Monday, June 23, 2008

ARE YOU KIDDING?

Can someone tell me why Al Sharpton is a reference point every time a white person is accused of saying something racially offensive or provocative? Radio personality Don Imus made a comment about football player Adam Jones. He was implying that because Jones was Black,he was being singled out. Some people interpreted it as meaning because Jones was Black,he was a crook. So who does the press go to for comment? Al Sharpton,that's who. Imus made a mistake after the Rutgers women's basketball team incident by appearing on the Sharpton radio show. Why Sharpton? I mean,I know why not Limbaugh,but why Sharpton?
Isn't this the same Al Sharpton who referred to a store owner as a "white interloper"? Why does he get a free ride from such a provocative remark,a remark that led a mentally disturbed man to torch the store in question,killing seven people,all people of color. Yet Sharpton gets a pass. I wouldn't go to a man who created such a storm for forgiveness.
Now Sharpton is being accused of shaking down businesses in exchange for not picketing in fron of their establishments. He denies it. I hope he's right,otherwise he becomes a Black interloper.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Do You Think....

Conservatives think that...

Bob Grant is a racist?

Rush Limbaugh is a loser??

Michael Reagan would be wrapping burgers if not for his dad?

Laura Schlessinger is mentally unbalanced?

Laura Ingraham is gay?

Ann Coulter is to be shunned?

It's okay for gays to marry?

McCain is going to get wiped like a baby's bottom?

William Kristol is a punk?

Dick Cheney is a coward?

They know what a bag of bolts they have in George Bush?

Bush's mother is a horrible person?

Michael Wilbon has been carried by Tony Kornheiser on 'Pardon the Interruption' out of friendship?

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Beloved Friend---of Theirs

When Tim Russert died,I was shocked. He was only 58, he was in the prime of his career,and judging from the reaction of his friends and colleagues and guests, he was a very good person. I didn't know him, they did. I didn't mourn him,they did. They lost a friend,I didn't.
And so, a week after his passing,I write this to say that while his death was a terrible thing for those who loved him, it was over the top for those of us who didn't.
The programming changes made to accommodate the public display of sadness from MSNBC and NBC was one of the reasons people think the mainstream press is elitist. The mourning of pundits seemed to say, "Tim was special to us,so we will talk him about him way past the point of interest to you".
The next time a newsperson of such magnitude dies,MSNBC should give this a try: a one or two hour special to heap all of the well deserved praise on this giant of the electronic media, not a ritual of grief surpassing a head of state.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Three Strikes

I watched three radio personalities receive honors at the New Media Seminar a couple of weeks ago. I understand that talk radio is a conservative stronghold,but I cannot believe that the three honorees are the best the business has to offer.
Bob Grant,Laura Schlessinger,and Lauara Ingraham were selected to be feted.

Bob Grant is a broadcaster who changed his name, (from Gigante) wears a toupee,and claims to be the truth teller of the air. His predilection for racial provocation is well known. He has referred to Black people as savages. He claims that he was referring to bad acts of behavior not race, citing Black college students at Virignia Beach as an example. Yet there is no moment when he called white students burning cars and destroying other property in a drunken rage in East Lansing,or Montrealers laying waste to shops after hockey games. of course,these folks were white.
When white boxer Tommy Morrison was diagnosed as HIV positive, not a peep came out of Grant. When Magic Johnson received the same news,Grant wished he would develop "full blown AIDS". I see a pattern.
Dr.Laura Schlessinger is a talk show host who gives advice on matters of a family or personal nature, but she is not possessed of a degree in family therapy,she is the holder of a degree in physical therapy,so if you twist an ankle,she is the one to go to. Yet, who better to go to for advice than a woman who posed nude while committing adultery. Who better than a woman who chastises others for not being solidly ensconced in the bosom of their family while she had not contact with her mother or sister for over a decade?
Laura Ingraham, Dartmouth graduate,lawyer,vile person. A person who attended gay/lesbian meetings at Dartmouth,then outed some of these kids to their parents. A person who wants liberal entertainers to "Shut Up and Sing", (her book title) but is fine with Charlie Daniels,Bruce Willis,and Toby Keith yakking because they are war proponents.
People applauded them,and I became queasy. My wife once told me I love talk radio,but talk radio doesn't love me. Smart,ain't she?

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Each Day Something New

I promise to publish a new thought every day. Today it is to chastise the legion of middle aged white women who are so upset at the thought of Hillary Clinton losing that they threaten to vote for McCain.
You are being idiotic.
McCain wants to overturn Roe v. Wade.
McCain voted with Bush 95% of the time.
McCain wants to keep us in Iraq.
McCain does not want to negotiate with opposing countries.
McCain has no firm knowledge of economics.
McCain opposes gay unions.
McCain left his first wife to marry a rich woman.

Keep behaving in a petulant manner. Keep behaving like the Naderites of 2000 and deliver us another GOP incompetent. Ego should not replace wisdom.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

I Don't Understand

George Bush has been a terrible president. He has earned enmity across the globe, the dollar is in rigor, we are in massive debt to China, the rich get much richer, oil companies are awash in coin, we have food shortages,major long standing companies are going under, and still, some people do not get it.
It's not that he is stupid, it's that he doesn't care. He couldn't care less, he thinks he's frat president. Not providing health insurance for poor kids is a loser because it hurts the business community? You heard that and thought he cared? He's so popular his daughter's wedding this Saturday is at the ranch,not the White House. Hard to dance with your daughter when you wouldn't attend services for fallen soldiers less that three miles from the Oval Office.
If he cared, would everything be going to hell? I mean everything. There is nothing going well, except the prison industry. Why would anyone free from delusional episodes vote for the GOP? Only if you need to protect your money. How ironic these folks are anti-choice,but choose money over life.

Friday, May 2, 2008

Is the Better Person the Better Candidate?

A friend asked me to read "The Audacity of Hope", the book that expresses the deepest feelings for America as expressed by Senator Barack Obama.
My friend wrote that after reading this,it gave him a whole new perspective on Obama's candidacy,that a man like this deserved to lead our country. The mood I sense is that most folks think Hillary Clinton would back up a tractor on your grandma's withered leg to get what she wants,and that kind of open ambition makes some voters itchy. It is also why she would be a better candidate.
One of the reasons Bill Clinton won against Bush's dad (besides a stinky economy and a badly run campaign) was "Rapid Response", the practice of coming back fast and hard at any slur or negative output from the opponent. Hillary Clinton has raised this to a bare-knuckled art. When it comes to campaign toughened, who is the person more apt to fit that description? Yes,Senator Clinton.
What hasn't she been called? What slurs and mean spirited smears has she not been the recipient of? What public humiliation has she not endured?
Let me also say that I think that neither she or Senator Obama can lose to John McCain, given the war, the economy, and his doomed performances to come in the debates. I just don't want to take chances. I want the GOP out of the White House,so that real justices can occupy the Supreme Court, so that stem cell research can flourish,so that we won't have to be embarrassed to be Americans when we travel overseas.
Bless either one one of the candidates of the mule, but I need this win badly,and don't want to take a chance on another "decent but not tough enough" standard bearer.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Wright and Wrong

The fuss about Obama's minister is nauseating. There have been loads of vile musings from fundamentalists that never get the negative shots Jeremiah Wright has incurred.
I'm supposed to get my drawers in a knot because a Black man thinks the U.S. of A. has given his people the shaft? Yet when it comes to right wing outrage, it never is vented on their own. Baptist minister Bailey Smith said the Lord doesn't hear a Jew's prayers,nothing from Reagan. Billy Graham is an anti-Semite and no one who knows it prints it or says it. Falwell said the anti-Christ is a living Jew and not a peep except bemusement.
However, I also think if Wright wanted Obama to win, he would go away for a month. Instead he is omnipresent, speaking everywhere but on TRL (patience).
He is instead behaving like a jilted lover, sniping in public at every opportunity under the guise of self-defense. This could turn a Bible student into a humanist.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

You're Not Thinking Clearly...

If you can think that Arianna is any different than a left wing Laura Ingraham. The other side universally blows,okay,I get it.
If you think that the right isn't chock filled with racists.
If you don't think that Judge Cooperman blew it in the Bell trial.
If you don't think Sharpton (up till now) did a great job of containment after the Bell verdict was read.
If you think most movie stars look better after plastic surgery.
If you aren't grateful for Maher,Colbert,and Stewart.
If you can't understand that Hillary Clinton deserves to stay in the race.
If you don't think her campaign has a lot more obsessed sycophants that Obama's.
If you don't think that Limbaugh should be arrested for attempting to incite a riot.
If you think McCain would be a candidate if he hadn't been a POW.
If you don't think that right wing media has jumped the shark.
If you think that left wing radio is radio to succeed it.
If you think Imus was really sorry.
If you think Bush cares about anyone not named Bush.
If you don't pray Jenna Bush campaigns for Obama.
If you don't want Lieberman expelled from the Democratic caucus.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Tough Being Funny

Most of the time a political comic can go a long way on a president. LBJ was an easy impression target, as was Nixon,plus his policies and scowl were fun to lance. Jimmy Carter's accent,teeth and seeming political naivete were raw meat, and Reagan...well,Jim Morris made a nice piece of change being Reagan for two terms (he told me once that the Reagan shrug and head nod would leave his upper body cramped after a an hour's stage appearance).
Clinton's peccadilloes and Southern accent were fun to go after as well. Now we have George Bush,and it isn't fun anymore.
It isn't fun because of the Iraqi war. It isn't fun because he vetoes funds for poor sick kids. It isn't fun because we are despised around the world. It isn't fun because he practices dictatorial methods against his own people. Saddam gassed his countrymen, Bush tortures visitors,wiretaps Americans, and snaps at reporters.
How do you make fun of a president who everyone dislikes? Making fun of Nixon (until 1972) was great because he had support,the same with LBJ and Carter. Bush? Bush is dissed by at least seventy percent of the people,so how much creativity is needed to preach to the ever growing choir?
It is reminiscent of the eighties,when every comedy club had a political comedy night. It soon got boring because every routine was centered around Dan Qualyle and his verbal and mental missteps. Now it is all Bush all the time.
There are great political comedy pundits in this country: Bill Maher,Will Durst, and Barry Crimmins are a few of those who do that profession proud. I will not include P.J. O'Rourke in this list. It's not because he is a conservative, it's because a)he laughs at his own jokes which is obnoxious to the extreme and b)talking about Hillary Clinton's ass is not a political joke,it is white middle-aged male humor,and it is stale.
One felt that beneath it all,LBJ,Carter,and even Nixon had some semblance of a heart. Making light of a soulles brat is tougher. Thanks for nothing,George.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Charlton Heston 1923-2008

Charlton Heston used to be a liberal. He admired Martin Luther King,Jr., and attended the historic March on Washington in 1963. Like a lot of men of his vintage, he became more conservative as he grew older. As his movie roles grew more scarce, he fed his actor's ego by taking on the role of president of the National Rifle Association. At the time of his installment into that office, the NRA was teetering on the brink of dissolution, bankrupt and losing members. For about three million dollars a year, he travelled around the country promoting gun ownership and losing his soul in the process. One week after the tragedy in Columbine, the NRA showed its sensitivity to the horror by holding a convention in nearby Denver,where I believe Mr. Heston performed his classic move of holding up a rifle from the Davy Crockett era and saying he would give it up when it was pried "from my cold dead hands". At the same time parents were dealing with the eternal grief of surviving their children, Heston was playing Moses, trading tablets for a flintlock. I don't know if he knew how many illegal weapons came into our cities due to the pressure applied by the lobby he fronted. I don't know if he cared. I DO know that somewhere out there is an actor whose career is on the downside and will trade his conscience for money. To have a DNA so chock filled with neediness that trading lives for lucre is a sad legacy,one that erases all the acting awards and honors that defined his earlier vocation, when he only pretended to enjoy killing.

Friday, April 4, 2008

Randi Rhodes

Randi Rhodes called Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro "fucking whores". She said it at a gathering sponsored by Air America Radio for whom she works. For saying it she was suspended indefinitely by Air America. When one is suspended indefinitely, it is bad news. Indefinitely means (to me,anyway) get out now, take a deep breath and blow the dust off of your resume'.
Freedom of speech has nothing to do with this, by the way. This is an employmental issue. Your boss can get ticked off and dump you for just about any reason, and this could be one of those reasons.
Let me say that I adore Randi,she is a terrific person and a wonderful radio host. If Limbaugh had said this,i would call for him to be fired,in fact,I would have suspended him for his racist comments and his degradation of women. The fact that someone I admire said it doesn't mean it isn't punishable. The guy who owns the firm can make this decision,and unfortunately, he may be losing the best radio broadcaster in New York.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Out Of Air

Air America no longer carries Lionel in NYC. Air America no long carries Thom Hartmann in NYC. They are being replaced by infomercials, barter shows, medical hours paid for by the people broadcasting them. These broadcasters are gone because Air America cannot afford to maintain them, and I assume WWRL (the flagship station) wasn't getting the money due them.

How could this have happened? How could all of these grandiose plans of a liberal outpost in the conservative world of talk radio fail? Let's shorten all the musing and cut to the chase with these five reasons:

1)Radio needs broadcasters. Alan Colmes joked that he couldn't work at Air America because he had experience in radio. The best broadcasters are people who you never heard of and become fixtures on the air. Rush,Hannity, and Lionel are all people who were never known until they became famous for radio,not Saturday Night Live,radio. The plied their trade in smaller markets,worked their way up to major markets, and are now stars in their field. Is anybody reading this thinking that Al Franken would stay in radio forever? TV, bookwriting,radio,government service,not one stop for too long.
2)Radio needs radio people running it. The first Program Director for AAR was Lizz Winstead, a writer and comedian who had NEVER worked in radio, and hired writers and gave out titles reserved for TV like Executive Producer. Ten writers for one show is a bit labor intensive,don't you think?
3)The money invested should be handled by someone who isn't going to run away with it. It should be a stream of financing,not going from handout to handout from liberal stars who might be looking for (heaven forbid) a return on their investment.
4)Since air time is paid for by sponsors, a dynamic sales staff might have helped things along,huh?
5)Try finding a signal that goes somewhere besides parts of Manhattan,Brooklyn,and Newark. Northern Jersey, Westchester, and Rockland Counties are lovely to embrace, not to ignore.

Some of the people on Air America will turn up. Randi Rhodes is a terrific radio personality and Rachel Maddow is becoming a star, but to paraphrase Marlon Brando, Air America could have been a contender.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

If...

I was Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman would be on the subcommittee to study rat feces in payback for backing McCain. Lieberman is the Zell Miller of the 21st century.

I were Barack Obama,I would urge critics to listen to Falwell tapes and explain Billy Graham's anti-Semitic musings.

I were a baseball player,I would use HGH and claim religiosity,it worked for Andy Pettit.

I were a racist,I would be comfortable as a Republican.

I were Al Sharpton,I wouldn't throw stones.

I were George Bush, I would learn the names of three books in my presidential library, just in case.

I were Oprah Winfrey,I would stop giving out nutrition tips.

I were Rosie O' Donnell, I would be proud of the platform I had given gay parents.

I were a single blonde right wing media personality, I would come out of the closet and tour with Michael Stipe.

If I was a congressman,I would go after the NRA for looking the other way on illegal weapons. All they can do is mount a candidate against me,and if you can't beat a pro gun pol in NYC,you deserve to lose.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

What I Think...

That Karl Rove had a hand in the digging into Obama's passport info,then covered it up by digging into McCain's. Remember,Rove once bugged his own office to defeat an opponent.

The 31% of Americans who think Bush is doing a good job are due for an EEG.

Dennis Miller is not a convert to the right wing. What he is (in spite of his super monologues that are written for him)is a lightweight. He won't knock Bush because "I like the guy",he backed Giuliani because "he's a crotchety old guy like me". What???? By the way,Dennis,your quiz show sucks,and I say that as a veteran of many of them.

There is reason to worry about Hillary Clinton. If everyone is right that she cannot possibly win save for a superdelegate intervention,then she is self-destructive and egomaniacal.

Everyone that Bill Clinton meets with to persuade them to back Hillary Clinton winds up backing Senator Obama. My theory about his subconscious desire to see her lose is gaining momentum.

The right is treating Mamet's disowning his liberal roots as a momentous victory. Oh,yeah,big deal,oooooh! His work has been critically panned for years,especially his inexplicable inability to write good parts for women.

The greatest contestant ever on "American Idol" is Amanda Overmeyer. The rocker chick didn't care if she won,didn't care if she lost,she just wanted to sing in front of a large audience. Losing out on the chance to sing with the others at a mall is never to have lost at all.

And I figured out Paula Abdul's ethnicity: part Jewish,part Hispanic,all incoherent.

Why doesn't Fox News cut to the chase and start doing their pieces about Obama in Blackface?

There are so many blondes on Fox that if they go under, Clairol will have to divest.

Of course the woman who killed her firefighter husband smiles photos. Do you think she is unhappy she killed him? She wanted to kill him,she killed him,she is happy. Crazy,perhaps,but happy.

I don't care if I am the only person in North America who writes it, Oprah Winfrey is a phony,a vastly successful one,but a phony nonetheless. Interviews country stars and speaks in a southern twang, she's over fifty and won't say the word vagina, and can't find a dozen Chicago teenage girls who would be thrilled to have school built for them. There is a fan club,and there is a cult,and we have the latter with Ms. Winfrey.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

How Come....?

No one calls Dick Morris on his attacks on Hillary Clinton? He committed a sexual indiscretion, and Clinton was instrumental in getting him canned. He has never forgotten this,and attacks her at every opportunity.
He also almost got his block knocked off by Star Jones for touching her on "The View". What a load of crap he dishes out.

Congress is obsessed with steroids,but won't pass a law cleaning our air and water?

George Bush isn't labeled a bigger whore for defending wiretapping lawsuit immunity because it would hurt shareholders. How about a huge "screw you" button?

More people don't label Tom Tancredo a racist for his anti-immigration rants?

Maureen Dowd takes it easy on the worst president of my lifetime but attacks a woman who is running as a Democrat for the POTUS?

More reporters don't try to provoke McCain and his volcanic temper?

Nancy Grace is not seen as a fool by millions?

Paula Abdul isn't seeing a shrink every hour?

Monday, March 3, 2008

How Come.....?

Tim Russert attacks Obama's religious background when he knows the man is a Christian,but says nothing about the religious bigot John Hagee or the racial bigotry of Bush's mother?

No other evangelical leader criticizes Hagee,but we attack Muslims for not going after their extremists?

My wife thinks Fox News will go liberal now that their ratings have tanked?

Bush doesn't know anything? The price of gas,the new Russian leader,the recession is happening,how to be polite,and that arrogance and incompetence don't mix?

People don't realize Rosie O' Donnell is lying when she says she is retired?

Bush embraces a leader who got 15% of the vote (Musharraf)?

Black journalist Michael Wilbon defends Michael Jordan for not campaigning against Jesse Helms?

Paula Abdul is not in a straitjacket?

People who lie about taking illegal drugs face jail time?

I don't feel my age?

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Arrogant and Ignorant is Dangerous

Bush had a press conference today. If he sounded any dumber,he would be thin air.
He told us to pay attention to detail,but he knew nothing of Putin's successor.
He professed love for immigrants,but called some of them "foreigners".
He said you can't sue phone companies,because they have to make money. Remember that when a prescription drug kills a family member.
He said we can't embrace the Castro brothers, but evidently Cheney can shake hands with Saddam and Bush can hold hands with a Saudi leader who funds insurgents in Iraq.
He said he wouldn't talk politics,but he slammed Obama.
Then Chris Matthews called Bush's press conference powerful. Matthews is evidently auditioning for the Larry King "All Ears" award.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Solomon

I will be voting for a new president in November. I will not be selecting John McCain, because I think he is a mean-spirited phony, a war hawk and a opportunist who will say and do anything to win.
Hillary Clinton would be a fine president,but the animus toward her is overwhelming. The people who hate her are misguided. Certainly you may disagree with her policies,you may think she would not be a good president,but if you hate her,that says a lot more about you than her. You cannot have voted for Bush and then say Clinton will not not get your vote because she is conniving. The GOP builds enemies out of thin air,and because they have done a vivious hatchet job on the junior senator from New York, I must swing to Obama. I must vote for the person most likely to beat McCain. I cannot let a septugenarian incompetent who tells gay jokes about Mrs. Clinton and ugly jokes about her then teenage daughter. Just because he is an older screwup than Bush doesn't mean he is not a screw up.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Time on Their Hands

We are enmeshed in a horrible war. Almost one-sixth of us have no health insurance. The housing industry is in a tailspin, and we are in the middle stretch of an election cycle. Naturally,in times like these, congress turns its attention to: The National Football League. The attention comes during the Super Bowl week. It involves the possibility that one team spied on another and the commissioner burned the tapes proving that spying took place. I am not kidding. These people who enact laws you have to obey are spending their time finding out if taping a practice took place. This answers the question, how ineffectual can a legislative body be? This is what you are focused on?
I remember congressman kissing Senator Jim Bunning's (R., Ky.) ass when he testified about steroids. Amazingly,all the panel had a memory of seeing Bunning, a Hall of Fame pitcher, toss fastballs in Tiger Stadium. Fastballs from Bunning,softballs from the congresspeople. Maybe the fact that Senator Arlen Specter survivied cancer gives him the right to wile away the time with self seeking bull. This is the reason people stop voting, clowns in suits tackling deep issues. Deep like a birdbath.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Grow Up

What edge does the GOP have? As soon as they arrive at a choice for POTUS,the RNC tells everyone else to get lost. We have our choice,now go home. The Democrats evidently like fighting until they are toothless and dead on their feet. Oh,sure,we'll lose,but we fought the good fight. It is the most immature stance in politics: yes,let's lose and brag about it. Let's cheer on Nader, an aging egomaniac whose intrusion onto the political stage gave us the worst preisdent in modern history. Now I have to listen to Michael Moore write that he is unsure who he will vote for. I don't care who you vote for,Michael,and no one else should either. Does anyone really wait around to see who Moore will like so that they can vote that way too? If McCain wins,we will have a foul-mouthed ill-temepered septugenarian who has lied abouit every position and whose meaness is only overshadowed by his hypocrisy. Those who eschew the Dem choice and claim to be progressives are elitist punks. Remember,when Bush won,Nader said it would energize the left. Tell me if you noticed the vast improvement in your life from that spark of energy. Grow up and vote for the best of the two,otherwise you have to keep quiet when things go further south at the hands of Senator McCain.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Did You Wonder...

Why it took so long for the GOP to cast Giuliani out?

How Rush Limbaugh gets dates?

When Ann Coulter will begin sagging?

How strong the backlash against the Hillary Haters will be when it starts?

Which MSNBC exec Chris Matthews has photos of?

If anyone remembers that Mike Barnicle is a plagiarist?

Why rich and happily married makes you mean (see O' Donnell)?

How to accurately measure Nader's ego?

If there is a bigger phony than Joe Lieberman?

If the GOP really thinks they can win honestly?

Where Dick Cheney is?

When Brian Kilmeade will be taken seriously as a pundit?

If you had the right date for Larry King's "Implosion on the Air" lottery?

Why anyone watches the Miss America Pageant?

How Katie Couric stays smart and hot?

How little George Bush cares about the U.S. citizenry?

How many gay aides there are among GOP congressman on the Hill?

How happy Jews are that Bob Novak became a Catholic?

If it takes more time to call 911 than Mary Kate Olsen's cell phone?

If Jesus wants to take credit for all these sports victories?

Friday, January 25, 2008

Electile Dysfunction

Hillary

Have you ever met Hillary? I have. I interviewed her. She was nice. She was businesslike, she was smart, she was focused. I have no idea if she is the most likable candidate, and I do not care. George Bush was deemed a likable fellow in the last two races, and how has that turned out?

I have heard it all and so has she. All the lesbian jokes, all the "they are a team, not a couple" remarks, and yet,it is more than likely that she will be the next POTUS, and the enmity is beyond reason. Let's examine it. I have one theory for the negativity towards her:

SHE IS A WOMAN

She is a really smart politician, and the dislike is based on what? That she'll lie to get us into a war based on greed and ego? That she'll bankrupt the treasury and make us a debtor nation to China and Saudi Arabia? That she will swell the rolls of the people not getting medical care? That children will be denied medical care?

Fox News,which privately prays Clinton wins,makes her such a center of attention,I head that O'Reilly is changing his first segment to "Why We Hate Her". There is no rational motive that can justify the treatment she receives from the media. Why is Chris Matthews allowed to say he hates Hillary and stay on the air as an observer who can grill both sides? Why is Michael Graham allowed to say he would bludgeon her, or Ted Nugent allowed to say he would like to stick a gun in her mouth?

From where do so many unmarried conservative women gain the experience to criticize her marriage? How do Limbaugh and Ginrich (with six marriages between them) earn the bucket of gall to criticize their thirty- some years of betrothal?

Why would John McCain not chastise the woman who characterized Hillary as a bitch? If fifty percent of marriages end in divorce, and sixty-five per-cent of the men cheat,how big is this base that resents Hillary for not dumping Bill?

They---and by 'they', I mean cable news and faux Republicans---are scared to death she wins. Why? Well,let's just say that if you've made a living off of dumping on Hillary on public airwaves, maybe you don't want her naming commissioners to the FCC.

It's because she is a woman, it is that and nothing else. There is not nearly a thimbleful of justification for the inane onslaught of witless scribes and so-called media pundits. I hope she wins and segregates the press by gender,record the reaction,upload it on "My space" and earn the fools the ring in the circus they deserve.