Mistah KURTZ asking, "Can you draw a line from" O'LOOFAH's attacks on TILLER & incitement

[UTUSN]

The panel is one Kathleen PARKER apologist for O'LOOFAH. Bill PRESS says he does NOT hold O'LOOFAH responsible, "although words DO have consequences. Wrong to call both (O'LOOFAH) AND Tiller 'murderers'."

PARKER: "Squeaky wheels."

Mistah: "Has OLBERMANN gone too far?"

PRESS: "It's part of his schtick and it's good. His job is to knock (O'LOOFAH) off the air and it's never going to happen."

[hlthe2b]

1. Bill Press annoys me... Milquetoast apologist for the RW

I now wake up to him on my XM progressive station--may as well go back to NPR.....:eyes:

[tech3149]

4. Agree with you

Press just pisses me off. I'd rather listen to Doug Stephan, at least he's entertaining. I'd give an arm and a leg to have something worth listening to on the morning drive slot.

[ErinBerin84]

2. who ever decided that Howard Kurtz could be a media critic?

His critiques always seem pretty one sided to me for the most part.

[gratuitous]

3. When a person's paycheck depends on not seeing a line

You can damn betcha that person won't see a line. Hell, many of these highly-paid nitwits couldn't draw a line through Orion's Belt if Rupert Murdoch or General Electric told them not to see it. There used to be a certain acknowledgement that with the elevated platform of a nationally broadcast program, a certain level of elevated responsibility went along with it. Now there's more broadcast channels, along with endless hours of cable shows, radio programs, satellite radio, podcasts and what-have-you to fill. So demagogues like Bill O'Reilly are given carte blanche to spout whatever moronic thoughts cross their pea-sized little brains. And thanks to the immunity from responsibility that the media have granted themselves, we have a citizenry under attack from unstable elements who think it's just the natural order of things.