Influential Talk-Show Host Shifts Position: Cheney To The Hague

[babylonsister]

Influential Talk-Show Host Shifts Position: Cheney To The Hague
by: blueness
Thu Nov 13, 2008 at 03:56:00 AM EST


For 30 straight years KGO has been the most listened-to AM radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area. From dusk till dawn, it can also be heard throughout the entirety of the west coast, from Canada to Mexico. KGO pioneered the talk-radio format, long before it was seized and exploited by the rightwing noise machine. The station employs local, non-syndicated hosts, all of whom consistently rank first in their time slots. Hosts run the left-coast political gamut, from the vacuous, muddle-headed centrist Ronn Owens, to the fiery renegade Ray Taliaferro, who contends that a close reading of scripture discloses that Jesus was gay, and most commonly refers to George II as "that idiot out of Texas."

Occupying the 7-10 p.m. time slot is Gene Burns, who has been in radio for more than 40 years, the past 14 at KGO. Burns is a recently lapsed Libertarian; he sought the party's presidential nomination in 1984, but, after supporting John Kerry in 2004, this year he made the great leap, and registered as a Democrat. He is a pedant, and something of a blowhard, but is extremely influential with more moderate listeners put off by the station's fire-breathing lefties. Burns has consistently opposed impeachment proceedings against George II and Darth Cheney as frivolous and unwarranted: these men have not, to his mind, committed impeachable offenses. Challenged by callers contending that these men approved the torture of fellow human beings, Burns has maintained that the United States has not tortured; even waterboarding, to him, does not constitute torture.

Wednesday night, all this changed. After viewing on his local PBS affiliate the documentary Torturing Democracy, Burns told his listeners, he realized he had been wrong. The United States has tortured. It has also engaged in extraordinary renditions, for the purpose of torture. While Burns still believes impeachment to be a non-starter, he has concluded that, in the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and in other sites overseas, Dick Cheney is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and should be brought to trial before an international tribunal at The Hague. With the expectation that, in the course of Cheney mounting his defense, he may implicate George II as equally culpable in the commission of the same crimes.

more...

http://www.neverinournames.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=97CDFA9A4BAB5B8B8F738B52F7087A6D?diaryId=2601

"Torturing Democracy" here:

http://torturingdemocracy.org/

[snappyturtle]

1. K&R WOW! nt

[Blaze Diem]

2. Uh Oh. Indeed Cheney is theeee one. George is a shit also, but I

have no doubt that Cheney is the mastermind.
Protected and moved forward, laws be damned, his energy & Oil pals at whatever cost to humanity,environment,or foreign relations.

How much profit has Dick Cheney made from the Iraq Oil War, since his appointment to the office of Vice President of the United States.
The damage he has caused this world & our country is an atrocity.
He should be the first of his cronies to sit before the court of The Hague.

[rhett o rick]

3. K & R. Cheney to the Hague and Bush should be sentenced to work at McDonald's

"manufacturing" job flipping burgers for min wage.

[Ecumenist]

4. GENE BURNS SAID THIS??!!!

This is a sea change, B-I-G-T-I-M-E!!! I had to read this 4 times to make sure I saw it correctly. OMG!!

[roguevalley]

5. KGO could be heard by me in Southern Oregon. I love KGO.

[Cults4Bush]

6. k&r n/t

[wryter2000]

7. My officemate listens to KGO during the day

I doubt she hears Burns.

She used to think that Ronn Owens and Pete Wilson were liberal talk show hosts. Oy! Randi Rhodes was quite a revelation for her. She also overhears Thomm Hartmann a lot now. She even points out things I missed while I was doing something else (like "talking" on DU). I'm making progress with her. She was really excited when Obama was elected.

[bvar22]

8. I'm willing to help !

I will donate $500 to ANY organization that will place a Bounty on Bush/Cheney to be paid to anyone who provides concrete evidence that leads to their indictment or arrest.

A small, transparent trust located in a neutral country like Switzerland could administer the fund. If the BOUNTY is promoted internationally, it would quickly grow to Mega-Millions.

The fund would also be tasked with running full page Wanted For War Crimes ads in major Global newspapers every 3 months until the Bounty is awarded or depleted.

I believe that such a fund would be wildly popular worldwide, and provide the administrators an opportunity to make a little money.
I have neither the resources or skills to institute such a fund, but like I said above, I am willing to donate $500. I also believe that there are at least a million more worldwide (extreme minimum) who would also be willing to donate....that adds up to some serious money.

Wanted
for
WAR CRIMES


A $500 Million Dollar Reward will be paid to any individual, organization, or country that provides concrete information leading to the arrest, or the issuance of an Internal Arrest Warrant for War Crimes committed by George Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, or Donald Rumsfeld.

It is clear that the Opposition Party (Democratic Party) and the US Justice Department will do NOTHING to hold the criminals accountable.
A private organization representing Citizens of the World would have better results.
After observing the response to Michele Bachmann's appearance on MSNBC, I have no doubt that such a fund would be a HUGE success.

Even if Bush/Cheney are never arrested, a Mega-Million Dollar International Bounty would certainly keep them looking over their shoulders, curtail retirement travel plans, AND serve as a warning to future "Unitary Executives".

It would also put a nice ribbon around the Bush Legacy.