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"free speech." I argued that obscenity was in the eyes of the beholder, and he replied that his statements about Kerry were true, that he was at anti-Vietnam War rallies with Jane Fonda and financed by her.
I all-but yelled that Kerry was never that close to Fonda, that at least one photo showing them together was a fake, that his comments linking Kerry to the arrested anti-war activist were grossly unfair. "At least Kerry went to Vietnam, unlike Bush, who used his family to get into the National Guard and then went AWOL," I stated, as he pulled the plug on me, thanking me for my comments, the last of which probably were deleted from the show.
Whatever. "Free speech," my ass.
I turned the radio off and drove on past Right-Wing Rhea County in silence. I thought of a thousand other things I would have liked to have told Mr. G. Watergate Convict, not the least of which was to remind listeners that they were hearing all those lies from someone who was convicted for such things as drugging the food of respected Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, who had a public emotional breakdown that ended his 1972 bid for the presidency.
But there's only so much you can do, especially when the FCC allows conmen like Liddy and Oliver North to regurgitate their obscene lies on national radio shows. And especially when the White House, the Congress, the Supreme Court, and much of the media were controlled by the same type of Neanderthals who tried to keep teachers from teaching evolution eight decades ago, and who were back in the limelight trying to push society further into the dark ages.
I did the only thing I could do and motored on towards the light.
Jackson Thoreau is an American writer and co-author of We Will Not Get Over It: Restoring a Legitimate White House. The 120,000-word electronic book can be downloaded on his Internet site at http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/ebook.html. He is working on another book, The Strange Death of the Woman Who Filed a Rape Lawsuit Against Bush & Other Things the Bush Administration Doesn't Want You to Know. Some chapters from that can be read at http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/know.html. He can be contacted at jacksonthor@yahoo.com or jacksonthor@justice.com.
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