Friday, February 27, 2004

NPR checks the facts for Juan Williams

NPR : Bush's Military Service
But I'm not giving any money as long as Juan Williams and Mara Liasson are on the air kissing up to Republicans. And complaining to NPR's ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin is worthless. And I'm not a mindless zombie following orders from the blogosphere--I've been contributing to NPR for most of the last ten years. The one exception: the year Canadian wacko rightwinger David Frum was a frequent 'analyst.' Here is a typical hack-job from Mr. Frum, a review of Al Gore's book Joined at the Heart:
Hacker contends that Joined at the Heart follows in the tradition of Earth in the Balance: another Gore production written in a voice of almost terrifying frankness. In 1992, Gore told us that if he ever became president, he would dismantle the American economy in the name of environmental regulation. Ten years later, he is ready to execute similar destruction on the American family.
Mr. Frum, who was a speechwriter for George W. Bush, coined the phrase 'axis of evil.'