I was appalled when I read Donnie Johnston's Sept. 18 column ["Crybabies are the rage in the news for this week"].
I will be the first to admit that Rep. Joe Wilson showed bad manners. However, to equate a comment made in the heat of the moment during a speech with striking a young black man is laughable, even by Donnie's standards.
All of the examples he put forth are about one "W": winning.
Serena Williams just wanted to win. Kanye West wanted Beyonce to win. And Joe Wilson wants the Republicans to win health care reform.
To throw out the race card just shows that Donnie wants to win, at any and all costs.
Calling Americans who are exercising their First Amendment right of free speech "racists" is what my grandmother would call a "lack of common sense."
Scott Karhan
Culpeper