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To: Diver Dave

There is always truth in jest. Your remarks are humorous but frightenly accurate.


150 posted on 06/30/2005 12:48:46 PM PDT by truthaboveall (Hi Freepers! Your collective voice effects great change!)
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To: truthaboveall

Mass Murderer #1: Conservative Talk Radio

Remember? According to the left's account, there was one bomber, 150 million co-conspirators and, at the top, a few dozen hate-driven conservative talk radio show hosts who inspired the crime.

Said President Clinton of these damnable talk radio hosts:

"[They are] purveyors of hate and division ... [they] leave the impression, by their very words, that violence is acceptable."

The leftist media took the cue. Bryant Gumbel added: "The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that's been coming from the right and those who cater to angry white men.

"While no one's suggesting right-wing radio jocks approve of violence [that's exactly what he was suggesting], the extent to which their approach fosters violence is being questioned by many observers, including the president. ...

"Right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Bob Grant, Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan and others take to the air every day with basically the same format: Detail a problem, blame the government or a group, and invite invective from like-minded people."

Time senior writer Richard Lacayo piled on: "In a nation that has entertained and appalled itself for years with hot talk on the radio ... the inflamed rhetoric of the '90s is suddenly an un-indicted co-conspirator in the blast."


158 posted on 06/30/2005 12:52:38 PM PDT by doug from upland (The Hillary documentary is coming)
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