Clear Channel tacitly supporting pro-war rallies.

That's weird I never though of Clear Channel as neutral in any way. They're a private company, they have an axe to grind.

Last night, TV belonged to another Times editorial page heavy hitta - Thomas Friedman interviewed on CNN, then had a show on the Discovery Channel where he traveled around the Mideast and Europe, talking to people about the post-9/11 Muslim world. (Nodding earnestly behind his heavy moustache.)

Looks like he was also on Freshhhh Air this week, talking about the tax cut - his bread and buttah.

http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1174641

The whole idea came to radio talk show host Glenn Beck by a caller who was complaining about the anti-war rallies and that there were no pro-American rallies going on, and this gave Beck an idea to start up some rallies. He organized the first two (I've forgotten where they were held) and then the station managers for the various radio stations around the country that syndicate his program called him up on the rest.

You guys are totally being fed major spin by ultra-left wingers who can't stand the fact that there are regular Americans out there who don't hate their country and that the actions of the regular people can have so much of an effect on the country. NPR's coverage of the war in Iraq is more loathing of the troops than anything anyone at CNN has ever said, and that's saying something. Also, Glenn Beck himself has complained about how much the reporters who are desperately trying to angle the stories about the "Rallies for America" into a "corporate control" conspiracy so they can see the efforts of everyday Americans who are actually appreciative of this country burn to the ground.

It angers me that lies like the ones you've stated are being gobbled up, especially since it seeks to discredit the efforts of people such as the 16-year-old girl who almost single-handedly set up a "Rally for America" in her community and who was harrassed by a reporter with an agenda.

You want to talk about balance and illicit funding? What about all those anti-war rallies? Many of them are funded by Communist organizations that provide the protestors with ready-made signs that say all manner of nasty things about Bush and Blair but don't say a single thing about the evil deeds of Saddam Hussein. In fact, at an anti-war rally in London, when a woman who fled Iraq in '91 to live in England wanted to talk to the crowd about the horrors she suffered under the Hussein regime, she wasn't allowed to do that. She was pushed away. Why was she? Why couldn't she talk about something that had all the relevance in the world to the issue these people were supposedly protesting?

And Rallies for America = Rallies to Support the Policies of George Bush = Rallies to Support George Bush's War on Iraq. It's pretty silly to claim otherwise.

Yeah, because anyone who would dare to suggest that they had a right given them by the founding fathers of this country to vocally oppose the current administration's policies obviously hates America.

As far as this "constitution" thingy that keeps coming up, Osama Hussein must have had a hand in it. Or the Taliban. Err, or Commies--those dirty red bastards are sneaky like that.