Today’s L.A. Times letters to the editor, because our voices matter:

Re “Truth, lies and Obama,” Opinion, July 31

Jonah Goldberg does exactly what author David Maraniss addressed in his Op-Ed piece that Goldberg was opining on: repeat the lies and add, “I think Maraniss is a great reporter, and I don’t believe for a moment he is in on a cover-up of Obama’s real place of birth or his secret Muslim faith.”

See any pattern here? Repeat the lie and deny you believe it. Goldberg and his ilk want you to believe that President Obama wasn’t properly vetted. He goes on to blame Obama and the “journalistic establishment” for the lies. What a gloriously accommodating phrase that is: journalistic establishment.

By the way, when most of us voted for Obama in 2008 as “a unifier, a pragmatist and a non-ideologue,” we knew he would have to govern with Republican obstructionists in Congress — hardly the vacuum Goldberg would have us believe the president has been governing in.

Joel Kmak

El Cajon

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So Goldberg has no trouble believing that journalists have been duped about Obama’s “real” relationship with Bill Ayers (among other supposed duplicities)? But wait a minute, isn’t Goldberg himself a journalist? Why hasn’t he uncovered anything of substance?

Could it be that perhaps there is nothing to be found?

I am so thoroughly tired of these kinds of ad hominem attacks and the media’s willingness to entertain them in the supposed interests of journalistic “balance.” And so the myth of the “liberal” media continues.

Anthony Kubiak

Irvine