Interview with maker of "The Brainwashing of my Dad"

[Warpy]

2. I put 99% of the blame on Limbag

for substituting schoolyard bullying for politics. Everybody else jumped on that bandwagon, including the hideous Luntz.

My own parents had a mercifully brief flirtation with that crap in the 89s, when his short lived TV show was on. I visited them once during that period and found my parents had turned into a couple of ranters. They'd get wound up and I'd leave, go for a walk, whatever. When I got back I'd just ask them if they were [i[done.[/i[ They got the point and kept it down to a dull roar and I didn't have to decamp to a motel until I could fly back home.

Fortunately, they both realized Pox News was for utter morons, so I was spared that.

ETA: There are some people I find so thoroughly reprehensible that I won't spell their names out because I don't want to give them web hits and Google advertising.