ClearChannel Corporation Muzzles Anti-War Conservative

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

http://www.amconmag.com/1_19_04/article3.html

“Imagine these startling headlines with the nation at war in the Pacific six months after Dec. 7, 1941: “No Signs of Japanese Involvement in Pearl Harbor Attack! Faulty Intelligence Cited; Wolfowitz: Mistakes Were Made.”

Or how about an equally disconcerting World War II headline from the European theater: “German Army Not Found in France, Poland, Admits President; Rumsfeld: ‘Oops!’, Powell Silent; ‘Bring ’Em On,’ Says Defiant FDR.”

It seems to me that when there is reason to go to war, it should be self-evident. The Secretary of State should not need to convince a skeptical world with satellite photos of a couple of Toyota pickups and a dumpster. And faced with a legitimate casus belli, it should not be hard to muster an actual constitutional declaration of war. Now in the absence of a meaningful Iraqi role in the 9/11 attack and the mysterious disappearance of those fearsome Weapons of Mass Destruction, there might be some psychic satisfaction to be had in saying, “I told you so!” But it sure isn’t doing my career as a talk-show host any good.

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But the case for war was a shape-shifter, skillfully morphing into a new rationale as quickly as the old one failed to withstand scrutiny. For a year before the war, I scrambled to keep up with the latest incarnations of the neocon case. Most were pitifully transparent and readily exposed. (Besides the aluminum tubes and the trailers that had Bush saying, “Gotcha,” does anyone remember those death-dealing drones? Never have third-world, wind-up, rubber-band, balsa-wood airplanes instilled so much fear in so many people.) Still, my management didn’t like my being out of step with the president’s parade of national hysteria, and the war-fevered spectators didn’t care to be told they were suffering illusions. So after three years, I was replaced on my primetime talk show by the Frick and Frack of Bushophiles, two giggling guys who think everything our tongue-tied president does is “Most excellent, dude!” I have been relegated to the later 7–10 p.m. slot, when most people, even in a congested commuting market like Phoenix, are already home watching TV.

[Jack_Dawson]

1. That's more or less horrifying

but not surprising. Clark wants to limit behemoths like Clear Channel.

[economic justice]

2. Wow....AmCon really let 'em have it!

I hate Clear Channel. Ugh.

[MissMarple]

3. The AmCon's Pat Buchanan quote goes nicely with the article.

"The conservative movement has been highjacked and turned into a globalist, interventionist, open borders ideology, which is not the conservative movement I grew up with."
Pat Buchanan NY Times Sept 8, 2003.

He said this also on a C-Span segment with Bill Press. The entire piece is available at C-Span and was a "most watched" video for a while.

[blindpig]

4. suprised he lasted so long....

or still has a job, for that matter. In the Greenville-Spartanburg market I doubt he'd have lasted a week! Talk around here is all propaganda, all the time. Love to have that show here. These pigs need to have their blood pressure ruined the way oreally fucks with mine.

[meow2u3]

5. Americans ought to muzzle Clear Channel

eom

[cthrumatrix]

6. this whole cabal and brainwashing should be illegal and will be studied

for years...people aren't stupid....we can see the plan.

[buycitgo]

7. jesus harold

check this, from the article, on what some of his hydrophobic colleagues sound like:

My contract expires in a few more months and—my iconoclasm being noted—it is not likely it will be renewed. Among the survivors at my station: one host who wanted to nuke Afghanistan (he bills himself as “your voice of reason and moderation”) and another who upon learning that 23-year-old Mideast peace activist Rachel Corrie had been run over by an Israeli bulldozer shouted, “Back up and run over her again!”

[Sandpiper]

8. As soon as I saw this thread

I knew that it was Charles Goyette they were talking about. I lived in Phoenix for a little while and found Charles Goyette to be the lone principled and reasonable voice on KFYI. Some of their other "stars" were: Sean Hannity sound alike, and Bush arse licker Bruce Jacobs, and warmonger in chief Barry Young.

The reason I enjoyed listening to Charles' show is that whenever some warmonger wingnut would call in to criticize his position, he'd always slap them silly with facts. I didn't always agree with Charles' politics, but, I respected him for not hopping on the "Bush is God" bandwagon.

You deserved better Charles, but good for you for not selling your soul to RNC state radio aka Clear Channel Communications.