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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ed Huang who wrote (3933)	1/26/2003 5:11:18 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25898

Hi Ed, I was shocked and dismayed that the propagadists have even reached as far as NPR's Fresh Air program. While I generally think of the host, Terry Gross, as being fair-minded, she completely pissed me off last Tuesday with a program that was lousy with Zionist overtones. The topic was the anti-war demonstrations of the previous weekend. Rather than a noble or intelligent discussion of the principled opposition and dissent to the war, Gross decided to divide the program into three segments. She gave half the time to an embittered and jealous over-the-hill armchair protestor. Todd Gitlin was just putrid in his obsessive concern about people who were being effective. He whined about International ANSWER as if the handful of people involved in their organization who have old style Leftist views were a modern day cause for a revival of McCarthyism. It was just plain irritating that Gross would so distort that half of the program to allow herself to become a propagandist's dream of the perfect weapon of mass distraction. She further compounded her egregious boorishness by asking some really dumb questions of the International ANSWER spokeswoman, the remarkably articulate and intelligent Mara Verheyden-Hilliard. One of Terry Gross's most gross efforts of her whole career. The only saving grace of the program was that Gross desisted in being an attack dog for the Right Wing when she was interviewing the head of the National Council of Churches. For a few moments she actually, amazingly, focused on the topic of why we go to war. How refreshing in a program devoted to anti-war protests. I rate Terry Gross a total failure for that ill concieved bit of connivery. Her Zionism was barely hidden, though of course never mentioned.