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08 September 2005

hannity puts it to the congressman from louisiana straight: "why didn't the (local) government help these people?" why weren't they put on a bus?

the congressman can't answer.

hannity has a point, (and it beats rush's "don't these people have cars?"), but it returns to whose fault is it, local, state, or federal?

paul weyrich has admitted to basing the structure of conservative institutions on liberal ones. hannity, here, is taking a liberal argument, but changing it slightly to reflect his particular end, i.e. nagin, blanco, vitter, and landrieu should be thrown out of office. (but not chertoff or brownie or bushie.)

posted by fred [link] 2:26 AM 0 comments -----

my name is fred solinger. on wednesday, september 7, i will provide running commentary on seventeen straight hours of running commentary, opinion, and straight news from a variety of radio stations and television networks. my objective is to be objective ... beyond that, i'm not quite sure, but hopefully it'll be more lucid at 4am, when all of this is over. one thing is for sure: i won't be lucid at that hour.

links to the monitored programs, arranged ideologically*, in alphabetical order, lest i be charged w/ bias:

the fair & balanced:
all things considered
countdown w/ keith olbermann
the daily show w/ jon stewart
dayside w/ linda vester
factcheck.org
hannity & colmes
hardball w/ chris matthews
the newshour w/ jim lehrer
nightline w/ ted koppel
the o'reilly factor

the left:
the al franken show
the majority report w/ sam seder & janeane garofalo
media matters
the randi rhodes show
springer on the radio

the right:
media research center
the rush limbaugh show
the savage nation w/ michael savage
scarborough country w/ joe scarborough
the sean hannity show
the situation w/ tucker carlson

*that is, when the host has an avowed political position; otherwise, they are assumed to be independent. this is as applicable to bill o'reilly, who leans right, as it is to jon stewart, who leans left.