I was listening to an ad on Sirius radio for a Sirius Left program ...

[Ilsa]

It was for Mike Malloy's show at 9pm eastern time, 8pm central. I've listened to Mike off and on for the last 8-9 years. I haven't listened much recently because I've other responsibilities to take care of at that time over the last few years.

The ad had a sound clip of Mike referring to Bush 43 as a war criminal and mass murderer. Regardless of how I feel about this, I have to ask myself if this is what I want to listen to; is this rhetoric too over-the-top? Has it caused me to go out and do violence against Bush or anyone? No. Absolutely not. I wonder if it would cause another person who listens regularly to do so.

Your thoughtful comments would be appreciated, please. I love Mike and Kathy. And I have heard him discuss the threats that have been made against him, so much that he packs a weapon.

[AlabamaLibrul]

1. There is a difference between telling the truth and suggesting people go murder

Bush is a war criminal and a murderer

[Dappleganger]

2. Calling someone a war criminal isn't a call to kill them.

It's a call to bring them to justice and their crimes into the light. George Bush, Cheney, et. al need to be brought into world court and tried for their crimes.

[defendandprotect]

3. There is a state of being a legitimate "war criminal" and certainly Bush is in that state!!

[immoderate]

4. It's Mike Malloy.

You think he should skip that part of the Bush resume?

--imm

[90-percent]

5. GWB War Criminal

Vincent Bugliosi wrote a book I think the last year of GWB, called; The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

It was kind of a recipe for any State Attorney General to indict the psycho bitch.

I gave some money to somebody in Vt or NH that made that their campaign promise for state atty Gen. They didn't win.

jim

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Where exactly did Mike call me to pack heat and

take a shot at bush?

That is a major difference Never mind that he is the closest you could come to an actual example.

[Ilsa]

10. You're right: it's the closest I can think of in rhetoric that some right-wingers

would be offended by. It's name-calling, which isn't a call to violence. I've never heard him say anything that approached being a threat or incitement to violence. It was always a stress reliever for me to hear him lay it out there.

I guess I wanted to know if anyone thinks it's too much, or over-the-top, or uncivil.

[DCKit]

7. What ^they said and....

We're asking for due process through the justice system, not assassination.

Unfortunately, the left doesn't have much control over our investigators, prosecutors or courts, either.

[pennylane100]

8. Are you saying that to speak the truth is to incite violence.

Bush is a war criminal, he is responsible for the death of many hundreds of thousands of people. He belongs in the Hague standing trial for his crimes.

[valerief]

9. He IS a mass murderer. Malloy wasn't telling anyone to shoot anyone. He was saying Bush was a

murderer.

Buh bye forever!

[EFerrari]

11. Bush is a war criminal. n/t