I often learn more from what is not on talk radio than what is. NPR had extensive coverage throughout the day last Thursday on the lastest U.S. offensive in Afghanistan. I didn’t hear a word about it on talk radio.
I suppose that radio hosts couldn’t bring themselves to cheer on a successful mission that might make the commander in chief look successful, but even those who root daily for Obama to fail must think twice before openly hoping that American soldiers die just to make a Democratic president look bad. There’s hope.
Oh, I don’t know about hope, David. There are other Americans who seem to think that only Osama bin Laden can save America. According to MIchael Scheuer, former CIA analyst, “[t]he only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States…Only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government protect them effectively, consistently, and with as much violence as necessary.”
If our only hope is in Osama bin Laden, what kind of hope is that?
This current trend of hoping bad things will happen so people will be directed by fear is bad for democracy and bad for rational thinking.