Let’s forget for a MOMENT any partisanship (I know that’s impossible for most people reading blogs to do) or ideological support for or against Cindy Sheehan..
But, really, can’t you see how “inaccuracies” like this may be a key reason why some people are starting to tune out talk radio? (Air America: you aren’t angels, either…) While his fervant fans (who will defend anything Rush says or does) won’t be displeased, he has been lambasted in other quarters. TWICE.
(PS: Spare us the emails and comments about us being soft on Air America. We blasted Randi Rhodes some months ago due to a controversy swirling around her show and lost a batch of readers due to it. We listen to all of these folks.)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.