Washington Post Veteran Disparages Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin as ‘Right-Wing Nutjobs’ with ‘Wacky Conspiracy Theories’
Another bit of evidence emerged Thursday about how deeply ingrained anti-conservative hatred is inside America’s newspapers, even amongst those who don’t cover politics.
John Kelly, a Washington Post lifestyle columnist inside the “Metro” section best-known for raising money for Children’s National Medical Center and Sunday “Answer Man” columns about DC-area history, used the passing of a local radio legend to disparage syndicated radio hosts as “right-wing nutjobs unspooling their wacky conspiracy theories.” (Hat tip: DCRTV)
The gratuitous slam came in a short item marking the passing of Bill Trumbull, half of the “Trumbull & Core” afternoon radio show of light-banter and pop music carried by WMAL-AM (630) from 1976 to 1996.
During most of its tenure, the show aired from 3 to 7 PM, hours now occupied by Sean Hannity (3-6) and Mark Levin (6-9). The station also runs Rush Limbaugh at noon after the 9 AM local show from conservative host Chris Plante.
Instead of limiting himself to praising Trumbull, Kelly, who founded the paper’s “KidsPost” section, decided to throw in how he detests conservative hosts and charge they spread “conspiracy theories.” From “John Kelly’s Washington” column for Thursday, January 12:
Radio silence
I worked my way through college 30 years ago delivering pictures to Colorfax photo stores around the D.C. area. We delivery drivers had a fleet of Ford Pintos at our disposal, eventually upgraded to...Chevettes. The options extended no further than an AM radio in each car.
The only thing that kept me sane as I stewed in D.C. traffic each afternoon was listening to Bill Trumbull and Chris Core on WMAL. Theirs was a gently funny program: Top 40 music and the sort of light, friendly banter that wouldn’t last five minutes on today’s WMAL, which is full of right-wing nutjobs unspooling their wacky conspiracy theories.
Trumbull died Tuesday at 77. It was nice having him in the car with me all those years ago.
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Let me rewrite
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 2:22pm.
the headline.
TALENTLESS HACK ENVIES TALENT
conspiracy theories?
Submitted by lrgon on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 5:49pm.
I heard one by Hillary Clinton shortly before her husband was impeached in which Hillary claimed that a "vast right wing conspiracy" was out to get her husband from day one.
One of "conspirators," she identified was Mr.Limbaugh.There were others but the "vastness" was limited to a few people in "talk radio" and conservative journalists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vast_right_wing_conspiracy
The first lady ignored Monika Lewinsky, The red Chinese with Attache cases full of loot that came and went into the White House. The MSM conspired to squelch this story and it was only mildly reported in the press as "Chinagate." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_finance_controv...
Yes, Hillary, I guess some conspiracies are more equal than others. --- Animal Farm.
A surprise birthday party is not a conspiracy in the sense that there is nothing illegal about jumping up from behind furniture and yelling"surprise!"
An evil conspiracy must envolve two or more people, their actions must be evil and considered unlawful. Two or more people agree to rob a bank a 7-11 or rip off the pension funds of factory workers or Enron investors.
A conspiracy can be secret and hidden one involving many people: examples are the Cosa Nostra (the mob Mafia).
A larger conspiracy and more open one, involving two governments: Hitler and Stalin meet to sign a mutual defense pact ( Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact) and conspire to attack Poland.
Both nations' people "vastly" consider these aggressive acts of war as patriotic and beneficial. The Poles disagree but they lost the war so who cares about them.
Today most news media agree and daily broadcast that Iran is a rogue nation and that their nuclear program will wipe Israel off the map.
4 years ago news sources didn't cover this story except for Lou Dobbs who pointed out that the US government was sending "foreign aid" to a Russian Institute whose nuclear scientists were helping Iran with the nuclear Bushehr project!:>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushehr_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Dobbs goes ballistic but the rest of the right-left media remained silent:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4lB1Y4ZwfU
http://crooksandliars.com/2008/02/08/lou-dobbs-rails-at-white-house-inco...