Ambushed

After Jenna Kern, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church, decided to
write an Op-Ed piece for Newsday questioning whether shock jocks and hate speech contributed to the recent murderous shooting spree in a U-U church in Tennessee, the haters started to come after her as well. Full Story »

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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Aug. 20, 2008

Excellent journalism that evidently drew right wing hate mongers out of the woodwork screaming about "in-print character assassination of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly" by indulging in their usual when-losing-on-issues-attack-the-opponent technique. This is a case of a dose of their own medicine being very bitter medicine, indeed.

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by Fred Gatlin - Aug. 20, 2008

This is a good story. Calling Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill o'Reilly "fine men", I am sorry they are not journalist they are actors. Cable stations do not provide news they provide entertainment.

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by Derek Hawkins - Aug. 20, 2008
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by Rory O'Connor - Aug. 20, 2008
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by Fabrice Florin - Aug. 20, 2008
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Aug. 20, 2008

It is essential that the media itself is covered.

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by Randy Morrow - Aug. 21, 2008
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by David Dresser - Aug. 23, 2008

The piece is not great but the news in it is revealing. There can be no doubt that Limbaugh, Hannity, and especially O'Reilly are hate mongers. They do what they do for ratings and the earnings that go with that. They do not have sincerity and they arouse the least thoughtful and some of them go over the edge believing they are on some right side of some major conflict. They ignore the similarity to crying "Fire" in a crowded theater. The results of their actions are more often a ... More »

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by Norman Rogers - Aug. 21, 2008

The trouble is they don't repeat what she said that so enraged 3,000 people.

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