RE: [Mpls] Re: Inconsiderate conservatives on the air

[List Manager]

This is not a Minneapolis-specific issue. Please move on to
city-specific threads, everyone.

David Brauer
List manager

 
> Saturday afternoon as I was driving to work I dialed around and heard
a local talk show host
> on KSTP fielding calls from people who were discussing why they
disliked Paul Wellstone.
> One caller scoffed that Senator Wellstone was being canonized by
liberals while he was the
> furthest thing from a saint, another caller said that Senator
Wellstone was a murderer for
> supporting abortion-choice and she essentially said he got what he
deserved.
> 
> I was so sickened.  This was the very day after the Senator's untimely
death.  That show
> host and radio station demonstrated to me why the "right" needs to be
feared by the average
> U.S. citizen.  These callers, the show host and the radio station
demonstrated a lack of
> decency, a lack of respect for others, and a sheer cold-heartedness
that would have made
> Stalin, Hitler, and the Taliban proud.


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