Pardon my naiveté, but I
was unaware that the venom, nastiness, and malice spewed so rampantly
and callously on Air America.
On Air America's
Mike Malloy show on Friday night, September 2, 2005 (link to
entire show audio (3 hrs.)), Malloy said this about our First
Lady, Laura Bush (audiotape on file) (emphasis mine):
"A murderer herself. Somebody getting
killed, one of her former boyfriends, in a drunken
stupor,
being behind the wheel of a car
... So here's Laura
Bush, another killer. This Bush family. In order to
get in the Bush family, it's like the way it used to be in
order to get into certain gangs in Chicago. You had to kill
somebody. And once you killed somebody, you're part of the
gang. Well, Laura, Laura Bush is apparently that way.
She murdered somebody in a car wreck, so she's in the gang.
She's part of the gang."
In 1973, Laura Bush was in
fact involved in a horrible accident in which the car she was driving
caused the death of a friend. But there is zero evidence
that any alcohol was involved.
This snopes.com piece and
this USA Today article are about the incident.
Malloy's remarks are just
plain awful. But it should come as no surprise considering what he had
said earlier in the show about the Bush family and the Bush
administration:
"Thousands of examples of human suffering and tragedy
[in the aftermath of Katrina] ... It was deliberate. I swear to Christ, it was
deliberate ..."
"This Bush crime family is about theft and greed
and fraud and lies and war and death and posturing. They are
beyond evil."
"You want thugs and punks and liars and killers?
Look at the Bush crime family."
"I think the Bush crime family wanted people to
die. They wanted these horrible images of dying
brown (?) people; and riots, so they could get a few of those
started, and some fires maybe ... Let's throw in some rape.
How about a little cannibalism."
"I hope you people who listen to this program around the
world on the internet, I hope you will call your local
newspapers, I hope you will call your government agencies,
I wish you would implore your governments to break off
diplomatic relations with the United States or send an army
over here to liberate us. We are under the control of devils
and demons and dictators."
I know I've posted a lot,
but, I swear, this is the heavily edited version. There was
lots more rancor that I've edited out. (My wife said to me,
"They'll never read all that.") What was spewing from this man's mouth
over three hours was just ugly. And, again, this was just one
show.
He also said this about
Shepard Smith, the Fox News host:
"[Smith] is having an absolute meltdown. This is
what happens to these people who sell their souls to the
devil."
And this about Sean Hannity:
"And Sean ... I know you listen, you listen to the first
hours of the program every night, I know you do, you son of
a bitch, I know you do. Shame on you ... You little
rat weasel ... Let me tell you something, Sean.
You make me ashamed to be a male, you make me ashamed to
be white, you make me ashamed to be in the radio business,
you make me ashamed to be an American. You pig. You little
pig."
Last week, I posted
this item
about AAR's Randi Rhodes (Rhodes: Bush "takes a lot of joy about losing
people"). A couple months ago, on TheMediaReport.com, I posted
an
item about an awful thing that Air America's Sam Seder had said.
Co-hosting the July 7, 2005, episode of The Majority Report show
with Janeane Garofalo, Seder introduced an audio clip of Fox host Brit
Hume by saying this:
"Let's go to Brit Hume, the horrible scumbag, who many
people consider somewhat responsible for the fact that his
son committed suicide."
Not being a regular
listener of Air America, I thought comments like these were just
aberrations. I mistakenly thought that Air America was simply about
"giving the other side" and providing a counterpoint to conservative
talk radio. After hearing Malloy's show, I've come to realize that I was
wrong. It's nothing like that at all.
Air America is garbage.
TheMediaReport.com says ... Let's hope
the money runs out soon.