I'm sending this paragraph to Rush. I'll be curious to hear his reaction to Unger's descripton of him. I wondered if Unger ever listened, or if his opinions on these talk shows he cited were based on what he was told or read about them.
After reading this in Friday's CDT, any doubts or guilt I might have had about cancelling our home subscription to the Centre Daily Times several years ago were immediately dispelled.
One more related item: Back around 1994 or so, an Op Ed appeared in the CDT by Lawrence W. Young titled "Toxic Radio". Young is the Director of the Penn State University Paul Robeson (The late Communist Party USA member) Cultural Center.
In his CDT piece, Young lamented the 5 hours daily of hate radio in the Centre region by G.Gordon Liddy from 10 AM to Noon, and then Rush from 12 to 3 PM. In his Op Ed, Young called G. Gordon Liddy a convicted perjurer, which was a blatant lie.
That night I clipped the Op Ed from the CDT and faxed it to Liddy and suggested that on his show the next morning he call Lawrence Young and demand an apology.
That's exactly what G. Gordon Liddy did, and in the process he made a fool out of the ignorant Lawrence Young. On nationwide radio Liddy asked the Penn State director why he made up the story that he was a convicted perjurer. Young replied that a friend told him that's what is was. Those of us who were around during the Watergate years remember that Liddy was sentenced to a 20 year term in federal prison for refusing to testify to anything in the Watergate investigations.
It turned out that the intellectually challenged Young couldn't even define the meaning of perjury. He didn't know what it meant.
Liddy served nearly 5 years in 9 separate federal prisons before having his sentence commuted to time served by none other than President Jimmy Carter.