When 850KOA Denver's Bob Newman said that Congressman "John Murtha should be hung" the other night, I wondered what set him off.
It's happened more than once on that station; and if 850KOA's Clear Channel management didn't approve then Bob Newman would have never called for Murtha's hanging like he did. So let there be no doubt 850KOA approves of their high-paid hosts and guests calling for the killing of our nation's leaders.
It's weird no surprise to me how an "independent" like Bob Newman could Swift-boat John Kerry yet be so sanguine about our nation's massive failures in Iraq under George W. Bush's command.
Now I've found what set Bob off on his homicidal screed the other night. You can see it at Colorado's SquareState Quick Hits section:
Representative John Murtha, D-Pennsylvania, chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, said on Thursday that he's planning hearings this spring on executive and congressional travel on military aircraft.
Murtha said he's requested from the Defense Department records on travel and logistics from the past two years. He asked the Defense Department to hand those over within a month.
So John Murtha is following our Constitution's framework and is going to do what congress hasn't done the last 6+ years: hold the executive branch accountable by asking questions and demanding answers.
To Bob Newman and 850KOA that's a hanging offense.
When people like Bob Newman, Glenn Beck, Coulter-geist, and Melanie Morgan call someone a traitor and urge their deaths, all of us better hang on tight to (y)our constitution.
The traitors in the house - and on the public's airwaves - are the ones who are shitting on our democracy at various Amplitude Modulations on local radio across the country.
And they call bloggers shrill....