How to Lose Your Job in Talk Radio - Clear Channel gags KFYI's Goyette, an antiwar conservative!

PHXnews ^ | 1/11/04 | Charles Goyette

[AZ Righty]

“Imagine these startling headlines with the nation at war in the Pacific six months after Dec. 7, 1941: “No Signs of Japanese Involvement in Pearl Harbor Attack! Faulty Intelligence Cited; Wolfowitz: Mistakes Were Made.”

Or how about an equally disconcerting World War II headline from the European theater: “German Army Not Found in France, Poland, Admits President; Rumsfeld: ‘Oops!’, Powell Silent; ‘Bring ’Em On,’ Says Defiant FDR.”

It seems to me that when there is reason to go to war, it should be self-evident. The Secretary of State should not need to convince a skeptical world with satellite photos of a couple of Toyota pickups and a dumpster. And faced with a legitimate casus belli, it should not be hard to muster an actual constitutional declaration of war. Now in the absence of a meaningful Iraqi role in the 9/11 attack and the mysterious disappearance of those fearsome Weapons of Mass Destruction, there might be some psychic satisfaction to be had in saying, “I told you so!” But it sure isn’t doing my career as a talk-show host any good.

The criterion of self-evidence was only one of dozens of objections I raised before the elective war in Iraq on my afternoon drive-time talk show on KFYI in Phoenix.

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[tbeatty]

I caught Barry Young this morning. He jumped all over Goyette. But that's was the only thing all day. Goyette started talking about how he is being persecuted for his views on the war. I couldn't take it so I had to turn him off. I was hoping KFYI would just fire him. Put Bruce Jacobs on in the evening.

What really sucks is I like both Hugh Hewitt and Liddy & Hill. Personally I wish Liddy & Hill would swap with Barry Young so I could listen to both L&H and Hugh Hewitt.