LETTER: Lyons apparently an apologist for Clinton machine

Regarding Gene Lyons recent column in the Inter Lake, “Trying to take down Hillary”:

Mr. Lyons hails from Arkansas, so I guess he feels he needs to be a “homer” for the Clintons. He rants about right-wing America’s obsession about the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. He claims this investigation is now longer than the Pearl Harbor and JFK hearings combined. Gene, President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and yet in the 1990s newly “declassified” information was still providing valuable information.

If Obama and Hillary had made an effort to secure our American consulate, instead of ignoring numerous requests for added protections, we would not be having hearings and four Americans would not be dead.

Immediately, everyone in the administration looked for a scapegoat. An anti-Islam video was blamed repeatedly by this administration for the terrorist attack. They even had the videographer thrown in prison and thought that would be the end of pesky concerns. As Hillary stated: “What difference does it make anyway?”

What about Speaker Harry Reid, lying on television many times during Mitt Romney’s run for the presidency, that he didn’t pay his fair share of taxes? Reid admitted to those lies later and smirked to the media as to why he lied — “He didn’t win, did he?” What about Secretary of State Hillary and her “emails” that she erased and never kept “secure” to begin with and lied about them?

As for Rep. Kevin McCarthy and his blunder that the GOP was targeting Hillary — he was wrong and that is why he resigned from being a candidate for speaker.

Right-of-center Americans will not tolerate irresponsible and gutless leadership as we have witnessed from John Boehner and other establishment Republicans. It’s rather politically correct now to call Americans who believe in God and have fought for this country (or their children have) “far right wingers.” I guess we appear that way because America and its two-party system keep moving further LEFT each year. —Russell and Linda Johnson, Kalispell