March 17, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

INCREDIBLY NASTY PEOPLE

One thing right-wingers are very accomplished at is nastiness. You get a good sample of right-wingers in the letters page of The Fresno Bee. Today's letter is from a guy who claims he's been in the radio biz in Fresno for 25 years. He says KFPT, our progressive talk station that is going to change format, couldn't attract advertisers because of capitalism. He didn't mention that there is evidence that the Air America network was in effect boycotted by many major corporations because they didn't like Air America's content. Audience be damned! Al Gore won the presidential election of 2000. Congress was captured by Democrats last year. Polls show that Americans support liberal ideas, but we keep getting told that progressive radio won't make money.

The claim about capitalism reminds me of the 1950's when another great Republican demagogue named Joe McCarthy went on his anti-Communist witch hunt. Many successful people, who should have been successful according to this jerk, were blacklisted because corporations didn't like their politics. Yeah, but content doesn't matter. It's just about money. Sure.