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[Donna Halper]

At 12:09 PM 2/27/2009, Bob Nelson wrote:
>And surely liberal talk radio was very respectful of the most recent 
>GOP president. They
>supported him in every way, never called him names or disagreed with 
>his positions...
>Yup! Air America loved W, they sure did.

Umm, let's not generalize.  Thom Hartmann and Rachel Maddow were very 
harsh critics of President Bush, but they never insulted him or 
called him names, as far as I can tell.  Ed Schultz also seldom got 
into name-calling.  He was vehement about the policies with which he 
disagreed, but I don't recall hearing him say rude things about the 
president personally.  Franken, Rhodes, and some other hosts did 
indeed call Bush names.  But then, Michael Savage and Ann Coulter on 
the right use name-calling regularly, as does G. Gordon Liddy and 
Limbaugh.  I think it's a false choice to say one side is friendly 
and respectful while the other side is rude and insolent.  Both sides 
have individual talkers whose persona is to be nasty and vitriolic.