Comments on: Our Mailbox Runneth Over

[evilroy48]

You received a comment from someone who goes by the handle of lynncs who wrote of a "Christian Tailban" whose members "enjoy igorance and wallows in the comfort of fellowship with people who epitomize ignorance". lynncs further states that he/she with remove CBS for his/her remote. Apparently conservative views are igornant and don't derserve to see the light of day. If you really want to know what is repugnant, it's the unmitigated gall to compare Christians to the Taliban. I'll pray for the soul of lynncs.

[twister47-2009]

As a retired public school teacher (34 years), Brian Rohrbough's comments have much merit. There does not seem to be any responsibility for one's actions- from presidents to peons. I taught in a upper middle class public high school where parents hired criminal lawyers to appeal their sons/daughters suspensions.The events at Columbine were a result of adults-parents of the boys, administrators, and teachers-not paying attention. We are still not paying attention. Some students are so troubled that their needs cannot be met in a public school setting; however, administrators and school committees exert much pressure to keep disturbed students at their local schools because of the prohibitive cost. Following Columbine, I walked into my school every day wondering if "today" would be the day that a student would "go over the edge".When the parent of one of my students called the housekeeper to determine what medication his son was taking for his behavioral issues, I decided it was time to call it a day. Schools will have to develop security procedures similar to airports ( some already have), and yet, if adults aren't doing their respective jobs, a determined person will always be able to "slip through the cracks". Our society has lost its moral compass, and until individuals, be they adults or children, start taking responsibility for their MISTAKES rather than looking for some outside cause, I am glad that I am on the way out and not on the way in.

[jakes222]

hi katie... after reading these blogs,i wonder. does anyone remember the pledge of allegiance? one nation,under God, with liberty and justice for all.

[pilgrimsway-2009]

Free Speech what is it? Is it with no control? No values? No direction in one%u2019s own responsibility towards self and others. Hey an idea just came into my head. Lets asks the courts to put prayer into schools, for guidance, and lets put the Ten Commandments on the walls of these schools for control., and lets asks these kids if they want the school there in to have all these things in there schools to promote values, to vote in this free society. Man, then I think this would be free speech. As it is now the core of this free speech, which everyone would agree, is restricted to hypocrisy. The courts ruling against the above and the majority of the parents wanting the above mentioned. I pray for all the other people who wrote in on this segment that was against this free speech, that they would come to know the love of God and His forgiveness for them in Jesus Christ personally. Thank you CBS, without knowing your intention, that you may have an idea of what parents are really experiencing in the real world and that answers are needed to try to change the way these school really are, from war to peace. I think the hardened atheist would at least want this for America%u2019s children.

Ps. I bet most people do not know that separation of Church and
State is no where in the Constitution!

[papoubill]

zygote (zeye-goht)- The single cell that results from fertilization of an ovum by a sperm. After dividing several times, it implants in the uterus. It continues to divide, producing more cells and passing through the stages of embryo and fetus.

Not putting a 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 cell zygote ahead of the life or health of a women makes society immoral leading to evil occuring in our society.

And the hard and well documented science of evolution being taught in our schools makes society immoral leading to evil occuring in our society.

As someone once said, in a free society your freedom ends at the tip of my nose. These folks want to force their rules on me - ending my freedom. Repugnant is a good word to describe this.

[cyberfred]

You at CBS Evening News just don%u2019t seem to get it. You think that the cause of the big uproar about Monday%u2019s %u201CFree Speech%u201D segment by Mr. Rohrbough was a knee-jerk reaction by liberals to his conservative views. I think many of us also had a deeper, more emotional, reaction. It has to do with the very human traits of taste and sensitivity. Katie professionally covered the horrible story. I was stunned by it. A few moments later Mr. R. was introduced. I expected to hear of his grieving and expressions of sympathy for the latest victims. My heart went out to him. Instead, he dispassionately delivered what can only be described as a moralistic speech laden with simplistic conservative cure-alls. I was shocked at what he said, how he said it, and what he didn%u2019t say --and doubly shocked about when CBS let him say it. I felt that someone using Trojan-horse tactics had rudely blindsided my freshly exposed emotions. It didn%u2019t matter whether his opinions were conservative or liberal. The over-riding factor was that, considering the time and setting, they were starkly out of place. Would CBS have offered a Muslim fanatic the chance to air similar opinions on the Evening News of September 11, 2001? This ugly episode demonstrates, at best, extremely poor taste and a lack of sensitivity on CBS Evening News%u2019 part. The only consolidation I can see in all of this is that the grief-stricken Amish mothers and fathers of those slain girls did not have a television.

[papoubill]

I have always supported Katie, and I support her now and see nothing wrong with her "free speech" ploy for better ratings. One must discount those complaining that get their news from Fox - and especially O'Reilly - given their well document problem telling the truth about anything (last night O'Reilly - a taped, edited, delayed show put on the tape not once but twice a 15 second photo of Foley with the words under his name saying "D-FL" - I don't think it could get more obvious.

As to "repugnant" that is a fair description to a majority of Americans of the book burning like dump on evolution - like exactly how has teaching the fact of evolution corrupted the morals of the nation? And does the fact that the majority are pro-choice make the majority of Americans evil and without morals?

Keep up the good work Katie - exposing the right wing nuts - via showing their own words and lack of logic - is the best way to rid ourselves of this cancer on society that practices the opposite of what Jesus preached, while telling us they are moral because of their deep affection for any 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 cell zygote (or do we call this clump a pre-embryo, or a pre-pre-fetus, or a potential, albeit with rather low probability, pre-pre-pre baby).

Hang in there Katie - you're doing great!

[thirtymodela]

Hi Katie, sorry to say I have not watched CBS,
NBC or ABC for some time now - just too liberal!
However, I did see Mr. Rohrbough on Bill O'Reilly
tonight.
The above comments reflect my own. I just read
the comments on the Washington Post site. It
was scary, the number of people who said Mr.
Rohrbough was a nutcase. They were angry that
CBS actually let him air his views. Nothing,
apparently, is sacred to these people.
I can remember a time when children were raised
by a mother and father that taught them right from
wrong. They all went to church on Sunday and then
home to a good dinner together.
People were not killing children and children were
not killing other children. We have become a land
of barbarians! Partial-birth abortion is a good
example of how far down we have fallen.
My God, what has happened to our beloved country?

[happystan-2009]

Who's God would you reintroduce into the schools?

Protestant? Catholic? Mormon? Jehovah's Witness? Allah? the Jewish God? Native American? Taoist? Budhist?

Thankfully the Deist authors of the constitution (Jefferson, Adams and Franklin) had the intelligence to establish a clear separation between church and state so that those of us in the minority (non-Christians) would not be oppressed by the views of the (christian) majority.

Thankfully all the NeoCons (so-called Christians) running this country into the ground cannot undo the laws our Deist (non-christian) founding fathers established.

That said, I think "Free Speech" is great and what makes this country great. Keep up the good work Katie. Oh and BTW, it's nice to see some HOT LEGS on the evening news for once instead of some shriveled up geriatric with a 2 pack a day habit.

[katylewis]

Suggesting that Mr. Rohrbaugh's comments might be "repugnant" to many viewers is just another indication of the overwhelming liberal bias of CBS News and Katie Couric. Why would these words about abortion, lack of morals in society/education, godlessness, and evolution be so repugnant? The only thing right that CBS did was to air these ideas. Thank you! It's a first step even though it might surprise CBS that so many people actually support Mr. Rohrbaugh's ideas 100%. It's about time that CBS wakes up and realizes that over 50% of the people in this country are conservative and do not find these ideas "repugnant". On the contrary, these are the core ideas they embrace as truth! Wouldn't it be wonderful if somehow the liberals and conservatives could come together for the betterment of our society and mankind?!! Maybe CBS and Katie Couric could start a new trend and work towards better understanding, acceptance, and cooperation instead of constantly leaning to the left and ignoring the right. Take your blinders off and be more objective PLEASE! Maybe you could make a difference and help improve things instead of promoting divisivness, polarization, enmity, and misunderstanding. Go for it!