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To: republicofdavis
That will get you kicked off national TV, that's what. And now he's lost a forum to reach a lot more people with his often correct ideas. But hey, he sure got off some good anti-gay lines before he went. Too bad the guy wasn't gay.

I normally don't listen to his radio show (and I don't have cable, so I didn't watch his MS-NBC series) but I have been listening since he got fired. No other media outlet is giving his side of the issue (they don't bother to ask him (questions). There is nothing to prevent a journalist from just asking him to explain what happened (as a concerned caller to his show). Not interjecting their spin, just asking.

Mike said that one of the things he was proud of was showing shots of the gassed Kurds in Iraq on MS-NBC to show some of the horrors of the Saddam regime.

I don't know what else he accomplished or what negative image he put forth. That is irrelevant.

His foes wanted him off the air and siezed this opportunity to reach that end. It is a double standard that has not been applied to liberals though and certainly seems to be an overreaction.

MS-NBC is under no obligation to keep them. If I were to boycott NBC it would mean giving up my occassional watching of Conan O'Brien's show (which was a program that aired Alec Baldwin's comment that Henry Hyde and his family should be stoned to death). That one program is the only NBC show that I even marginally watch.

NBC cheifs are hypocrites though and that bears noting.

118 posted on 07/09/2003 3:55:17 PM PDT by weegee
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To: weegee
"His foes wanted him off the air and siezed this opportunity to reach that end. It is a double standard that has not been applied to liberals though and certainly seems to be an overreaction."

I guess this is really where the rubber meets the road so to speak with the people I've been disagreeing with. I don't think his opponents got him fired. I think he was fired before the last word escaped his lips. He'll say "they" got him, and ride that for a good long time but anyone with any objective observation of media and politics would know this was going to happen as soon as he said it.

Is there a double standard? Of course. But the answer is that we need to do a better job of raising our anger at the Malveuxs and Totenbergs so that they suffer consequences for their remarks. Of course that's tough with the media mostly aligned against us, but the situation is improving (see Dixie Chicks).

120 posted on 07/09/2003 4:07:20 PM PDT by republicofdavis
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