Not Your Sweetie

Talking Back To Talk Radio - Fairness, Democracy, and
Profits
by Thom Hartmann

"All Democrats are fat, lazy, and stupid," the talk-show host said in grave, serious tones as if he were
uttering a sacred truth.

We were driving to Michigan for the holidays, and I was tuning around, listening for the stations I'd
worked for two and three decades ago. I turned the dial. "It's a Hannity For Humanity house," a different
host said, adding that the Habitat For Humanity home he'd apparently hijacked for his own self-promotion
would only be given to a family that swears it's conservative. "No liberals are going to get this house," he
said.

Turning the dial again, we found a convicted felon ranting about the importance of government having
ever-more powers to monitor, investigate, and prosecute American citizens without having to worry about
constitutional human rights protections.....
Published on Tuesday, December 3, 2002 by CommonDreams.org