 8 meeting of Utah’s craziest of the crazy sent a chill up my spine.
At least the writer was at liberty to freely use the term “fringe” in describing Gayle Ruzika and her band of deluded sheep, including our Utah attorney general, Blanding’s poster boy for Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame Rep. Phil Lyman, most of our other elected officials, and a whopping 83.33% of our 6-member congressional delegation.
Fortunately, the article did not provide us with all the details, but it was enough to read that our Uber Republican friends continued to harp on the evils of vaccination, the (disproven) effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, and the painting of Dr. Anthony Fauci as the leader of a “religious cult.” What a cruel irony that participants would have the audacity to label anyone else a “cult.”
This disreputable band of brothers and sisters would be laughable if they were not so very frightening.
Mark Hurst, St. George
