Dear Editor, Let me first put a disclaimer on this letter that I am writing this from my own personal standpoint and does not necessarily reflect that of the Student Senate or any other group I am a part of here at MOSO.

With that said this past week I was reading The Chart and read an editorial by Jesse Walls. Now I try to read through The Chart every week and usually there is always some kind of polarizing article by Mr. Walls and normally I ignore it and move on with my day. However this past week it just struck me wrong. (Chalk it up to the stress of mid-terms.) But whatever the reason I felt the need to write to The Chart.

Now Mr. Walls comes out every week on his high horse and bashes everyone right of the isle. He uses terms like stupid, idiot, and others to describe them and attacks only Republicans. Meanwhile he usually cites sources such as MSNBC which has had to remove anchors for saying such things as someone should defecate in Sarah Palin’s mouth because of her beliefs or mocking Mitt Romney for having an African American grandchild just because he’s a Republican.

This past week Mr. Walls set his sights on MO Rep. Rick Brattin for purposing a bill that would allow families to allow to their children to opt out of being forced to be taught the theory of evolution. Now Mr. Walls on his soap box each week would have you believe that he is a big proponent of the freedom of speech and that people should believe however they want. But for him it seems he only believes that if you agree with his liberal ideology. And his editorial each week epitomizes the problem with politics and media today. And that problem is the drastic partisanship that instigates gridlock in government and partisan rhetoric in reporting.

Mr. Walls would be quick to tell you every problem with anything conservative but fails to ever balance the scale by pointing to the problems of his liberal politicians. And beyond that Mr. Walls never offers solutions, he is perfectly content with widening the gap between the two parties and offering critiques without solutions. He has no balance to his ideas or equality to his reporting. And it is because of this type of constant biased rhetoric that partisanship has engulfed our society and I for one as a millennial am sick of partisan grid lock and want to see the left and right work together to revive the economy, protect our religious liberties, support our troops and so much more that can be done on a bipartisan basis but it becomes all too difficult with such reporters as Mr. Walls with his angry reporting as a wanna be Chris Matthews without any regard to ideas other than his own making him as hypocritical as anyone he loves to chastise in his articles.

So I am not sure if he thinks that is what people want to read or if he is under the illusion that such angry editorials make for a good reporter but it doesn’t and so I end with this challenge to Mr. Walls. Ask yourself, what issues do we face as a nation, state, and university? How can the left AND right fix them? And what kind of reporter do you want to be in addressing those issues?

                                                                                    Sincerely,

                                                                                       Cory Garr