Re: Today's LTAR

[ASchinella@aol.com]

I agree with what others have said about free speech vs. physically
threatening someone, the president, etc. As the saying goes: There is free
speech, but you can't shout "fire" in a crowded theatre. 

As far as Chuck Harder goes, I used to be a regular listener but I can't get
WCAP in very well here in Boston. I listened to Harder's comparison of Clinton
to Hitler early in the 1996 campaign and it was both amusing and frightening.
He played audio of Hitler and then overlapped one of Clinton's stump speeches.
I was surprised he was doing it and giggled for awhile until the point began
to sink in: The similarity in speech style, tone, pounding on the podium, etc.
was shocking. With the exception of the language difference, they both sounded
the same. 

I know that another reason that Harder has been after Clinton is because of
his gun positions, which Harder, as well as others, compare with the actions
of Hitler, who before he started to massacre Jews and others, went door-to-
door in Germany confiscating guns. Now, I am not bringing these things up for
a policy discussion, rather, explaining the motivations of a talk host who I
have listened to for a multitude of years. 

In a message dated 8/2/98 11:55:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
dlh@donnahalper.com writes:

<< In an era where all the FCC seems to do is shut down microbroadcasters,
 some of the more radical syndicated shows say all sorts of increasingly
 bizarre things.  I have heard Chuck Harter (or is it Harder-- no Bill
 Clinton jokes, please) equate Clinton with Hitler and accuse him of
 treason, and that was on a mild day.  Okay, like the guy or not, some of
 these hosts are getting increasingly shrill, and some of what they say
 comes very close to advocating violence.  The Texas host skirted the issue
 by putting it as a hypothetical (now, what if somebody did the right thing
 and shot the guy, or something like that...)-- and then claiming she was
 just kidding.  Evidently nobody filed a complaint with the FCC...  >>

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