2004-03-08

winterbadger: (Default)
2004-03-08 11:44 am

a good example of why massive media ownership is not a good thing

ClearChannel, which in many areas is the only available radio broadcaster, is firing radio hosts for their political views, even in states where this it is illegal to fire employees for expressing unpopular political views in the workplace.

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winterbadger: (RockyMountain)
2004-03-08 11:56 am

Bush uses 9/11 for politics

Not only is he using images from 9/11 in his campaign ads, the Republican Party will be having its nominating convention in NYC, and "News accounts have suggested Bush has plans to travel to ground zero during the convention, perhaps to give his acceptance speech, just as he used an aircraft carrier to prematurely proclaim the accomplishment of his mission in Iraq."
Doesn't sound like the president who said he had "no ambition whatsoever to use [9/11 or national security] as a political issue," does it?

more here
I can only hope that his family is ashamed of him; his dad wasn't my favourite president, but I don't believe he would have stooped to this.