The Weather-Underground has bombarded viewers with videos about Paul LePage and his intemperate language: TV journalists using textbook tactics of “passive aggression,” and LePage responding, predictably, with ire.

What about that “awful” language?

That grand old man, Harry S. Truman, having read a critic’s unfavorable review of his daughter’s singing premier, said he’d like to punch the SOB in the nose. His language was spiced with the pungency of Missouri farm life, and people loved it. So far as inviting the president of the United States to visit hell, Truman was famous for such expressions; the people cheered him with, “Give ’em hell, Harry!”

LePage hasn’t yet approached the candor of my favorite of present Democrats, Rahm Emanuel: “(expletive) retarded!”

Is America now so delicate, so effete that we cannot tolerate a strong expression of exasperation?

Go LePage.

Charles A. Berg, Buckfield