At 07:38 AM 10/29/1997 -0500, Brad Dolan wrote:
"Michael Hays" is a new CBS series about a U.S. District Attorney. Last night's episode was about how a radio talk-show host incited a listener to kill a BATF agent and was brought to justice. DA convinced a jury that some things were "more important" than the first amendment.
It's nice not to spend my evenings staring at a tube :-) The radio talk-show host who talked about killing BATF agents really _did_ deserve to be brought to justice. No, not the fictional one, and not for that - the real one, G.Gordon Liddy himself, Watergate Plumber and Republican Henchperson, the kind of sleazy statist propagandist who'd love to be putting on a TV show like that if it wasn't about him.* (Actually he did do some time, and he deserved it. His fellow conspirator, Chuck Colson, has at least rehabilitated himself.) [I've been reading Esther Dyson's new book "Release 2.0"; she's got a nice line in there about the Net being a great place for conspiracy, while television is better for propaganda.] Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com Regular Key PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639