Kazangate

Neal Gabler asks, “If you think about the impeachment debate, isn’t it incredibly similar to the argument over the honorary Oscar awarded to Elia Kazan?” (“A Fateful Decision, Damaging Fallout,” by Patrick Goldstein, March 16.)

No, it isn’t. There’s a big difference between sex and fascism, and Gabler’s reasoning illustrates the folly of dealing in abstract principles at the expense of qualitative differences; the McCarthy-HUAC era was more damaging to America than Clinton’s errant groin could ever be.

NORM FRAHM

Corona del Mar