I have been listening to more talk radio these days, since the topic is the election, primarily the Swift Boat Vets allegations. Only in the car, the concept of listening to the radio in the house doesn't do it for me.
I just listened to Laura Ingram, whom I almost never listen to, and she was talking about Chris Matthews and Bill O'Reilly reacting negatively to the Swift Boat Vets -- it seems like everybody is claiming that the Swift Boat Vets are actually working for Bush.
I take them at their word, they're working against Kerry. That might be naive on my part, but I understand the concept of revenge very well, Kerry treated them badly and they have been waiting for payback for a long time.
The Swift Boat Vets are getting a lot of play in blogdom and on talk radio, but not much breakout into the mainstream press, although more than I would have thought -- even in the WashPost and NYTimes, if only to diss them.
Why are O'Reilly and Matthews so down on them? I don't remember them being so down on other 527 groups, even the outrageous ones like MoveOn and the others that George Soros funds. Nobody says George Soros is undermining democracy, nobody says MoveOn is undermining democracy.
This is a paradigm example of power to the people, seems to me.
Their reaction reminds me of how the Catholic Church reacted when the Protestants started translating the Bible into the vernacular and printing copies for everybody. |
