I was appalled to read the front page of Cumberland Times-News this June 26 morning, when your editorial staff would rather feature on Page 1 Michael Jackson, who was nothing more “than a piece of trash, a weirdo who regularly demoralized today’s youth, rather then put a real American hero who battled cancer for several years, Farrah Fawcett.

Jackson openly displayed vulgar motions on stage, which was a disgrace to the young people of today...yet the news media including TV, never once cut his actions from the headlines, only openly endorsed them.

What is desperately needed today are the cowboy heros I grew up with like Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter and Gene Autry.

My heroes would rather kiss their horses and treat girls and women like ladies. NOT one of TV’s cowboys drank, smoked, cursed or did drugs ... and my era of kids learned to respect our female counterparts, not degrade them.

Let’s rid America of all the Michael Jacksons and governors who vote for a sitting president’s impeachment for his immoral conduct, then only a few years later do the very same things themselves. What hypocrisy. Let us take America’s youth back to the days when you kissed your horse or dog and treat the female gender like respectable ladies.

John A. Lutz

Maysville, W.Va.